Strategic Growth Council (SGC) Sustainable Community Planning July - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Strategic Growth Council (SGC) Sustainable Community Planning July 18, 2019| Childhood Obesity Conference

SGC Member Agencies

Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Vision • Funds infill projects that reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) through sustainable land use, housing, and transportation practices • Bringing together affordable housing and transportation worlds

Culprit: Vehicle Miles Traveled Why do we drive so much? Lack of location efficient housing Lack of quality low-carbon transportation options

Climate Change and Health Equity “…climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’… [that] will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty and conflict.” U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel 5

Social Determinants of Health 6

7 LRudolph April 2014

“It is unreasonable to expect that people will change their behavior easily when so many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change.” - Institute of Medicine 8

Urban Affordable Housing Greening Sidewalks Bus Expansion of Bus Shelters Routes Bike Lanes Pedestrian Pathways Image Credits- Produced in Piktochart by SGC Staff

Vermont Manchester Transit Priority Project ICP Project – County and City of Los Angeles Project Details 85-90% DAC • 180 housing units, over 90% affordable • 165 affordable units set at 30-60% AMI • Density: 91 units/acre • 90 supportive housing units; 60 senior units • New transit plaza adjacent to housing site • Bike boulevards to connect to Silver Line, • local school, and other destinations Implements Mobility Plan 2035 • AHD: $13,500,000 STI: $5,000,000 TRA: $1,000,000 Program: $500,000 Total Award amount: $20,000,000

Keeler Court/Southcrest AHSC ICP Project – City of San Diego Project Details 86-90% DAC • 70 affordable housing units for 30-60% AMI •  10 efficiency units  20 one-bedroom  18 two-bedroom  22 three-bedroom  100% Affordable Transportation Service: Bus, walkway, • bikeways Construction of new 6 mile bike facility • Circulate San Diego—active transportation • and transit access programming AHD: $7,188,481 STI: $2,503,642 PGM: $242,150 Total Award amount: $9,934,273

Long-Term Vision • Changing landscape for Affordable Housing • Invest in under resourced communities • Think outside of silos • Possibilities • New patterns of development • New partnerships • New opportunity for low- income Californians

Questions? ryan.silber@sgc.ca.gov