All righty.

Well, Mayor, Commissioners, this is a the update of the housing steering committee and the policy work that we've been doing.

You recall a couple of years ago, we put the housing policy in place that had about 42 recommendations identified from a variety of working groups and conversations with the broad contingency of stakeholders, citizens, institutional engagement.

And this work session is to update you on the work that has been achieved today and to share with you the 2026 activities and with Emily Crowe this morning is also a couple of key partners, and you know them well, but they will also be sharing the work that they are helping to lead that aligns with the housing steering committee.

So I'm gonna turn it over to Emily to take myself on.

Great, thank you all.

I haven't spoken before you all very often, but um I'm Emily Crohn, the deputy director of neighborhoods and development.

Um so I'm happy to be here this morning uh to talk through kind of what we've been working on with the housing policy.

Uh so today, really what I want to be able to share with you is where we are in terms of the policies implementation and talk to you about the structured coordination model that we're using to make sure that all of our partners remain involved over the implementation and um talk through a little bit of the major initiatives that are currently underway.

Basically last year in 2025, um, we were kind of in a repositioning year to get the different subcommittees and partners working on things in alignment with what the commission's um goals and actions were.

So we've got a 12-month work plan laid out for us with the various subcommittees.

So I'll just go through the structure.

So the steering committee was established, I believe, in 2021, before I joined.

And this was an initiative that I believe the city recognized a significant need to start developing policies around housing that helped address kind of those gaps and how housing was being provided in the city.

Um, but it also reached out to our regional partners as well.

That steering committee worked over a period of about 18 months and presented the 42 action strategies that were guided by a series of goals.

Let me just make this direction because I don't I don't want the historical context to use.

Okay, and we know you work very covelling.

So the steering committee was a result of is an implementation body.

The 42 recommendations came out of those 70 plus people that we engaged in this conversation in three different committee committees that were led by one by the city, one by Miss DeMassy, and one by I don't remember.

So there were three working committees that those 60 to 70 people filtered into.

They spent the year and a half coming up with the 42 recommendations.

Part of that policy we brought forward was we need an implementation body to coordinate across these 42 recommendations because as you know, we don't control all things in housing, and we wanted to make sure there was strong integration and coordination.

And so that steering committee was established by the city manager to be able to support the integrated implementation of the 42 recommendations.

Yes, and so then in 23 with the adoption of the policy, that's when the steering committee really um that was when it was formed.

Yes.

Um, at that same time and towards the end of 23 into 24, there were originally four subcommittees designed to carry out some of the implementation.

And they did meet throughout 24 a couple of times, and then last year what we realized is we needed to expand that.

And so what you see here are the five uh recommended subcommittees for the work plan in 2026.

So we still are focusing on data management between the various organizations and making sure that we have access to housing data as we need it to make decisions.

We have a capital strategy group, which was formally titled, I think the housing investment fund steering committee.

And they are they have done quite a lot of work, and we're going to talk about that today.

Karen's going to share that with you.

So we are in the process of updating that Bowen study.

So this market conditions group will kind of act as the steering committee for that work and then make recommendations about what we need to be considering in the realm of affordability and market cohorts.

One of the things that we added is an outreach and education subcommittee because there are a lot of programs that are coming out of these efforts and making sure that both our citizens are aware of how this all will work as well as sharing all of this information that comes out of this endeavor in a more transparent way.

So that group will be working on those things.

And then we have what has been the tenant groups.

So all of that is kind of guiding how we are looking at implementation.

And then underneath that, you have city staff that are participating in all of these endeavors.

And we are meeting internally also to make sure that things are moving forward and are coordinated.

So for 2026, our work plan focus areas are on kind of four classifications.

We're looking at the capital infrastructure, building those funds to help support the gaps.

We need to have a program development.

And this is looking, we're looking at this on a regional scale.

Also, how do we pull in our other programming and financial obligations?

We are looking at some significant home repair expansions in 2026.

We have several new rental health initiatives.

So looking at abatement of things like lead and/or the energy efficiency that Leela and Hoda are going to talk about with the pilot program there.

So I'm going to share with you some of the accomplishments we've already reached, but we have in the pipeline some permitting and other pre-approved plans, things like that that will help fast track housing development and building over the next couple of years.

Since the adoption of the policy, we have tackled about a third of the action recommendations.

We had a classification of governments and implementation.

Under that, we did establish the policy steering committee and subcommittees.

We have integrated policy actions into the departmental work plans.

That's how you're seeing things coming out of the sustainability group, out of PND that follow these directions.

We have done ongoing recording in our KPIs on an annual basis since the plan was adopted.

And we're working every day to increase the amount of data and indicators and metrics that we can report out on.

A lot of these have been research work just because none of this stuff is things that just happen overnight.

We have to look at best practices and then work towards implementation to see those changes.

But we are starting to see those things.

We did a big batch of those last year.

You'll recall they kind of worked through during the summer months and in the fall, you were all asked to approve those.

Those dealt with things like managing residential densities, height caps, transitions between existing single family housing and neighborhoods and multifamily developments.

We added language in there about accessory dwelling units to give people opportunities to expand more affordable or accessible housing opportunities.

We've also been working on pre-approved infill housing plans to make that a fast track option for smaller developers.

We did the transfer of 72 properties to the land bank last year, and those are all set up to receive those infill homes.

We have been doing strategic site and housing developments with the Welcome Home Ohio and the data recovery plan properties.

We've tied investments to adopted neighborhood plans, and we prioritize those CDBG discretional funds for housing pilots, and also combined those with home funds.

The kinship village is one example of those kinds of endeavors.

So you can see here we have done quite a lot of work on the plan since its adoption.

We've done data and accountability, we have home ownership and tenant stability initiatives underway.

And this is added to things that city was already doing.

So what do we need to be tracking?

What do we need to be able to say when we have to make a decision about where our next housing investments go?

And really trying to establish a strong network of data elaboration.

The other thing we're going to be focusing on is establishing those integrated standard operating procedures to make sure that a program that's run by Dayton Home Repair Network and the DEC will easily integrate with the things that we're doing here at the city and our partners at County Court.

We're going to be working to build a data portal specifically about housing.

And in the past, if you needed to find out this information, you'd have to go to a variety of websites or sources.

There isn't a one-stop shop for people to come and understand what's available in terms of repair programs and or assistance for finding affordable units, things like that.

So we're excited to get that portal up and running.

Consultants feedback and direction on what needs to be seen there.

We want to have that affordability baseline established.

So when we talk about the different market segments that we need to target, where are the gaps with the housing that we currently have, and how can we start to strategize about where we start to put incentives or programs in place to help balance out that those gaps.

But we already know we have gaps.

So it's not just about preventing loss, we also want to start rebuilding that inventory and figure out the best way to do that.

So the rental housing subcommittee, this one, there have been a lot of ongoing efforts that fall into this group.

We have investigated short-term rental registration practices.

We've taken that all the way in at a staff context.

We have looked at that.

So I want this group will actually be looking at how do we implement that.

And then eventually something will come to commission if it is something that we're going to adopt or want to adopt.

Another issue that this group will be looking into is the student housing around UD in terms of how to better manage that.

So we'll be looking, I think the Bloomberg group has looked at some models and there are tools out there that are available.

So we'll have this group look at those, see if that's something worth implementing here, and do a self-certification framework.

And then we also have the energy efficiency pilot program for the tenant landlords.

And that will be something else that this group will kind of work through.

Really, what we kind of determined is that this is a lot of information for people to process.

And we did a little bit of an assessment of what has happened with the repair network over the last couple of years, and they've done some great work, but oftentimes there's still confusion between one partner who may actually be doing the contracted work and the city in terms of what permits are necessary, and or what process do you go through to build a new home or fix something that has been a code enforcement issue.

So we want to try to do more to throw that information and provide more help to our partners in getting those things taken care of.

So parts of that will be are we putting out information that is helpful to people in ways that is helpful?

We're going to work on refining the website content.

So right now, if you go to the Dayton Housing Policy, it's just kind of the archive of what happened in 23 with the adoption.

So we've already drafted some preliminary or interim updates, but we're working on like an interactive portal, which will have interactive mapping, links through to other programs, all of that.

Expanding those FAQs and resources, and we do have some preliminary things that will be available to everyone shortly.

Um that's part of why we wanted to do the update today, is so that we can get these banks live out there.

Um the other part of this is overseeing the adoption of some pre-approved housing plans.

There are example communities like South Bend, Indiana that have done this successfully.

We have been studying it and looking at it over the last year.

Um we are at a point, however, where we need to bring these partners together, and we have to go through a process to actually figure out what those plans are going to be and how do we get that set developed so that we can have kind of a library of plans.

Uh, and so this group would be overseeing that process and coordinating it.

Um as part of this, we also want to start doing partner workshops.

So whether it's um getting small home builders together and having a work session where we talk through how do we help you get if you're gonna build 25 new homes and you're gonna use five models, how can we like get you through that process more quickly?

How can we help you do that?

Um and work with them and then work with our partners at like the Dayton Home Repair Network to understand how to get permits, make everybody more adapted to a process that works for all of this.

And then the housing investment fund, and I think I'm gonna let Karen um take over from here.

Um sure.

Um so I want to start just a little bit um about citywide in our fact that we became a CDFI in 2015, just to make sure everybody understands it.

This is a designation of treasury um that allows us to uh assemble capital, applied to NOFIS to uh raise funds, work alongside uh the city and banks, but to bring new resources to the city.

So we have um you're all familiar, I'm sure, with some of the small business lending we've done through the CDFI most recently, the the first floor fund, but we also um began to look at housing.

So actually, Emily, if you can just go to the pipeline, I think this would be most helpful because some of this obviously was going on while the housing policy was being put together.

So in 2021, 22 period, we were able to raise 2.2 million, specifically from investors that wanted to invest in creation of affordable housing.

And so we wanted to try this to see what we could do.

And during that time, um, there were some significant projects.

You're probably familiar with some of them, uh, that were uh date century homes, which were a hundred affordable housing homes that could have been lost.

Uh, it was an out-of-town developer that kind of walked away.

We helped with a loan there, which saved those units.

Uh, CJ McLennan Manor, you may be familiar with that, that's senior housing preservation again.

And then new housing as well, including the Miami Chapel housing, which is the replacement housing for current residents of DeSoto Bass, it's underway right now.

Uh, we also had some money and kinships.

So we started, you know, thinking about okay, we have this CDFI, how do we do more?

And um, you know, within the housing space.

There are some CDFIs that that's all they do is housing lending.

Um, and most recently, the home flats project in Five Oaks was also a CDFI investment.

So, as we were doing that, the policy got adopted.

One of the recommendations was around can you create kind of fund for your region?

So we looked at what's Columbus, Cincinnati, you know, what are these other cities doing?

And a couple things we learned is if your city has a fund like that, you're more competitive with the state and federal programs as another source of capital.

Um, an investment fund, of course, is debt, and debt has to be paid back.

Um, but you know, we're trying to come in with a loan or a product that is below what the bank would do to close the deal.

And so um, there was a part of that subcommittee that was formed around looking at this, was led by Amy Regal, still is actually most of you know Amy, she's the uh head of Cohio, uh, which is a uh statewide organization for housing and homelessness.

She's the head of Cohio, which is a statewide organization for housing and homelessness.

And so the first test of the committee that included residents and financial people and realtors was what's our story?

Like what's our pitch?

Why do we really need this?

Because if we're going to go out and ask for money, we have to have a convincing argument to do that.

And so this pitch deck was created, that's what we called it.

Um, and we really tied this for the need for affordable housing.

There's lots of data, um, not just a Boeing study, but what Emily mentioned, and then also all the jobs coming to our area, which is great, but where are people going to live?

And so, in partnership with the Dean Development Coalition, we were actually able to drill down and say, what does a licensed practical nurse make?

And what could she afford to buy or rent?

That ended up being very compelling data in terms of the investment community because people could see a direct connection between the people that we need to staff our companies or our institutions and the availability of the affordability of housing.

And so tested that out, uh, came to a consensus on all the wording.

Um, and then citywide was asked to create an investor prospectus, which is basically a document that we would bring to anybody to try to raise money.

And so that is done.

We now have a list of I don't know, probably 25 to 30 uh financial institutions, organizations, individuals, um, to try to go raise money.

And it is an ambitious goal.

It is 20 million uh 20 million dollars that we think could produce a thousand units over the next couple of years.

Um I'm optimistic that we can do this.

We all know how much uh housing we lost during the tornadoes.

I think it was more than a thousand.

We've really replaced that.

And one of the big challenges that I think we've gotten passed in some of these conversations is people here affordable housing and they don't understand what that means, and so there's a lot of negativity around that, but we're trying to normalize the discourse that you know this is people that they're not your neighbors and you go to search, but people just need a decent affordable place to live.

So that is kind of where we're at right now.

Uh I do I don't think I have anything to add, but I'm happy to answer.

If um so I also wanted to highlight um another upcoming program, and you should receive quite a bit of um information about this program uh later today.

This is the issue six year dollar in your neighborhood.

You all passed this um in December.

Um, and so we have been working since that time to launch this program, and we our partner is counting for the administrator for this, and um we have developed the program management group or board uh to set the foundation for how we're going to roll this program, and as we stated at the early at the adoption, um we are going to target the four welcome home neighborhoods of Fairview, um, Madden Hills, Wolf Creek, and Baden View Triangle, and we have combined that with our 2025 housing conditions survey, and so we have already hit all of those neighborhoods, so we've completed the survey in these neighborhoods, and we are going to be issuing sometime in the second or third week of March.

We will be putting outdoor hangars to those eligible homes and letting them know that there is a portal open for them to come and apply for this program.

So, as you may recall, this is targeted to people making 80 to 120 percent of the local AMI, and they have to be homeowners, and those homes have to be in good standing on their mortgages and taxes.

And for this pilot round, what we are looking for is about 20 homes that we can test this early concept of of eligibility with and see how many applicants we are able to get that can move through this program, and it is a five-year forgivable loan, up to 30,000 per property, and at the 80 to 120 mark, that it will be a two to one match.

And at the 80 to 120 mark, that it will be a two-to-one match.

So for every dollar the homeowner brings to the table, we will give them two dollars.

So a $30,000 loan will be able to do a 45,000 project and have that $30,000 be forgiven over a five-year period.

We're all very excited about this.

I think it's going to be a good opportunity for homeowners.

And what I'm excited to see is how much response we get where we have the eligibility that we need.

So County Board is ready to work with us in terms of like are there additional accommodations we will need to make, like providing secure financing through a little credit union things to that nature.

But we'll find out more as we go through this pilot phase.

But we'll get you all some FAQ answers.

So that we actually have some good news to notice for people.

But this is one of the things that has come out of this housing policy work.

We wouldn't have been here without the guidance, the steering committee, and the commission that provided for us on this.

So on this one, I wanted to just give you an example of what we're working with.

So Leo Klein, I was gonna talk to you about the uh Boomer project.

Um, along with my colleague Coda Bandan Amati uh and our third teammate uh Niani Brown.

We uh are a team that is embedded in the sustainability office uh working through funding from the uh Bloomberg um Center for Public Interest at Johns Hopkins.

And so we're our focus is on uh the intersection of uh equity and uh energy efficiency climate resilience kind of space.

So we think this is a perfect project for us.

Um alongside our colleagues in PD, we're working on a Northern pilot, um, which is a um uh rental housing home improvement uh energy efficiency program.

Um the challenge that we face is that uh though there are a number of partners who do home repair, only one of the uh partners in the Dayton Home Repair Network can actually serve tenant-occupied units.

Um, understandably, there's queasiness around public funding going to landlords.

There's worry about enriching fundlords and things like that, and what we've seen nationally is that most of the rental focused uh home energy efficiency programming is for large multifamily, where we know that a lot many Daytonians rent in smaller um single family or uh smaller multifamily units.

So we're designing a program specifically for Dayton.

Um that will uh hopefully be a learning pilot.

So we're it'll be an initial pilot that will hopefully help us learn so that we can apply future home repair doctors to to uh the proof conditions of retainers.

Um the uh we know that conditions and as well as energy goals for tenants are a really significant problem.

Uh we went through a design process to kind of land here, including uh interviewing landlords as well as kind of landlord advocacy groups.

We also did round tables with tenants to really understand the lived experience of some of the conditions that folks are experiencing in dating, um, as well as meeting with tenant advocates to sort of understand what their perspective is on conditions, and then we looked closely at peer cities, um, and then we're working with a partner uh a housing, a national housing um quality partner called Elevate to do some data analysis and look at our uh at what the rental housing market at Dayton uh is looks like in order to design the pilot.

Um so we're it we're still in the design process.

One of the features of the the Bluebird program is that there's an emphasis on co-design.

So we're really designing a deep collaboration with a lot of stakeholders and partners.

Um so there's certain uh decisions that haven't been made because they'll be made in those co-design workshops.

But what we do know, the funding for the pilot is coming from AES from a utility uh settlement uh that was negotiated by the city.

It'll be this is part of the settlement that you um we're working through uh granting to some of the Dayton Home Repair Network partners that'll be uh that's in contracting right now, but we held back a smaller portion to do this pilot.

Um, based on some requirements through AES as well as kind of the design of the pilot, we know that we'll be doing small repairs on about 10 homes.

We're focused on free weatherization.

So the only partner in the Dayton Home Repair Network that can address rental housing now is uh at BCAP, I think Valley Community Action Partnership, and their weatherization program is applicable.

So what we're trying to do is identify eligible homes and qualifying census tracts that have issues that would defer them that would prevent them from participating in MBCAPS programming so we can leverage our funding by addressing those deferral needs and then making them eligible for weatherization.

So you can get the double bang for your buck.

So we'll go through our program versus an MBCAP.

Dayton Energy Collaborative will be actually keeping this in-house, um, unlike most of the funding that that goes to the Datenworth Repair Network, Dayton Energy Collaborative will actually be doing the direct contracting, and that's so that they can learn.

The partners have expressed willingness to look at investment in rental housing, but a little a little queasiness, so they kind of want to see it be successful first.

So that's why we're doing this pilot.

Um we're looking at um local small landlords.

So we haven't fully defined if that's going to be just regional or state, but we know no active state landlords in this initiative finally.

Uh, we know that we will uh we will be doing things like working with our partners in housing inspection and in the courts to make sure we're not uh investing in homes where the landlords are frequent flyers in housing place and things like that.

Uh, we're also working closely with the HRC and the Fair Housing Center to sort of make sure that we're designing uh with um kind of fair but under resourced landlords in mind.

Uh we also know that we want to make this program um require both landlord and tenant buy-in.

So we want to address conditions that are impacting tenants the most while also making sure that landlords are willing and active participants.

We're going to have uh at least two years of kind of tenant protections once the investment has been made.

So it's a smaller investment than issue six, so a shorter compliance period, but we'll uh require no increase in uh in rent uh above cost for those two years as well as no eviction without just cost or outcomes.

Um and we're gonna right now we're working on the mechanisms that'll um ensure that compliance as part of our design process.

Um we hope to be or we plan to be releasing applications for participation this summer uh with a kind of an extensive pre-contracting period in the fall because we know that this is new, having to have landlord and tenants both go through uh some form of contracting process and both buy and want both parties to also receive set-basic education on how weatherization and keeping up the repairs as well as um kind of some communication plan between them for like what happens if another repair is needed, how are they going to communicate with each other?

Um by the end of the year, so we should have the 10 homes under contract as soon as the weather is uh allows, then the repairs will happen, um, probably in early 2027, and then immediately following that, then they'll go through the weatherization process with the BCAP.

Um, our hope really is to learn, um, especially around the kind of like relationship piece between landlords and tenants.

We want to be able to use future utility settlements um to enrich and and um improve uh tenant conditions and uh reduced energy bills.

And we know that there's some desire to use issue six dollars too.

So we're hoping what we learn uh will inform future uh future programs, even though our program is always and happy enough to get two questions as well.

Well, I have one more um update for you all, and then um just a little bit of process for you.

Uh so I did mention that last year we we tackled some updates to the zoning regulations that kind of solve some of the challenges that we had seen in previous approvals or applications, um, trying to remove those obstacles to housing creation.

Um in the upcoming year, um, we are still going to be working on the city modernization, looking at parts of the city where our zoning doesn't quite match exactly what is already built and trying to do more to get those in between densities back online.

Um I'm gonna talk to you all more, I believe in a month.

We have it scheduled right now to do a permitting process um update.

And so we'll talk to you more about what these projects entail at that time.

But again, we really just want to create a clear development pathway for housing.

And housing is a little bit different because from a land use and development perspective, once we cross over four units in a building, it does get more into the commercial territory, which means it becomes a more complex process.

So again, really focusing on those infill smaller one off type of housing improvements, but also considering the fact that we are doing things like investment funds.

We also need to be finding ways to make that planning process, that permitting process as cost effective and efficient as we can units online.

So I did want to give you a little bit of a brief overview of how we see these things rolling out through the steering committee, subcommittees, and then ultimately on to you all for decisions.

So the way this is set up is the subcommittees will be working with city staff and all of our various partners to develop these ideas, flesh out, do the work and do research.

And then staff will do a feasibility review.

And then ultimately take it back to our steering many at our quarterly meetings to get an evaluation from them and a recommendation for you all to consider.

At that point, we would come forward whether it's an issue six type program with a briefing for you, and then at that time let you know if we feel like this is going to be something that we actually need adoption of, or if there's you know, a partner that's going to take this on in the future.

So what you can expect from us is some program updates, definitely for funding considerations.

That's going to be a big topic of conversation this year.

Uh, the regulatory refinements, and then having the ability to provide you with that annual crowd directs review.

Um, I think we can probably plan on doing something maybe third quarter, um, and then something around this time again next year.

So, again, just really important for us as the steering committee, as the housing policy, which does tend to live in planning neighborhoods and development.

Um, again, how important it is that we have these coordinated partnerships, the transparent communication path, and then sequenced implementation because none of these things are gonna just happen overnight.

We all have to do our part and keep things moving.

Um, but we really are starting to see some measurable um differences because of the efforts that have been taken by this group.

So if that's all I have for you this morning, happy to take questions and answer, answer any.

Yeah, that's a few.

Um first and foremost.

Just want to congratulate all the excellent work that's been done.

I find this uh very layered about the strategic, very thoughtful uh based on the topic and sort of strategy and folks that would take.

So I'm gonna start with that and just thank uh everyone at the table for their hard work.

Um, I do have uh some more pointed, I think um things I want to raise.

Um I went back uh prior to this work session and just reviewed our recommendations in the housing policy framework.

There's a lot in there, and I recognize um that this is gonna take time.

Uh that um you know it is a large undertaking to operationalize each one of uh the recommendations that came out of all of this work.

There were some there were a few um that I am really interested in that I I didn't necessarily hear specifically in this that I really would like kind of an update around, right?

And that was um several recommendations around holding banking office account.

Um it might have been in here from a high-level standpoint, but I specifically, right?

Um recommendation uh in the in the housing framework uh specific to really reviewing our registration of fees, right?

Uh for property owners that have vacant property in our city.

Um I'm interested in where that's at.

Right.

I think another one was um working with uh Jock Manis' office, county treasurer, right?

Around what guardrails and guidelines do we have in place, right?

What can he do from a taxable standpoint as it relates to negligent uh property owners?

Um, and then uh last but not least, um also um I think there was one in there just around ensuring that uh existing homeowners can age in place, right?

What tools uh do we have uh as development is happening around them.

Um so those were just a few um that that I'm interested in.

I I did hear um that we are moving towards you know mapping and assembling, right?

Vegan land owned by the city and our partners, right?

I'd love to kind of know that, see that.

Of course, it's internal, uh, but you know, we certainly like to just know the the the breadth of that list, right?

How much property, how much land are we talking about, uh that is slated for um you know, uh targeted development, right, owned by us and our partners.

Um I think what would and I'll stop there, but I think what would be really helpful for me and I've mentioned this and the city manager.

Um because this right is so much information, right?

These are excellent programs that are coming online.

I think for myself and my colleagues, what would be really great is like a a two-pager, right?

At most, right?

With you know, program summaries that we can really speak to out in the community.

Uh that would be very useful.

Uh those are all my comments.

Uh appreciate this and excellent work, everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I have three comments and seven questions.

Um having a um Matt Joseph here.

Because he's like, I remember when we've come so far.

And um, I can remember when I was first elected to the commission, we didn't have a plan for the neighborhoods, we didn't have a plan for housing, and so less than eight years, just enormous lift this has been to really address some of our needs from the development and housing and just broad comprehensive look at it.

So the first comment is kudos.

Thank you for the hard work city manager, deputy city citywide.

Just amazing work.

I think this may be the most exciting moment I've ever had as a city commissioner to see this fruit of all this hard work.

So thank you.

Um thank you for the pre-approved first comment is thank you for the pre-approved plans.

I think that's something that can be a really great tool.

Um so thank you for that.

Um I'm excited about the housing investment fund and having that as a tool and resource.

At least my first question we get in our presentation on that.

You had you talked about it here, the snap.

I don't know what the best word is, the snapshots of homeowners, you know, their the income that they have.

If we can get that here, yeah, yeah.

I think that was an incredibly helpful.

Um help policymakers, duty members, people who want to be homeowners to understand what it takes to become homeowners, you know.

So if we could get that, that would be great.

Um in the tenure trends.

I think uh Commissioner Beckham talked about you know helping people age in place, but we also know that we're basing people who are aching out and homeownership.

Um and then when we had a session of learn to earn ad raised the question, we know anecdotally that there are young families who when they are kids get to age, go to school, they tend to leave the city.

Now, that's just the narrative in the community.

I don't know if that's true.

It'd be great to have some data.

I asked Learn to Earn if they could help us identify places where we can find that data, track that data, see where we can interrupt that.

So I think in terms of tenure trend, I think really helpful.

Uh Aaron, you mentioned um like the hundred homes are those the light properties.

Do we I know we had a strategy of trying to find those lighting properties as they roll off and try to so the we were talking about century homes?

Yeah, that was an out-of-town developer.

The affordability period had expired, and they were showing up like uh a single family sales, which we're not supposed to do.

And so um Adam Blake from County Cork, um, Abel got involved, went to the state and said, you know, what's happening here?

Because we don't want to lose these units, and we also don't want people that are currently most of them are occupied.

So those were um working a deal to get control of them.

So county court now owns them.

So we have the responsible party locally whose mission is you know hundreds.

Are there more like homes inventory that's rolling off and that is one of the data things that we're looking at is making sure we are aware um when is the roll-off period, right?

So we just had 33 homes um in fair view through the Phoenix uh project that were built.

There they were gonna roll off once again.

Citywide's like, okay, we want to make sure these end up in responsible hands.

So we did work with County Corp on that, and they are working with a number of those families to buttons just now, but also to maintain quality rental.

People, not everybody wants to buy, but they still you know want to stay there.

So I think overall the city's trying to get a handle on all the light tech.

We have quite a few developments to see if we can get ahead of that roll-off period, so we make sure you know they remain for this so much so strategic.

So thank you.

Um Ray's talking about fair view, the purpose-billed um neighborhood school kind of idea.

Is there an update on that?

I I am optimistic that we will uh know more in March, and I will say that it looks very positive.

So purpose-built communities and national organization that's uh uh in and out of dating for a number of years, so more to come on that.

Um I think we talked about the student housing and Red UD, and what point kind of looking at the student housing with St.

Clair.

I didn't know they can do student housing because it's the nature of community college, but there was some idea at one point to look at that kind of market for housing.

I don't know if that's something on our radar on it.

That's something that other developers have been looking at in the cities worked with, but not necessarily the housing stereo.

Okay.

Um I heard uh news report this morning.

I think it was the city of Hamilton that is point uh neighbors together to volunteer to do painting outdoor upgrades.

Um I know uh rebuilding together Dayton does some of that, but I didn't know if there's an opportunity there, you know, thinking about Dayton's strong efforts in the past now, you know, if we could find ways to mobilize to have uh more of those efforts, particularly as we have these you know, board-targeted neighborhoods with the uh welcome.

What's it the title of those programs again?

Yeah, they welcome home Ohio that maybe we could constantly trade some volunteer efforts because not everyone's gonna be able to qualify for those songs, right?

We're gonna have more applications.

There might be some in those applications that a volunteer program.

So I think there's an opportunity there.

Um that then some question was um commissioner button made me curious um with the sustainability program we had gone through and uh the library plus recommendation.

We had prioritized them all kind of put them into a work plan.

I didn't know if we've done that with the 42 recommendations in the housing uh recommendations, and then if we have some type of tracker like we have with the police engagement that might be your back installation.

So thank you all.

Yeah, we did.

I do have one where we have been tracking what's completed, what's in process?

It's still very complex, and so that's why I didn't bring it here today, but we we are tracking that like we're moving things as they move from one classification to another, so that we can report that, but I think we could do something a little bit more to make it transparent.

You may have heard that I have this dream that we will increase home ownership by one percent every year to get to national average.

So my understanding correct we're at 48 percent home ownership, 52% of renters, um 65% is the national average at a team and looking at how games I invite you to look at that one percent one percent might be a bit too ambitious.

I think that's like 500, 700 new homeowners a year, so it might be too ambitious, you know, maybe it needs to be a sort of smaller percentage.

Um, but I think there's a lot in there looking at the outcome of this work.

Okay, well that was uh that's the screen.

Great.

Uh basically we'll take a very very deep dive.

I need to really digest a lot of this a lot of questions.

Absolutely questions.

Uh one question I do have uh right now though is the work that Marty Yarst doing with the uh with the uh rights council is that incorporated in this yeah, so Marty has offered to be our chair of that uh this group we were looking uh a need.

Um the previous chair stepped down, and I had said that here you're doing this, but you'd be willing to kind of build that into that.

So he's uh so he's he's the rental housing subcommittee.

Oh, I see okay.

Okay, that's really all I have colleagues in ask.

A lot of great questions on the mayor who has I will uh after this, I'm kind of late to table housing conversation, but I do want to take a deeper dive and then reach out to many of you some feedback pursued.

Thank you for this minor.

Well, I want to first echoing off colleagues' competence, great work.

I know this is an extremely heavy minute.

Um deep dive and going into it, all of the uh tenacity and perseverance needed um to tackle tackle this um this beast, if you will.

Um so again, kudos to all of your efforts.

I do have a couple questions.

I want to pull on the comments of my copies, Commissioner that give it a very interesting point.

So it's in the recommendations too, like the fines of registration.

We do have a rental registration, we're not pulling on that, and I understand there is some conversation in terms of the auditor's office and some things that preclude us, and we don't want to duplicate our efforts, so on and so forth, but this could potentially be an opportunity for us to do the the work that is needed in terms of um improving the conditions of our housing.

So, how do we look at that?

And also, too, isn't an opportunity for us to use uh the fees if we will as as deed funding or funding to help with um rental assistance that maybe we need it for repairs and whatever happened now.

It may not be you know to get us to that 20 million dollars, right?

But it could be something to allow us to get there, and then mom talking about speaking on the um 20 million dollars goal.

So as of right now, from 21 to 2020, I think you had 2.2.

We can revolve it as it's paid back, okay.

Then we can put it into something else.

Okay, these funds are normally um you know, they're evolving funds.

So as the projects get paid back, we pay the investor back, we have the money again.

And I do want to say we're not going to wait until we get to 20.

Right.

Um, we we're just gonna try to raise as much money as we can in the environment we're in, and and you know, keep going.

Um, but I do think it's helpful to have a goal.

So um, yeah, so help me because I will tell you I am the strong proponent and advocate for a housing trust fund.

And in my world, right?

I will view the housing trust fund as a means for us to create that that fund and that umbrella, if you will, to be able to attack all of these various different tentacles, right?

So that there is an opportunity for developers, rental assistance, homeowners assistance.

Like, how does that feed into the CEFI affordable health and support and how do we make that work?

Because that to Commissioner Beck's point, that is one of the how is the housing policy recommendations in the frank.

It may be that you know, there's maybe there's two different vehicles because this is an investment fund to provide gap financing to developers to either preserve the housing we have or build new affordable housing, and we have to uh pay these folks back, so it's not grant money per se.

What we're trying to do is create a debt product that is more attractive, right?

And so uh citywide should probably know we don't do any consumer lending or anything like that.

We're more focused on small business and kind of developers.

So that's the difference.

I think you're talking about trying to if I'm hearing you right, you're talking about consolidating other resources to fund a number of these things that were discussed today.

Perhaps again, um other partnerships to help fund this this vehicle.

So Mary, we have been trying to show uh strategic work we've been doing across many of the continuums that I think you talked about when you talk about housing trust firm, and because we've got you know the C D B G low mod, we've got the moderate or affordable product in our you know, issue six.

We've got the strategic partnership with the land bank who has put all kinds of money into the welcome home.

We've got a housing trust investment.

So I think that you know, there are there, and we've been trying to show that continuum of things that we have done, and that you know, we've got rental house, rental housing, weatherization, we've got the right to council pilot.

So there is all of that work being done.

I think you know, the opportunity, quite honestly, is to take that um continuum, that umbrella, that continuum that we are already implementing and go to state and federal partners to say, can you come alongside us?

Because there's a lot of money, resources, and capacity already lined up doing all of that work that you all have already, you know, blessed and you know, moved us forward on.

But you know, if you're if your outcome you're trying to drive with the housing trust fund is securing more partners, we've tapped into everything regionally, it's really the state pro any kind of state elected partnerships or federal that we need to bring alongside us.

I agree with that, and I have no problem with that, but there's other opportunities.

Sure, sure.

So, with that being said, when we talk about access access to council uh rights of council, whatever have you, that's it.

Absolutely, absolutely, you're absolutely right, state, federal.

But if we do have that mechanism in place, knowing that this is something that the members of our community have advocated for, this is something that we've heard at the state level, whatever have you, what does that look like for us to be able to do all of these various different things that we're doing, but to button it up and to really have that umbrella to Mrs.

Dixtein's point where we can execute all of the various different things that we take that that we know that we do?

Let's put a package in it, right?

Let's package it, make it something attractive.

Um and that too can potentially help us with uh advocating for funding for those other part, state federal program.

I think even this makes um and then I I'd say we had very exciting that is on the so the various different subcommittees.

One thing that I want to advocate for is that we don't continue to recycle the usual suspects.

Um, and and I don't mean any slight by that, but I would like to see DTU because then it's a dating unit, they need to be involved.

Whereas I'm sure APL's involved in the conversation.

I'm sure that um this client has has done some some some research and some um conversations with DTU and and ABLE, so we can make sure that they are intimately involved and they have it with the so they would be part of the rental.

Okay, great.

Yeah, sorry, thank you.

We have put a great deal of attention into diversity of thought, the subcommittees and the steering committee.

Okay, um, and and it is you know, those who have the subject matter expertise and access to resources as well as you know, lived experiences and our other partners we can be bringing to the table.

Right, thank you.

Um, and that we're not just hurrying up and getting something done out of haste, but that we're very thoughtful and that we're thoughtful about does it fit with the aesthetics of the people?

Is it aesthetically pleasing?

Are we addressing the need, not just throwing up stuff because we have done that and we're gonna win it, but being very intentional about having conversations with the existing neighborhood uh members, the the homeowners and so on and so it matches getting something done because we want to put some more um structures up in terms of your point, you know.

You know, one of the Emily mentioned the one product we're looking at the South Bend, and yes, but also the Grand Ohio Policy Center put out a pattern book, and so we always want more because I almost you know all sometimes what's happening in other state may not apply based on state regulations, but we're looking at these and then you know let's see if does it fit in our community?

And then what's the tweet?

What can we add on?

And I want to emphasize this is for single family homes and design.

It is not large commercial or multi-unit, it is single family size or design to the size of lot to the neighborhood and fabric.

So that is something that will help us go faster for the single family.

Thank you.

They stick up with the state regulation, so it's harder.

You really can't fast track.

We can do things on our and you know, try to be streamlined, but those commercial ones still have a lot of that oversight regulation, but the we know that there's opportunities with around the housing.

Okay, great, thank you.

And then to Commissioner Bearchild's point, um, I know you touched on student housing, but not just looking at the collegiate level, looking at where we are with DPS, our district, right?

We have uh um an influx or a large growing unhouse population within our school district, where are they a part of the conversation?

Are they at the team?

How do we make sure that we are um housing our our families, our students?

Um I was just encouraged to be a part of the conversation and not just looking at housing, but also to commissioners point you have central state, you have um right space students that are still in the dates in the area as well as uh same thing there's the district itself is the district then what are those just out of curiosity the capacity.

Do our partners have the capacity with the number of these various different for instance the home report repair revolving loan program um the issue six dollars.

Very happy to see.

I know that how many court is the minister administering the grant render, excuse me, but do our other partners have the capacity to make sure that there is a like decent amount of time in terms of time around the the application processing in the actual um yeah, so yeah.

This is yeah, we definitely have the capacity, and and some of the efforts with the AES funding for the Dayton Energy Coalition are helping us to support that.

So we are working with Eileen Hall, which is the Dayton Energy Coalition.

They're gonna take in the applications, they're going to do all the screening through that organization, and then once they've identified the eligible applicants, they'll be moved to counting court, and then counting court will help manage the actual construction repair, all of that.

So we we are within the capacity of our network, but everyone is prepared for this program to come online.

I think I'm gonna add one of the things.

Um you'll notice that they're in that triangle or that pyramid, the bottom was staff.

So I'm really grateful.

We have a tremendous staff in P and D and we have tremendous partners and city.

Karen has mobilized her staff.

So that staff work group.

I mean, we are bringing because we realize that that we need partners, they don't always have so uh Karen mobilized our staff, us using the the the breath uh PND and the city staff to help support some of those too because of that as concerns.

Great, thank you.

And I think my last question, and if I have any others, I'll see those through 16.

I know you mentioned on the the last slide, seconds of the last slide that there would be an annual Congress review.

I would just encourage um a minute year review, just so that we are we can understand it and be able to um add any recommendations or anything that we're seeing on the ground per se or that we're we're hearing okay.

Mayor who provide we talked about they talked about third quartering of third quarter, and that gets us about mid-year development.

So remember the steering committee only meets quarterly, so we will probably most likely provide a briefing memo to update.

Um, and then every year, this you know, about this time of year, we want to make sure we're in front of you to grab talk about what we've accomplished, what our next work plan is, and you know, be able to get it put that way.

Okay, that sounds good.

Thank you.

And I would just add to that, I think that the conversations we have throughout the next year really do lead to what do we do in 27 because it is really difficult for us to change lane because as you can see, it takes us two or three years sometimes to get some of these really rolling.

Because as you can see, it takes us two or three years sometimes to get some of these really rolling.

So that's why it's important we have the conversation and then be able to say, okay, next year, this is how we focus what we do.

Thank you.

And then the um the practical.

Although the steering committee meets a quarterly, the subcommittees, I leave that to the chair and the team, but like our data committee, they're they'd probably be meeting twice a month.

So anybody watching it, I don't want to be like, oh, how are you doing quarterly?

That's for that broader steering, but all of those working committees are meeting very free, you know, sometimes it's monthly, sometimes it's small, that's fun.

So there's a lot of work going on.

They just they bring that up each quarter to the broader steering committee as to what they're what they're achieving, what we're doing.

So okay, very good.

And then if we could uh if you could give us an update too on the subcommittee, the names of those individuals of subcommittee members, um and if we have any registers to me to us.

Um and then that you said that the press release for issue six that will be coming out here soon.

All right, okay.

Mayor, I want to be I want to be very clear on something just because this is an implementation group, it's not a public body, and so we shared and got some input in the very beginning after we said these are the primaries and we added rental.

So I'm very conscious because of direction from our law department that you know the commission can't actively appoint, can't actively because uh it's not a public body.

We are reporting and being transparent, but this is a working group, but she's still under our direction, so it is the policy has been under our direction.

The implementation is under the city manager's direction, and so I want to make I just want to make sure we're very we're we're being very careful about you know the public body requirements, and this is because this is implementation and it is under the work of the administration purposefully, so that it is not a public body that has to perform because they have very difficult, very strategic conversations about real estate development, right?

So they can't be out in the public body.

So that's why that those working that steering committee and those working committees are established with the city manager so that it we don't worry about violating that public body direction.

Okay, so I just want to make sure it will provide those confidentially.

Um, but I just want to make sure that that there's an understanding as to why we separate.

Yeah, I understand that, but I understand that too.

There's other provisions that could be put in place to your point, right?

If you're in that where there is uh client attending client privilege if there's developmental cream, that doesn't help that doesn't help as a public body description.

We have we've had very clear conversations about this with the law department and taking very clear direction.

So we can't do we can't use those mechanisms.

We'll talk because like I said, you're still under the direction of the commission and the policy direction.

Absolutely.

Understand that, but in terms of what we want to see moving as policy forward, then we shall all have the funding to do so.

Correct, we can talk offline, but again, as long as you know, and that you fully understand where we are in that sure.

And what I'm saying is that there, I'm not making sure that we are that have input in terms of the diversity of thought.

Absolutely.

And we and like I said, we have been very committed to that and very wedded to that.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Is there any more questions or something?

All right, thank you all forward.

We appreciate it.