So uh on the line we've got our consultants from Agnew Beck.

Uh we're gonna have Kate Huber kind of lead the discussion.

Um I guess there's a number of slides and some information.

But I think one of the big takeaways for council is uh procedurally make sure we're on the right track, and at the end of the day that the final report has the information that you're looking for.

Kate.

Thanks, Nate.

I will um just do a really brief introduction and then pass it over to the team at Agnew Beck to present to you tonight.

Um so this is this is kind of a midway check-in during the housing needs assessment process.

So we've been working with the team from AgNubek and uh myself and Nicole Chase in the community development department to um perform a housing needs assessment.

This really was born out of discussions that came up around housing during the Title 17 process and as addressing housing has been a top city council priority for a number of years now.

And so the goal of this project is to give you all and city staff really good data to make informed decisions.

Um we've made a lot of efforts and we came up with some programs to target the housing issues in our community that we knew were things that we could execute quickly and just try to make an impact initially.

But what we heard from City Council at the time and have continued to hear is that we want to expand and do additional more targeted programs.

So the goal of this project is to really take a good look at the data, get further input from the community, and then provide you with information to make those decisions and help direct um city staff with other program ideas and eventually, you know, an action plan to address the issues.

Um I am going to pass it over to Shanna and Aaron and let them introduce themselves and dive right into the project.

And then we we've set up the presentation to have plenty of time at the end for questions and discussion.

And as um City Manager Deval mentioned, we want to hear from you if there's anything that was missed or areas that you really want us to dive in in the report so that the final report you receive this fall will really reflect what you need.

So thank you.

Hi, everybody.

Erin, do you maybe want to go to the next slide?

And great.

Okay.

I'm Shanna's SPN and I'm here with Aaron Mondata.

I am one of the principal and co-owners at AgnewBeck Consulting based here in Anchorage.

And when Aaron gets to his slides, I'll let him introduce himself.

But he's based in Boise, Idaho.

So he's a couple of hours later than our Alaska time zone.

And we're excited to present these initial findings to you today.

Slide.

And I just want to do a check.

Can people hear me okay?

I know we're looking directly at our slides and not at the group, which is totally oh, there.

Okay.

Now I feel like I'm talking to you a little better.

Thanks.

Okay, so our agenda tonight, I know I think we have an hour and we want to save some time for comments.

And of course, we have too much too many slides.

So we might kind of skip through a few of them as we kind of do our time checks.

But after I do the welcome and introductions, and I'm going to give just a like a brief overview of the housing needs assessment process.

Um, pass it to Aaron, who's going to start us off by giving some initial findings on the really um well responded community survey that was um done in your community in the spring.

And then I'm going to dive into some of the quantitative data and our very initial needs assessment forecast and our approach to doing that work.

Um, and then hopefully we'll have time for questions and discussion.

I think a lot of folks probably know a little bit about AgniBec.

I know we worked worked on other projects in Valdees.

Um, just giving you a little bit of a sense of the type of work that we do.

Um, we really like to connect the quantitative work to the qualitative work.

We're um skilled in survey analysis, demographic analysis.

We work a lot in policy areas as well as in community health.

Go to the next slide.

Okay.

Um, our housing needs assessment process that we try to work with communities on combines data where we're pulling, you know, secondary data and any um primary data from your community to better understand demographics, economic forecasts, and overall housing information.

Um, and then you'll see as we get into the numbers and particularly the needs forecast, we really try to kind of marry that quantitative data with collaboration in the community.

So that can take the form of in your case, a very well-done survey in terms of response rates, and sometimes we'll do interviews with larger employers.

I know we have some a questionnaire out for larger employers right now to better understand and hear about their concerns with housing.

Um, and then we try to bring those two things together to share out those findings for our um our clients.

Um, the goals that you put forward when we began this housing needs assessment were very similar to what Kate described.

Uh, compile and understand your city and regional housing data, identify housing opportunities and challenges, really learn from the people living and working in your community.

Um, and then it says begin to identify recommendations and strategies, but really we're building off of a lot of the the policy work that you've already done.

And like Kate said, focusing kind of more on the targeted strategies.

Um I think I shared some of the information already in terms of the different considerations, but we're definitely looking at population forecasting, housing characteristics, affordability, um, and then overall labor market and regional employment trends and the analysis.