Citywide Residential
Anti-Displacement Strategy
Status Report
Kristen Clements
Acting Deputy Director, Housing Department
Emily Hislop
Division Manager, Housing Department
Josh Ishimatsu
Acting Division Manager, Housing Department
Community and Economic
Development Committee
May 22, 2023
Item (d)4
2 Top 4 Recommendations
1. Equitable COVID-19 Response and Recovery
2. Anti-Displacement and Neighborhood Tenant Preferences
3. Community Opportunity to Purchase Program
(COPA) Removed per April 25, 2023 City Council Action
4. Underrepresented Communities on Commissions,
including Lived Experience with Homelessness seat on
Housing & Community Development Commission
Citywide Residential Anti-Displacement Strategy
3 Additional updates
• Work being closed out
• Next steps on work under the
City’s Anti-Displacement
Strategy
• Preservation program
development
Citywide Residential Anti-Displacement Strategy
4 Accomplishments
• $160.8M paid on behalf of 13,697 households
• COVID-19 eviction protections phased out
• CA COVID-19 Rent Relief Program closed to new applications • Launched Eviction Diversion program to bridge the rent relief gap Next steps
• Complete transition from emergency response to ongoing eviction prevention support
COVID-19 Response
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Mar-22 Apr-22 May-22 Jun-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 Sep-22 Oct-22 Nov-22 Dec-22 Jan-23 Feb-23 Mar-23 Unlawful Detainers Submitted Based in Whole or Part on Non-Payment of Rent for TPO covered Units
Non-payment of Rent Notices Submitted for TPO Covered Units 5 Continuing Evictions for Non-payment of Rent
September 30, 2021
End of State
COVID-19 Eviction
Moratorium
March 31, 2022
End of State
COVID-19 Rent Relief
Program
June 30, 2022
End of all remaining
COVID-19 Eviction
Protections
6 Eviction Help Centers
Eviction Diversion Program (for active court cases)
Weekly Collaborative Courthouse Clinic
Right to Counsel and alternative models study
Future progress to be reported separately to
Community and Economic Development Committee
Ongoing Eviction Prevention Support
7 Accomplishments
• SB 649 (Cortese) signed into law, took effect January 1, 2023 • FUSE fellow on board
Next steps
• Complete disparate impact analysis
• Finalize proposed programs design - Anti-Displacement, Neighborhood • Conduct stakeholder outreach
▪ Implementers - Affordable housing property managers and owners ▪ Users - Tenant organizations
• Seek approvals (Commission, CED Committee, Council) in fall 2023 Tenant Preferences that Mitigate Displacement
8 Accomplishments
• Appointments of Sketch Oppie and Jerome Shaw (alternate) Next steps
• Continue ongoing support for Lived Experience Commissioners • Assess further support needed in early 2024
• Share lessons learned with City Manager’s and City Clerk’s Offices Lived-Experience Seat(s) on Housing and
Community Development Commission
9 Accomplishments
• Recommendation #1: COVID-19 Recovery, Eviction Relief → complete
• Recommendation #8: Develop YIGBY land use → parameters defined, final Council approval pending (PBCE)
Next steps
• Workplans for the following recommendations:
▪ Increase housing quality and prevent code-related displacement (#6) ▪ Create a Preservation Report and Policy (#7)
▪ Optimize Urban Villages for affordable housing and antidisplacement (#9) Remaining Recommendations from the AntiDisplacement Strategies 10 Issue nonprofit capacity building funds for new affordable housing preservation partners – including Community Land Trusts and new local Community Development Corporations Issue acquisition/rehabilitation subsidies and target properties in neighborhoods with high risk of displacement (subject to funding availability)
Create a Housing Preservation Balance Report and Policy Gauge funder interest to develop a Preservation Investment Fund
High Priority Anti-Displacement Preservation
Work Already Identified
11 Research, analyze and confirm priority preservation work for near- and medium-term
Integrate work into revised Anti-Displacement Strategy
Report to CED Committee in late 2023 annually
Integrate near-term preservation programs into the Housing Catalyst Work Plan, report to City Council
Preservation Next Steps
Citywide Residential
Anti-Displacement Strategy
Status Report
Kristen Clements
Acting Deputy Director, Housing Department
Emily Hislop
Division Manager, Housing Department
Josh Ishimatsu
Acting Division Manager, Housing Department
Community and Economic
Development Committee
May 22, 2023
Item (d)4