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    The document provides an overview of the affordable housing crisis in San Diego. It discusses how over 38 million households in the US are cost burdened by housing costs, spending 30% or more of their income on housing. It outlines some proposed solutions in San Diego, including a $50 million rehousing pilot program and directing $79.7 million in funding to housing organizations. It suggests potential challenge questions around tailoring housing to specific groups, supporting at-risk populations, and increasing efficiency and collaboration between affordable housing organizations. The document advocates working within existing systems and organizations to redevelop specific features to better address the affordable housing crisis.

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    The document provides an overview of the affordable housing crisis in San Diego. It discusses how over 38 million households in the US are cost burdened by housing costs, spending 30% or more of their income on housing. It outlines some proposed solutions in San Diego, including a $50 million rehousing pilot program and directing $79.7 million in funding to housing organizations. It suggests potential challenge questions around tailoring housing to specific groups, supporting at-risk populations, and increasing efficiency and collaboration between affordable housing organizations. The document advocates working within existing systems and organizations to redevelop specific features to better address the affordable housing crisis.

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    The document provides an overview of the affordable housing crisis in San Diego. It discusses how over 38 million households in the US are cost burdened by housing costs, spending 30% or more of their income on housing. It outlines some proposed solutions in San Diego, including a $50 million rehousing pilot program and directing $79.7 million in funding to housing organizations. It suggests potential challenge questions around tailoring housing to specific groups, supporting at-risk populations, and increasing efficiency and collaboration between affordable housing organizations. The document advocates working within existing systems and organizations to redevelop specific features to better address the affordable housing crisis.

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    AFFORDABLE HOUSING OVERVIEW

    D4SD CHALLENGE PROPOSAL

    Bryce Grubbs
    Who’s affected...
    San Diego Specific
    GENERAL FRAMING
    ● Root of the Housing Crisis
    ○ Connected to notions of pull yourself up from
    bootstraps
    ○ America is purely a meritocracy

    ● Basic concepts came across


    ○ “product of industrial capitalism”
    ○ Land, property (private) is a commodity

    ● Harvard Joint Center found that 38.9


    million households are cost burdened
    ○ 30% of income for housing
    A few solutions in San Diego
    Solution #1:
    ● Rehousing pilot
    program
    ● Offering 50 million in
    grants to affordable
    housing projects
    Solution #2: Solution #3:
    ● Housing First directing ● Board of Supervisors
    $79.7 million in federal voted to direct staff to
    + SHDC resources into investigate ways to
    (2018-2020) (7 promote construction for
    different affiliated orgs) low/middle class families
    ● Report back within six
    months on findings
    ● Shorten build times..
    Commonalities among solutions proposed..

    +
    FRAMING CHALLENGE QUESTION | STRUCTURES FIRST
    Question:
    ● How can tailor specific spaces to Question:
    different sub-groups? (ie. of housing ● How can we better support those who have
    for artists) already been at risk, and help provide
    ○ Can we link these with already resources they may be lacking?
    existing community resources?
    What are the areas/spaces that are
    Potential Challenge Question: embedded in the urban landscape
    can have their programs expanded?
    (spaces that could be repurposed,
    vacant lots, abandoned buildings
    (large and small)
    Potential Challenge Question

    How can we help increase efficiency in existing


    organizations working on the affordable housing
    crisis, and increase communication and
    collaboration between these organizations?
    ROUGH MODEL OF CHALLENGE QUESTION APPROACH
    cont.

    Bills,
    higher than
    earning
    RECAP...

    pick a specific vein (find connections within


    larger system), flesh it out and begin
    redevelopment/redesign of specific features
    while working with a specific organization
    Impact on environment
    FINAL NOTES
    Working inside and outside Systems..

    Community Disruption
    Concentrated Poverty

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