GENERAL THOUGHT PROCESS

Thinking of structures in terms of physical pillars of social institutions and groups -- so

leading with what are the social group's needs -- and where are these groups lacking as it
relates to not providing adequate housing to individuals.

Table of Contents
A. Guiding Research Questions
B. General knowledge about the problem
C. San Diego specific news about the problem
D. San Diego orgs, contacts, initiative
E. Experiments in other cities
F. Different threads of the problem and possible solutions
G. Possible challenge questions
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A.  Guiding Research Questions

● How is affordable housing handled today?

○ Scenario: ​if I wanted to get some assistance on finding a home, where would
I go and what would that process look like?
○ What are some of the groups involved?
● How connected are the homeless communities?
○ Ie.​ San Diego, Santa Barbara, the bay → they’re a complex network that has a
lot of bonds, so how do solutions take these communities into account?
● What are the key components that make up the housing industry?
● Who makes up the populations of those who lack housing?
○ What are the social forces that guided them toward their current
predicament?
● What are the social issues surrounding the current problem? ​(ie. white flight --
trendy to live in cities)
○ Equity vs. Equality
● What are the limitations of infrastructure?
● How are the invested parties?
● Who benefits from this disparity?
● What has caused this? ​(ie. think of larger corporations bringing in waves in the
middle class)
● Look into slums, the ghetto​, ​the projects
○ How are these groups socially organized?
● How has urbanization impacted the housing industry?
● What is delaying the production of housing?
● Look into shelters:
○ What are there capacities?
○ What are they doing to help some of the issues caused by the lack of
housing?
○ What is working? What are the limitations of their efforts?
● What role does cost:
○ What are some potential solutions to the issue of cost and what are
their drawbacks
■ Tiny house solutions to this…. (there was a community in Oregon that
was working with homeless, and also saw
● What worked/ didn’t work/ what area on the spectrum of
social issues where trying to address?
 ● What role could religious groups and other community centered groups play
into this?
● What are the categories that make up the affordable housing crisis? (aka what
are the socioeconomic groups that make up this issue)
● What role does migration play, and how do they make some of the population
of those who need affordable housing?
● What are the developers and investors? Let's reach out to see what things are
floating around their mind?

Public housing -- concentrating poverty

Creating free open spaces to be used for setting up tents, giving folks that don’t wish
to reside in a structure that ability, just add some medical sources + food...
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 B-General Knowledge on the Problem

INITIAL IDEAS:

Groups involved:
● Low skilled workers (service industry, blue collar jobs)
● Displacement due to gentrification
○ General mapping patterns of gentrification in SD:
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/san-diego-gentrification-maps-demog
raphic-data.html
○ Specific to Barrio Heights:
https://thedailyaztec.com/86458/opinion/barrio-logan-residents-wer
e-right-to-fight-attempted-gentrification/
○ Specific to Golden Hill:
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/oct/12/stringers-gentri
fication-continues/#
○ General
gentrification:​https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/11/why-some-pl
aces-gentrify-more-others/7588/
○ Opinion piece:
https://sandiegofreepress.org/2012/08/where-oh-where-have-my-nei
ghbors-gone-redevelopment-gentrification-and-displacement-in-city-h
eights/
○ San Diego specific:
http://sdapa.org/gentrification-vs-revitalization-luncheon-recap/
● Homeless population in San Diego
 ● Low income Seniors

LARGER CONTEXT:
● Specifically intersection with the larger built environment
● But as we reach these projections the lack of available housing will continue to be an
issue and may become even more severe

“151 Years of America’s Housing History”

● https://www.thenation.com/article/americas-housing-history/
● Guiding Question:
○ What are the trends that emerge through each of these time periods?

More on the Historical View of Affordable Rental Housing:

● https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Sec1.03_Historical-Overview_2015.pdf

Historical Roots of this Crisis:

https://www.thenation.com/article/give-us-shelter/
● Current situation isn’t a unique in our history
● Housing shortage defined by Hunters College’s Urban Policy and Planning Dep. →
“product of industrial capitalism”
○ See folks coming in from the countryside in search of work to cities --
housing inequality merges
○ WWI was when Germany + Britain began exploring gov. subsidies for
housing
■ Housing was developed for many groups not just poor folks
○ Didn’t take on as much in the U.S. because it was viewed as a “moral failure”
○ Historical link​ = poverty + private property
■ Arg is that the U.S. never worked through the notion that housing as a
right vs. commodity
■ Large scale action from the federal government was never developed
○ Then Great Depression hit (13 million unemployed + hundreds homeless
encampments)
■ From 1933-1941 FDR Admin formed Public Works Admin (build
model homes + major construction projects)
■ PWA helped, but wasn’t a comprehensive issue only assisted group of
Americans
 ■ RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC HOUSING
■ Real Estate industry was upset -- called New Deal housing program
communistic
■ Housing Act of 1937 -- provided public housing for both the poor and
middle class + federal government was given more power as to where
the housing would be built
● The National Association of Real Estate Boards fought against
this bill
● The 1937 bill only provided housing for the poor and allowed
communities to back of constructing affordable housing
projects
○ Low cost materials used (undesirable)
○ Housing was racially segregated
● Legislation require public-housing authorities to tear down
one unit of “substandard housing” for each new one build
○ Current Landscape:
■ Housing for the poorest, cheap, essentially still segregated
○ Housing act of 1949:
■ 324, 000 units built over 10 years, but this didn’t prohibit the
segregation
○ Lost 250,000 public housing units since the mid 1990s
○ 1973-- moratorium on most subsidized housing programs..love Nixon :)
■ A year later Congress authorized new approach called section 8
● Provides poor folks with vouchers to spend on private housing
● BUUUUUTTTT...can be rejected by the private market, has 60
or 90 days to find a home or they lose subsidy
○ And the modercome income families don’t apply
■ HUD was cut under the Reagan
■ admin -- apparently still recovering from this
● 83.6 billion -- 40 billion
○ Cheaper to put housing in low-income and segregated neighborhoods
○ 1986: low-income housing tax credit
■ Developers gains access to the credit but agreeing to build affordable
housing
● Doesn’t always means it gets built for the poorest of people
■ Developers prefer to build in segregated
○ 1970 -1980s: 1 million single room occupancy apartments (people could rent
by the day or week) disappeared -- buildings tore them down to build
“commercial properties or luxury housing”
 ■ Interesting idea: improvement for someone else to live there --
what is there for the existing population? What is done for those
who are at risk? Should be maintenance that this is a right..
○ 2007/2008 ​brought forward our issues with housing again…
■ 3 million homes foreclosed 2009-2010
○ Mass Homelessness began in 1980s
○ Important thread: ​community opposition
○ Difficulty is in maintenance of the buildings expensive, even if you get the
structure built

Types of Communities:
○ Suburbs, City, Rural

“The Cost of Affordable Housing. Does it pencil out?”

http://apps.urban.org/features/cost-of-affordable-housing/

Source: ​https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/affordable-housing-paperwork
“How to prepare the paperwork for your affordable housing interview”
● Partially random process
● Two main phases:
○ Initial application process (then picked for further processing)
○ Requires in-person interview, presentation, documents from an employer,
financial information, and health info (tight deadline)
■ (rest of article went into details regarding documentation)
Source:
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas/affordability-list
“Measuring Housing Affordability: Assessing the 30 percent of income standard”

Source:
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas/affordability-list
“Can Gentrification Be Inclusive?”
● Defined to describe the relative increases in household income, education levels,
that are percentages of neighborhoods that have traditionally been low income
● “Between 2000 and 2014, initially low-income central city census tracts that
experienced large relative gains in income experienced a 42% increase in rents on
average”
 ● In 2014 over 70% of renters who made under 15,000 allocated over half of the
income to rent
● Is represented as displacement, groups of people moving further away from the city
in search of more affordable rent
○ And if there is no displacement then the likelihood of residents being able to
remain in their communities long term is unlikely
● Gentrification & Policy:
○ is protecting the individual that are at risk of displacement through legal
representation or ​tenant-based vouchers
● Partial Solutions Raised:
○ Preservation of stock of affordable housing that already exists in gentrified
areas
○ Local policymakers trying to convince the owner of market-rate rental
housing in gentrifying areas to keep rents affordable
○ Cities are trying to acquire and build new subsidized housing in gentrifying
areas
■ Policymakers can take advantage of city-owned land
○ Include low rent units in buildings
○ Using local community orgs to break down some of the barriers that might
exist between these newer subsidized housing projects.

Source:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/14/urban-development-results-profile

● 2 billion more people in the next 30 years

● built up urban areas will increase by 1.2 million square kilometers
○ triple global urban lands
● over 80%of the global GDP is generated in cities
● account for roughly 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions
● World Bank: policy coordination and smart investment choices
● Five key business lines:
○ Green cities
■ low-carbon, climate resilient growth
■ improve solid waste management
■ air pollution
○ Inclusive cities
■ access to land
■ affordable housing
 ■ jobs and basic services
■ economic opportunities
■ urban poverty and social exclusion
○ Resilient cities
■ multi-dimensional residence and ability to cope with natural disaster
and social conflict and economic shocks
○ Competitive cities and urbanization and growth
■ cities attracting investment and jobs
○ City systems and urban governance:
■ strengthen land and housing markets
■ increasing capacity to carry out integrated territorial development
policies and land use planning

SOURCES:
https://www.sutd.edu.sg/cmsresource/idc/papers/2012_How_we_shape_our_cities_
and_then_they_shape_us.pdf
● “pre-existing geometry of the settlement also helps shape people's decision and
behavior"
● Societal influences that impact cities:
○ real-estate markets
○ energy prices
○ reliability of utilities and services
○ geographic constraints
○ climate conditions
○ history
○ people's will
● “Big issues like urban poverty or inequality cannot be solved via better design
alone”
○ need to also take into account financial regulation, economic support
● Base impacts of the built environment:
○ help generate certain types of behavior (when it comes to the use of public
space)
■ how conducive/ well thought out can attract ppl from all over who
want to be apart of that area's development
○ social effects
■ encouragement of social movements and brings attention to some of
the apparent disparities in a community (ie. division and segregation)
○ "cities generate density which reduces transportation costs an increases the
likelihood for interaction”
 ■ would want to increase the accessibility to an area to increased daily
productivity

“As Knowledge Workers Thrive, Blue Collar and Service Sectors Left Behind”

https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/wage-growth-by-occupation-type/

● Wages for knowledge workers → have increased

○ Up 6%
● Wages for blue-collar workers → wages have decreased
○ Blue collar -- down 5%
○ Service -- down 7%
● The combination with rising rent has also lead to an increase in inequality between
these groups
● Overall shift to knowledge based worked, compared to the blue collar work

● Note: rent grew faster for all classes of workers

Inclusive growth Metro for SD:

Additional Sources from Apartment.com research
● Teachers impacted by lack of affordable housing:
● https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/teacher-salaries-rental-affordability
/

STATs about SD housing, education, poverty, diversity,health, saftey..

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/san-diego-ca/

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 C. San Diego Specific Problems

San Diego Race Relations:

https://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/02/san-diegos-racial-unconscious-history-is-the-narr
ative-that-hurts/

San Diego Housing Commission:

https://www.sdhc.org/housing-opportunities/

San Diego Housing Federation:

https://www.housingsandiego.org/policy-overview/

“City [San Diego] releases $50 million for affordable housing”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/sd-me-housing-fund-20180
904-story.html

More on 50 million for affordable housing in San Diego

● https://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/jun/21/mayor-faulconer-housing-initiatives-ho
meless/
● https://www.kusi.com/san-diego-city-council-moves-forward-on-affordable-housi
ng-ballot-measure/
○ Re-housing pilot program
○ Goal is to 65% move into permanent housing from shelters, but were only
seeing 12% moving into permanent
■ Why? There is no permanent housing (not enough) once residents
leave shelters
○ Wants to use best practices around the country
○ Roughly 700 people receiving medical care and social services that are not on
the streets
○ Looking for a local revenue supply to support state funding
○ Long term goal: sustainable employment opportunities

“San Diego’s Housing Crisis Does not Affect Everyone Equally”

● 2010: SD built 8.9 percent of objective for very-low, low and modern income units
○ (need an income of 98,150 to afford moderate)
● 60% of the regional housing goal for above moderate units have been built
● Apartment List research:
○ High-income earner keep 6.4% more of their income (paying for rent) than
they did 10 years ago
○ Middle and low income earners → 8.6% of their post-rent money disappear
● Over producing the amount of high income properties

San Diego Homelessness Article by SD tribune:

 ● https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/sd-me-homeless-rep
ort-20181217-story.html
● https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/sd-me-homeless-ma
p-20180618-story.html

“ Little-known nonprofit could help solve San Diego housing shortage”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/hepatitis-crisis/sd-me-housing-affordable-
20170928-story.html
● The local Initiative Support Corporations wants to give developers seed money to
buy land for housing projects in low income issues
○ Proposing to create a $50 million affordable housing fund to make the
construction process cheaper and faster
○ How? ​Pre approved architectural plans allow ppl to bypass design process
and approval process
● Large national organization with SD chapter that’s been established for nearly 26
years now
○ Model? ​$20 million fund created by the city of SD and Housing Commission
○ How funded? ​Banks, corporations, and foundations support nonprofit used
to finance these projects
○ Banks required by ​Community Reinvestment Act of 1977:
■ “ ​The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted in 1977, requires the
Federal Reserve and other ​federal banking regulators​ to encourage financial
institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they do
business, including ​low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods​.”
● Source:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/cra_about.ht
m
○ $550,000 → median price of home | average two bedroom → 1,800
○ Goal: ​provide enough upfront to solidify ownership of property → then find
rest of money at a later date
● Want to create a low-income community -- network so to speak (low-income
infrastructure)
○ LISC’s SD projets:
■ 1 billion in total development → projects have 6,300 housing units + 1
million square feet or retail, public art and community space

Media outlet dedicated to bringing to light to homelessness in SD:

https://www.kpbs.org/news/san-diego-homeless-project/

List of San Diego Homeless Shelters:

https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=san%20diego&s
tate=CA

San Diego County To Study Affordable Housing Solutions

https://patch.com/california/san-diego/san-diego-county-study-affordable-housing
-solutions​:
● Board of Supervisors voted to direct staff to investigate ways to promote
construction for low and middle income families in unincorporated SD county
○ Land use meetings on Wednesday
● Focusing on six areas that could make it easier to address the problem related to the
phases that make up this process
● Report back within six months on findings -- would be interesting to see if we could
form some relationships here
● Trying to shorten the time it takes to build a house
● Unincorporated areas...large majority of land in SD…
○ Small critique-- pump tracks on expanding and building destroying more
habitats and adding on to the alrea dy terrible environment conditions we
got going on

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E. Experiments in Other Cities

Who is already trying to attack this problem?

● Industry?
● Government?
● Third party (ie. nonprofit organizations)

Solving affordable housing: Creative solutions around the U.S.

Source:​https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/25/16020648/affordable-housing-apartment-
urban-development
Summary:
● Building boom and affordability crisis
 ○ Link to research on the crisis by Urban Institute:
http://apps.urban.org/features/cost-of-affordable-housing/
● Harvard Joint Center found that 38.9 million households are cost burdened (use
more than 30% of income for housing)
● 4.6 million units will be needed by 2030 (by NMHC)
● Housing Organizations:
○ Urban Institute
○ Housing Partnership Network
○ National Housing Conference
○ Coalition for Homeless
○ Joint Center for Housing Studies
● Attempted ideas:
○ Inclusionary zoning
○ Removing parking minimums
○ Changing building codes (easier to build out older new buildings)
■ So how can we generate some small changes, and what are the holes
and potential niches that we can create and fill?
● Personal note:
○ We need different classifications for affordable housing recipients because
they all don’t fit under the same category.
● Denver:
○ Model: ​Mile High city
○ Method:
■ Investing specific dollar amounts
■ Launched a loan fund (10 million) to widen the capital for projects →
was a success and expanded support
● Which resulted in new projects being approved to either
maintain​ or build thousands of units
○ Come back to maintain,​ because this also has to be
included in any plans in addition to the creation of new
structures
■ Making use of vacant properties with this fund
● Cleveland:
○ Model: ​Giving specific groups personalized housing accommodations
○ Creator:​ Northeast Shores Development
○ Method: ​Community for artists, receive bonus equity every month for paying
rent o time, which can later be used as a downpayment for a house
■ Essentially a lease to purchase program
● Results: (Cleveland Housing Network)
 ○ Sold 500 homes in the past five years
■ Other programs:
● Ballot Box: gives residents of these artistic communities the
ability to decide how to spend local arts funding, which
includes a choice of projects and topic
○ Idea: ​could take this further, and look at what other
communities are affected, and what sort of exchange
(value) could be set up that would allow a relationship
to be built between the two or more parties
○ Question:
■ What are other community-based projects that
need help from others?

● Philadelphia:
○ Model: ​Paseo Verde
○ Creator: ​Jonathan Rose Company (know for creating affordable housing
projects)
○ Method:
■ Healthcare facilities integrated with the structure
● Generally:​ linking key components of life to the physical
proximity of the structure & more socially dynamic structures
● Or housing + [insert community need -- can either be bound to
a physical structure or benefit from having space carved out
for them]
■ Similar examples:
● Mercy House (the city): supporting working parents with
daycare centers
● Woodlawn neighborhood (POAH): housing + job and skills
training

● Salt Lake City:

○ Model: ​The Housing First Approach
○ Creator: ​Urban Centers
○ Method:
■ Finding homes for chronically homeless without applying other
requirements such as having folks conduct drug tests
● Additional Notes:
○ Having the structure be also apart of this phase
 ■ But what is the ultimate goal of this phase →
societal reintegration
● Another theme:
○ Lack of advocacy...

“Affordable Housing- Research and Recommendations”

http://www.cura.umn.edu/sites/cura.advantagelabs.com/files/content-docs/Research_M
N_Values_Attitudes.pdf
● Lens: ​Minnesota affordable housing challenges
● Standard stat for determining if a property is affordable is if it requires 30% of a
person’s income
● Method:
○ Telephone surveys (random)
○ Focus groups
○ Print news
○ Interviews with the experts
● Summary of Findings:
○ Third tier political issue (seen by residents)
○ People want to protect the value of their property
■ See the introduction of lower income prop as reducing this value
■ “Homeowners find comfort in the status quo” → 68% believed that
“Any housing choice added to my community should fit the character
of the community as it exists today”
○ Want to preserve the character of their communities
○ Those who currently own homes are more concerned with affordable
housing in relation to what is most ideal for them
○ Theme: personal and economic security
● Success will be determined by better relations between diff. Groups
● Suggestions:
○ Create strategies built on engaging citizens in the community on common
issues
○ Think about the way in which the message will be delivered to the
surrounding community members..what will they get from it
○ Work with leaders within the community

“Tiny House for the Homeless: An Affordable Solution Catches On”

https://charterforcompassion.org/problem-solving/tiny-houses-for-the-homeless-an-affor
dable-solution-catches-on
Counterargument/ Deepens Conversation in Relation to Tiny homes -- addressing
systemic issues
https://theoutline.com/post/4639/tiny-house-affordable-housing-adu-boston-portl
and
● Mayor in LA has launched a project that offers loads of 75,000 to homeowners who
build backyard houses on their property and rent them to homeless city residents
○ Rent is subsidized by low-income vouchers from the city
○ Each tenant pays no more than 30% of the monthly income to the
homeowner
○ General term: Accessory Dwelling Units
● “The only stable housing you really see in working-class communities is public
housing”
● A step toward privatizing something that should be handled by gov
● Shifts the conversation from the larger problem
● Essentially a band-aid solution
● A slew of other changes would be
○ Ie. building more social housing in major U.S. cities, expanding tenant’s
rights, revisiting rent control
● If this approach this used, then city gov. Won’t have to address the high profile
towers popping up
● Not addressing structural inequality

“Tiny Villages”
https://www.curbed.com/maps/tiny-houses-for-the-homeless-villages

“Can tiny homes solve homelessness”

https://www.greenmatters.com/home/2018/03/30/Z24iHke/tiny-homes-homeless
ness

Seattle Challenge:
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/47942-microsoft-pledges-500-million-to-ad
dress-seattles-affordable-housing-problem
● 500 million pledged to fund construction of affordable housing
○ 475 million -- construction loads
○ 25 million -- grant addressing homelessness
New York, Singapore, Vancouver, Hong Kong, where sprawl isn’t the answer (and not
feasible)

HUD’s Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition Inspires the Next Gen. of

Leaders:
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/huds-innovation-in-affordable-housing-compet
ition-inspires-the-next-generat
● Program initiator: U.S. department of Housing and Urban Development
● Framing for competition put on by HUD:
○ https://www.huduser.gov/portal/challenge/home.html
● Have yearly foci: the most recent was “strong community and supportive services”
○ Fundamental goals of the competition:
■ Affordability, environmental, economic, and social sustainability
● (also connected to renewable energy, efficiency, public health)
○ Work with affordable housing agency
● Downside -- looking at things from a purely building standpoint...LIMITING
● How were they able to address the social needs via the structure
● Had interdisciplinary teams

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 F. Different Threads of the Problem

● What are some of the factors that impact homelessness?

○ Addiction
○ Mental illness
○ “Family breakdown”
○ Who makes up the homeless population?
■ https://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/Whois.pd
f​ (old breakdown from 2007)
● Age, gender, families, ethnicity, victims of domestic violence,
veterans, persons with mental illness, persons suffering from
addiction disorders, employment (lack thereof)
○ One source stating that one major reason for a homeless
has to do with losing jobs:
https://abc7news.com/news/sf-research-shows-most-
people-homeless-due-to-job-loss/1407632/
 ● More on who makes up the homeless population in the U.S.:
https://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/2016-homelessness-st
atistics/
● More on who makes up the homeless population in the U.S.:
https://www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/homeless
ness-101/who-homeless
● What are the factors that contribute to homelessness:
http://www.homelesshouston.org/coalition-faq/what-are-the-
major-contributing-factors-to-homelessness-in-the-u-s/
○

● What are the limitations of homeless shelters?

○ Basic info:
http://michelel101.weebly.com/the-disadvantages-of-a-homeless-shelt
er.html
○ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-fuller/homeless-shelter-paren
ts_b_1035952.html
■ Shelters have quotes in order to get funding
■ No guarantee if you go through the “sign up” process
■ Some require you have to stay for a certain amount of time
■ faith - based shelter (mild conversion…)
■ There are certain eligibility requirements
● Ex. addition, domestic abuse,
■ Not a lot of family shelters
● Women and children get sent to one and dad gets sent to
another
●
○ https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576825276/shelters-reach-capacit
y-in-cold-weather-as-homeless-population-rises

● Understanding Trends in Concentrated Poverty:

○ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5300070/
○ Other spins off as a result of concentrated poverty:
■ “​crime, welfare dependency, nonmarital childbearing, and unfavorable
health, educational, and work outcomes are most prevalent in high-poverty
areas”
○ Resources are tied to neighborhoods
○ Social networks geographically located
 ○ Pockets less common outside downtown area
○ Not as common prior to cars as a common commodity
○ Structural barriers preventing from upward movement in society
○ High poverty neighborhoods -- 40% or more are poor -- reflected in the
neighborhood
○ Based on evidence there is a correlation between concentrated poverty and
income segregation, but there isn’t a directly proportional relationship
○ “Hispanics, such that if blacks and Hispanics were less racially segregated from
others, concentrated poverty among them would be considerably lower”

● What are the role of activists in this conversation?

○ Article on the role of activist:
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-way-home/
○ Setup:
■ Not all affordable housing are kept up to code or adequately taken
care of
■ Tent-right campaigns -- California, NY, Denver, Chicago
■ Objective: ​bring to the top of national political agenda
○ Example:
■ Revolt in Rochester -- united to resist the conditions they were living
under
● Knocked on other tenants doors and built a team
● Filed official complaints -- got local media to cover the protest
○ Could we improve the scope who they were able to
reach out to?
■ Apart of a larger movement for renters rights
■ San diego and other Cali cities are trying to get housing organizers to
work out rent control initiatives on the ballot
○ Working to repeal Act prohibiting rent control in building constructed after
February 1995
○ Bigger issue is Universal Housing -- and our inability to come to a decision if
this is a right or privilege
■ Sub threads: displacement, segregation, eviction, homelessness
○ General/ Larger scale threads of attacking the problem:
■ Promotion of models that exist outside the market
○ Complete separation from the markets
○ Shift in language and who can included as beneficiaries from pub housing
■
○ Why public housing matters:
 ■ Point of aid for folks who have been excluded from private housing
market

● Talk given by David Madden on “Inequality and the Commodification of

Housing”
○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRb_2ayJVJk
○ (so, housing as a product)
○ What drives the overproduction of luxury housing?
○ Housing can either help or damage notions of inequality
○ Increased commodification of housing -- increase in inequality (proportional
relationship)
○ Who are the common actors?
○ Process by which economic value of a thing overshadows all other
dimensions of what it is
○ Roots in inclosure -- separation based on who property ownership
○ What is the history of social housing?

● What happens once those who were once homeless receive housing? (because
this doesn’t mean that the problem is over, there is one dimension taken care,
but what about the lasting effects of homeless and lack of housing)
○ Talk on housing First Approach to homelessness in NY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nys6iebjHw
■ Transitional state and certain degree of trust that needs to built when
going from the streets to a home
■ 3 categories of homelessness: (repeat -- aka. chronic, occasional,
temporary)
■ Harm reduction model
● General: can essentially still uses drugs, etc when housed just
as non chronic homeless folks can, given services that they
don’t have to use -- essentially meeting them halfway
■ Small population (chronic) -- expensive
■ Developing trust with people in these communities
■ “Anything necessary to keep them housed”
■ Potential thread:
● Looking into the medical professionals who help as apart of
this community
● Downsides of concentrated poverty:
○ Residents are isolated from resources
 ○ Increase in crime, shortage of finance capital, lack of institutional resources
○ Communities have health + education problems
○ What are the familial problems related to this? How is the family unit
fractured?
○ As Margery Austin Turner, an expert in poverty research with the
Urban Institute, tells ​EM:​
○ “The major question that continues to be asked is, does living in
these places harm residents in and of itself? [Neighborhood
effects are certainly not] the only factor; individual and family
circumstances can overcome the effects of concentrated poverty
but can also leave a family vulnerable. What is worrisome is that
we don’t know enough about the interaction between vulnerable
families and their neighborhoods. These families are the most
likely to live in poverty areas but are also the most likely to have
bad outcomes no matter where they reside. We need to learn
more about the process by which a neighborhood transitions
from low to high opportunity and, similarly, how that process
influences individuals already affected by concentrated poverty”
○ Question sparked: ​What happens to the communities once these units are
built?

● What about upkeep once these affordable units come into play → because if
not they become rundown..

○ https://www.multifamilyexecutive.com/design-development/preservi
ng-affordable-housing-best-practices_o

● Look more into the physical patterns of cities

○ so what are the physical patterns that make it difficult to produce adequate
housing
○ Where are the units most likely to go, and how do they fit within the already
established context of what whatever community it is placed in.
● What are the long term implications of the lack of housing?
○ Broad strokes of impact lack of housing has on the nation:
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/30691-9-ways-the-lack-of-affordabl
e-housing-is-hurting-america
○ Research published in 1999 on long term effects:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/pdf/longterm.pdf
○ Research published on Housing Intersection with
health:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809779/?page=1
 ○ More research on how housing impacts a range of issues:
https://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/268752/The_H
uman_Cost.pdf
○ Housing + disability + mental health:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2018/11/20/46
1294/lack-housing-mental-health-disabilities-exacerbate-one-another/

● Paper addressing to what extent homeless is a housing problem:

https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/hpd_0203_wright.p
df

● More on homelessness and Affordable housing:

https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1381&context=
lawineq
● Article doing a similar thing:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40504605/americas-affordable-housing-crisi
s-is-driving-its-homelessness-crisis

● General stats and information about homelessness:

https://endhomelessness.org/ending-homelessness/policy/affordable-housi
ng/

● Poverty Breakdown by State (race):

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/?cu
rrentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22so
rt%22:%22asc%22%7D

Draw rough connections to the sustainability/env

● ECO homes
● Sustainable large scale infrastructure
● Starter sources:
○ http://uli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Report-7-Environmentall
y-Sustainable-Affordable-Housing.ashx_.pdf​ (old, but start here)
○ https://elemental.green/18-inexpensive-sustainable-homes-almost-an
yone-can-afford/
○ https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/smart-growth-and-affordable-hous
ing
 ○ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S09596526173121
80
○ https://design.ncsu.edu/ah+sc/?page_id=367
○ https://inhabitat.com/top-6-green-supportive-and-low-income-housin
g-projects/
○ http://sus.stanford.edu/blog/2017/4/19/saving-green-environmental-
sustainability-and-affordability-in-rental-developments

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 H. San Diego Orgs, Contacts, Initiatives

● Affordable Housing Initiative with the Actors Fund

○ LA office:
■ Phone: 888.825.0911
■ Email: ​info@actorsfund.org
● Lucky Duck Foundation:
○ Donated to the affordable housing initiatives set forth in 2018 in San Diego
○ https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/
○ Email: staff@luckyduckfoundation.org
○ Phone: 858.259.6003
● Grow the San Diego Way
○ Website: growthesandiegoway.com
● CityLab ​(could reach out, have connections and resources) + intersection with our
other topics:
https://www.citylab​https://www.housinginnovationchallenge.com/​.com/
● San Diego Housing Federation:
○ About:
■ Since 1990, San Diego Housing Federation has been the collective
voice of those who support, build, and finance affordable housing in
the San Diego region. ​San Diego Housing Federation creates affordable
housing opportunities for low-income people by expanding the
knowledge, capacity, and influence of the affordable housing
development community.​ In addition to our advocacy work, SDHF
offers professional training, networking opportunities, and provides
resources for housing policy advocates.
○ Phone: ​619-239-6693
○ Email: ​sdhfadmin@housingsandiego.org
● Community Housing Works
○ About:
 ■ develops, rehabilitates, preserves and operates affordable apartment
communities
■ Coming from the program lens + service
○ Phone: (619) 282-6647
○ Email:​ ​info@chworks.org
● Housing You Matters:
○ About:
■ Lens: strategy development → working directly with SD leadership,
and the voice for the folks they’re advocating for in civic env.
■ educate and work with policy makers (developers as well) + research
○ Phone: 619.252.0295
○ Email: ​mary@lydon-associates.com
● Author of article “Little-Known nonprofit could help solve San Diego housing
shortage”
○ Phone: ​619-269-8906
○ Email: ​david.garrick@sduniontribune.com
● City of San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC)
○ https://www.sdhc.org
○ 619-231-9400
● County of San Diego Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD)

○ https://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/sdhcd/index.html
○ (858) 694-4801

● Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Programs (HPRP)

○ https://www.hudhre.info/hprp

● Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Housing Program Developers

● Affirmed Housing

○ https://www.affirmedhousing.com ​ | (858) 679-2828

● BRIDGE Housing (affordable homes for working families and seniors)

 ○ https://www.bridgehousing.com​ | (415) 989-1111

● Townspeople, Inc. (solutions to housing needs for folks who are homeless or
at risk)

○ https://www.townspeople.org/​ | (619) 295-8802

● Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation (acquires and rehabilities

affordable housing)

○ https://www.wakelandhdc.com/​ | (619) 235-2296

● Regional Continuum of Care Council

○ https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/sdhcd/ending-homelessness
/cofc.html

● Larger list of all housing related resources

○ https://housingmatterssd.org/resources/

 
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ADDITIONAL SOURCES TO LOOK INTO:

● http://www.karenkubey.net/publications/​: Karen Kurbey
● http://www.urbanus.com.cn/home/?lang=en​: Urbanus
● Joel Kotkin
● https://narratively.com/can-tiny-homes-solve-americas-homeless-problem/
○ More on tiny house lens
● https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/12/11/top-city-
official-gave-amazon-a-role-in-public-records-release-737885
● https://www.publicknowledge.org/
● https://archinect.com/features/article/149944930/how-4-us-cities-are-applying-a
rchitectural-solutions-to-homelessness
● https://app.shoreline.edu/doldham/102/HTML/Samples/Sustainable%20Low%20
Income%20Housing%20Final.pdf
● http://www.dweller.com/
● https://www.iconbuild.com/
 ● https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics/housing-innovation-
lab
● https://endhomelessness.org/
● https://www.sutd.edu.sg/cmsresource/idc/papers/2012_How_we_shape_our_cities
_and_then_they_shape_us.pdf
● https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/16/15816166/housing-study-harvard-affordabi
lity-homeownership​ (with image)
● https://www.curbed.com/2016/5/19/11713134/affordable-housing-policy-rent-a
partments
● http://jchs.harvard.edu/research
● https://studylib.net/doc/14476182/lessons-of-the-international-housing
● http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/
● https://housingpartnership.net/
● https://www.nhc.org/
● https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/29/california-housing-crisis-2020-electi
on-747467
● https://www.kusi.com/councilwoman-barbara-bry-on-state-of-the-city/
● https://www.curbed.com/2019/1/3/18166815/elizabeth-warren-housing-2020-el
ection-democratic-policy
● https://datausa.io/profile/geo/san-diego-ca/​ (data about the SD area)
● https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SocialHousi
ng.pdf​ (more on social housign)
● https://righttothecity.org/news/homes-for-all-campaign-summary/
● More on homelessness:
https://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/Whois.pdf
● https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257572/​ (housing and health)
● http://sandiego.networkofcare.org/veterans/services/subcategory.aspx?tax=YV-30
00.3100

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WHO MIGHT GET INVOLVED?

● Future:
○ What about cross-disciplinary work (ie. political scientists, designers,
writers, etc. → working a bit further than the idea fabrication and toward the
next stage of making them a reality)
 ■ See this being something that can be handed off to prof. Who then
take over the projects and or work with the initial creator's
GUIDING QUESTION:
● What can be done to enhance the already existing relationships between people and
their communities?

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 G. Possible Challenge Questions

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Lead up:
● How can bring awareness to the issue?
● Could we find new ways to link organizations and groups together? Increase
coordination?
○ What groups are at the frontlines?
● How can we be more supportive of the already existing programs and
structures?
○ Method: ​pick a system (could be a very specific vein in the larger system),
flesh it out and begin redevelopment of it
● What are the holes that in established social structure that can be exploited?
● How can help mobilize political action given the tool kit we have?
○ Exploration into the ways humans organize themselves, and figuring
out the best way to fit small changes with the larger urban framework
● Potentially frame ourselves as steps to helping folks get back on track..
● What stirs actions from politicians? What can’t the resist if something is made
enough of a problem?
○ Essentially what pushes their buttons and what can we design to take
advantage of these pressure points?
● What are the issues that arise once residents move into new units?
● Further flush out limitations in Affordable housing?

Play around with this: (below)

● From this we can begin to break the problem into a few time scales: immediate,
temporary, and long term.
● Immediate includes changes that will produce some impact on a quick timeframe
● Temporary
 ● immediate (getting folks off the streets) , temporary (think of this as compared to
homeless shelters) , long-term (more along the vein of systemic issues, folks to
maintain in homes, work through the trauma of what it is they've been through,
continue moving forward)

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Introduction.
Housing in the United States is a highly debated and charged topic that has been a steady
refrain since the mid-1800s. The lens of access to housing has been shifted through the decades and
has been impacted by various federal programs such as FDR’s public Housing Works
Administration, the Housing Act of 1937, the Housing Act of 1949, the “One Strike and You're Out”
in 1997 under the Clinton administration, as well as the 2012 Rental Assistance Demonstration
under the Obama administration. Each of these social programs, among more, has helped shaped
the current affordable housing crisis. In addition to the historical lens, additional lens’ of potential
solutions, and invested parties has been further mapped out to understand how these pieces
interact together to form the affordable housing landscape we have today.
Embedded among the different elements that make of the problem, are some recurring
themes. For example, there are two main categories that solutions for affordable housing can be
broken down into. The first is space solutions (ie.new buildings, housing units, shelters) and the
second is capital. How can we divert more money to the production of these buildings? Although
these are all essential to addressing the problems, they provide a rather narrow view of the crisis.
By shifting the framing of the problem, such as asking: what are the current systems in place meant
to address affordable housing, and how can non-architects, and non-civic leaders intervene in the
systems to increase efficiency and bring about some impact?
Using the previously outlined approach the objective is to sufficiently map out the
affordable housing landscape, select a particular vein, reframe it, so when presented as a design
challenge, participants will be able to form creative solutions attacking the affordable housing crisis
from a variety of vantage points.
Some key questions that have continued to arise has been what are the limiting ways that
the problem is framed that inhibit creative thinking about potential solutions. What are some of the
inherent biases that are inhibiting our ability to address the problem? Who are the parties affected
by the lack of housing?
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problem and then understanding what tools already exist for them and seeing how can these tools
be better increased and modified so that they are more effective.

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Some key questions that have continued to arise has been what are the limiting ways that the
problem is framed that inhibit creative thinking about potential solutions. What are some of the
inherent biases that are inhibiting our ability to address the problem? Who are the parties affected
by the lack of housing?

In addition, we want to develop a list of contacts that we can reach out to, because this is a
community effort and as such a community network is necessary.

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IoT

https://gyires.inf.unideb.hu/GyBITT/08/ch09s06.html

Notes/questions that emerge:

● Technology has impact on moral decision making
● Think of tech as a active agent
● There are increased risks to security, cyber-attacks
○ Can see a few speculative design questions here
■ How might we handle massive data breaches?
● How can we make it easier for folks to get ahold of their data? Or least be more
educated on the matter?

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/35f0/899d941e9e34ff1225448c21662d5ccca74c.pdf

Notes/questions that emerge:

● Def: referring to a system of interconnected devices
● All physical objects around us are uniquely identifiable
● What will be the relationship between IoT objects and traditional objects?
○ Maybe invision two veins: a vein of collaboration and one where IoT takes
over
● How might we have a more cohesive and dynamic relationship with our data?
● Different smart tech areas:
○ Smart Home
○ Smart Environment
○ Smart Transportation
○ Smart Hospital
● What does society look like when we have direct access to the data we generate?

https://www.mindtory.com/internet-of-things-iot/
Notes/questions that emerge:
● In a society that is dominated by IoT, how do we maintain our relationships...or do
our relationships with non connected devices look like?
● Why is it necessary to have the room be so quickly controlled or responsive to
whatever our needs out — these materials that make these devices are going to
have to be mined, which means some other group or group will continue to be
fucked over as we exploit their resources?
● How can reimagine other solutions to some of the problems being addressed by
IoT?
● Radio Frequency Identification = important factor in linking and tagging devices to
track and manage data
● Union of technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds
○ Could do something that reverses this, how can we use virtual worlds to
better our physical world?
● What were to happen if something happened preventing us to mine the essential
materials needed to produce transistors and chips?
○ What tools would we need to carry out day to day activities? (this has an eye
for natural disasters)
● Data is checked for patterns, trends, and additional forms of information
● Could look at various types of connections:
○ Smart home and connected cars
○ Smart home and wearables
○ Smart home and Intelligent Shopping, etc.
● Can we imagine other pastimes that might be created once we have our smart
objects taking care of our basic functions?
● What are contained in smart homes:
○ Smart tv’s, smart electrical system, entertainment systems, appliances,

https://news.arubanetworks.com/press-release/arubanetworks/iot-heading-mass-adopti
on-2019-driven-better-expected-business-results

Notes/questions that emerge:

● Security is a big issue that keeps coming up...not sure where people fit into this
● IoT to be widespread by 2019...already been a number of security breaches
● Def:​ ​“The ‘Internet of Things’ means sensors connected to the Internet and behaving
in an Internet-like way by making open, ad hoc connections, sharing data freely and
allowing unexpected applications, so computers can understand the world around
them and become humanity’s nervous system.”
 ○ This is connected to personal project, but is apart of this objective of trying to
build a second nature
● What are other ways that IoT can be introduced in the home to increase human
relations — trying to link IoT to social benefits
● There is an opportunity space for integrating IoT in healthcare
● These are the obstacles arising in IoT
○ Cost of implementation
○ Maintenance
○ Integration of legacy technology
● How do we create value from data?
○ So how can we use the data being collected in our homes to rethink our lives
and also link these things to potential changes that people want to introduce
into their own lives…
● Could think about IoT from the perspective of construction...also think about the
different stages of building out projects and where new ideas can be fitted in
○ How can we make open spaces accessible for public use?
○ Use the data being generated to better connect us to our folks in our
communities?

Next steps: ​watch videos to get inspiration

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Mixed-Use housing

General Notes/Initial Questions that arise:

● This is really getting at multi purpose/functional spaces
● How can we introduce these multi-purpose environments in the urban field?
● What is mixed use tied to and how can these efforts be amplified?
● Can we open mixed use housing, into other areas like climate or shelter?
○ Mixed emergency shelter, or other mixed events that take place
● How can we create group up mixed use approaches to creating these environments?
● How do people’s housing restrictions impact their lives? How might we open up
some of these avenues for additional exploration?
● How can make urban environments feel more welcoming?
○ How can cities that are shaped more by the people?
○ How can we be more involved in how homes are shaped and built?
● How can we make it so that our default is to have spaces which are multi-purpose?
How do we make it easier to condense our sprawled out city?
 ● How can we make zoning prompt the creation of mixed use?
● What are alternative ways to think about how space is divided in the city?
● How can we make it less complicated to develop mixed use spaces?
● How do we centralize and better connect the areas of life that are important to us?
● How can we make the most of our buildings?
● Can we imagine all the potential uses of buildings outside their intended purposes?
What else might our homes be used for?
● How can we pull our resources together in our communities?

Links:
● http://www.urban-hub.com/buildings/mixed-use-buildings-for-diversified-sustain
able-sites/

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Source:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_technologies_available_for_affordable_rural
_and_urban_Housing_Development

Inspiration: ​“Climate change causes vulnerability of human settlements which is related to

extreme weather events and such gradual changes in the climate exceed the adaptive
capacity of human systems. Climate change adds to the existing stress on the sustainability
of human settlements and society. Non climate sources of change like rapid urbanisation
are often the main source of stress.”

Classification of Houses

Permanent houses:​ Houses- the walls and roof of which are made of permanent material.

​Semi-permanent houses​: Houses in which either the walls or the roof is made of
permanent material.

​Temporary houses:​ Houses in which both the walls and roof are made of materials that
needs to be replaced frequently.
​Serviceable temporary houses:​ Temporary houses, in which the walls are made of mud,
unburnt bricks or wood.

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How can we get creative with offsetting costs in housing by introducing ways for the space
to make money to pay for itself?

How can we have housing that is resilient once sea levels rise?
What kind of spaces will we have here and what will that mean for having a home in these
areas?

How can reclaim other waste commodities and reshape into housing?

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Hugely helpful source:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/a-market-map-of-the-housing-startup-space/

Notes:
● Focus: companies impacting phases of the development and managing of housing
● Reducing construction costs:

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Helpful source:
https://www.hiveforhousing.com/hive-50/2018_o

Notes:
● Housing isn’t meeting the needs of everyday people — not adaptable enough
● Goal for introducing innovation into the housing landscape:
○ Develop new and renovated housing that keeps on pace with the jobs that
are being generated (geared to folks in a particular bracket)
○ Capture the next generation of talent
● How can we make our homes last longer?
○ How can we inform people of when there are needs to be addressed in the
home?
● Important source of inspiration:
○ https://www.hiveforhousing.com/hive-50/starcity_o
○ Brining co-living into San Diego
● Inspiration:
 ○ https://www.hiveforhousing.com/hive-50/module_o
● How can the home be a unit that performs like trees, how can we make them more
multifunctional for the environment? How can they give more than they take?
● Inspiration: ​https://www.hiveforhousing.com/hive-50/kensho_o
● Inspiration: ​https://www.hiveforhousing.com/hive-50/landed_o
○ Housing initiative for a specific group
● Main areas of innovation:
○ Building Technology: Products, systems and solutions that transform
structure to perform optimally
○ Capital: Resources, costs and value flowing through housing investment
○ Design: Architecture, planning and engineering better homes and
communities
○ Intel: Insight tools to identify, acquire, serve and retain customers, determine
project viability and assign value
○ Strategy: Business models, processes and practices to create and manage
change
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Placemaking

Source:
https://assets-global.website-files.com/5810e16fbe876cec6bcbd86e/59f1fb530aad
1d00010a6186_PPS-Placemaking-and-the-Future-of-Cities.pdf

● What is placemaking getting at -- some of the elements that make up culture in a city
● They are the elements that add flavor to the city
● Placemaking is the on the ground work to fill in the intangible gaps that are missing
in communities, the on the ground work needed to help feel like a community
● How do we shape the social interactions that place? How do we encourage and
make an environment well people can feel free to be apart of the community and
share with one another?
● What social good do you think your community need? How can you add value to the
community by designing something that sparks new forms of communication and
interaction? (don’t like this question...taking on problems that white culture has
with not being able to form communities…nah that’s pretty savage, we gotta work
together to help and teach other how to be better community members)
● This is really about combating gentrification with the community becoming a pillar
● How can we imagine San Diego downtown to minimize car’s moving through the
city?
 ● This is really grounded in what do you want your cities to look like, how can we
imagine transforming our spaces to meet the needs
○ Where do you feel the needs of your urban environment aren’t being met?
Can you think of alternative ways of thinking about how that space might be
used?
○ This will empower participants to rethink the needs of their community and
develop a proposal around what they believe needs to be addressed

Other sources to keep in mind:

● https://www.archdaily.com/886275/placemaking-movement-manifesto-tool-buzz
word-or-what
● http://jamessrussell.net/enough-of-bogus-placemaking/?utm_medium=website&ut
m_source=archdaily.com
○ “​Placemaking seems to comprise a community-driven process for designing
public spaces (streets, sidewalks, plazas, squares, campuses, parks, and so
on) that are mixed use, host a variety of activities for diverse audiences, and
are well-connected to the larger city or town.”
○ How do we reinvigorate our buildings so that they are more inviting?
● https://www.pps.org/projects

Sue Pearson Notes:

● Realm of contested smaller spaces (ie. curbs)
● Online experience-- complimenting the in person experience
● What Steven is missing...momentum
○ Coordinating different proposals
● Recap of pop-up event:
○ Data collection exchange between folks who ran the pop up
■ How can we build from what we learned from the experiment
● Who needs to be at the table (ppl to make decisions, have capital, etc)?
○ Getting these individuals early on to get them invested
● Topics that open up conversations:
● Contrevsory/polarized people -- helps to get them involved
● Creating a sort of living document with various types of media
○ To avoid restrictions and difficulties that come with using text alone
● Breaking apart the presentation days
 ○ Boiling issues down to fundamental and presenting it in a way that captures
individuals attention
● Idea: repurposing of alleys
○ A potential presentation sites -- could be potentially interactive with the site
○ Having events be in the communities where the work is being done
● Placemaking in the public way
○ Alleyways
○ Parks
○ Waterfront areas
○ Vacant lots
● Are there actions items that we can leave people with?
● Location? Who’s open to this? Who can champion it? Policy? Community?

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Next Steps/ Thoughts:
● Have some conversations with a few experts
○ Keith Pizzoli
○ Sue Pearson
○ Teddy Cruz
○ Benjamin Bratton
○ Eli Spencer
● Draft some questions
● Existing policy
● Solutions being worked in our areas
○ Focus on non-traditional approaches

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