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Pleasanton Housing Element Stakeholder Meetings <br />• Successful senior housing, services for seniors, affordable housing for seniors, and <br />community support for affordable housing for seniors <br />• Small scale housing for special needs households (permanently affordable housing) <br />• Affordable Housing Impact Fee <br />• Great housing services, City staff, housing rehab services, Housing <br />Commission /Committee Staff <br />• Housing Rehab: Preservation of housing affordable to extremely low- and low- income <br />homeowners /renters. <br />• BMR Apartments, Section 8 Apartments, Senior Housing <br />• Senior Housing Complexes <br />o WHY: People identify with the need and it affects everyone <br />o WHY: Not controversial- no impact on schools and lower impact on roads <br />• Mixed use - mixed income <br />o Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNMA and FHLMC) <br />o HUD Programs such as 236 <br />o Senior Housing, Senior Center, Affordable Inclusionary Housing <br />• city and Community committed to senior housing <br />Question #2: Wealanesses/Needs <br />• Which segments of the population are most underserved by housing - related resources? <br />• Are new housing- related needs emerging in the community? <br />Responses: <br />• Programs that serve: <br />o Workforce housing is underserved <br />o Homeless disabled and low- income <br />o Persons with disabilities who are on 551 <br />o Individuals who require not only affordable but also accessible housing <br />o Low- income families (low wage workforce housing) <br />o Special needs. Households don't have enough resources SB812 addresses growing <br />need <br />o Families with children, single men <br />o Autism + special needs -those who need security as well as socialization and <br />independence. There are 700 individuals with special needs living in Pleasanton <br />right now autism wave will increase that number. <br />o Local workforce most underserved. This need continues to grow with fewer <br />people who work here able to live here and declining. Retail employees, food <br />service employees, support staff and services, employees most underserved <br />• Lack of disabled accessible housing <br />• A larger need for housing for special needs adults is emerging. Housing with a <br />community feel and social opportunities <br />• Family housing. Sites for multifamily housing zoned at 3o +DU /Acre <br />• New housing needs. Small housing units (up to 1200 sq. ft) for seniors wanting to down <br />scale <br />2 <br />