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affordable housing efforts past, present, and future in the Tri-Valley area. As the focus of <br />Affordable Housing Week last year, the City worked with other Tri-Valley jurisdictions to <br />highlight the appointment of the first board of directors and the first successful buyer from the <br />Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center cited earlier. Activities planned around Affordable <br />Housing Week in 2007 may include an updated public tour of existing affordable housing <br />developments in the Tri-Valley area. <br />The City has also recently begun to work with local housing advocacy groups such as Citizens <br />for a Caring Community (CCC) and the Tri-Valley Interfaith Poverty Forum (TVIPF), a <br />consortium of representatives of local churches. These groups have adopted the issue of <br />affordable housing in the Tri-Valley area as the focus of their organizational efforts. In <br />collaboration with EBHO, the groups held a workshop on affordable housing issues in 2005. <br />The event was widely attended by a diverse representation of community residents and leaders. <br />City staff recently participated in an affordable housing forum held at St. Elizabeth Seton church <br />in Pleasanton and will continue to work these groups in FY 2008 to promote the benefits of <br />affordable housing in the community. <br />The Pleasanton Housing Commission has sponsored similar workshops to promote the <br />understanding of affordable housing, particularly financing issues. A 2002 workshop was <br />oriented specifically to our local community and targeted decision makers as well as community <br />partners and the general public. The City collaborated with other cities in the Tri-Valley area to <br />sponsor another housing forum in August 2002. The latter event was widely attended and <br />featured Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher as a key-note speaker. [Congresswoman Tauscher was <br />instrumental in the establishment of the Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center.] <br />In 2004, the City's Housing Commission initiated planning for aregion-wide symposium on <br />senior housing and services. This concept eventually became a series of symposia that will be <br />offered on a regular basis through local libraries in the Tri-Valley area. The focus of the series <br />will be to provide information and resources to individuals and families seeking assistance on <br />matters related to housing and services for seniors in the area. <br />Areas of Minority Concentration <br />Pleasanton is a small, relatively young city and has traditionally not had any areas in which <br />minority groups reside in significant concentration. Consequently, the City has not found a need <br />to adopt any specific geographic strategies to ensure that the community needs of minorities are <br />met. The City will continue to monitor Pleasanton's demographics in the future and will modify <br />its policies as needed to address this issue. In addition, the City will continue to work with <br />agencies such as Axis Community Health which serve disproportionate numbers of minority <br />individuals and families and provide good opportunities for outreach. <br />Action Plsn - FY08 <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Page 31 <br />