DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood and Housing Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ver?nica R. Soto, FAICP, Director
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Briefing on the City's Strategic Housing Implementation Plan (SHIP) progress and next steps.
SUMMARY:
Briefing on the City's Strategic Housing Implementation Plan (SHIP) progress including the definition of affordability, recalibrated housing targets, funding strategy, and recommended strategies progress and next steps.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
San Antonio's Housing Policy Framework (HPF), the final report produced by the Mayor's Housing Policy Task Force (MHPTF), has been the guiding document for the City's affordable housing policy since it was accepted by the City Council in 2018. The HPF details a 10-year affordable housing production and preservation that was set to prevent the number of cost burdened households from growing. To achieve this vision, the task force offered 24 strategies across five overarching policy areas:
1) Develop a Coordinated Housing System
2) Increase City investment in Housing
3) Increase Affordable Housing Production, Rehabilitation, and Preservation
4) Protect and Promote Neighborhoods
5) Ensure Accountability to the Public
By 2020, it was evident that the City was making rapid progress towards the original goals set by the HPF, with several production and preservation targets set to be met within just the first five years and many of the 24 strategies already completed or well underway. Staff viewed this as an opportunity to recalibrate the 10-year housing targets to account for a broader range of community needs, do a deeper dive remaining HPF strategies, and explore new strategies needed to achieve this vision.
The Strategic Housing Implementation Plan (SHIP) process was initiated to define affordability for the City, recalibrate the City's affordable housing target goals, and develop implementation strategies to reach those goals. Ea...
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