4 21-0959 Subject: Studying An Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District For Affordable Housing
From: Pro Tempore Thao, Councilmembers Fife And Council President Bas
Recommendation: Approve A Report And Recommendation Directing The City Administrator To Study The Creation And Implementation Of A Citywide Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District Funding Affordable Housing And Infrastructure Improvements And To Return To The Council With Recommendations By The First Council Meeting In February 2022
Rubicon Programs is nonprofit organization fighting poverty via workforce and economic mobility programs in East Bay. Unmet housing needs is one of the most pervasive barriers to economic mobility; with housing instability and homelessness often persisting beyond employment and career mobility. The successful impact of Community Based Organizations, like Rubicon, is reliant on innovative partnerships and proposals to provide bold housing solutions. Rubicon Programs joins CEOARE in the respectful request for the City of Oakland to incorporate the previously submitted racial equity considerations in the scope of the EIFD study and subsequent recommendations.
Rubicon Programs is nonprofit organization fighting poverty via workforce and economic mobility programs in East Bay. Unmet housing needs is one of the most pervasive barriers to economic mobility; with housing instability and homelessness often persisting beyond employment and career mobility. The successful impact of Community Based Organizations, like Rubicon, is reliant on innovative partnerships and proposals to provide bold housing solutions. Rubicon Programs joins CEOARE in the respectful request for the City of Oakland to incorporate the previously submitted racial equity considerations in the scope of the EIFD study and subsequent recommendations.