7c.
BAHFA Resolution No. 0034: Affordable Housing General Obligation Bond
in an Amount of $20 Billion
A request that the Authority adopt BAHFA Resolution No. 0034 making
certain findings in support of; to call for the election to submit a ballot
measure for a general obligation bond for affordable housing in an amount
of $20 billion to the voters of the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,
Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma and the city and
county of San Francisco (the “Nine Bay Area Counties”); to consolidate the
election at the November 2024 general election; and to authorize staff to
take actions related, necessary, or incidental to carrying out the intent of
this resolution; Cal. Const. Art. XXXIV Authority: up to 90,000 units.
Action:
Authority Approval
Kate Hartley
Presenter:
Written correspondence was received from Janelle Chan (East Bay Asian Local
Development Corporation), Roma Dawson (League of Women Voters of the Bay
Area), Maureen Sedonaen (Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco), and
Nick Waranoff.
The following members of the public were called to speak: Matt Graves, Huascar
Castro, Sophia DeWitt (East Bay Housing Organization), Warren Cushman
(Community Resources for Independent Living), Irving Torres (All Home), Geeta
Rao (Enterprise), Amie Fishman (Non Profit Housing), Nicole Buccalo (PATH),
Monica Strauch (United Way Bay Area), Jennifer Silva (Marin Environmental
Housing Collaborative), Marc Joffe, Gregg Dieguez (Midcoast Community
Council), Gus Mahtamall), Tom Rubin (20 Billion Reasons), Marcus Crawley
(Alameda County Taxpayers Association), Thomas Weissmiller, Ron Brown
(Marin Organizing Community), John Avalus (Council of Community Housing
Organizations), Dan Adams (San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and
Community Development), Jeff Bialik (Housing for all Marin), Gina Guillemette
(Community Action Marin), Cory Wolbach (Silicon Valley at Home), Elizabeth
Wampler (Local Initiatives Support Corporation), Meredith Parnell (St. Vincent de
Paul Marin), Phil Allen (Catalysts for Local Control), Max Zhang (Generation
Housing), Annie O'Connor (West Marin CLTs), Amy Beth Willis (Save the Bay),
Rebecca Foster (Housing Accelerator Fund), Leonor Godinez (Faith in Action East
Bay), Nevada Merriman (MidPen Housing), Lydia Kon, Clarice Veloso (EAH
Housing), Katie Goetz (Woodside Road United Methodist Church), Reverend Dr.
Penny Nixon (Peninsula Solidarity), Matt Regan (Bay Area Council), Courtney Pal
(Resources for Community Development), Kevin Zwik, Elizabeth Henry (Catalysts
CA), Jordan Grimes (Greenbelt Alliance), Meina Young (Business and Housing
Network), Charlie Sciammas (Council of Community Housing Organizations),
Manson Leung (Self Help for the Elderly), Jay Mitchell (Faith in Action East Bay),
Chris Cummings (Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation), Ken Chan
(Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County), Aboubacar Ndiaye (Northern
California Land Trust), Leslie Rodriguez (Housing Trust Silicon Valley),
Yves-Langston Barturad (San Francisco Women's Housing Coalition), Shola
Olatoye, Jenny Michel, Jonathan Karpf, Roma Dawson (League of Women
Voters), Pastor Bains, Chris Robell, Erica Valentine, Leo Goldberg, Elsa Schafer,
Emily Wheeler (Public Advocates), Glen Branaman (Napa-Solano Central Labor
Council), Tad, Joe Summers, Bob Allen (Urban Habitat), Doug Fowler (Habitat for
Humanity), Cheryl Pattick (North Marin Community Service), Rich Hedges, Barry
Smith, Katherine Hedges, Richard Gallo, Kalimah Salahuddin, Delma
