Human Services Commission – Special Meeting · Thursday, December 8, 2016 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

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Staff report:

Human Services Commission About Staff Liaison Created in 2007, this commission advises the Martha Sassorossi, Mayor and City Council on matters concerning Human Services / Social human services planning and funding. The Sustainability Coordinator commission plays a vital role in studying emerging Email issues and concerns in the human services area to ensure that the basic survival needs of Issaquah Regular Members residents are met and that support systems are in 2017 - Ana Jiménez-Inman place to help people through economic and 2017 - Vacant personal crisis. Each year, the commission focuses 2018 - Loretta Jancoski on its workplan. 2018 - Elizabeth Maupin 2019 - Monic Payne Membership 2019 - Christine Weber The Human Services Commission is comprised of 2020 - Derek Franklin seven regular members, with four-year terms; and two alternates, with two-year terms. All members Alternate…

2. AGENDA ITEMS

Letter Regarding Non-Discrimination, Inclusiveness, and Anti-Harassment

Derek Franklin, Commission Chair

1903 segments .txt ↗

0:15 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

0:21 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

0:26 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

0:32 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

0:37 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

0:42 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

0:46 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

0:50 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

0:55 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

0:59 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:04 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:08 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:12 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:16 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:21 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:25 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:29 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:33 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:38 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:43 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:46 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:50 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:55 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:58 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

2:03 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

2:07 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

2:14 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

2:19 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

2:25 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

2:29 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

2:35 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

2:40 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

2:44 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

2:49 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

2:55 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

2:59 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

3:05 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

3:09 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

3:13 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

3:16 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

3:20 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

3:26 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

3:32 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

3:37 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

3:44 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

3:48 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

3:53 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

3:58 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

4:04 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

4:09 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

4:15 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

4:20 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

4:26 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

4:29 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

4:35 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

4:40 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

4:44 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

4:48 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

4:53 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

4:58 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

5:04 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

5:08 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

5:12 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

5:18 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

5:23 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

5:29 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

5:34 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

5:40 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

5:45 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

5:51 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

5:56 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

6:02 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

6:07 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

6:10 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

6:16 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

6:22 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

6:26 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

6:29 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

6:32 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

6:37 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

6:43 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

6:50 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

6:54 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

6:59 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

7:04 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

7:10 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

7:15 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

7:20 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

7:24 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

7:28 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

7:34 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

7:37 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

7:42 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

7:45 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

7:50 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

7:54 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

8:00 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

8:04 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

8:08 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

8:13 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

8:19 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

8:24 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

8:29 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

8:35 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

8:40 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

8:45 ↗ from the the real small groups we met with real cozy and able to really

8:50 ↗ talk about things and these were the themes that they told us it was fabulous

8:55 ↗ we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from these meetings you

9:00 ↗ know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets or anything but

9:05 ↗ just so that you all can see some of the things that we talked about

9:08 ↗ in more detail uh the last one we met with

9:27 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

9:33 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

9:38 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

9:44 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

9:49 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

9:54 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

9:58 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

10:02 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

10:07 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

10:11 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

10:15 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

10:20 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

10:24 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

10:27 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

10:33 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

10:37 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

10:41 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

10:45 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

10:50 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

10:54 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

10:58 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

11:02 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

11:06 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

11:10 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

11:15 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

11:19 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

11:26 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

11:31 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

11:37 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

11:41 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

11:47 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

11:52 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

11:56 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

12:01 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

12:07 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

12:11 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

12:16 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

12:21 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

12:25 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

12:28 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

12:32 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

12:38 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

12:44 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

12:49 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

12:55 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

13:00 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

13:05 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

13:10 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

13:16 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

13:21 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

13:27 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

13:32 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

13:38 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

13:41 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

13:47 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

13:52 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

13:56 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

14:00 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

14:05 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

14:10 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

14:16 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

14:20 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

14:24 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

14:30 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

14:35 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

14:41 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

14:46 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

14:52 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

14:57 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

15:03 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

15:08 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

15:14 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

15:19 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

15:22 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

15:28 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

15:34 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

15:38 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

15:41 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

15:44 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

15:49 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

15:55 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

16:01 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

16:06 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

16:11 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

16:16 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

16:22 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

16:27 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

16:32 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

16:35 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

16:40 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

16:46 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

16:49 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

16:54 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

16:57 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

17:02 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

17:06 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

17:12 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

17:16 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

17:20 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

17:25 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

17:30 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

17:36 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

17:41 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

17:47 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

17:52 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

17:56 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

18:02 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

18:06 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

18:11 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

18:16 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

18:19 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

18:24 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

18:29 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

18:35 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

18:39 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

18:42 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

18:47 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

18:51 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

19:16 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

19:22 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

19:28 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

19:33 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

19:38 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

19:43 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

19:47 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

19:51 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

19:56 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

20:00 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

20:05 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

20:09 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

20:13 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

20:17 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

20:22 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

20:26 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

20:30 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

20:34 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

20:39 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

20:44 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

20:47 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

20:51 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

20:56 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

20:59 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

21:04 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

21:08 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

21:15 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

21:20 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

21:26 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

21:30 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

21:36 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

21:41 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

21:45 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

21:50 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

21:56 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

22:00 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

22:06 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

22:10 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

22:14 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

22:17 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

22:21 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

22:27 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

22:33 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

22:38 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

22:45 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

22:49 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

22:54 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

22:59 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

23:05 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

23:10 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

23:16 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

23:21 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

23:27 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

23:30 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

23:36 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

23:41 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

23:45 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

23:49 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

23:55 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

23:59 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

24:05 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

24:09 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

24:13 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

24:19 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

24:24 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

24:30 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

24:35 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

24:41 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

24:46 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

24:52 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

24:57 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

25:03 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

25:08 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

25:11 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

25:17 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

25:23 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

25:27 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

25:30 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

25:33 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

25:38 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

25:44 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

25:51 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

25:55 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

26:00 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

26:05 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

26:11 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

26:16 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

26:21 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

26:25 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

26:29 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

26:35 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

26:38 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

26:43 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

26:46 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

26:51 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

26:55 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

27:01 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

27:05 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

27:09 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

27:14 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

27:20 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

27:25 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

27:30 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

27:36 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

27:41 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

27:46 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

27:51 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

27:55 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

28:00 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

28:05 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

28:08 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

28:13 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

28:18 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

28:24 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

28:28 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

28:32 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

28:36 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

28:40 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

29:05 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

29:11 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

29:17 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

29:22 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

29:27 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

29:32 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

29:36 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

29:40 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

29:45 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

29:50 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

29:54 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

29:58 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

30:02 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

30:06 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

30:11 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

30:15 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

30:19 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

30:23 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

30:28 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

30:33 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

30:36 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

30:40 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

30:45 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

30:49 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

30:53 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

30:58 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

31:04 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

31:09 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

31:15 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

31:19 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

31:25 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

31:30 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

31:34 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

31:39 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

31:45 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

31:49 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

31:55 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

31:59 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

32:03 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

32:06 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

32:10 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

32:16 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

32:22 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

32:28 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

32:34 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

32:39 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

32:43 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

32:49 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

32:54 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

32:59 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

33:05 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

33:10 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

33:16 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

33:19 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

33:25 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

33:30 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

33:35 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

33:38 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

33:44 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

33:48 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

33:54 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

33:58 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

34:02 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

34:08 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

34:14 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

34:19 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

34:24 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

34:30 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

34:35 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

34:41 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

34:46 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

34:52 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

34:57 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

35:00 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

35:06 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

35:12 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

35:16 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

35:19 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

35:22 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

35:27 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

35:33 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

35:40 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

35:45 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

35:49 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

35:54 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

36:00 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

36:05 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

36:10 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

36:14 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

36:19 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

36:24 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

36:27 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

36:32 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

36:35 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

36:40 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

36:44 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

36:50 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

36:54 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

36:58 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

37:03 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

37:09 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

37:15 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

37:20 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

37:25 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

37:31 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

37:35 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

37:40 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

37:44 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

37:49 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

37:54 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

37:57 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

38:02 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

38:07 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

38:13 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

38:17 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

38:21 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

38:25 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

38:29 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

38:54 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

39:00 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

39:06 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

39:11 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

39:16 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

39:21 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

39:25 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

39:29 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

39:35 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

39:39 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

39:43 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

39:47 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

39:51 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

39:55 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

40:00 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

40:05 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

40:08 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

40:12 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

40:18 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

40:22 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

40:26 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

40:29 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

40:34 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

40:38 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

40:42 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

40:47 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

40:53 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

40:59 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

41:04 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

41:09 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

41:14 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

41:19 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

41:23 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

41:28 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

41:34 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

41:38 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

41:44 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

41:48 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

41:52 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

41:55 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

42:00 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

42:06 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

42:11 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

42:17 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

42:23 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

42:28 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

42:32 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

42:38 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

42:44 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

42:49 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

42:54 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

42:59 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

43:05 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

43:09 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

43:15 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

43:19 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

43:24 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

43:27 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

43:33 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

43:37 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

43:43 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

43:47 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

43:52 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

43:57 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

44:03 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

44:09 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

44:13 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

44:19 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

44:24 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

44:30 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

44:36 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

44:41 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

44:46 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

44:50 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

44:55 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

45:01 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

45:05 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

45:08 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

45:11 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

45:17 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

45:22 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

45:29 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

45:34 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

45:38 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

45:43 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

45:49 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

45:55 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

45:59 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

46:03 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

46:08 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

46:13 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

46:17 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

46:21 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

46:25 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

46:29 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

46:33 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

46:39 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

46:43 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

46:47 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

46:52 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

46:58 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

47:04 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

47:09 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

47:15 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

47:20 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

47:24 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

47:29 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

47:33 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

47:38 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

47:43 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

47:46 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

47:51 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

47:56 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

48:02 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

48:06 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

48:10 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

48:14 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

48:19 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

48:43 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

48:49 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

48:55 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

49:00 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

49:06 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

49:11 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

49:14 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

49:18 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

49:24 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

49:28 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

49:32 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

49:37 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

49:40 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

49:44 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

49:49 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

49:54 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

49:58 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

50:01 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

50:07 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

50:11 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

50:15 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

50:19 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

50:23 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

50:27 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

50:31 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

50:36 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

50:42 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

50:48 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

50:53 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

50:58 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

51:03 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

51:08 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

51:12 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

51:17 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

51:23 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

51:27 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

51:33 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

51:37 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

51:41 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

51:44 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

51:49 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

51:55 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

52:00 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

52:06 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

52:12 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

52:17 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

52:21 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

52:27 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

52:33 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

52:38 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

52:43 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

52:48 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

52:54 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we were really hoping

52:58 ↗ to get um housing prices uh that we learned um is

53:03 ↗ is very unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent

53:07 ↗ which we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where everything is

53:13 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

53:16 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

53:22 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

53:27 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

53:32 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

53:36 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

53:41 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

53:47 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

53:52 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

53:58 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

54:02 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids um

54:08 ↗ to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the grand

54:13 ↗ scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

54:19 ↗ uh the last school year there are 109 kids in our school system school district

54:24 ↗ that were considered homeless um overall housing

54:29 ↗ affordability this compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing

54:35 ↗ so this is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in

54:38 ↗ those uh those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income

54:43 ↗ medium income and moderate i probably got those names wrong

54:48 ↗ and this is our report card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report

54:53 ↗ card okay so this is 20 because i when i made this i thought oh

54:58 ↗ there's no date on it but this when we had to present this to the

55:01 ↗ council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that we had at that time

55:07 ↗ in the those affordability levels and um and obviously we're not meeting our

55:13 ↗ targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

55:16 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet

55:22 ↗ last time on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing we

55:27 ↗ we do assisted accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

55:32 ↗ granny flats we do those we do we do land set asides in our

55:38 ↗ urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

55:44 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

55:48 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

55:52 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

55:57 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

56:02 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

56:06 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

56:11 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

56:14 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

56:18 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

56:23 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

56:29 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

56:33 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

56:36 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

56:42 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

56:47 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

56:53 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what the the sort of

56:58 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

57:04 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

57:09 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

57:13 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

57:18 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

57:22 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

57:27 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

57:32 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

57:35 ↗ we talked about in more detail the last one we met with uh the last

57:41 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is called

57:45 ↗ food and clothing bank um um oh there was a whole

57:51 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

57:56 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there was just so many fabulous

57:59 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

58:03 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

58:08 ↗ last six years thirty percent of who they serve are children the other thirty percent

58:13 ↗ are seniors and then the middle group are um our sort of family um

58:33 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

58:39 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

58:45 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

58:50 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

58:55 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

59:00 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

59:04 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

59:08 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

59:14 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

59:18 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

59:22 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

59:27 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

59:30 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

59:34 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

59:39 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

59:44 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

59:48 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

59:51 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

59:57 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:00:01 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:00:05 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:00:08 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:00:13 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:00:17 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:00:21 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:00:26 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:00:32 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:00:38 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:00:43 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:00:48 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:00:53 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:00:58 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:01:02 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:01:07 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:01:13 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:01:17 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:01:23 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:01:27 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:01:31 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:01:34 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:01:39 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:01:45 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:01:50 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:01:56 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:02:02 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:02:07 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:02:11 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:02:17 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:02:23 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:02:28 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:02:33 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:02:38 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:02:44 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:02:48 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:02:54 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:02:59 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:03:03 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:03:06 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:03:12 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:03:17 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:03:22 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:03:26 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:03:31 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:03:36 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:03:42 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:03:48 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:03:52 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:03:58 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:04:03 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:04:09 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:04:15 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:04:20 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:04:25 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:04:29 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:04:34 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:04:40 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:04:44 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:04:47 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:04:50 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:04:56 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:05:02 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:05:08 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:05:13 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:05:17 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:05:22 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:05:28 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:05:34 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:05:38 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:05:42 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:05:47 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:05:52 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:05:56 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:06:00 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:06:04 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:06:08 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:06:13 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:06:18 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:06:22 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:06:26 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:06:31 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:06:37 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:06:43 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:06:48 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:06:54 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:06:59 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:07:03 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:07:08 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:07:12 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:07:17 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:07:22 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:07:25 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:07:31 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:07:35 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:07:41 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:07:45 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:07:49 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:07:53 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:07:58 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:08:22 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:08:28 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:08:34 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:08:39 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:08:45 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:08:50 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:08:53 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:08:57 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:09:03 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:09:07 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:09:11 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:09:16 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:09:19 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:09:23 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:09:29 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:09:33 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:09:37 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:09:41 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:09:46 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:09:50 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:09:54 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:09:58 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:10:02 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:10:06 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:10:10 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:10:15 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:10:21 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:10:27 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:10:32 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:10:37 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:10:42 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:10:47 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:10:51 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:10:56 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:11:02 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:11:06 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:11:12 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:11:16 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:11:20 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:11:24 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:11:28 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:11:34 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:11:39 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:11:45 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:11:51 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:11:56 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:12:00 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:12:06 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:12:12 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:12:17 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:12:22 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:12:27 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:12:33 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:12:37 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:12:43 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:12:48 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:12:52 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:12:55 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:13:01 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:13:06 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:13:11 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:13:15 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:13:20 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:13:26 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:13:31 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:13:37 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:13:41 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:13:47 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:13:52 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:13:58 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:14:04 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:14:10 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:14:14 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:14:18 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:14:23 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:14:29 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:14:33 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:14:36 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:14:39 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:14:45 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:14:51 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:14:57 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:15:02 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:15:06 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:15:11 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:15:17 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:15:23 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:15:27 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:15:31 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:15:36 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:15:41 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:15:45 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:15:50 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:15:53 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:15:57 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:16:02 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:16:08 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:16:12 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:16:15 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:16:21 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:16:26 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:16:32 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:16:37 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:16:43 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:16:48 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:16:52 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:16:57 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:17:02 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:17:07 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:17:11 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:17:14 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:17:20 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:17:24 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:17:30 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:17:35 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:17:38 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:17:42 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:17:47 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:18:12 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:18:18 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:18:23 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:18:28 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:18:34 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:18:39 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:18:43 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:18:47 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:18:52 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:18:56 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:19:00 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:19:05 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:19:08 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:19:12 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:19:18 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:19:22 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:19:26 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:19:30 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:19:35 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:19:39 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:19:43 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:19:47 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:19:51 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:19:55 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:20:00 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:20:04 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:20:11 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:20:16 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:20:21 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:20:26 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:20:32 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:20:36 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:20:41 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:20:45 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:20:51 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:20:55 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:21:01 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:21:05 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:21:09 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:21:13 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:21:17 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:21:23 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:21:29 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:21:34 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:21:40 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:21:45 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:21:49 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:21:55 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:22:01 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:22:06 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:22:11 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:22:17 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:22:22 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:22:26 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:22:32 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:22:37 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:22:41 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:22:45 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:22:50 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:22:55 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:23:00 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:23:04 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:23:09 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:23:15 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:23:20 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:23:26 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:23:31 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:23:37 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:23:41 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:23:47 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:23:53 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:23:59 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:24:03 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:24:07 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:24:13 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:24:18 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:24:22 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:24:26 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:24:29 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:24:34 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:24:40 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:24:46 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:24:51 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:24:56 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:25:01 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:25:06 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:25:12 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:25:17 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:25:20 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:25:25 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:25:30 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:25:34 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:25:39 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:25:42 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:25:47 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:25:51 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:25:57 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:26:01 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:26:05 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:26:10 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:26:15 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:26:21 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:26:26 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:26:32 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:26:37 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:26:41 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:26:46 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:26:51 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:26:56 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:27:01 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:27:04 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:27:09 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:27:14 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:27:19 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:27:24 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:27:27 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:27:32 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:27:36 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:28:01 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:28:07 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:28:12 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:28:18 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:28:23 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:28:28 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:28:32 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:28:36 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:28:41 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:28:45 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:28:49 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:28:54 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:28:58 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:29:01 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:29:07 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:29:11 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:29:15 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:29:19 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:29:24 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:29:28 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:29:32 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:29:36 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:29:40 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:29:44 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:29:49 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:29:53 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:30:00 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:30:05 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:30:11 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:30:15 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:30:21 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:30:26 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:30:30 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:30:35 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:30:41 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:30:45 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:30:50 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:30:55 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:30:59 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:31:02 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:31:06 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:31:12 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:31:18 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:31:23 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:31:29 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:31:34 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:31:39 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:31:44 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:31:50 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:31:55 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:32:01 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:32:06 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:32:12 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:32:15 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:32:21 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:32:26 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:32:30 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:32:34 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:32:39 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:32:44 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:32:50 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:32:54 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:32:58 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:33:04 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:33:09 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:33:15 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:33:20 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:33:26 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:33:31 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:33:37 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:33:42 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:33:48 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:33:53 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:33:56 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:34:02 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:34:08 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:34:12 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:34:15 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:34:18 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:34:23 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:34:29 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:34:35 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:34:40 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:34:45 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:34:50 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:34:56 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:35:01 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:35:06 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:35:09 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:35:14 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:35:20 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:35:23 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:35:28 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:35:31 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:35:36 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:35:40 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:35:46 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:35:50 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:35:54 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:35:59 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:36:04 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:36:10 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:36:15 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:36:21 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:36:26 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:36:30 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:36:36 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:36:40 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:36:45 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:36:50 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:36:53 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:36:58 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:37:03 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:37:09 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:37:13 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:37:16 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:37:21 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:37:25 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:37:50 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:37:56 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:38:02 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:38:07 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:38:12 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:38:17 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:38:21 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:38:25 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:38:30 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:38:34 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:38:39 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:38:43 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:38:47 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:38:51 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:38:56 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:39:00 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:39:04 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:39:08 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:39:13 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:39:18 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:39:21 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:39:25 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:39:30 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:39:33 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:39:38 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:39:43 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:39:49 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:39:54 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:40:00 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:40:04 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:40:10 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:40:15 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:40:19 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:40:24 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:40:30 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:40:34 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:40:40 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:40:44 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:40:48 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:40:51 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:40:55 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:41:01 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:41:07 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:41:12 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:41:19 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:41:23 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:41:28 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:41:33 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:41:39 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:41:44 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:41:50 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:41:55 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:42:01 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:42:04 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:42:10 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:42:15 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:42:19 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:42:23 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:42:29 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:42:33 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:42:39 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:42:43 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:42:47 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:42:53 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:42:58 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:43:04 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:43:09 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:43:15 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:43:20 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:43:26 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:43:31 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:43:37 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:43:42 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:43:45 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:43:51 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:43:57 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:44:01 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:44:04 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:44:07 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:44:12 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:44:18 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:44:25 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:44:29 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:44:34 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:44:39 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:44:45 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:44:50 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:44:55 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:44:59 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:45:03 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:45:09 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:45:12 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:45:17 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:45:20 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:45:25 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:45:29 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:45:35 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:45:39 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:45:43 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:45:48 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:45:54 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:46:00 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:46:05 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:46:10 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:46:15 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:46:20 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:46:25 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:46:29 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:46:34 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:46:39 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:46:42 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:46:47 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:46:52 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:46:58 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:47:02 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:47:06 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:47:10 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:47:14 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:47:39 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:47:45 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:47:51 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:47:56 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:48:01 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:48:06 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:48:10 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:48:14 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:48:19 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:48:24 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:48:28 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:48:32 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:48:36 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:48:40 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:48:45 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:48:49 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:48:53 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:48:57 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:49:02 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:49:07 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:49:10 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:49:14 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:49:19 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:49:23 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:49:27 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:49:32 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:49:38 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:49:44 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:49:49 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:49:53 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:49:59 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:50:04 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:50:08 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

1:50:13 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

1:50:19 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

1:50:23 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

1:50:29 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

1:50:33 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

1:50:37 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

1:50:40 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

1:50:44 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

1:50:50 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

1:50:56 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

1:51:02 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

1:51:08 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

1:51:13 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

1:51:17 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

1:51:23 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

1:51:28 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

1:51:33 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

1:51:39 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

1:51:44 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

1:51:50 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

1:51:53 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

1:51:59 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

1:52:04 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

1:52:09 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

1:52:12 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

1:52:18 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

1:52:22 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

1:52:28 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

1:52:32 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

1:52:36 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

1:52:42 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

1:52:48 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

1:52:54 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

1:52:58 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

1:53:04 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

1:53:09 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

1:53:15 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

1:53:21 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

1:53:26 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

1:53:31 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

1:53:34 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

1:53:40 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

1:53:46 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

1:53:50 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

1:53:53 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

1:53:56 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

1:54:01 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

1:54:07 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

1:54:14 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

1:54:19 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

1:54:23 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

1:54:28 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

1:54:34 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

1:54:39 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

1:54:44 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

1:54:48 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

1:54:53 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

1:54:58 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

1:55:01 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

1:55:06 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

1:55:09 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

1:55:14 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

1:55:18 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

1:55:24 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

1:55:28 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

1:55:32 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

1:55:37 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

1:55:43 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

1:55:49 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

1:55:54 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

1:55:59 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

1:56:05 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

1:56:09 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

1:56:14 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

1:56:18 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

1:56:23 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

1:56:28 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

1:56:31 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

1:56:36 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

1:56:41 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

1:56:47 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

1:56:51 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

1:56:55 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

1:56:59 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

1:57:03 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

1:57:28 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

1:57:34 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

1:57:40 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

1:57:45 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

1:57:50 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

1:57:55 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

1:57:59 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

1:58:03 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

1:58:09 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

1:58:13 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

1:58:17 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

1:58:21 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

1:58:25 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

1:58:29 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

1:58:34 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

1:58:39 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

1:58:43 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

1:58:46 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

1:58:52 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

1:58:56 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

1:59:00 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

1:59:03 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

1:59:08 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

1:59:12 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

1:59:16 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

1:59:21 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

1:59:27 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

1:59:33 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

1:59:38 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

1:59:43 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

1:59:48 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

1:59:53 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

1:59:57 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

2:00:02 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

2:00:08 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

2:00:12 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

2:00:18 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

2:00:22 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

2:00:26 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

2:00:29 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

2:00:34 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

2:00:40 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

2:00:45 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

2:00:51 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

2:00:57 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

2:01:02 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

2:01:06 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

2:01:12 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

2:01:18 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

2:01:23 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

2:01:28 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

2:01:33 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

2:01:39 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

2:01:43 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

2:01:49 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

2:01:54 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

2:01:58 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

2:02:01 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

2:02:07 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

2:02:11 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

2:02:17 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

2:02:21 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

2:02:26 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

2:02:31 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

2:02:37 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

2:02:43 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

2:02:47 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

2:02:53 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

2:02:58 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

2:03:04 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

2:03:10 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

2:03:15 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

2:03:20 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

2:03:24 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

2:03:29 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

2:03:35 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

2:03:39 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

2:03:42 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

2:03:45 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

2:03:51 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

2:03:56 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

2:04:03 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

2:04:08 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

2:04:12 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

2:04:17 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

2:04:23 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

2:04:29 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

2:04:33 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

2:04:37 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

2:04:42 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

2:04:47 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

2:04:51 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

2:04:55 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

2:04:59 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

2:05:03 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

2:05:07 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

2:05:13 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

2:05:17 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

2:05:21 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

2:05:26 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

2:05:32 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

2:05:38 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

2:05:43 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

2:05:49 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

2:05:54 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

2:05:58 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

2:06:03 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

2:06:07 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

2:06:12 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

2:06:17 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

2:06:20 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

2:06:25 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

2:06:30 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

2:06:36 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

2:06:40 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

2:06:44 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

2:06:48 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

2:06:53 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

2:07:17 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

2:07:23 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

2:07:29 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

2:07:34 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

2:07:40 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

2:07:45 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

2:07:48 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

2:07:52 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

2:07:58 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

2:08:02 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

2:08:06 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

2:08:11 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

2:08:14 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

2:08:18 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

2:08:24 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

2:08:28 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

2:08:32 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

2:08:35 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

2:08:41 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

2:08:45 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

2:08:49 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

2:08:53 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

2:08:57 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

2:09:01 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

2:09:05 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

2:09:10 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

2:09:16 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

2:09:22 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

2:09:27 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

2:09:32 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

2:09:37 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

2:09:42 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

2:09:46 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

2:09:51 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

2:09:57 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

2:10:01 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

2:10:07 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

2:10:11 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

2:10:15 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

2:10:19 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

2:10:23 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

2:10:29 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

2:10:34 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

2:10:40 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

2:10:46 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

2:10:51 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

2:10:55 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

2:11:01 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

2:11:07 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

2:11:12 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

2:11:17 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

2:11:22 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

2:11:28 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we're really hoping to

2:11:32 ↗ get um housing prices uh that we learned um is is very

2:11:38 ↗ unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent um which

2:11:43 ↗ we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where um everything is

2:11:47 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

2:11:50 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

2:11:56 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

2:12:01 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

2:12:06 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

2:12:10 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

2:12:15 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

2:12:21 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

2:12:26 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

2:12:32 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

2:12:36 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids

2:12:42 ↗ um to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the

2:12:47 ↗ grand scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

2:12:53 ↗ the last school year there were 109 kids in our school system school district that

2:12:59 ↗ were considered homeless overall housing affordability this

2:13:04 ↗ compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing so this

2:13:09 ↗ is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in those uh

2:13:13 ↗ those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income medium

2:13:18 ↗ income and moderate i probably got those names wrong and this is our report

2:13:24 ↗ card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report card no it was whatever

2:13:28 ↗ it had in the last one okay so this is 20 because i when i

2:13:31 ↗ made this i thought oh there's no date on it but this when we had

2:13:34 ↗ to present this to the council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that

2:13:40 ↗ we had at that time in the those affordability levels and um and obviously

2:13:46 ↗ we're not meeting our targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

2:13:52 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet last time

2:13:57 ↗ on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing uh we we

2:14:01 ↗ do assisted uh accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

2:14:06 ↗ granny flats we do those we do um we do land set asides in our

2:14:12 ↗ um urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

2:14:18 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

2:14:22 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

2:14:26 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

2:14:31 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

2:14:36 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

2:14:40 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

2:14:45 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

2:14:48 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

2:14:52 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

2:14:57 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

2:15:03 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

2:15:07 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

2:15:10 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

2:15:16 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

2:15:21 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

2:15:27 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what that the sort of

2:15:32 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

2:15:38 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

2:15:43 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

2:15:47 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

2:15:52 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

2:15:57 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

2:16:01 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

2:16:06 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

2:16:09 ↗ we talked about in in more detail the last one we met with the last

2:16:15 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is qua

2:16:19 ↗ food and clothing bank um oh there was a whole

2:16:25 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

2:16:30 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there were just so many fabulous

2:16:33 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

2:16:37 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

2:16:42 ↗ last six years 30 of who they serve are children

2:17:07 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

2:17:13 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

2:17:18 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

2:17:23 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

2:17:29 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

2:17:34 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

2:17:38 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

2:17:42 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

2:17:47 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

2:17:51 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

2:17:55 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

2:18:00 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

2:18:03 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

2:18:07 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

2:18:13 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

2:18:17 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

2:18:21 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

2:18:25 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

2:18:30 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

2:18:34 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

2:18:38 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

2:18:42 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

2:18:46 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

2:18:50 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

2:18:55 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

2:18:59 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

2:19:06 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

2:19:11 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

2:19:16 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

2:19:21 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

2:19:26 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

2:19:31 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

2:19:36 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

2:19:40 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

2:19:46 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

2:19:50 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

2:19:56 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

2:20:00 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

2:20:04 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

2:20:08 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

2:20:12 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

2:20:18 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

2:20:24 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

2:20:29 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

2:20:35 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

2:20:40 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

2:20:44 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

2:20:50 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

2:20:56 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

2:21:01 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

2:21:06 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

2:21:12 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

2:21:17 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we were really hoping

2:21:21 ↗ to get um housing prices uh that we learned um is

2:21:26 ↗ is very unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent

2:21:30 ↗ which we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where everything is

2:21:36 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

2:21:39 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

2:21:45 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

2:21:50 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

2:21:55 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

2:21:59 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

2:22:04 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

2:22:10 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

2:22:15 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

2:22:21 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

2:22:26 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids um

2:22:31 ↗ to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the grand

2:22:37 ↗ scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

2:22:42 ↗ uh the last school year there are 109 kids in our school system school district

2:22:47 ↗ that were considered homeless um overall housing

2:22:52 ↗ affordability this compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing

2:22:58 ↗ so this is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in

2:23:01 ↗ those uh those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income

2:23:06 ↗ medium income and moderate i probably got those names wrong

2:23:11 ↗ and this is our report card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report

2:23:17 ↗ card okay so this is 20 because i when i made this i thought oh

2:23:21 ↗ there's no date on it but this when we had to present this to the

2:23:25 ↗ council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that we had at that time

2:23:30 ↗ in the those affordability levels and um and obviously we're not meeting our

2:23:36 ↗ targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

2:23:39 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet

2:23:45 ↗ last time on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing we

2:23:50 ↗ we do assisted accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

2:23:56 ↗ granny flats we do those we do we do land set asides in our

2:24:01 ↗ urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

2:24:07 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

2:24:12 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

2:24:15 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

2:24:20 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

2:24:25 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

2:24:29 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

2:24:34 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

2:24:37 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

2:24:42 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

2:24:46 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

2:24:52 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

2:24:56 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

2:25:00 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

2:25:05 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

2:25:10 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

2:25:16 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what the the sort of

2:25:21 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

2:25:27 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

2:25:32 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

2:25:36 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

2:25:41 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

2:25:46 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

2:25:51 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

2:25:56 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

2:25:59 ↗ we talked about in more detail the last one we met with uh the last

2:26:04 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is called

2:26:09 ↗ food and clothing bank um um oh there was a whole

2:26:14 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

2:26:19 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there was just so many fabulous

2:26:22 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

2:26:27 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

2:26:31 ↗ last six years thirty percent of who they serve are children the other thirty percent

2:26:36 ↗ are seniors and then the middle group are um our sort of family um

2:26:56 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

2:27:02 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

2:27:08 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

2:27:13 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

2:27:19 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

2:27:24 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

2:27:27 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

2:27:31 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

2:27:37 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

2:27:41 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

2:27:45 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

2:27:50 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

2:27:53 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

2:27:57 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

2:28:03 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

2:28:07 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

2:28:11 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

2:28:15 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

2:28:20 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into some of the ideas

2:28:24 ↗ we're going to talk about a little bit later we're going to have some an

2:28:28 ↗ update from the focus groups that have been fabulous we're going to talk about your

2:28:32 ↗ homework some of the answers i've seen already are fabulous just just exactly the kind

2:28:36 ↗ of pondering we're looking for and then we're going to talk about a framework on

2:28:40 ↗ how how do we put all that we're learning together um and and and have

2:28:44 ↗ a framework for uh for the strategy and then we'll take some public comment and

2:28:49 ↗ talk about the next steps are there any questions before we launch forward

2:28:55 ↗ okay this is one of those obligatory slides on where are we in this mess

2:29:01 ↗ and this whole piece of the slide is

2:29:06 ↗ all the things in in our world that impact housing from the state growth management

2:29:11 ↗ act to the countywide planning policies to the city's comprehensive plan

2:29:16 ↗ that talks about land use and housing and human services to our sub area plans

2:29:21 ↗ which would be old town and the central iso call plan to the actually guts

2:29:25 ↗ of the housing strategy that we're asking you guys to help us formulate that actually

2:29:30 ↗ talks about the specific programs and policies and pieces that actually gets us the kind

2:29:36 ↗ of housing that we want in the future so we're sort of in the middle

2:29:40 ↗ there but we wanted you to see the whole umbrella that we're working within here's

2:29:46 ↗ the refresher don't be overwhelmed i'm not going to go through these like we did

2:29:50 ↗ the first meeting this is only again to so you can have it with you

2:29:54 ↗ because a lot of it is a bit overwhelming but it'll help you it'll help

2:29:58 ↗ all of us i think in the discussion as you know we've grown a lot

2:30:02 ↗ since 2000 uh most of our households are one or two persons the

2:30:08 ↗ pie chart talks about the single parents married married with children and the

2:30:13 ↗ population numbers are in the blue this one is housing demand from

2:30:19 ↗ employment how many we have a lot more people that

2:30:25 ↗ work here that don't work here so there's a lot of commuting going back and

2:30:30 ↗ forth that causes a problem not just for the housing of folks that work here

2:30:34 ↗ but our transportation issues our current housing inventory

2:30:40 ↗ is mostly single family about 40 percent and more of them have over

2:30:46 ↗ three bedrooms just eight percent are one bedroom or less we found in the focus

2:30:51 ↗ group that there's a need for for smaller units um so here's

2:30:56 ↗ that's some good information on our current inventory this is what the future scenario might

2:31:01 ↗ be if everything continued on that's sort of

2:31:07 ↗ interesting that we would we'd not get a lot of what we were really hoping

2:31:11 ↗ to get um housing prices uh that we learned um is

2:31:16 ↗ is very unusual that all of a sudden everything is going over the average rent

2:31:20 ↗ which we haven't seen before as you can see in the dots where everything is

2:31:26 ↗ is going over so we don't know if that's a trend that's going to continue

2:31:29 ↗ but it's important to keep that in mind this is a very busy slide of

2:31:35 ↗ income and affordability guidelines when we have when we use the terms very low income

2:31:40 ↗ low income and moderate income those are terms used by our whole region and this

2:31:45 ↗ is what it equals out to depending on if you're a one person two person

2:31:49 ↗ three person bedrooms and your median income so this is a really good slide to

2:31:54 ↗ keep handy to make sure we're all talking the same defined terms cost

2:32:00 ↗ burden households this is how much of your income goes to housing

2:32:05 ↗ um the the number is is pretty high um it's the the

2:32:11 ↗ severely cost burden is rising so that's something else that we need to keep in

2:32:16 ↗ mind the homeless of the school -aged kids um

2:32:21 ↗ to me this is a heartbreaker um it shows where issaquah is in the grand

2:32:27 ↗ scheme of the area but we have 109 at the last count

2:32:32 ↗ uh the last school year there are 109 kids in our school system school district

2:32:37 ↗ that were considered homeless um overall housing

2:32:42 ↗ affordability this compares us with king county and the king county needs and issaquah housing

2:32:48 ↗ so this is a good one to keep in mind on where we fit in

2:32:51 ↗ those uh those ranges that we just talked about the um the low income

2:32:56 ↗ medium income and moderate i probably got those names wrong

2:33:01 ↗ and this is our report card back arthur this is from 2015 right the report

2:33:07 ↗ card okay so this is 20 because i when i made this i thought oh

2:33:11 ↗ there's no date on it but this when we had to present this to the

2:33:14 ↗ council in 2015 these were the numbers of units that we had at that time

2:33:20 ↗ in the those affordability levels and um and obviously we're not meeting our

2:33:26 ↗ targets nobody in the our area is meeting the targets

2:33:29 ↗ this is a different topic this is something that was in your packet

2:33:35 ↗ last time on what are the existing efforts that issaquah has already been doing we

2:33:40 ↗ we do assisted accessory dwelling units some people call them mother -in -law apartments or

2:33:45 ↗ granny flats we do those we do we do land set asides in our

2:33:51 ↗ urban villages in the highlands and talus and in

2:33:57 ↗ lakeside there's some on -site affordable units that are supposed to be in the future

2:34:01 ↗ so this is a listing of all the things that we're doing now strategies that

2:34:05 ↗ we have in place now and then the next two slides are how we compare

2:34:10 ↗ with other cities and what they're doing and um you can see ours is the

2:34:15 ↗ third over we or we try a lot of things we're doing a lot of

2:34:19 ↗ things in fact it looks like we have more dots than most of them which

2:34:24 ↗ i think it's a good thing to try whatever we can try to see if

2:34:27 ↗ it's successful and this is the second slide that has other kinds of tools that

2:34:31 ↗ that we can do that we can try and again issaquah is doing quite a

2:34:36 ↗ few of them the comprehensive plan policies that we already have in place the first

2:34:42 ↗ one is in the comprehensive plan housing element the second two are in the central

2:34:46 ↗ plan in urban community and housing that's just to give you an idea of what's

2:34:49 ↗ already been adopted by the council and how they want our housing to be and

2:34:55 ↗ there was a quick refresher any questions or clarifications on just the refresher on what

2:35:00 ↗ we talked about last time read that fast it's also supposed

2:35:06 ↗ to move all those brain cells and have us remember what the the sort of

2:35:11 ↗ the fire hose that we got last time okay the focus groups we've been

2:35:17 ↗ meeting with they've been fabulous the first groups we met with were large businesses small

2:35:22 ↗ businesses and then we also met with the school district and these are the themes

2:35:26 ↗ from the the real they were real small groups we met with real cozy and

2:35:31 ↗ able to really talk about things and these were the themes that they told us

2:35:36 ↗ it was fabulous we're hoping for the next meeting to write up the notes from

2:35:41 ↗ these meetings you know nothing that would be controversial or you know sharing any secrets

2:35:45 ↗ or anything but just so that you all can see some of the things that

2:35:49 ↗ we talked about in more detail the last one we met with uh the last

2:35:54 ↗ two weeks we met with service providers like king county housing authority that is called

2:35:59 ↗ food and clothing bank um um oh there was a whole

2:36:04 ↗ room full it was a fabulous group and these were the i tried to winnow

2:36:09 ↗ them down like jen did i just had trouble there was just so many fabulous

2:36:12 ↗ things that we heard um that are good for us to think about like the

2:36:16 ↗ home the food bank to um serving the homeless it's increased so much in the

2:36:21 ↗ last six years thirty percent of who they serve are children the other thirty percent

2:36:26 ↗ are seniors and then the middle group are um our sort of family um

2:36:46 ↗ welcome you all to the second joint commission meeting on

2:36:52 ↗ the housing strategy thank you all for being here in december with the snow

2:36:58 ↗ coming or not we appreciate it and we've got some really exciting work to do

2:37:03 ↗ tonight the agenda for tonight that you would have gotten in the mail about a

2:37:09 ↗ week ago has just a few parts to it and part of it is just

2:37:14 ↗ a refresher from the last meeting we gave you so much information at the last

2:37:17 ↗ meeting and you all started to churn it up and talk about it and we

2:37:21 ↗ had this great discussion and then we all had to go so we wanted to

2:37:27 ↗ to capture that to keep that going and get you all thinking about things and

2:37:31 ↗ talking about things so that we could get a little farther and maybe it wouldn't

2:37:35 ↗ feel so overwhelming but you could start getting into the nitty -gritty of some of

2:37:40 ↗ the data that we found for you and maybe some of the data that you

2:37:43 ↗ would like us to still find that would help you figure out what our strategy

2:37:47 ↗ should be so the refresher is going to be very very short and part of

2:37:52 ↗ what why you have your powerpoint in front of you is so that you have

2:37:57 ↗ the data because some of the data is pretty overwhelming especially if you're not a

2:38:01 ↗ number wonk and i know there's a few of us in the room that are

2:38:04 ↗ not number wonks we wanted you to have them there so you can refer to

2:38:10 ↗ them when you're answering some of your questions or looking into

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