Waves of latinos came to americas heartland and they worked in its factories, farms, and Service Industries and they turned chicagoland into chicagolandia. So im here to find out what kind of impact decades of latinx influence have had on the windy city. And im gonna have some amazing food, because you know that happens a lot on this show. Its right here in my contract. Feed john. [tracks clacking] [upbeat horndriven music] [trills] [upbeat music] im here on chicagos west side in la villita, or Little Village, where theres one of the largest Mexican American communities in the midwest. The mexicans who settled here came looking for work and ended up creating the secondbiggest economy in chicago right here on 26th street, the mexican magnificent mile. With over hundreds of shops, i needed a local guide, so im meeting up with hollywood legend and chicago native, michael pena. You might have seen him in his breakout role in crash. You talking about that bullet that came through your windo
That is one of implications. In terms of producinging Affordable Housing because it will affect the tax programme. There is a number of analyses that have been done. But it is tens of thousands of units worth of Affordable Housing that will not be available to us in the next five to 10 years. What happened, the money we just won sacramento, the new permanent source of 250 million a year and the sb3 bond that is going to be on the november 18 ballot, assuming we win it, the 3 billion bond. That will fill the hole that the federal government just took away for the next years to come. We end up even once again. This has been the world of Affordable Housing. We seem to be running in place while simultaneously the private Real Estate Market with all the thirst for living in San Francisco is on fire and sort of further creating the disruption and displacement that commissioner richards talks about. How do we get ahead of the curve when the feds and state keep pulling the rug out from underne
[laughter] i think what i heard from all the other commissioner was this report has a lot in it. But you cant take the report by itself. Theres so many other reports that can feed in to give you a more accurate picture of what is happening on the ground, whether it is racial disparity, income by neighbourhood, all these different things. The capacity. So, it is really tying all these things together that we can actually think of a path forward or solution. A couple of other points besides that is, theres also commissioner johnson raised the issue of capacity when it comes to building up to the zoning potential. A Single Family home in rh2 is not desirable. This brings me to a statement, size does matter. The average size of a home in San Francisco is 1200 square feet provided by the department 12 months ago. However, we get these applications, not only are we underbuilding, but building a Single Family house in rh2, but everything that is 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 square feet is called publi
That is one of implications. In terms of producinging Affordable Housing because it will affect the tax programme. There is a number of analyses that have been done. But it is tens of thousands of units worth of Affordable Housing that will not be available to us in the next five to 10 years. What happened, the money we just won sacramento, the new permanent source of 250 million a year and the sb3 bond that is going to be on the november 18 ballot, assuming we win it, the 3 billion bond. That will fill the hole that the federal government just took away for the next years to come. We end up even once again. This has been the world of Affordable Housing. We seem to be running in place while simultaneously the private Real Estate Market with all the thirst for living in San Francisco is on fire and sort of further creating the disruption and displacement that commissioner richards talks about. How do we get ahead of the curve when the feds and state keep pulling the rug out from underne
Thinking about revenue measures for next years and beyond, i think were going to face a voter population is suddenly realisinging that money is taken out of tear pocket. That is one of implications. In terms of producinging Affordable Housing because it will affect the tax programme. There is a number of analyses that have been done. But it is tens of thousands of units worth of Affordable Housing that will not be available to us in the next five to 10 years. What happened, the money we just won sacramento, the new permanent source of 250 million a year and the sb3 bond that is going to be on the november 18 ballot, assuming we win it, the 3 billion bond. That will fill the hole that the federal government just took away for the next years to come. We end up even once again. This has been the world of Affordable Housing. We seem to be running in place while simultaneously the private Real Estate Market with all the thirst for living in San Francisco is on fire and sort of further creat