Right now, one lane of a busy bucks county road is now open following a fuel spill. Crews cleaning up 4,000 gallons of spilled gas. Working to get route 611 fully reopened for the morning rush. This morning learning more about the violence at the prison where last weeks inmate standoff happened in delaware. This as family and friends prepare for Funeral Services of the office killed in the takeover. Bitter cold moved in following yesterdays snow. Nbc 10 news starts now. Just after 5 30. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 today. Im tracey davidson. You better bundle up as you head out the door this morning. Start with meteorologist bill henley and most accurate nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather forecast. It is the a cold one this morning. 23 degrees. Our skies are clear. The temperatures still coming down. Hard to see because it is not sunny just yet. You can see the moon shine this morning. Bright moon and with clear skies and a wind blowing it feels especially cold this morning. 12
By 2020 i know we have to make Public Housing a habitable for people that live there for seniors to count that into the 10 thousands didnt make sense we have facing a displacement criticized i want to say for the teacher housing i know since the feinstein and Park Side School issued years and years ago weve been trying for many years rent subsidizes or other thoughtful Going Forward as youre trying to figure out that the Teachers Union and sciu and 10 to one and people vong for more hours were not all adapted from the city during the terrible crisis thank you for your prediction and all the work. Colleagues, any other questions from any of our departments okay want to thank all the departments for being here and look forward to continue our conversations so at that point item number one ill read your name line up against the far wall ive seen a number of speaker cards around the arts we had our hamburger last week on the arts program obviously feel free to speak on that matter but we h
Important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a report on the first reporting period of that requirement i think that the other issue is related to how were achieve a higher percentage of affordable and middleIncome Housing obviously requires more the Planning Department and process it requires major funding and major resources this is what youll hear from the Mayors Office of housing but it involves a lot of enter Departmental Agency work and work with the private Investment Community a couple of the steps eave taken to entice the developers to increase the project by offering project requirement up to 20 percent but those are things were trying to do but the need is on the finance side of how to get those units other than the marketed before the board the airbnbs and rb o your
Regulated and create housing that woo and clearly were looking at ways to create financing instruments to assist in some of the expansive work were trying to do in addition to the Affordable Housing were not looking to ignore or loaf behind whats the bread and butter of the Mayors Office of housing our traditional Affordable Housing but we want to do add to this work and to address a broader range of individuals and families who also given the Housing Market are hardpressed to stay in the city in a nut shell thats what we are doing in terms of creating new programs and trying to line up projects to leverage out the funding and meet the mayors goals of the thirty thousand you know 050 percent of which is affordable a third of that you know thirty thousand doping affordable and those are the goals of the the office as we work in the Program Development and implementation over the next 5 years at this time i am sorry to Deputy Director ma clutch. Supervisors ami id like to spend a few min
Our workshop Public Housing within the next 18 months we will the Mayors Office of housing will help fund along with the Housing Authority over 35 hundred units forrehabilitation and by the end of that period we will have unit that will be having at least a useful life of another 20 years and manage and fund in are a way that the federal government did not provide for the Housing Authority and so in that effort clearly the office has made substantial process in terms of developing the financial plans and in terms of the implementations the other work with or that the office has done in terms of the policy and program prelims its been you know creating new programs to try to address the Housing Needs as some of the earlier speakers spoke about not only are we do we need to address our Housing Needs at the low level but also are there ways of expanding who we serve in terms of Affordable Housing theres an effort to try to create new programs to add on affordability to existing projects w