preserve existing rental stock and public housing. a year ago the mayor convened a housing working group consisting of a broad swath of stake holders market rate developers, nonprofit developers, advocates, funders. there were over 100 participants in the working group. and the working group set out to provide recommendations and to suggest solutions to help us attack the housing crisis from a number of different angles. so key recommendations are summarized on this slide and i ll try to just touch on each of them. existing neighborhoods need to be stabilized. funding sources need to be expanded beyond the traditional programs. and the band of affordability needs to be widened, it needs to go more deeply affordable and it needs to provide housing for higher incomes than we have traditionally reached. we need to add affordable units to new construction and we need to increase efficiencies wherever possible. so it s clear under this first bullet of neighborhood stablization tha
produced in rezoned areas will be affordable to low and moderate income households and that funding strategies will be identified to fund new affordable housing and to preserve existing rental stock and public housing. a year ago the mayor convened a housing working group consisting of a broad swath of stake holders market rate developers, nonprofit developers, advocates, funders. there were over 100 participants in the working group. and the working group set out to provide recommendations and to suggest solutions to help us attack the housing crisis from a number of different angles. so key recommendations are summarized on this slide and i ll try to just touch on each of them. existing neighborhoods need to be stabilized. funding sources need to be expanded beyond the traditional programs. and the band of affordability needs to be widened, it needs to go more deeply affordable and it needs to provide housing for higher incomes than we have traditionally reached. we need to
In playwright Yvette Nolan’s The Unplugging, on at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria this month, storytelling is paramount, says director Reneltta Arluk.