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City Council · regular
Boulder City Council Meeting 4-13-23
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- regular
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- past
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it will be at 1844 Folsom Street this is a facility it's a older office building one story
we as a department are used to making such investments in the community around affordable housing
in the 2024 budget we will be likely requesting from city council an amount somewhere between four and five million dollars of general fund money
we had about over 400 families go through our keep families housed uh eviction prevention program through rental assistance
we have a really robust um set of short-term rental assistance from the city from effa's resources from the county
the housing vouchers and permanently affordable units neither none of which uh prioritize families with children
the empress program or the eviction prevention rental assistance services that also provides
um so one of the things that I've heard is that you know I think BHP says that those rentals are slowest to rent
we've been discussing this with BHP as well and looking at if there's ways in the financial models to lower the the affordable rents of the three-bedroom units
do we know what percentage of shelter versus unsheltered uh homelessness occurs within families
why don't we prioritize families in our affordable housing in our permanently affordable housing
we have our downtown ambassadors which is a partnership with our um with our downtown Boulder partner group
this one highlights some of the outcomes of the downtown ambassador program as a reminder this is a partnership between Community Vitality department and the downtown Boulder partnership
for a pilot to augment the Ambassador presidents in the University Hill commercial distance
we have assigned a sergeant and two homeless Outreach officers who mostly are non-enforcement in their capacity
we just cannot have people sleeping in our flood ways we're heading into thunderstorm season and flash floods can happen