Planning Commission 10/25/2023 - Oct 25, 2023

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What is the definition of affordable housing and why is it important?

Michael R. Turner 0:04

Well good evening, Mr. Vice Chair, members of the Commission. Uh my name is David McGedigan from the Planning Office. I'll raise this up a little bit. For myself. Can you hear me okay? All right. Very good. Um so this uh presentation is um the one we gave to the the Board of County Supervisors on October seventeenth. So I wanted to um give it all to you all so you would be up to speed on our latest thinking and and what we had um discussed with the the board. So um Wi with that, um I just want to um sort of say what what are we talking about when we're talking about affordable housing. And um uh that occupants would pay no more than thirty percent of their gross income for gross housing costs, including utilities.

Michael R. Turner 1:05

That's fairly standard uh definition that that HUD uses, that um the state uses, um that's in the state and enabling legislation that we're gonna talk about later. Um so that's what what we think about affordable housing. And so it it doesn't uh matter what your your income is necessarily, but at at some point you you sh you sh you're um what we call cost burdened if you're paying more than thirty percent. of your income on a household income on uh housing and utilities. Uh and that's part of what we're trying to address. Now the area median income is the the HUD standard that is um the ho you know, Department of Housing and Urban Development. uh determines periodically and it's used for our federally funded programs, they use the uh and produce these area median income statistics.

Michael R. Turner 2:05

Um their statistics have um some other calculations that go into them that's not a a straight uh comparison of say if you w looked at a four person household uh uh at eighty percent of the uh area median income. Uh it it wouldn't be actually eighty percent mathematically 'cause they have other factors that they factor into that. Um so we're gonna uh look at if that's um what we're gonna use or we're gonna use um uh our own area median income bas on Prince William County based on the census uh data. And then use the percentages based on that. Uh one, that's gonna be a number specific to Prince William County, whereas the um HUD number is gonna be based on the the whole metropolitan areas. uh number and also is is will be um different to administer.

Michael R. Turner 3:06

So we're looking at that of of what we're going to use for um uh area median income. Uh we may even call it household median income for Prince William County uh just to distinguish it. Um housing costs um Um, like I said, if if they exceed thirty percent then you become cost burdened and that gives you limited resources for other things like food coving, transportation and medical care. So that's what we're we're defining and and using for affordable housing. And This is um analysis that we did for that the housing chapter and so you all vo have seen this, but uh I just wanted to to show it again to show where our supply of of housing was and uh again these are twenty nineteen numbers uh when we did this analysis we we used twenty nineteen

Michael R. Turner 4:02

Um and it shows that we have um maybe capacity uh a number of units that you would think we we need in the the middle um ranges of of of AMI, the eighty to a hundred and uh Um fifty one to eighty. But we are not meeting the needs at the thirty percent and below. And we're not meeting the mi needs. of the hundred to a hundred and twenty and the hundred and twenty above. Um what that's doing is that those um other incomes have to compete for the the um lower units and and push Um uh others out in in essence in not meeting the um not meeting the demand. That there is out there. Um Second, uh this slide sort of shows okay what who are these um income bands, what do they apply to, and it it's It's wanted to just make clear that it's every all uh a wide range.

Michael R. Turner 5:15

of of working uh folks that need that are in these income salary ranges. Um And so Um these are the the four of the the income bands and it just uh sort of shows that y based on our our uh census um number of a hundred and seven thousand two fifty what those different income bands would actually in actual dollars apply to and what they could aff afford to own.