RE: Time is Running Out to Make Your Voice Heard - 18

Yes, some hotels are only de facto SRO housing in some jurisdictions when the occupant stays long enough to waive the Transient Occupancy Tax. But real SRO's or off campus dorm-style rentals really matter in terms of quantity of housing and housing available to extremely vulnerable populations.

And the CT/BG issue is big in ex-urban and suburban settings adjacent to entitlement jurisdictions - as well as in more fluid regional governance areas.

Lisa A. Baker
lbaker@ych.ca.gov

Just chiming in from the sidelines

I think that the issue of “hotels” is tied to the issue of SRO housing......not having a kitchen or even a bathroom in the unit does not automatically make a place to sleep a hotel room. In some communities SRO units are an essential urban shelter resource and with monthly or weekly “at will” arrangements should be counted. How does AHS treat and track SROs?

Tracking the issue of full time and part time student status in conjunction with information about household composition has relevance to housing markets and relevance to the LIHTC program. For instance in Washington County, Rhode Island there are units that rent to URI students for the school year at ‘reasonable” rents for roughly 9 months until the start of the summer rental season, at which time rents double or triple on a monthly basis or become weekly rentals. There are local renters that go from indoor living to camping in state parks (both legally and illegally). The issue of student status matters in many markets and would seem to impact market price stability.

Andrew Daniels
daniels@mapplan.com