| City of Phoenix Makes Significant Strides in Affordable Housing and Housing Availability | https://www.phoenix.gov/newsroom/housing/3275 | Housing | | 11/12/2024 11:30:00 PM | https://www.phoenix.gov/newssite/Lists/NewsArticle/Attachments/3275/Newsroom_Housing_201.png | | City of Phoenix Makes Significant Strides in Affordable Housing and Housing Availability | <div class="ExternalClassC3F9E4DC099B43A1A6015242B064EB9D"><html>
<p><span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Today, the City of Phoenix Housing Department presented an extensive overview of Phoenix’s housing efforts and initiatives aimed at serving our residents and addressing housing supply and affordable housing needs in our city. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> <br></span></p>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">For many years, the City of Phoenix has prioritized increasing the supply of housing for all income levels. These efforts span multiple City departments and have produced extremely successful policies, programs and initiatives. Phoenix is and will continue to be a leader in ensuring increased housing options for everyone who chooses to call the city home. Below is a summary of the primary accomplishments shared in the presentation to the Phoenix City Council:</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The Housing Department focuses on programs and services that support permanent, affordable housing in the City of Phoenix. </span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">As the Public Housing Authority (PHA) for the city, the Housing Department operates more than 1,000 public housing units.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The Housing Department also provides more than 3,900 units in apartment communities throughout the city, with more than 300 currently under construction.</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">In June 2020, Mayor and City Council approved the </span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US"> (HPP), to create a stronger and more vibrant Phoenix through increased housing options for residents at all income levels and family sizes. To achieve this, the Plan set a goal of creating or preserving 50,000 housing units by 2030 through the implementation of the nine policy initiatives.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">As of September 2024, more than 48,000 housing units have been created or preserved throughout the city, which is more than 96% of the total unit goal.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Approximately 22% of these units are considered affordable, with the remainder being workforce or market rate units. The breakdown is:</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">48,391 created or preserved Units</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Significant progress has also been made in several of the Plan’s nine policy initiatives including:</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">A text amendment was approved to allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs), citywide in September 2023.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">As of September 2024, the Planning and Development Department has issued 233 building permits for ADUs in Phoenix.</span>
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<strong>HPP Initiative 3- Redevelop City-Owned Land with Affordable Housing</strong>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">140 parcels were identified as suitable for residential development and approved by Mayor and City Council. </span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">26% of those approved parcels have been released via Request for Proposal (RFP).</span>
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<strong>HPP Initiative 4- Enhance Public-Private Partnerships and Increase Funding</strong>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Four private development projects were awarded gap funding from a $6 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding In June 2023.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">This funding is assisting in the creation of over 500 new affordable housing units throughout the city.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">$5 million of ARPA funding was awarded to a local community development corporation in 2023 to create permanently affordable homeownership opportunities through a Community Land Trust (CLT). </span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The Housing Department launched the Landlord Incentive Program in 2020 in order to incentivize private market landlords to accept Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV). Throughout the life of the program:</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">$7.8 million in CARES Act and ARPA funding was utilized.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">4,700+ incentive payments were made to landlords.</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">While all funding for the program has been expended, the Housing Department is still seeing interest in new landlords joining the HCV program. In October 2024, more than 50 current and prospective landlords attended a landlord open house to ask questions and gather additional information.</span>
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<span style="color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;background-color:window;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Through our gap financing program, the Housing Department serves as a lender to private affordable housing developers by providing development gap funding. When funding is provided to a project, the city records a deed restriction, called a land use restrictive agreement or LURA, on the units funded. This LURA ensures long-term affordability, which is currently set at a 40-year term.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">$119 million in HUD funding has been provided to affordable housing developers.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">$1.3 million in the process of being distributed and is expected to assist an additional 50 households.</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The Housing Department is also committed to ensuring connectivity advancements to help address the digital divide.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">This ARPA funding will provide connectivity for 3 years.</span>
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<span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The Housing Department also presented an overview of a recently completed housing needs assessment. Knowing the COVID-19 pandemic increased housing pressures in Phoenix, the Housing Department worked to obtain a current Housing Needs Assessment as the needs assessment in the Housing Phoenix Plan was based on data available in 2019. The current assessment provides new data and a deeper analysis than what was included in the Housing Phoenix Plan. The results of this current analysis will serve to inform future policy recommendations. Some of the key takeaways from the review of the assessment include:</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Approximately 57% of all subsidized housing units in Maricopa County are located in Phoenix.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">The amount of land in Phoenix that permits multifamily development far surpasses other cities and allows us to accommodate future housing development.</span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">20% of Phoenix zoned property permits multifamily development of 4 or more units per lot. </span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">64,000 + housing units have been entitled through rezoning actions from March 2019-September 2024, the majority being multifamily units. </span>
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<span style="background-color:window;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">52% of all rental households are cost-burdened, meaning they pay more than 30% of their gross income towards housing costs, which includes rent and utility costs. </span>
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| City of Phoenix Breaks Ground on Girasol Apartments, Bringing New Affordable Housing to Edison-Eastlake | https://www.phoenix.gov/newsroom/housing/3270 | Housing | | 11/6/2024 10:15:00 PM | https://www.phoenix.gov/newssite/Lists/NewsArticle/Attachments/3270/Newsroom_Housing_200.png | | City of Phoenix Breaks Ground on Girasol Apartments, Bringing New Affordable Housing to Edison-Eastlake | <div class="ExternalClass009F5F3E59AA4FF59521B955E1520181"><html>
<p>Today, the City of Phoenix Housing Department and Gorman & Company, celebrated the groundbreaking of Girasol Apartments, formerly known as Sidney P. Osborn Apartments. Girasol will replace 145 outdated public housing units with 364 new affordable and market-rate apartments in the Edison- Eastlake Community.<br><br>Named "Girasol" (Spanish for "sunflower") by members of the Edison-Eastlake Community, this transformative housing community is designed with accessibility, sustainability, and inclusivity at its core. The development will provide one, two, and three-bedroom mixed-income apartment homes, serving both individuals and families. Girasol Apartments represents a new chapter in Phoenix's affordable housing initiatives, a critical next step in revitalizing the Edison-Eastlake Community through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods (CN) program and the Edison-Eastlake Community’s Neighborhood Transformation Plan known as the <a href="/housingsite/Documents/EEC_One_Vision_Plan_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">One Vision Plan</a>.<br><br>Girasol is funded in part by Phoenix voters, who passed the Phoenix City Council-approved 2023 General Obligation (GO) bond program. Approximately $21.3 million of GO Bond funds will be used to ensure the completion of these much-needed new housing units by helping to cover rising construction, labor and material costs.<br><br>“Girasol Apartments are a shining example of how we’re addressing our housing shortage and revitalizing our aging stock of public housing,” Mayor Gallego said. “We’re layering local and federal funding, cultivating strong senses of community, and embracing diversity and sustainability along the way. Most importantly, we’re creating nearly 400 new homes for our residents.”<br><br>“This project signifies a new chapter in the historic Edison-Eastlake neighborhood; it is a meaningful community investment and provides much-needed affordable and attainable housing opportunities for individuals and families to thrive for generations to come,” District 8 Councilwoman Kesha Hodge Washington said. “I am grateful for our partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with their support of $42.5 million in Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant funds, we are seeing impactful changes.”<br><br>The new community will serve as a model for sustainable, affordable housing, blending design innovations that meet the needs of the community while enhancing the quality of life for its residents.<br><br>“Gorman & Company is committed to transforming this site into a vibrant, inclusive community," said Sally Schwenn, Arizona Market President, Gorman & Company. “The collaboration with the City of Phoenix and the local community has been instrumental in shaping Girasol Apartments into a home for hundreds of families and a source of pride for the entire city.”<br><br>The new development will occur in three construction phases, which will be completed from 2026 to 2027. The Girasol Apartments groundbreaking marks the commencement of the fourth phase of redevelopment of the Edison-Eastlake Community, building on the successes of Soluna Apartments and Harmony at the Park Apartments.<br><br>Girasol Apartments is financed and supported by the following partners: City of Phoenix Housing Department, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Arizona Department of Housing, Gorman & Company, and Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust.<br></p>
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