<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Davis Candice</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdavis.chc@gmail.com">cdavis.chc@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:44 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Please read and consider draft of Affordable Housing Advisory Board in advance of August 8 meeting<br>To: LAN <<a href="mailto:lawrenceneighborhoods@gmail.com">lawrenceneighborhoods@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">FYI<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">"Robert Baker" <<a href="mailto:rbakertth@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbakertth@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>Please read and consider draft of Affordable Housing Advisory Board in advance of August 8 meeting</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">August 2, 2016 at 10:28:02 AM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><<a href="mailto:rbakertth@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbakertth@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><<a href="mailto:rbakertth@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbakertth@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Affordable Housing Coalition Members or Interested Parties,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Below is a link to the draft of the July Affordable Housing Advisory Board Minutes and UniverCity Program in Iowa City.  In the minutes the advisory board is discussing strategies to build, scatter, acquire or rehab housing for various housing needs.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Of course, the hardest need to serve, those households earning less than 30% of median income (the poverty level) that are in transition or need supportive housing seem to be the ones that are hardest to address (in the drafted minutes). <u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The drafted minutes indicate much discussion or consideration for supporting home ownership, including an Iowa City program that provides “affordable housing” for those earning between 140% to 160% of median income.  It would allow these households to purchase a rehabbed home that sold for less than $235,000 and seems to be based on the supposition that there are many households in Lawrence that earn $80,000 to $100,000 per year that cannot afford to purchase a $235,000 home in Lawrence. <u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please read the minutes and the UniverCity link and comment to the Board Members in writing or in person at the public comment section of the next Affordable Housing Advisory meeting scheduled for next Monday, August 8 at 11am in the Commission Meeting Room.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If you would like the Lawrence Affordable Housing Coalition to draft a letter reflecting the Coalitions affordable housing aims or concerns please send me your concerns in writing. Thanks - Robert<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://lawrenceks.org/boards/affordable-housing/agendas" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://lawrenceks.org/boards/affordable-housing/agendas</a><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Bell MT',serif;color:rgb(8,8,168)">Robert Baker,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Bell MT',serif;color:rgb(8,8,168)">Lawrence Affordable Housing Coalition<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Bell MT',serif;color:rgb(8,8,168)"><a href="mailto:rbakertth@gmail.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">rbakertth@gmail.com</a></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br></div>