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<br />Housing Tools and Strategies Action Inventory 25 Not Recommended Actions <br />D. Additional Options <br />Action Explanation Level of Support <br />Preserve “naturally occurring” <br />affordable housing. <br />There is no legal mechanism to do this. If a home-owner wants to fix-up or even <br />“flip” a run-down home, the city cannot realistically stop this. <br />HTS working group weakly supported this <br />option (56%) in the preliminary voting. <br />Create tools that require <br />residency for housing, to <br />incentivize home ownership <br />over investor-acquisition of <br />housing units. <br />Since the 2008 recession, many of the houses that went into foreclosure were <br />purchased by investors and then rented out. Some investors are able to outbid <br />homebuyers, making it difficult for households to purchase homes. While there <br />are ways to incentivize this, there are no legal mechanisms to require it. <br />Preliminary voting showed 30% support. <br />Invest in grants or low interest <br />loans for people to attend trade <br />school, to increase the number <br />of skilled trades-people for <br />construction jobs. <br />A lack of skilled laborers to do the work of building new homes limits the pace at <br />which construction can actually happen. By giving grants (scholarships) or low <br />interest loans to people who would like to work in construction, the City could <br />both help those individuals (so they can get good jobs) as well as boost the local <br />labor supply. This could lower the cost of construction in the long-term. <br />Preliminary voting showed 27% support. <br />De-sanction the Neighborhood <br />Associations. <br />Eugene’s City-recognized Neighborhood Associations have many functions. Part <br />of their mission is to establish two-way communication between neighborhoods <br />and the City, and between neighborhoods and other external agencies. It also <br />includes advocating the association’s position on issues such as land use. <br />Preliminary voting showed 26% support. <br />Develop a home-sharing <br />program. <br />This would likely be outside of the City’s scope of programming, but private <br />individuals (Ex: via Craigslist) or an organization could take this on. <br />Preliminary voting showed 26% support. <br />Condominium conversion <br />controls <br />Before a property owner can convert a rental property into a condominium <br />(ownership), the owner must give existing residents an opportunity to purchase a <br />unit. The City has such an ordinance in place. This action does not increase the <br />supply of housing. <br />Preliminary voting showed 20% support. <br />Use Eminent Domain in <br />targeted cases to increase <br />density. <br />Eminent Domain is a law that allows governments to force a property owner to <br />sell his/her land for public use. It is often used when roads need to be expanded <br />into private property. Property owners do not have a choice, they must sell, but <br />the government has to pay them a fair price. Eminent Domain could be used to <br />purchase properties to develop Affordable housing. <br />Preliminary voting showed 15% support. <br /> <br />March 13, 2019, Work Session - Item 2