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MINUTES – Eugene City Council January 18, 2017 Page 3 Work Session crisis for which the City meets immediate needs and addresses long term needs; noted the issue of affordability is a market failure and policy issue, requiring government assistance, and noted this is the reason he favors a one percent construction excise tax to address short-term fixes; mentioned the need for greater renter perspectives in Housing Tools and Strategies and that the City could bring together work with Renter Protections and next steps to fill in gaps of Housing Tools and Strategies. •Councilor Syrett - used a car market analogy to address home building market failures inmeeting housing needs; noted the need for the City to assist renters and homeowners withavailable choices for housing that works for their circumstance where market cannotprovide those same choices. •Councilor Yeh - wondered if Planning and Development has capacity to do all this work andasked what resources are needed to get work done. •Councilor Semple - noted excitement around aligning zoning and comprehensive plans,suggesting this will be helpful to building the right buildings for the right people in theright places; wondered how the City can develop SROs to serve the unhoused andsupported auxiliary dwelling unit development and pre-approved plans; reiteratedsupport for financial assistance with down payments, foreclosure support, securitydeposits, etc.; wondered how the private sector can support this work, and who else to askto support financial needs. •Councilor Clark - disagreed with Councilor Zelenka’ s assessment of the issue being amarket failure and suggested building homes needs to be less expensive; suggested theCity needs to specify what kind of housing is for built for certain types of incomes (singleincome household vs. multiple income households). •Councilor Zelenka - supported market failure theory and ways to address the strategiesneeded to address that failure; questioned how to eliminate building costs and suggestedthat there is no meaningful way to do so, which is why financial supports to therenter/homeowner from the city are so important; requested a filter for impacts related tocategories that are “in-progress” or “recommendations and suggested “level of support”not appropriately named and should be renamed “source”. •Councilor Pryor - suggested not all barriers to building are cost-related. •Mayor Vinis - spoke about Peter Keys experience at the University of Oregon; suggestedutilizing census data to evaluate intersections of data mentioned by Councilor Clark as wellas other designs.The meeting adjourned at 1:44 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Samantha Roberts Deputy City Recorder April 22, 2019, Meeting - Item 2A