HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2650 RESOLUTION NO. 2650
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA
CONCERNXNG SUPPORT FOR PROPOSITION 107
WHEREAS, indications are that there are 250,000 homeless in
California, and estimates are that one third of the homeless in
California are families with children under 18 years of age, and
WHEPaeAS, California has the largest shortage of low income rental
housing in the nation, and there are four poor families for every
unit of low-income housing in the state, and
WHEREAS, more than 1.5 million households in California--as many as
4.1 million people--earnless than $7,050 per year and pay more
than 60% of that income for rent, and
WHEREAS, at least 130,000 fedorally assisted rental housing units
in California risk conversion to non low-income use by the year
2008 as federal subsidies terminate, and
WHEREAS, each year fewer and fewer Californians can aspire to home
ownership so that currently only 16% of the households in
California can afford the staro's median-priced home compared to
23% affordability one year ago, and
WHEREAS, according to estimates of the California Department of
Housing and Community Development at least 7% of the Staro's
households live in overcrowded housing and 40% of the Staro's
farmworkers are livingin overcrowded units, and also according to
HCD 1.3 million, or 13% of the staro's housing units need to be
rehabilitated or replaced, and
WHEREAS, California, once a leader in the area of affordable
housing, currently lags behind comparable states in both total and
per capita funding for homeless and affordable housing programs,
and
WHEREAS, Proposition 107 authorizes $150 million in general
obligation bonds to build, rehabilitate and purchase housing, and
individual citizens and organizations concerned with housing and
homelessness have come together to support Proposition 107 on the
June, 1990, statewide ballot, and
WHEREAS, the City of Saratoga finds that the State of California
needs a new commitment to affordable housing at a meaningful level
of funding to help local communities address the rapidly growing
housing problems of the homeless, the elderly, the handicapped,
veterans, the mentally ill, single mothers, young families with
children, and others for whom affordable housing is unavailable.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Saratoga endorses Proposition 107.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the
Saratoga City Council at a meeting held on the 2nd day of May,
1990, by the following vote:
AYES: CO~LncilI~$ AnderSOn, Moyles, PetersonandMayor Clevenger
NOES: No~e
ABSENT: Col]/lci~ Stutzman
Mayor J
ATTEST: