HLC Housing Agenda Blog

Affordable Housing Week: Rotary Club panel talk

On Monday, May 11, I was part of a panel discussion at the Burlingame Rotary Club on the ways organizations and governments in San Mateo County collaborate on housing issues. The panelists were:

• San Mateo County Supervisor Mark Church, who talked about the collaborative efforts the County had led, including the creation of a separate Department of Housing for the county, the creation of the Housing Endowment And Regional Trust (HEART), and HOPE (Housing Our People Effectively), the 10-year plan to end homelessness in the county;
• Duane Bay, Director of the Department of Housing, describing the collaboration with cities on a housing needs study, the allocation of each jurisdiction’s portion of the housing need in the county, and the updates to each jurisdiction’s housing element of its general plan;
• Chris Mohr, who described the advocacy role of HLC as a member organization and the funding role of HEART as a joint powers authority; and
• Greg Greenway, who described the civic engagement approach taken by Threshold 2008.

There was time at the end for just a few questions, before the meeting was over.

Our thanks to Burlingame Rotary for having us, and to Rabbi Jay Miller of Peninsula Clergy Network for serving as our emcee and panel host.