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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Thirteen of California’s large metropolis mayors gathered successful San Francisco this week, including Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.
The absorption was connected affordable housing, but it wasn’t conscionable for low-income households; it was for the inaugural Big City Mayors Summit extracurricular of San Francisco’s City Hall. This was a accidental for mayors to basal unneurotic connected communal issues, and Dyer made definite to code the wide contented of costly housing.
“We’ve had productive conversations connected our shared priorities, including housing, homelessness, and economical development,” San Francisco Mayor Daniel Laurie said.
The 13 mayors astatine the Oct. 22nd acme correspond implicit 11 cardinal Californians.
“In Riverside, we presently person 6,000 units successful the improvement pipeline,” Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said.
Dyer started his code complimenting San Francisco, “I’ve ne'er felt safer walking done a metropolis successful my life.”
However, Dyer wasted nary clip diving heavy into the issues astatine hand.
“It’s nary question we are successful a lodging situation successful America,” Dyer said.
He said advancement is being made, but the situation isn't constricted to low-income families.
“It besides impacts the missing middle. Middle-income families, radical that utilized to beryllium capable to spend to bargain a home, who tin nary longer spend to bargain a home,” Dyer said.
He added that it’s not lone important to summation lodging supply, “But marque definite that the lodging that we’re providing is affordable, and however bash we bash that? We trim our appetite successful galore cases. The amenities which we privation to person successful our homes.”
He said immoderate California laws are successful the way.
“It’s important that we further condominium ownership, which we are not capable to bash close present successful the authorities of California arsenic a effect of operation defect liability laws,” Dyer said.
Still, Fresno’s politician has immoderate ideas to assistance the "missing middle."
“It’s besides important that we create, successful the authorities of California, a lodging spot money to beryllium capable to supply those folks with downpayment assistance funds and to beryllium capable to springiness them those funds with a forgivable indebtedness aft a 15-year period,” Dyer said.
Dyer besides said this year, Fresno volition person 800 affordable lodging units built and an further 1,600 units successful 2026.
