On Zoom – Register here

Panel of Housing Experts:

  • Jeff Levin, Policy Director, East Bay Housing Organizations
  • Rick Jacobus, Economic consultant to East Bay municipalities on housing
  • Ben Metcalf, Managing Director of UC Berkeley’s Terner Center and former Director of CA’s Housing Community Development Agency 

Questions we seek to answer in this panel:

  • What makes affordable housing affordable?
  • How is it financed? Overview of local tax measures, state funds, federal funds, & Oakland Impact Fees (funds collected for the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund from new housing
  • developments)
  • What actually pencils? A Case Study to reviewing a proforma of a local housing project
  • Do “affordable or nothing” developments pencil here in Rockridge? Why or why not?

Time permitting, we hope to answer additional questions from the community. To share your questions, email Chair@Rockridge.org in advance or during the meeting, you can submit them through the Zoom Q&A feature.