Introductions & Sign In

Facilitator:  Karen Cohn                                Recorder:  Anjali Nath

1.      Review Agenda and Minutes

1.      Update on Camera Purchase

Need to use cameras to improve work practices and need to be held accountable (evaluation, QA) and need to do training.  Only concern is that Quality Assurance might be an issue.  ATF is accountable for the funds used to purchase the camera.  ATF and SFHA is accountable to Board of Supervisors.  Nothing personal.

Members feel that points outlined in MOE are all important so not necessarily negotiable.

2.      Overall Housing Objectives

Reviewed documents that will help us in developing a Healthy Housing Guidance of some sort.

Looking at Louise’s revision of objectives chart:

A.1.

-Need a generic definition that includes asthma-safe housing and healthy housing

·        “Environmentally Healthy Housing” – a home that is dry, clean, well-ventilated, combustion by-product free, pest free, toxic chemical free (i.e. secondhand smoke), comfortable.

·        Members feel it important to spell out some specific

·        Combustion by-product free means CO related – kerosene heaters, things not vented.

·        Bring in 7 principles later

Question to Karen – How will guidance document be implemented?  Who is responsible?  How to make people have to comply with it?

Louise suggested begin with publicly funded properties.  Ray said this was how DOE did this for Green Building.  What were the political strategies used to get it passed.  What worked and what didn’t?

Building and Housing Code is about buildings

This is more about occupants, needs to link structure and health.  Our document could have references to Building and Housing Code.

A.1.b. Potential list of community partners to ask for community input:

HERC

GreenAction

POWER

CEOP – Code Enforcement Outreach Program (SFAA)

B.3 “Least healthy” housing might be focused on low-income. Suggestion that Myrna might have access through MOH   - could be defined in a number of ways (geographically or by type of housing – publicly funded, SFHA, etc.)

Overlap what MOH IDs as low-income, substandard housing with what DPH and DBI has IDed also.

Who can get Directors of these Depts to do this?

Strategy:  Could ask Supv. Maxwell to speak to Bd of Sups or Mayor

SFAA calls owners to point out issues and get them to address them.

Tenant Advocates might be able to help ID priority owners

Rent Board

Tommy at Housing Rights Commission

St. Peters, Tenants Union, Tenderloin Housing Clinic.

B.4. & B.5. need B.3. to be done first.

B.5.b. – DPH, DBI & MOH

B.5.c. – members of Bd of Sups who focus on housing – Peskin, Mirkarmi, Daly, Dufty

Members feel B.5. should included private, residential hotels.  Overcrowded, substandard housing in Mission, etc.

C. SFHA – in progress

STEPS AGREED UPON:

1. Work with HUD Proposal to develop Healthy Housing Guidance Document – First target is Publicly-funded properties.  Down the road we can expand to private housing.
2. Help prioritize code violations (as indicated in #3-5 in Grid)
3. Create legislation like lead & conduct education on Healthy Housing.

Louise will tighten up definition

Louise will cut and paste a draft guidance. 

Ray will help us ID who responsible parties can be for implementing Guidance and also what overall strategy did they use that we could model.

Neil will complete list of appropriate community partners

Ask Myrna to provide info on what has been identified as low-income substandard housing (stats, GIS maps, etc.)

6.      Next Meeting & Agenda

Next Meetings of Committee: 

a.      Wednesday, August 2, 2006

b.      Wednesday, August 16, 2006