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Christian, Kevin
From:Allan Cooper <allancoope@gmail.com>
Sent:Saturday,
To:Codron, Michael; Wiseman, Jenny; E-mail Council Website
Subject:DISCUSSION OF CITY SUPPORT FOR COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INCLUSIONARY
HOUSING PROGRAM
Attachments:309_30_17...lettertocouncil.pdf
Dear Michael and Jenny -
Would you kindly forward the letter attached below to the
City Council before their meeting on Tuesday, October 3,
2017? Thanks!
- Allan
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To: SLO City Council, Michael Codron and Jenny Wiseman
Re:Discussion Of City Support For County Of San Luis Obispo Inclusionary
Housing Program
From:Allan Cooper, Secretary Save Our Downtown
Date:September 30, 2017
Honorable Mayor Harmon & Council Members -
The County is currently preparing a Nexus Study on their Inclusionary Housing
Ordinance and will present those findings to the Board in December 2017. In light of
this, we would like the San Luis Obispo City Council to address an inherent
structural flaw built into both the County’s and City’s so-called “nexus studies”.
This flaw originates from the fact that current and projected poverty level income
within the City and County is skewed by the presence of 14,323 off-campus Cal Poly
and Cuesta College students, most of whom are reporting poverty level incomes to
the IRS. In 2015 the largest group living in poverty in SLO County was males
between the ages of 18-24 (20.9% or 8,162) and females between the ages of 18-24
(15.8% or 6,161). However, Cal Poly’s student population come from the most
affluent households in the nation with a median parental income of $152,900 (see:
http://mustangnews.net/cal-poly-low-income-diversity/).
All that these comparatively affluent kids living away from home have to do is pull in
a little bit of cash as a barista, report it to the IRS and they're marked down as a
poverty level household. As a result of this, our City’s poverty level (33.4%) is the
highest in the County, far higher than the national average (13.5%), even comparable
to Detroit's (39.8%) and from this specious bit of data, we're obligated to provide a
pro rata complement of very low-income housing (24.9%) for a population that
neither needs it or wants it. Thank you for listening.