For many folks, paying rent is a stressful monthly routine task. Affordable housing was designed as an alternative that would relieve this stress by pegging the rent owed to a reasonable 30% percentage of household income. But many residents of affordable housing still experience rent stress. If affordable housing was designed to keep people from feeling this stress, why is it still happening? What is it about the structure of affordable housing finance that may contribute to this on-going rent stress? Why charge rent at all?
This workshop will help demystify the financing that drives the creation of affordable housing. It will cover the basics of the medley of public sector financing sources and the surprisingly huge role the impenetrable tax code plays in incentivizing the private sector. You will learn why it’s so hard to create affordable housing and have the opportunity to generate alternative rent and non-rent based housing models.
Join SF Urban Film Fest at CAST for a short film screening and the workshop. Masks are not required, but are recommended and appreciated.
Curated by Fay Darmawi and Reetu Mody
Panelists:
Reetu Mody (Moderator), Attorney
Fay Darmawi, Founder and Executive Director, SF Urban Film Fest
Rebecca Foster, CEO, San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund
Co-Presented by
In this program
My Little Hilton
Directed by Todd Sills & Kevin D. Wong
Now in her 60s, Gayle moves to San Francisco to finally pursue the dream she never had the opportunity to realize in her 20s: becoming a jazz singer.
Accessibility Information: CAST SF is wheelchair accessible. For questions regarding accessibility information, email sfurbanfilmfest@gmail.com.
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About SF Urban Film Fest
The SF Urban Film Fest gathers a diverse, engaged audience and uses the power of storytelling to spark discussion and civic engagement around urban issues. We ask what it means to live together and create just and equitable cities.
SF Urban Film Fest is an interdisciplinary storytelling organization that produces an annual film festival, year-round film-based discussion events, and long-term community storytelling projects to make our cities more healthy, inclusive, and culturally abundant.
SF Urban Film Fest collaborates with cultural, academic, grass-roots, and civic organizations including the Roxie Theater, SPUR, the University of San Francisco, SFMOMA, Tenderloin Museum, Exploratorium, Imprint City, Bay Area Video Coalition, The Bauhinia Project, and others. Projects are often jointly initiated to combine film and community planning, most recently with Young Community Developers in the Bayview and SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District in SOMA. In recognition of their impact on empowering communities using storytelling and film, the SFUFF are Artists in Residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Learn more at sfurbanfilmfest.com