City of Oakland Safer Housing for Oakland

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1 City of Oakland Safer Housing for Oakland October 30, 2014 PowerPoint loosely based on Berkeley retrofit presentation. 1

2 Welcome Presentation Overview What are Soft Story Buildings? How do They Affect Oakland? How do They Affect Me? Tenant and Owner Risks Program Goals and Work Done to Date Retrofit Details and Initial Financing Ideas Examples in Other Cities Next Steps Q & A 2

3 What are Soft Story Buildings? Buildings with: Wood frames Pre-1991 construction 5+ units, 2+ stories Open lower story parking or commercial spaces Lower story walls/columns with inadequate lateral resistance 3 3

4 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake Impact Regional Damage & Injuries: 400,000 sq. mi impact 63 deaths 3,757 injuries 12,000 homes and 2,600 businesses damaged Estimated $6 billion total damage Bay Bridge damage Highway 880 section collapse 4 4

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6 DANIELLE, INSERT HERE 6

7 How Soft Story Buildings Affect Oakland? Major life safety risk Hayward Fault runs through Oakland Hayward Fault is most probable for a major earthquake in next 30 years 22,000 Oakland rental units are potentially soft story Could have serious economic impacts (loss of rental housing, etc.) 7 7

8 When the Hayward Fault Shakes Oakland could lose 15% (26,000) of its 170,000 housing units At least 2/3 of those losses are in soft story apartments or condos 17,000 units are forecast to be impacted More than 100,000 Alameda County residents would need immediate shelter Oakland would be the most affected 8

9 How do Soft Story Buildings Affect Me? Tenants: Personal injury Damage to possessions Loss of housing Potential displacement Potential loss of life Owners: Property damage Loss of rental income Expensive repair costs 9

10 Oakland Community Goals Make housing safer and save lives Facilitate emergency response and housing recovery Maintain affordable housing Keep Oakland residents in Oakland Soften major disaster s economic blow and speed up recovery Seismic retrofitting Can make a difference! 10

11 Seismic Retrofitting Works 11

12 Work Done to Date Phase I: Establish and Evaluate Inventory City-adopted Ordinance (2009) established an inventory of soft story buildings (shown on map) Required a non-engineering evaluation Phase II: Validate Housing Stock Inventory Staff working group convened Community engagement strategies including a tenant/property owner task force Create program design Identify low interest and other funding for retrofits Community Engagement Tenant/property owner task force meetings Meetings with Rent Board 12 12

13 Seismic Retrofitting Strengthens critical ground floor to reduce likelihood of collapse Does not require retrofit actions above critical story Increases possibility for people to get out of the building safely Increases probability of building repair after a major event Reduces risk of fire from building falling on gas pipes, etc. 13

14 Retrofitting Priorities Low to moderate income residents Big multi-unit soft story buildings Soft story building clusters High risk locations 14 14

15 Retrofitting Costs For every $1 spent prior to a disaster to reduce risk, you save $4-7 in recovery costs after a major earthquake Next steps are to determine reasonable cost estimates based on the recent experience of nearby communities 15 15

16 Duration: The Oakland Pilot Program 2 years of voluntary participation with incentives Goals: Organize staffing and programming necessary for a successful ongoing program Test efficacy of financial and non-financial retrofit incentives Document lessons learned to apply to an ongoing program After pilot program, retrofitting would eventually become mandatory 16

17 Property Owner Retrofitting Incentives $1 million in reserved Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for seismic retrofits $1.5 million BayREN (regional) loan fund for clean energy upgrades to multi-family buildings Exploring establishment of loan pool using state-level Property Assessed Seismic Enhancements (PASE) bonding authority Potential tax credit (State AB 811-pending passage) 17

18 Tenant Impacts for Retrofits Rent Board Progress on Cost Pass Through: Current policy for capital improvements cost pass through Rent Board is currently considering whether to change the way seismic retrofits will be passed through Tenant Protections: Most retrofit work will not require relocation Owners should notify tenants if relocation needed for seismic retrofit at least 90 days in advance Tenant and owner may mutually agree on relocation while work is performed 18 18

19 Proposed Time Line Date Early 2015 Now and throughout pilot program Task Target date for presentation to City Council and adoption of the ordinance creating the pilot program and the long term program for soft story building retrofits Continual public participation Two year pilot program in place 19

20 What Are Other Bay Area Cities Doing? Notification Only Mandatory Screening Mandatory Evaluation Mandatory Retrofit Richmond San Leandro Oakland Alameda Berkeley San Francisco Fremont Berkeley San Francisco 20 20

21 Berkeley and San Francisco Examples Jenny McNulty, City of Berkeley Program and Administration Manager Berkeley Building and Safety Division Patrick Otellini, City and County of San Francisco Chief Resilience Officer Director, Earthquake Safety Implementation Program 21

22 Questions? 22

23 Contact Information Victoria Salinas Chief Resilience Officer City of Oakland 23