At a glance
The Housing Trust Fund board planned a housing resource bingo night for November and brainstormed a better way for people to find affordable housing, including a shared vacancy list among housing providers updated at least quarterly. It will not meet in October. Staff said the board may become more member-driven next year as the Hudson Community Development and Planning Agency's budget shrinks. The recording picks up partway through the meeting, so the opening items are not in the record. The video was posted September 24.
Planning a housing bingo night
Members planned a know-your-rights housing bingo event for November.
Key points
- Staff will check whether gift cards can be offered and whether donations are allowed; the board has done grocery gift cards before.
- The week of November 16, the week before Thanksgiving, was floated.
- A member suggested asking the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood to take donations for Hudson Roots at the event, since money given directly does not go through the city.
The captions begin partway through the bingo discussion. Roll call and any earlier items are not in the record.
One place to find housing help
Staff asked for ideas on making housing information easier to find, since people often spend days calling agencies.
Key points
- Ideas ranged from a better city housing web page and an FAQ to an AI chat tool like one the county's health and human services department uses.
- Members raised drawbacks: people in crisis often want a person, not everyone is comfortable with technology, and callers sometimes turn out to live in another Hudson.
- A board member who runs a housing provider said a single shared application would hit roadblocks because each provider has its own list, and that provider's own waiting list is closed.
- Members said a simpler step seemed doable: a shared list of which housing providers have vacancies, updated at least quarterly, for agencies and service providers to use.
- Staff said the city cannot recommend landlords, which is why the full list of subsidized providers is not posted online.
- Staff will try to set up a meeting of housing groups in October.
The board's future and public comment
The board will not meet in October. Staff said the agency that supports it is short on money.
Key points
- Staff said the Hudson Community Development and Planning Agency's budget is dwindling, and the hope is that the committee keeps meeting a couple of times a year.
- In public comment, a resident said the Bliss Towers redevelopment is taking too long, that they had spoken in favor of it at a meeting the night before, and that it would ease the difficulty of finding housing.
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