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OCHA Regular Meeting

Orange County · Housing Authority Board
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Regular meeting Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation

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What was decided

  1. Approved Approve Minutes Approved unanimously
  2. Approved 2025 Work Plan Approved unanimously

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Housing Authority advisory board finalised its 2025 work plan on 16 January 2025 and took the programme manager's monthly report.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Members' reports set the year's context. One noted reports of funding reductions and wanted to hear more. Another summarised macroeconomic trends and said new construction faces problems on labour as much as supply chains, that the board should get ready to talk to landlords, and that the Jackson Center is already mobilising for property tax appeals ahead of the revaluation. A third relayed a real estate forecast showing the average homebuyer getting older and wealthier, in their late forties, which keeps people in the rental market longer and squeezes the same inventory the voucher programme depends on.

Staff reported a new housing choice voucher specialist and work on overpayments.

How the votes went

Two unanimous votes: the minutes and the 2025 work plan.

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Agenda items (4)

Staff or committee report · 2Minutes approval · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. Approve Minutes
    Minutes approval
    Approved unanimously
  2. Updates from Members
    Staff or committee report Housing and affordabilityTax rate and revaluation
    Members raised reported funding reductions, labour as well as supply constraints on new construction, the Jackson Center mobilising for property tax appeals, and a forecast showing the average homebuyer in their late forties, which keeps people renting longer.
  3. Program Manager's Report
    Staff or committee report Housing and affordability
    Utilization, voucher issuance, terminations and informal hearings, plus a new housing choice voucher specialist and work on overpayments.
  4. 2025 Work Plan
    Discussion item Housing and affordability
    Approved unanimously

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