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OCII extends Certificate of Preference program five years to 2021
Summary
The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure approved a five-year extension of the Certificate of Preference (COP) program, citing outreach that located new holders and ongoing efforts to match displaced households to below‑market units. The action passed 3–0 with two commissioners absent.
The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure voted to extend the Certificate of Preference (COP) program for five years, moving the program’s new expiration date to 2021.
The commission’s staff and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development presented the extension at the Dec. 15 meeting and said the program, created under redevelopment law, gives priority in the leasing and sale of affordable housing to low‑ and moderate‑income households displaced by redevelopment project areas. Jeff White, OCII housing program manager, told commissioners the program “is set to expire 01/01/2016” and staff recommended a…
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