Brandon Goldman

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  Published on: 4/2/2008    Last Visited: 4/2/2008  

  This makes them prime candidates for resale to the mainstream market, said Ashland senior planner Brandon Goldman, a former housing program specialist.
  
  "It's daunting," said Goldman.
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  The funds also will be used to fix up aging units, a cost often beyond the means of owners who are renting them out at reduced rates as low-income housing, said Goldman.
  
  "These apartments are worn down and need rehabilitation," he said.

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  Published on: 3/31/2007    Last Visited: 4/1/2007  

  "I have some measure of confidence they will sell," said Ashland Housing Specialist Brandon Goldman, "because we've had unsolicited offers in that range."
  
  Another adjacent one-acre parcel on Strawberry Lane, will be subdivided in the future, and then those two will be auctioned as well, according to Goldman.
  
  The money raised will be used to provide more affordable and/or workforce housing in Ashland, Goldman and Tuneberg said.
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  $214,000 of the proceeds will be used to repay money borrowed from the general fund to pay back a federal Community Development Block Grant that was used to build the Grove, Goldman said.
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  Initially it was to be used "in a land trade for property on Hitt Road" where there is a back-up reservoir, Goldman said.He added that Ashland was able to develop the back-up reservoir without flipping the Strawberry Lane parcel.
  
  The parcel contained 10 acres on one side of Strawberry Lane, and 2.5 on the other.The 10 acre parcel was deeded to the Ashland Parks and Recreation Department, which plans to use it as open space or a park, according to Goldman.

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  Published on: 2/13/2008    Last Visited: 2/14/2008  

  Housing Program Specialist Brandon Goldman, who oversees the city's affordable housing efforts, will become the senior planner in the Community Development Department.
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  Molnar said Goldman is experienced in land use planning as well as affordable housing planning.
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  Brandon brings a lot of housing background to that.I can't recall any long-range planning effort that didn't have a housing component.This just makes the housing program stronger."
  
  Molnar said Goldman will continue working on his housing duties until the city has hired and trained a replacement housing program specialist.
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  Goldman said he envisions about a six-month transition period after the new housing program specialist is hired.
  
  Applications for the job, which pays $47,100 to $58,824 per year plus benefits, are due on Feb. 29.
  
  Goldman said the new housing program specialist will work for a community that recognizes the value of affordable housing, but he or she will face challenges ahead.Federal Community Development Block Grant funding for housing has been falling, along with state funding.Meanwhile, development and construction costs are rising.
  
  "The housing program specialist will have to examine ways to both decrease development costs where possible and to find alternative funding," he said.
  
  As housing program specialist, Goldman said he worked on several projects that involved long-range planning, including an inventory of the buildable land left in Ashland and an ordinance to control the conversion of for-rent apartments into for-sale condominiums.
  
  He said he is excited to keep working for a community that values conservation and sustainability, and expects those values to be incorporated into most long-range planning in the future.

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  Published on: 3/30/2007    Last Visited: 4/6/2007  

  It will get $150,000 this year, said Ashland Housing Program Specialist Brandon Goldman.
  
  The city could use that money for affordable housing projects and only allow families with kids to live there, he said.
  
  "It's against the Fair Housing Act to restrict housing and say, 'No kids.' Families with children are a protected class," Goldman said.
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  Goldman said once a city employee combines his or her income with that of a spouse, he or she probably would not qualify for the projects the city creates using federal funds.Those federal funds are earmarked for low and moderate-income households.

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  Published on: 3/26/2007    Last Visited: 3/26/2007  

  Brandon Goldman, Ashland's Housing Specialist, said the results have not yet been finalized, but he said it found that 55-percent of Ashlanders live in homes they own, as opposed to 45-percent who rent their home.
  
  Questions ranged from reasons for living in the community, to length of time in the community, to the price of rent.
  
  "We have a very good handle on the for-purchase market through the multiple listing service data that realtors use," Goldman said."Now we'll be able to see how the rental economy has been affected."
  
  Based on past, current and expected trends in the rental market, the two commissions will better project the housing economy's impact onrenters and how land-use laws could help shape the future.
  
  "It will be heavy on the data side," Goldman said.
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  Goldman said Ferrarini "will go over the results of the survey" as well as explain what in "his experience we might expect to see in terms of rental costs."
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  In a separate agenda item that also relates to the affordability of housing in Ashland, Goldman will also explain some proposed changes to the local annexation ordinance.
  
  "The housing commission has been working on some modifications to the annexation ordinance to remedy some problems they see in providing affordable housing," Goldman said.
  
  The current annexation ordinance stipulates that 15 to 35-percent of new housing on annexed land is required to be affordable.But Goldman said developers have little flexibility as to what kinds of affordable or workforce housing they can provide.
  
  "There is a value in having a mix of housing types in a development," Goldman said.

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  Published on: 3/14/2007    Last Visited: 3/14/2007  

  But the draft law was recently sent back to the planning commission because "the legal department has determined there might be some issues with how it is worded," according to Ashland Housing Specialist Brandon Goldman.

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  Published on: 9/12/2006    Last Visited: 9/12/2006  

  "There was a shortage [of apartments] in 2001 and it's being exacerbated every year," Brandon Goldman, Ashland housing specialist said at that meeting.He added that the city identified a shortage in rental property in its 2001 buildable lands survey.

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  Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/20/2004    Last Visited: 8/10/2004  

  Brandon Goldman, housing specialist for the City of Ashland, Debra Harrison, a volunteer board member of the Rogue Valley Community Development Corp., and Ron Hulteen, a former city councilor and planning board member for the city of Hayward, Calif., led the discussion.
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  But, with the diligent work of Goldman and Harrison, that problem appears to be less likely to occur here.
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  Goldman said one of the first orders of business is for the city to conduct a needs assessment survey to find out what the housing needs of city residents are.
  
  "The median income of a family of four in Ashland is $52,000," Goldman said."And the median income of a single person in Ashland is $29,200.If a person or family is paying over 30 percent of its household income toward housing costs, they are not living in affordable housing."
  
  By the figures Goldman gave at the meeting, the maximum price a person or family in that income range should pay for a home is $80,000.
  
  Goldman added that there are very few homes in Ashland in that price range, which means current residents are being overburdened by housing prices.He said the cost of a home in Ashland has increased 170 percent since 1989.He noted that wages play a big part in the housing crisis.
  
  "Right now, 50 percent of the wage earners in Ashland earn over $19.42, the median income for Ashland," he said."Forty-two percent earn between minimum wage and $15.50 per hour."
  
  Goldman said while housing prices have increased 170 percent, wages have only increased 56 percent.
  
  He said the city is attempting to alleviate some of the housing problems by working with non-profit groups like Rogue Valley CDC to create affordable housing units that fit into already established neighborhoods.

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  Published on: 4/29/2004    Last Visited: 4/30/2004  

  "A Rural Housing Economic Development Grant is available through HUD," Miller told Ashland Housing Specialist Brandon Goldman.
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  But Goldman said it is probably quite accurate, as only four multifamily apartments were approved in the city last year.
  
  Strawberry Lane
  
  Commissioners also heard an update on the Strawberry Lane partition plan.
  
  Goldman told commissioners that the city council at its last meeting agreed with residents of the neighborhood that the parcel in question be split only three ways at this time.City staff had recommended a four-way split.The largest lot could be split in two under the present plan, but not until at least one year has passed since the first three-way split.
  
  The partition and sale of the lots would bring the city close to $1 million in revenue.
  
  Of that money, $217,000 will go to The Grove to buy out its Community Development Block Grant, Goldman said.

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  Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/3/2004    Last Visited: 11/4/2004  

  The amendment contains some exemptions, including for lots within historic districts and environmentally sensitive lands, according to Ashland Housing Program Specialist Brandon Goldman.

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