Affordable housing developers also have the capacity to build things. For most child care operators, real estate development is not something they really need in their skill set; they need to know how to manage their occupancy rates, not to build a project. They need input on that project, and they need someone facilitating the input, but not sole responsibility.
It’s not the only approach, just one approach that’s quite viable. All this stuff has been tried elsewhere, so we’ve learned from other people’s experiments. Retrofitting space for child care is not cost effective. Planning it from the beginning is.
WENDY TRULL: We’re trying to pull together exactly how can we use our capital money to leverage it. We have some pretty serious major challenges in figuring how can we do private-public partnerships to develop facilities and how can we use our capital money. I know you’re able to do a lot in San Francisco, and it sounds like maybe the capital restrictions were a little looser.
The good news is that we’ve been doing a lot of work on the mapping piece to really understand, where are the population shifts? Where are eligible children? Working ver
