Housing Elements Resources & Links
Click to see a list of resources, including a video with a quick primer on Housing Elements (made by Carlsbad, but equally applicable to Marin), MEHC’s Housing Element Primer, and the State RHNA progress report.
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Changes to Housing Element Process Push Marin to Change
TO ADDRESS ITS HOUSING SHORTAGE, California implemented a Housing Element process over 50 years ago. The process requires each local city and county to adopt a Housing Element that must be updated and certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) every 8 years (an 8-year “Housing Cycle”). So far, this program has failed…
Housing Elements & Allocations
UPDATES AND APPEALS In late September and Early October, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) heard appeals from ten Marin jurisdictions disputing their Regional Housing Needs Allocations numbers. None of these appeals were granted. Now that the appeals hearings have concluded, Marin towns and cities are conducting public engagement workshops for their 2023-2031 Housing…
What’s happening in housing? How does it affect us?
Marin Updates:Some important Marin housing issues have emerged in the last several months. These include the start of a new Housing Element update cycle for 2023-2031, MMWD’s proposed ban on new water hookups, the Mill Valley Housing Advisory Committee’s proposal to explore city-owned land for a proactive affordable housing initiative, and the rising visibility of…
A Housing Element Primer
All across California, local planning departments are gearing up for a new set of “RHNA” numbers and revising their “Housing Elements” for 2023-2030. You will be hearing about this from here on out. But, what is a “Housing Element” and what is “RHNA,” and why should you care? MEHC has created a handy-dandy HOUSING ELEMENT PRIMER…
GRADE INFLATION: Is Marin Succeeding or Failing When It Comes to Affordable Housing?
Considering Marin’s resistance to new development, you might be surprised to learn that Marin scored the highest among Bay Area counties in meeting last year’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goals according to a recent report, Missing the Mark. RHNA is a statewide program that calculates how much housing each local jurisdiction needs to build, by…
Did your city fail the Bay Area’s housing supply test? Probably
Apr 14, 2015, 5:44am PDT Cory Weinberg Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Twitter | LinkedIn Now that city officials across the Bay Area have finished crunching the numbers on the last seven years of housing supply progress, some assessment is in order. The region’s cities must calculate how its housing supply is keeping up with projected…