”Ensuring Homes for All: An Equity Primer on Housing Elements” December 18, 2013
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”Ensuring Homes for All: An Equity Primer on Housing Elements”
December 18, 2013
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Sam Tepperman-‐Gelfant
Laura Thomas
Lilli Lew-‐Hailer
Ensuring Homes for
All: An Equity Primer on Housing Elements
Bay Area Housing Elements: What’s Happening Now
Sam Tepperman-‐Gelfant,
Public Advocates Inc.
• Plan Bay Area Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS)
• Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA) numbers finalized July 18, 2013
• Housing Element Updates by January 31, 2015 • Some Positive aspects of regional framing
– Displacement risk front and center – Zoning near transit and amenities
• 2014-‐2022 RHNA Cycle will be SMALLER and FASTER
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Local Housing Elements: Regional Context
• Sites for Affordable Housing • Local Funding for Affordable Housing – Impact and Linkage Fees – Boomerang Funds
• Policies and Programs – Tenant Protections – Incentive/Overlay zoning – Site consolidation
• See Results: Pleasanton, Alameda, Menlo Park, Concord, Marin County, etc.
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Playing to Win
• Reduced Regional Housing Need Number – 2007-‐2014 = 214,500 – 2014-‐2022 = 187,990
• 70% of RHNA distributed to Priority Development Areas (PDAs) – PDAs are disproportionately in low-‐income communities of color
– Most wealthy suburbs got reduced numbers
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Smaller Numbers
• Streamlined Review by HCD – Certified Housing Element for 2007-‐14 cycle – Rezoning Completed – Density Bonus Ordinance – Zoning for Emergency Shelters, Transitional and Supportive
Housing – Reasonable Accommodation
• Statutory Incentives for Timely Adoption – Revise every 4 years if Housing Element not adopted within 120
days of deadline • The OneBayArea Grant Program
– HCD Certified Housing Element required to access some transportation dollars
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Faster Process
• Menlo Park – No Housing Element for decades – Virtually no affordable housing production – Virtually no appropriately zoned sites
• FACEBOOK – Needed discretionary approval to expand – CEQA review
• Peninsula Interfaith Action, et al v. City of Menlo Park – Settlement Agreement
• May 21, 2013: Housing Element Adopted, Sites Rezoned – Affordable Housing Overlay
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Getting Creative: Menlo Park
Things are moving fast: Do you know where your city council and planning
staff are?
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ACT NOW!
• Sam Tepperman-‐Gelfant Senior Staff Attorney, Public Advocates – stepperman-‐[email protected] – www.publicadvocates.org – Facebook: publicadvocates – Twitter: @publicadvocates
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More Information
Lillian Lew-‐Hailer MidPen Housing Corporation December 18, 2013
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• Site near neighborhood
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• Mixed-‐income works • Quality property and
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MidPen Model
§ Finding Good Sites § Predicting in the Process
§ Zoning and entitlement § NIMBYism
§ High Costs § City fees § Special requirements
§ Lack of Funding
Challenges
§ Create Good Sites § Predictability in the Process
§ Design and parking standards § YIMBYism
§ Lower Costs § Reduced fees for affordable housing § Expedite processes § Don’t pile on!
§ Generate Funding § Inclusionary policies § Housing Impact Fees & Jobs/Housing Linkage Fees § “Boomerang” funds
Housing Element Solutions
§ Participate! § Sign up for emails, fill out surveys, write letters
§ Represent! § Show up at hearings § Be the face of affordable housing
§ Be a YIMBY! § Be the face of affordable housing’s neighbors § Make low and moderate income housing a priority
Advocate Engagement
”Ensuring Homes for All: An Equity Primer on Housing Elements”
December 18, 2013