Attachment A Proposed 2021-2029 Housing Element January 2022.pdf — Long Beach City Council, February 8, 2022

element
City of Long Beach General Plan
Proposed Plan January 2022
6th Cycle Housing Element

HOUSING
Attachment A
Housing
Adopted by the Long Beach City Council on XXXXX, XX, 2021 Processed by Long Beach Development Services
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Housing
element
City of Long Beach General Plan

HOUSING

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mayor and City Council
Honorable Mayor Dr. Robert Garcia, Ed.D.

Rex Richardson, Vice Mayor, 9th District
Mary Zendejas, Councilmember, 1st District
Cindy Allen, Councilmember, 2nd District
Suzie Price, Councilmember, 3rd District
Daryl Supernaw, Councilmember, 4th District
Stacy Mungo, Councilmember, 5th District
Suely Saro, Councilmember, 6th District
Roberto Uranga, Councilmember, 7th District
Al Austin, Councilmember, 8th District
Office of the City Manager
Tom Modica, City Manager
Linda Tatum, Assistant City Manager
Kevin Jackson, Deputy City Manager
Teresa Chandler, Deputy City Manager
City of Long Beach Planning Commission
Mark Christoffels, Chair
Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie, Vice Chair
Erick Verduzco-Vega
Jane Templin
Josh LaFarga
Richard Lewis
Ron Cruz, Retired
City of Long Beach Development Services Staff
Oscar W. Orci, Director
Christopher Koontz, AICP , Deputy Director
Patricia Diefenderfer, AICP , Planning Bureau Manager
Alexis Oropeza, Current Planning Officer
Alison Spindler-Ruiz, AICP , Advance Planning Officer
Alejandro Sanchez-Lopez, Planner
Fiahna Cabana, Planning Analyst (former)
Alvin Teng, Planning Analyst (former)
Andrew Chang, Administrative Analyst (former)
Cynthia de la Torre, Planner
Jennifer Ly, Planner
Elise Roberts, Planning Analyst
Special Thanks
Thank you to everyone who provided input during update process and contributed to the City’s housing strategy for the period of 2021-2029.
table of CONTENTS
Executive Summary ..............................................................................................................................................3 1 Introduction
Housing Element Purpose and Content ................................................................................................................23 Relationship to Other General Plan Elements .....................................................................................................25 Community Context......................................................................................................................................................26 Housing Context ............................................................................................................................................................26 Long Beach’s Guiding Vision for the Community ...............................................................................................27 Organization of the Housing Element ....................................................................................................................27 Data Sources and Methods ........................................................................................................................................28 Summary of Public Participation .............................................................................................................................28

2 Housing Needs Summary
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................33 Population Trends ..........................................................................................................................................................33 Employment Trends ......................................................................................................................................................34 Housing Stock .................................................................................................................................................................35 Household Characteristics ..........................................................................................................................................36 Housing Affordability ...................................................................................................................................................37 Special Groups ................................................................................................................................................................38

3 Projected Housing Need
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................41

4 Housing Resources
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................45 Land Resources ...............................................................................................................................................................45 Financial Resources .......................................................................................................................................................50 Administrative Resources ............................................................................................................................................54 Opportunities for Energy Conservation .................................................................................................................55

5 Housing Constraints
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................47 Governmental Constraints ..........................................................................................................................................47 Market Constraints ........................................................................................................................................................49 Environmental and Infrastructure Constraints ....................................................................................................50 Community Concerns and Opposition to Housing Development ..............................................................50 6 Housing Plan
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................................67 Goals and Policies ..........................................................................................................................................................67 Housing Production ......................................................................................................................................................73 Mitigation of Government Constraints ..................................................................................................................79 Housing Affordability ...................................................................................................................................................84 Housing Opportunities for Special Needs Residents ........................................................................................89 Housing Preservation and Neighborhood Improvements .............................................................................93 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing ....................................................................................................................98 Housing Administration ..............................................................................................................................................106 Quantified Objectives ...................................................................................................................................................104 7 Appendix
Appendix A: Public Participation Report ...............................................................................................................A-1 Appendix B: Housing Needs Assessment ..............................................................................................................B-1 Appendix C: Site Inventory .........................................................................................................................................C-1 Appendix D: Housing Constraints ............................................................................................................................D-1 Appendix E: Review of Past Accomplishments ...................................................................................................E-1 Appendix F: Fair Housing Assessment....................................................................................................................F-1 Appendices to Appendix C:

Appendix C-1: Recent Entitlement & Building Permit Data to Inform PlaceType Density Assumptions ..............................................................................................................................................................................................C-1-1 Appendix C-2: Market Reports Used to Support Findings that Sites Will Develop During the Planning Period ..............................................................................................................................................................C-2-1 Appendix C-3: Additional Data on Inventory Sites under PlaceType Scenario ........................................C-3-1 Appendix C-4: Summary of Interviews with the Local Development Community ................................C-4-1 Tables
Figure HE-1: Los Angeles County 2020 Income Limits ..................................................................................................................41 Figure HE-2: 6th Cycle RHNA ..................................................................................................................................................................42 Figure HE-3: Current Zoning - Dwelling Unit Capacity .................................................................................................................47 Figure HE-4: PlaceTypes - Dwelling Unit Capacity ..........................................................................................................................48 Figure HE-5: Residential Dwelling Unit Potential and RHNA ......................................................................................................49 Figure HE-6: Quantified Objectives .......................................................................................................................................................109 table of Tables
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Executive Summary

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WHAT IS THE HOUSING
ELEMENT?
» Required “element” or chapter of the City’s General Plan. » Assesses the condition of the City’s housing and the
housing needs of its residents.
» Establishes a roadmap for accommodating projected
housing unit demand for existing and future residents
over the next eight years.
» Sets citywide goals, objectives and policies for housing. » Shows how the City will meet demand for housing at all income levels, per State Law.

WHY UPDATE THE HOUSING
ELEMENT?
» Housing is essential to people’s health, quality of life and the economy.
» Housing Elements are a mandatory part of the General
Plan under state law.
» It must be updated every 8 years and submitted to
the State by a specific date they prescribe (6th Cycle
submitted to HCD by fall 2021).
» Detailed roadmap of how the City will meet its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) allocation by
income level.

HOW IS THE HOUSING ELEMENT
USED?
» The Housing Element is the guiding document that
sets the City’s policy and program direction related to housing.
» Used when reviewing development projects (both
housing and non-housing projects)
» Guides all future city ordinances that the City develops as they must be consistent with the General Plan.

THE HOUSING ELEMENT

AIMS TO ACHIEVE SEVERAL

OVERARCHING GOALS,
INCLUDING:
» Accommodating projected housing demand, as
mandated by the State;
» Increasing housing production to meet this demand;
» Improving housing affordability;
» Preserving existing affordable housing;
» Improving the safety, quality and condition of existing housing;
» Facilitating the development of housing for all income levels and household types, including special needs
populations; and
» Improving the livability and economic prosperity of all City residents; and promoting fair housing choice for all.

The City of Long Beach is committed to improving access to safe and high-quality housing for residents across all income levels. Promoting a diversity of housing types,
increasing the feasibility of development of underused
sites throughout the City, and focusing the greatest
amount of new housing near transit and jobs are some
of the strategies needed for the City to meet its housing commitment and continue to affirm that housing is a basic human right for all residents.

The Housing Element lays out the City’s plan for removing barriers to housing production to counter well-documented housing shortages and helps ensure that the City is
planning for its “fair share” of affordable and market rate housing.
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THE HOUSING ELEMENT ORGANIZATION GUIDE
The Housing Element includes six chapters, outlining current and future housing needs of the community, housing resources, constraints to building housing, and a housing plan. The housing plan within the Housing Element Update builds upon and revises the goals, policies and programs of the existing Housing Element to ensure that the City can meet the housing needs of all Long Beach residents through 2029, when the plan is scheduled to be updated again as required by state law.

To dive deeper into these chapters, please see accompany plan page numbers. 1 Introduction – pages 23-30
Introduces the purpose of the Housing Element, context, related documents, and summary of public participation. 2 Housing Needs Summary – pages 33-38
Describes Long Beach’s demographic and housing related to the City’s housing needs, including housing type and affordability.
3 Projected Housing Need – pages 41-42
Shows the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), or the “fair share” of housing units the City must plan for at different affordability levels as required by law.
4 Housing Resources – page 45-56
Summarizes the existing and proposed land, financial, and administrative resources Long Beach has to meet the City’s need through this update.
5 Housing Constraints – page 59-62
Identifies governmental, market, environmental, and other existing obstacles or challenges to maintaining, expanding, and improving housing in Long Beach.
6 Housing Plan – pages 65-104
Lays out the goals and steps needed to meet the housing needs of current and future residents. Each goal has associated policies, programs, and actions detailed in the plan by law.

RHNA Sites Inventory
7 GOALS
72 POLICIES
40 PROGRAMS
103 ACTIONS
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HOUSING COSTS TOO MUCH FOR LONG BEACH RESIDENTS
The Housing Element describes the current housing conditions in Long Beach and provides data and information on the economic and social stresses that many residents face due to the lack of sufficient access to quality, affordable housing.

The Housing Plan, chapter six within the Housing Element, provides actions that the City will take to address the lack of affordable housing and help increase the number of new housing units. These actions include: production of affordable housing units, the preservation of existing affordable housing, as well as addressing the housing needs of vulnerable populations to provide housing assistance resources and to address fair housing issues. 23,851
10,209
17,587
15,521
16,117
> 50 years
10,278
5,486
2,286
708
640
1939 or earlier
year builtRENTER-OCCUPIED UNITS OWNER-OCCUPIED UNITS
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-1013
2014 or later
15,971
12,084
20,345
7,941
5,664
3,001
3,261
2,208
172
102
Housing Units by Year Built
> 30 years
SINCE 1990

POPULATION
+21�7%

HOUSING UNITS
+8�6%
Supply and access to adequate and affordable housing continue to be one of the biggest challenges faced by communities across the State, including Long Beach, where we are currently experiencing record-high housing costs. all
47%50%
57%
61%
51%55%
10 20
30 40
50 60
70 white black latin asian/pacific
islander
mixed/
other
Percentage of Rent-Burdened Renters in Long Beach, 2017 Housing affordability has been exacerbated by long-term low levels of production of new housing units and stagnant wages that have made it harder and harder for many to find housing they can afford. 43% of all households are
cost-burdened in Long
Beach - paying more than
30% of their monthly
income towards rent or a
mortgage.
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WAGES ARE NOT KEEPING UP WITH INCREASING HOUSING COSTS
High housing costs have made it difficult for many Californians to be able to save or invest enough to take advantage of the long-term financial benefits of homeownership or to receive the social, heath, and economic benefits that can come to individuals and families as a result of having access to high-quality, stable, and affordable housing.

In addition, this housing crisis does not impact everyone equally – lower-income households and residents of color are disproportionately affected due to lack of financial ability and institutionalized racial discrimination. less than 0% (rent decrease)
0% to 10% increase
11% to 20% increase
21% or more increase
Rent Increase Percentage 2010-2020
90805
8%
90807
22%
90808
26%
90815
20%
90804
19%
90803
9%
90802
32%
90813
15%
90806
18%
90810
-16%
90814 8%
10th wage
percentile
-1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
20th wage
percentile
-3%
50th wage
percentile
-1%
80th wage
percentile
-3%
90th wage
percentile
-1%
average rent
citywide
+20%
Change in Wage and Average Rent Since 2010 (inflation adjusted) RENT IS GOING UP ��
As housing costs have
increased citywide over
time, wages have not. This
increases the crisis and puts
home stability out of reach
for thousands.

Rent has gone up by 20%
citywide over the past 10 years.

In Long Beach, where 60% of
people rent, this increase means
less money for food, healthcare,
or education.

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27%
24%
long beach
los angeles county
white
2%
7%
15%
3%
5%
9%
5 10
15 20
25 30
black latino api
Overcrowding Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 2017The City of Long Beach is one of many cities in the State that is severely impacted by the
housing crisis, experiencing high rates of
cost-burden, homelessness, overcrowding,
and potential displacement of existing
residents.

WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
There is a housing crisis in Long Beach. High housing costs and a lack of affordable housing affect all residents. The City is working to establish a Housing Plan to address the crisis.

WHAT IS CONSIDERED “AFFORDABLE” HOUSING?
Housing is affordable if it costs no more than 30% of someone’s monthly income. For example, a household making $3,000 a month would have rent no higher than $900 to be affordable.

WILL THIS PLAN BUILD HOUSING?
This update establishes a roadmap and policies to meet the housing needs of Long Beach residents for the next eight years, but actual construction is done by private and nonprofit developers. Most of the housing the City is planning for will be affordable housing.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Learn more, review the plan and find additional resources by visiting the Housing Element website at: https://bit.ly/ LBHEU21. You can also email us at: [email protected] or call us at: (562) 570-6194.

QUESTIONS?
Are you or someone you know struggling with housing issues? Visit our website https://bit.ly/LBHEU21 for a resource guide including referrals for housing assistance, utility assistance, legal counsel for tenants and more.

IMPACTS OF NOT ENOUGH HOUSING
Over 20,000 Long
Beach residents live in
overcrowded conditions.

Overcrowding is a
household with more than
one person per room.
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¿QUÉ ES EL HOUSING ELEMENT?
» “Elemento” o capítulo requerido en el Plan General de la Ciudad.
» Evalúa la condición de la vivienda en la Ciudad y las necesidades de vivienda de sus residentes.
» Establece una hoja de ruta para dar cabida a la demanda proyectada de unidades de vivienda para residentes
actuales y futuros durante los próximos ocho años.
» Fija metas, objetivos y políticas de vivienda para toda la ciudad.
» Muestra cómo satisfará la Ciudad la demanda de
vivienda a todos los niveles de ingresos, acatando la
legislación estatal.
¿POR QUÉ ACTUALIZAR EL
HOUSING ELEMENT?
» La vivienda es esencial para la salud de las personas, la calidad de vida y la economía.
» Los Housing Elements son una parte obligatoria del Plan General.
» Deben ser actualizados cada 8 años y presentados al
Estado antes de la fecha específica que ellos indican (El 6º ciclo entregado a HCD antes del otoño de 2021).
» Hoja de ruta detallada de cómo logrará la ciudad
satisfacer sus asignaciones de la Evaluación regional
de necesidades de vivienda (Regional Housing Needs
Asesment, RHNA), por nivel de ingresos.
¿CÓMO SE USA EL HOUSING
ELEMENT?
» El Housing Element es el documento guía que establece la política y programas directivos de la Ciudad respecto a la vivienda.
» Se utiliza al revisar los proyectos de desarrollo (tanto los proyectos de vivienda como los que no son de vivienda)
» Es una guía para todas futuras ordenanzas que desarrolle la Ciudad puesto que deben ser consistentes con el Plan General.

EL HOUSING ELEMENT

PRETENDE LOGRAR VARIAS
METAS GLOBALES, INCLUYENDO:
» Dar cabida a la demanda de vivienda proyectada, como
lo exige el Estado;
» Aumentar la producción de vivienda para satisfacer esta demanda;
» Mejorar la asequibilidad de vivienda;
» Preservar la vivienda asequible existente;
» Mejorar la seguridad, calidad y condiciones de la
vivienda existente;
» Facilitar el desarrollo de vivienda para todos los niveles de ingresos y tipos de hogares, incluyendo pobladores
con necesidades especiales; y
» Mejorar el estilo de vida y la prosperidad económica
de todos los residentes de la Ciudad; y promover una
elección justa de vivienda para todos.

La Ciudad de Long Beach está comprometida a mejorar el
acceso a viviendas seguras y de alta calidad para residentes de todos los niveles de ingreso. Promover la diversidad de tipos de vivienda, aumentar la viabilidad del desarrollo de sitios infrautilizados en toda la Ciudad, y enfocar la mayor cantidad de nuevas viviendas cerca del trasporte público y de los empleos, son algunas de las estrategias que necesita la Ciudad para cumplir con su compromiso de vivienda y
seguir afirmando que la vivienda es un derecho humano
básico para todos los residentes.

El Housing Element expone el plan de la Ciudad para quitar las barreras a la producción de vivienda para contrarrestar la bien documentada escasez de vivienda, y asegura que
la Ciudad está planeando que haya una “porción justa” de vivienda asequible y a la tasa del mercado.
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HOUSING ELEMENT ESTÁ CONSTITUIDO POR LOS SIGUIENTES
CAPÍTULOS:

El Housing Element incluye seis capítulos, que resumen las necesidades actuales y futuras de vivienda de la comunidad, los recursos de vivienda, las restricciones para construir vivienda, y un plan de vivienda. El plan de vivienda dentro de la actualización del Housing Element amplía y revisa las metas, políticas y programas del Housing Element existente para asegurar que la Ciudad pueda satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de los residentes de Long Beach hasta el 2029, cuando está programado que este plan se actualice de nuevo según lo dispone la legislación estatal.

Para profundizar en estos capítulos, consulte los números de página que se indican. 1 Resumen de las necesidades de vivienda – páginas 23-30 Introduce el propósito del Housing Element, el contexto, los documentos relacionados y el resumen de la participación pública.
2 Housing Needs Summary – páginas 33-38
Describe la demografía y vivienda en Long Beach relacionada con las necesidades de vivienda de la Ciudad, incluyendo tipo de vivienda y asequibilidad.
3 Projected Housing Need – páginas 41-42
Muestra la Asignación regional de necesidades de vivienda (Regional Housing Needs Allocation, RHNA), o la “porción justa” de unidades de vivienda que la Ciudad debe planear para diferentes niveles de asequibilidad, según lo exige la ley.
4 Housing Resources – páginas 45-56
Resume los recursos existentes y propuestos de terrenos, financieros y administrativos que Long Beach tiene para satisfacer las necesidades de la Ciudad mediante esta actualización. 5 Housing Constraints – páginas 59-62
Identifica los obstáculos o desafíos gubernamentales, de mercado, ambientales y de otro tipo para mantener, expandir y mejorar la vivienda en Long Beach.
6 Housing Plan – pages 65-104
Establece las metas y pasos necesarios para satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de los residentes actuales y futuros. Cada meta tiene políticas, programas y acciones asociados, que se detallan en el plan de acuerdo con la ley.

RHNA Sites Inventory
7 GOALS
72 POLICIES
40 PROGRAMS
103 ACTIONS
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LA CRISIS DE LA VIVIENDA EN LONG BEACH
Este Housing Element describe las condiciones actuales de vivienda en Long Beach y proporciona datos e información sobre las tensiones económicas y sociales que muchos residentes enfrentan debido a la falta de un acceso suficiente a la vivienda de calidad y asequible. Este plan provee acciones que la Ciudad tomará para enfrentar la falta de vivienda asequible y ayudar a aumentar el número de unidades nuevas de vivienda, incluyendo unidades asequibles de vivienda dentro de la ciudad.
23,851
10,209
17,587
15,521
16,117
> 50 years
10,278
5,486
2,286
708
640
1939 or earlier
year builtRENTER-OCCUPIED UNITS OWNER-OCCUPIED UNITS
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-1013
2014 or later
15,971
12,084
20,345
7,941
5,664
3,001
3,261
2,208
172
102
Housing Units by Year Built
> 30 years
SINCE 1990

POPULATION
+21�7%

HOUSING UNITS
+8�6%
La provisión y el acceso a vivienda adecuada y asequible sigue siendo uno de los desafíos más grandes que enfrentan las comunidades a lo largo del Estado de California. Las ciudades en todo el estado, incluyendo Long Beach, están actualmente experimentando un costo de ocupación de vivienda que es el más alto que se haya registrado. all
47%50%
57%
61%
51%55%
10 20
30 40
50 60
70 white black latin asian/pacific
islander
mixed/
other
Percentage of Rent-Burdened Renters in Long Beach, 2017 La asequibilidad de vivienda se ha exacerbado por los bajos niveles de producción a largo plazo de nuevas unidades de vivienda y el estancamiento de los salarios que han hecho que para muchos sea más difícil encontrar una vivienda que esté a su alcance.

El 43 % de todos los hogares
en Long Beach sufren una
carga de costos: pagan más
del 30 % de su ingreso
mensual para renta o una
hipoteca.
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LOS SUELDOS NO ESTÁN AUMENTANDO JUNTO CON LOS COSTOS DE

VIVIENDA
Los altos costos de vivienda han hecho que sea difícil para muchos californianos ahorrar o invertir lo suficiente para aprovechar los beneficios financieros a largo plazo de ser propietarios de una vivienda o recibir los beneficios sociales, de salud o económicos que pueden recibir las personas o familias como resultado de tener acceso a vivienda de alta calidad, estable y asequible. Además, esta crisis de vivienda no impacta a todos por igual: los hogares de bajos ingresos y los residentes de color son afectados en forma desproporcionada debido a la falta de capacidad financiera y discriminación racial institucionalizada.
less than 0% (rent decrease)
0% to 10% increase
11% to 20% increase
21% or more increase
Rent Increase Percentage 2010-2020
90805
8%
90807
22%
90808
26%
90815
20%
90804
19%
90803
9%
90802
32%
90813
15%
90806
18%
90810
-16%
90814 8%
10th wage
percentile
-1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
20th wage
percentile
-3%
50th wage
percentile
-1%
80th wage
percentile
-3%
90th wage
percentile
-1%
average rent
citywide
+20%
Change in Wage and Average Rent Since 2010 (inflation adjusted) LA RENTA ESTÁ SUBIENDO ��
Conforme han aumentado
los costos de vivienda en
toda la ciudad con el paso
del tiempo, los salarios no
lo han hecho. Esto aumenta
la crisis y pone la estabilidad
del hogar fuera del alcance
de miles de personas.

Las rentas han subido un 20 %
en toda la ciudad durante los
últimos 10 años. En Long Beach,
en donde el 60 % de las personas
pagan renta, el incremento en
la renta significa que hay menos
dinero para comida, atención
médica o educación.

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27%
24%
long beach
los angeles county
white
2%
7%
15%
3%
5%
9%
5 10
15 20
25 30
black latino api
Overcrowding Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 2017La Ciudad de Long Beach es una de muchas ciudades en el Estado que ha sido
severamente impactada por la crisis de
vivienda, experimentando altas tasas de
carga del costo de vivienda, personas sin
hogar, hacinamiento y desplazamiento
potencial de residentes existentes.
¿POR QUÉ ES ESTO IMPORTANTE?
Hay una crisis de vivienda en Long Beach. Los altos costos de vivienda y la falta de vivienda asequible afectan a todos los residentes. La Ciudad está trabajando para establecer un Plan de vivienda para atender la crisis. ¿QUÉ SE CONSIDERA VIVIENDA “ASEQUIBLE”?
La vivienda es asequible si no cuesta más del 30% de los ingresos mensuales de alguien. Por ejemplo, un hogar que tenga ingresos por $3,000 mensuales tendría una renta no mayor de $900 para que fuera asequible. ¿CONSTRUIRÁ VIVIENDAS ESTE PLAN?
Esta actualización establece una hoja de ruta y políticas para satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de los residentes de Long Beach durante los próximos ocho años, pero la construcción misma es realizada por desarrolladores privados y sin fines de lucro. La mayor parte de la vivienda que la Ciudad está planeando será vivienda asequible. ¿QUÉ PUEDE HACER USTED?
Le invitamos a “Compartir su historia” , comentar sobre el borrador del plan y unirse a nuestra lista de correo. Para todos estos recursos y más, visite el sitio web de Housing Element en: https://bit.ly/LBHEU21. También puede enviarnos un correo electrónico a: [email protected] o llamarnos al: (562) 570-6194. ¿PREGUNTAS?
¿Tiene usted o alguien que conoce problemas de vivienda? Visite nuestro sitio web https://bit.ly/LBHEU21 para obtener una guía de recursos que incluye referencias para asistencia de vivienda, asistencia con servicios públicos, asesoría legal para inquilinos y más.

IMPACTOS DE LA FAL TA DE VIVIENDA
Más de 20,000 residentes
de Long Beach viven
en condiciones de
hacinamiento.
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ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋ។
» បង្កើតផ
ៃ
នទីបង្ហ
ៃ
ញផ្លូវសម
ៃៃ
ប់បំព
ៃ
ញតម
ៃ
ូវការ
លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នដ
ៃ
លបានព
ៃ
យាករណ៍ទុកជាមុន សម
ៃៃ
ប់
ប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋដ
ៃ
លមានស
ៃៃ
ប់ និងនាព
ៃលអនាគត
ក្នុងរយៈព
ៃ
លប
ៃៃ
ំបីឆ្ន
ៃ
ំខាងមុខ។
» កំណត់គោលដៅ, គោលបំណង, និងគោលនយោបាយ
ទូទាំងទីក
ៃ
ុង សម
ៃៃ
ប់លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន។
» បង្ហ
ៃ
ញពីរបៀបដ
ៃ
លទីក
ៃ
ុងនឹងបំព
ៃ
ញតម
ៃ
ូវការ
លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន នៅគ
ៃ
ប់កម
ៃ
ិតប
ៃៃ
ក់ចំណូល, អនុលោម
ទៅតាមច
ៃ
បាប់រដ្ឋ។
ហៃតុអ្វី បានជាធ្វើបច្ចុបៃបន្នភាពធាតុ
លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន?
» លំនៅដ្ឋ ៃ នមាន ស រៈសំខាន់ចំពោះសុខភាព, គុណភាព
ជីវិត, និងស
ៃ
ដ្ឋកិច្ចរបស់ប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋ។
» ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន គឺជាផ្ន
ៃ
កចាំបាច់នៃផ
ៃ
នការទូទៅ។
» ត
ៃ
ូវត
ៃ
ធ្វើបច្ចុប
ៃ
បន្នភាពរៀងរាល់ ៨ ឆ្ន
ៃ
ំម្តង ហើយ
បញ្ជូនទៅរដ្ឋតាមកាលបរិច្ឆ
ៃ
ទជាក់លាក់ដ
ៃ
លពួកគ
ៃ
បញ្ជ
ៃ
(វដ្តទី ៦
ដ
ក់ជូន HCD នៅរដូវស្លឹកឈើជ
ៃ
ុះ ឆ្ន
ៃំ
២០២១)។
» ផ
ៃ
នទីបង្ហ
ៃ
ញផ្លូវលម្អិត អំពីរបៀបដ
ៃ
លទីក
ៃ
ុង
នឹងឆ្លើយតបទៅនឹងការប
ៃ
ងច
ៃ
កការវាយតម្លៃ
តម
ៃ
ូវការលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នក្នុងតំបន់ (RHNA) តាមកម
ៃ
ិត
ប
ៃៃ
ក់ចំណូល។
តើធាតុផៃសំនៃលំនៅដ្ឋៃន បានតៃូវបៃើ
យ៉
ៃ
ងដូចម្ត
ៃ
ច?
» ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋ ៃ ន គឺជាឯក ស រណ ៃ នាំដ ៃ លកំណត់
គោលនយោបាយ និងទិសដៅកម្មវិធីរបស់ទីក
ៃុង
ទាក់ទងនឹងលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន។
» ប
ៃ
ើនៅព
ៃ
លដ
ៃ
លពិនិត
ៃ
យមើលគម
ៃៃ
ងអភិវឌ
ៃ
ឍន៍ (ទាំង
គម
ៃៃ
ងលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន និងគម
ៃៃ
ងមិនម
ៃ
នលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន)
» ណ
ៃ
នាំនូវរាល់បទបញ្ជ
ៃ
ក
ៃ
ុងនាព
ៃ
លអនាគត ដ
ៃ
ល
ទីក
ៃ
ុងអភិវឌ
ៃ
ឍន៍ ព
ៃៃ
ះវាត
ៃ
ូវត
ៃ
ស
ៃ
បតាមផ
ៃ
នការទូទៅ។
ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃន មានគោលបំណង
ដើម
ៃ
បីសម
ៃៃ
ចបាននូវគោលដៅសំ
ខាន់ៗជាច
ៃ
ើន
, រួមមាន៖
» ផ្តល់ជូននូវតម ៃ ូវការលំនៅដ្ឋ ៃ នតាមការព ៃ យាករណ៍
ទុកជាមុន ដ
ៃ
លបានកំណត់ដោយរដ្ឋ។
» បង្កើនផលិតកម្មលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន ដើម
ៃ
បីបំព
ៃ
ញតម
ៃ
ូវការន
ៃ
ះ។
» ក
ៃ
លម្អរនូវលទ្ធភាពទិញឬទទួលបាននូវលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន
» ការអភិរក
ៃ
សលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នដ
ៃ
លមានតំលៃសមរម
ៃ
យ។
» ក
ៃ
លម្អរនូវគុណភាព និងលក្ខខណ្ឌនៃលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នដ
ៃ
ល
មានស
ៃៃ
ប់។
» សម
ៃ
បសម
ៃ
ួលការអភិវឌ
ៃ
ឍន៍ លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នសម
ៃៃ
ប់
គ
ៃ
ប់កម
ៃ
ិតប
ៃៃ
ក់ចំណូល, និងប
ៃ
ភ
ៃ
ទគ
ៃ
ួ
ស
រ រួមទាំង
ប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋ ដ
ៃ
លមានតម
ៃ
ូវការពិស
ៃ
ស; និង
» ក
ៃ
លម្អរនូវការរស់នៅ និងវិបុលភាពស
ៃ
ដ្ឋកិច្ចរបស់
ប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋទីក
ៃ
ុងទាំងអស់; និងលើកកម្ពស់ជម
ៃ
ើស
លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នសមរម
ៃ
យ សម
ៃៃ
ប់ទាំងអស់គ្ន
ៃ
។
ទីក
ៃ
ុងឡុងប៊ិចបានប្ត
ៃជា
្ញ
ៃ
ចិត្ត ធ្វើឱ
ៃ
យប
ៃ
សើរឡើងនូវ
លទ្ធភាពទទួលបានលំនៅដ្ឋានប្រកបដោយសុវត្ថិភាព
និងគុណភាពខ្ពស់សម្រាប់ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋនៅគ្រប់កម្រិត
ប
ៃៃ
ក់ចំណូល។ ការលើកកម្ពស់ភាពសម
ៃ
បូរប
ៃ
បនៃប
ៃ
ភ
ៃ
ទ
លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន, ការបង្កើននូវលទ្ធភាពនៃការអភិវឌ
ៃ
ឍន៍លើ
ត ំបន ់ដ ែលម ិនប ្រ ើប ្រ ាស ់ទ ា ំងឡ ាយន ៅទ ូទ ា ំងទ ីក ្រ ុង, និងការផ្ត
ៃ
តអារម្មណ៍លើចំនួនលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នថ្មី នៅជិតផ្លូវ
ឆ្លងកាត់ និងតម
ៃ
ូវការនៃការ
ង
រជាយុទ្ធ
ស
ស្ត
ៃ
មួយចំនួន
សម
ៃៃ
ប់ទីក
ៃ
ុង ដើម
ៃ
បីបំព
ៃ
ញតាមការប្ត
ៃជា
្ញ
ៃ
ចិត្តផ្ន
ៃ
កលំនៅ
ដ្ឋ
ៃ
នរបស់ខ្លួន និងបន្តរបញ្ជ
ៃ
ក់ថា លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នគឺជាសិទ្ធិ
មូលដ្ឋ
ៃ
នរបស់មនុស
ៃ
សគ
ៃ
ប់រូប។ ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន
ដ
ក់ច
ៃ
ញ
នូវផ
ៃ
នការរបស់ទីក
ៃ
ុង ក្នុងការដកយកច
ៃ
ញនូវក
តា
្ត
ៃ
16 Executive Summary
Housing Element | City of Long Beach
រាំងស្ទះក្នុងការផលិតលំនៅដ្ឋៃន ដើមៃបីបៃឆំងនឹងកង្វះខាតនៃលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានចៃងក្នុងឯកសរតៃឹមតៃូវ និងជួយធានា ថាទីក
ៃ
ុងកំពុងរៀបចំផ
ៃ
នការសម
ៃៃ
ប់ “ចំណ
ៃ
កដ៍សមរម
ៃ
យ” របស់ខ្លួន នៃតម្លៃសមរម
ៃ
យ និងស
ៃ
បទៅតាមតម្លៃទីផ
ៃ
សារ។
ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃនមានជំពូក ដូចខាងកៃៃមៈ
ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃនរួមមាន ៦ ជំពូកដ ៃលបង្ហៃញពីតមៃូវការលំនៅដ្ឋៃននាពៃលបច្ចុបៃបន្ននិងអនាគតរបស់សហគមន៍ធនធាន លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នឧបសគ្គចំពោះការ
ស
ងសង់លំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ននិងផ
ៃ
នការលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន។ ផ
ៃ
នការលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ននៅក្នុងការធ្វើបច្ចុប
ៃ
បន្នភាព
ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃ
នបង្កើតនិងកៃ
សមៃួលគោ
លដៅគោលនយោបាយនិងកម្មវិធីនៃធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋ ៃ
នដៃ
លមានសៃ
ៃ
ប់ដើមៃ
បីធានា
ថាទីក
ៃ
ុងអាចបំព
ៃ
ញតម
ៃ
ូវការលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នរបស់អ្នករស់នៅទីក
ៃ
ុងឡុងប៊ិចទាំងអស់រហូតដល់ឆ្ន
ៃ
ំ ២០២៩ នៅព
ៃ
លផ
ៃ
នការ
ត
ៃ
ូវបានធ្វើបច្ចុប
ៃ
បន្នភាពម្តងទៀត តាមតម
ៃ
ូវការរបស់ច
ៃ
បាប់រដ្ឋ
ដើម
ៃ
បីដឹងកាន់ត
ៃ
ច
ៃ
បាស់នូវក្នុងជំពូកទាំងន
ៃ
ះ, សូមមើលល
ៃ
ខទំព័រផ
ៃ
នការអមជាមួយ។
1 សៃចក្តីផ្តើម
2 សៃចក្តីសង្ខៃបអំពីតមៃូវការលំនៅដ្ឋៃន
ពិពណ៌នាអំពីបៃជាសសៃ្ត និងលំនៅដ្ឋ ៃនរបស់ទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច ទាក់ទង នឹងតម
ៃ
ូវការលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នរបស់ទីក
ៃ
ុ ងរួមទាំងប
ៃ
ភ
ៃ
ទលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន និងតម្លៃ
សមរម
ៃ
យ
3 តមៃូវការលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលបានពៃយាករណ៍
ទុកជាមុន

បង្ហៃញពីការបៃងចៃកតមៃូវការលំនៅដ្ឋៃនក្នុងតំបន់ (RHNA) ឬ“, ចំណ
ៃ
កដ
ៃ
លសមរម
ៃ
យ” នៃលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នដ
ៃ
លទីក
ៃ
ុងត
ៃ
ូវរៀបចំផ
ៃ
នការ ក្នុង
កម
ៃ
ិតសមរម
ៃ
យផ
ៃ
ស
ៃ
ងៗគ្ន
ៃ
តាមតម
ៃ
ូវការរបស់ច
ៃ
បាប់
4 ធនធានលំនៅដ្ឋៃន
សង្ខៃបអំពីដីដៃលមានសៃៃប់ និងដៃលបានស្នើរ, ហិរញ្ញវត្ថុ, និងធនធាន រដ្ឋបាល
ដ
ៃ
លទីក
ៃ
ុងឡុងប៊ិចបានបំព
ៃ
ញទៅតាមតម
ៃ
ូវការរបស់ទីក
ៃ
ុង
តាមរយៈការធ្វើបច្ចុប
ៃ
បន្នភាពន
ៃ
ះ
5 ឧបសគ្គនៃលំនៅដ្ឋៃន
កំណត់អំពីរដ្ឋៃភិបាល, ទីផ ៃសារ, បរិស្ថ ៃន និងឧបសគ្គ ឬបញ្ហ ៃបៃឈម ដ
ៃ
លមានស
ៃៃ
ប់ផ
ៃ
ស
ៃ
ងទៀត ដើម
ៃ
បីរក
ៃ
សាពង
ៃ
ីក និងក
ៃ
លម្អលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
ននៅ
ទីក
ៃ
ុងឡុងប៊ិច
6 គមៃៃងលំនៅដ្ឋៃន
កំណត់គោលដៅ និងជំហ៊ ៃនដៃលត ៃ ូវការ ដើម ៃ បីបំព ៃ ញតម ៃ ូវការលំនៅ ដ្ឋ
ៃ
នរបស់ប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋបច្ចុប
ៃ
បន្ន និងនាព
ៃ
លអនាគត។ គោលដៅនីមួយ
ៗ

មានការផ
ៃ
សា
ភា
្ជ
ៃ
ប់ទៅនឹងគោលនយោបាយ, កម្មវិធី, និងសកម្មភាព
ដ
ៃ
លបានរៀបរាប់លម្អិតនៅក្នុងផ
ៃ
នការតម
ៃ
ូវដោយច
ៃ
បាប់។
RHNA
ស
រពើភ័ណ្ឌគ
ៃ
ហទំព័រ
7 គោលដៅ
74 គោលនយោបាយ
38 កម្មវិធី
86 សកម្មភាព
Executive Summary | Housing for All
17 Executive Summary
January, 2022
វិប វិ ត្តិលំនៅ ដ្ឋៃនក្នុង ក្នុ ទីកៃុ ង កៃុ ឡុងប៊ិច
ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃននៃះ ពិពណ៌នាអំពីស្ថៃនភាពលំនៅដ្ឋៃននាពៃលបច្ចុបៃបន្ន នៅទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច និងផ្តល់នូវទិន្នន័យ និងព័ត៌មាន អំពីភាពតានតឹងផ្នៃកសៃដ្ឋកិច្ច និងសង្គម ដៃលបៃជាពលរដ្ឋជាចៃើនជួបបៃទះ ដោយសរតៃកង្វះលទ្ធភាពទទួលបាន លំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានគុណភាព និងដៃលមានតម្លៃសមរមៃយ។ ផៃនការនៃះផ្តល់នូវសកម្មភាពដៃលទីកៃុងនឹងចាត់វិធានការ ដើមៃបីដោះសៃៃយកង្វះខាតលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ និងជួយបង្កើនចំនួនលំនៅដ្ឋៃនថ្មី រួមទាំងអគរលំនៅដ្ឋៃន ដៃលមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ ធាតុលំនៅដ្ឋៃននៃះ ពិពណ៌នាអំពីស្ថៃនភាពលំនៅដ្ឋៃននាពៃលបច្ចុបៃបន្ន នៅទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច និង ផ្តល់នូវទិន្នន័យ និងព័ត៌មានអំពីភាពតានតឹងផ្នៃកសៃដ្ឋកិច្ច និងសង្គម ដៃលបៃជាពលរដ្ឋជាចៃើនជួបបៃទះ ដោយសរតៃ កង្វះលទ្ធភាពទទួលបានលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានគុណភាព និងដៃលមានតម្លៃសមរមៃយ។ ផៃនការនៃះផ្តល់នូវសកម្មភាពដៃល ទីកៃុងនឹងចាត់វិធានការដើមៃបីដោះសៃៃយកង្វះខាតលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ និងជួយបង្កើនចំនួនលំនៅដ្ឋៃនថ្មី 23,851
10,209
17,587
15,521
16,117
> 50 years
10,278
5,486
2,286
708
640
1939 or earlier
year builtRENTER-OCCUPIED UNITS OWNER-OCCUPIED UNITS
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-1013
2014 or later
15,971
12,084
20,345
7,941
5,664
3,001
3,261
2,208
172
102
Housing Units by Year Built
> 30 years
SINCE 1990

POPULATION
+21�7%

HOUSING UNITS
+8�6%
រួមទាំងអគរលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ នៅក្នុងទីកៃុង។ ការផ្គត់ផ្គង់ និងការទទួលបានលំនៅដ្ឋៃនគៃប់គៃៃន់ និង មានតំលៃសមរមៃយ បន្តរជាបញ្ហៃបៃឈមធំបំផុតមួយ ដៃលសហគមន៍នៅទូទាំងរដ្ឋកាលីហ្វ័រញ៉ៃបានបៃឈមមុខ។ បច្ចុបៃបន្ន នៃះ ទីកៃុងនានានៅទូទាំងរដ្ឋ រួមទាំងទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិចផងដៃរ កំពុងជួបបៃទះក្នុងការចំណាយទៅលើការស្នៃក់នៅដៃលមាន all
47%50%
57%
61%
51%55%
10 20
30 40
50 60
70 white black latin asian/pacific
islander
mixed/
other
Percentage of Rent-Burdened Renters in Long Beach, 2017 តំលៃខ្ពស់។ លទ្ធភាពទទួលបាននូវលំនៅដ្ឋៃនកាន់តៃធ្ងន់ធ្ងរទៅៗ ដោយការសងសង់ផលិតនូវអគរលំនៅដ្ឋៃនថ្មី ដៃល មានកមៃិតទាបរយៈពៃលវៃង និងបៃៃក់ឈ្នួល ឬបៃៃក់ខៃដៃលនៅទៃឹងស្ងៀម ដៃលធ្វើឱៃយមនុសៃសជាចៃើនមានការពិបាកក្នុង ការស្វៃងរកលំនៅដ្ឋៃន ដៃលពួកគៃអាចមានលទ្ធភាពទិញ។

18 Executive Summary
Housing Element | City of Long Beach
បៃៃ ក់ឈ្នួលឈ្នួ មិនបានតម្លើ ងទៅ តាមថ្លៃ ឈ្នួលឈ្នួ ផ្ទះ ដៃ លបាន តម្លើ ងនោះ ឡើ យ
តម្លៃលំនៅដ្ឋៃនខ្ពស់ បានធ្វើឱៃយបៃជាជនកាលីហ្វ័រញ៉ៃជាចៃើន មានការពិបាកក្នុងការសនៃសំ ឬវិនិយោគគៃប់គៃៃន់ដើមៃបីទាញ យកផលប
ៃ
យោជន៍ហិរញ្ញវត្ថុរយៈព
ៃ
លវ
ៃ
ង នៃភាពជា
មា
្ច
ៃ
ស់ផ្ទះ ឬដើម
ៃ
បីទទួលបានផលប
ៃ
យោជន៍សង្គម, សុខុមាលភាព,
និងស
ៃ
ដ្ឋកិច្ច ដ
ៃ
លអាចផ្តល់ដល់បុគ្គល
មា
្ន
ៃ
ក់ៗ និងគ
ៃ
ួ
ស
រ ដោយ
ស
រលទ្ធផលនៃការទទួលបាននៃលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នដ
ៃ
ល
មានគុណភាពខ្ពស់, ស្ថិរភាព, និងដ
ៃ
លមានតម្លៃសមរម
ៃ
យ។ លើសពីន
ៃ
ះ, វិបត្តិលំនៅដ្ឋ
ៃ
នន
ៃ
ះ មិនប៉ះពាល់ដល់មនុស
ៃ
ស
គ
ៃ
ប់រូបនូវភាពស្មើៗគ្ន
ៃ
នោះទ
ៃ
– គ
ៃ
ួ
ស
រដ
ៃ
លមានប
ៃៃ
ក់ចំណូលទាប និងប
ៃ
ជាពលរដ្ឋដ
ៃ
លចម
ៃ
ុះជាតិ
ស
សន៍ ឬពណ៌
សម
ៃ
បុរខុសគ្ន
ៃ
បានទទួលរងនូវផលប៉ះពាល់មិនសមាមាត
ៃ
គ្ន
ៃ
នោះឡើយ ដោយ
ស
រការខ្វះសមត្ថភាពហិរញ្ញវត្ថុ និង
ការរើសអើងជាតិ
ស
សន៍ជាលក្ខណៈស្ថ
ៃ
ប័ន។
less than 0% (rent decrease)
0% to 10% increase
11% to 20% increase
21% or more increase
Rent Increase Percentage 2010-2020
90805
8%
90807
22%
90808
26%
90815
20%
90804
19%
90803
9%
90802
32%
90813
15%
90806
18%
90810
-16%
90814 8%
10th wage
percentile
-1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
20th wage
percentile
-3%
50th wage
percentile
-1%
80th wage
percentile
-3%
90th wage
percentile
-1%
average rent
citywide
+20%
Change in Wage and Average Rent Since 2010 (inflation adjusted) ឈ្នួលឈ្នួ ផ្ទះ កំពុងឡើ ងឡើ ទៅ ៗ...
ដោ យ សរតម្លៃ លំនៅ ដ្ឋ ៃនបានកើ
នឡើ
ងឡើ - នៅ ទូទាំងទាំ ទីក
ៃ
ុ ងក
ៃ
ុ
គ
ៃ
ប់ព
ៃ
លនោះ , ប
ៃៃ
ក់
ឈ្នួលឈ្នួ មិនបានកើ នឡើ ងឡើ
នោះ ទ
ៃ
។ ន
ៃ
ះ បង្កើ នង្កើ នូវវិបវិ ត្តិ
និងប
ណា
្ត
ៃ
លអោ យស្ថិរស្ថិភាព
លំនៅ ដ្ឋ
ៃ
ន មិនអាចបំព
ៃ
ញនូវតម
ៃ
ូ
វម
ៃ
ូការនៃ មនុស
ៃ
ស រាប់ពាន់នាក់។
ឈ្នួលផ្ទះ បានកើ នឡើ ង ២០% នៅ
ទូទាំងទាំ ទីក
ៃ
ុ ងក
ៃ
ុ ក្នុងរយៈ ព
ៃ
ល ១០
ឆ្ន
ៃ
ំចុឆ្ន
ៃ
ំ ចុងក
ៃៃ
យ ន
ៃ
ះ ។
នៅ ទីក
ៃ
ុ ងក
ៃ
ុ ឡងប៊ិច ជាកន្ល
ៃ
ងដ
ៃ
លម
នុស
ៃ
ស ជួលចំនួន ៦០ %, ការកើ នឡើ
ងនៃ ថ្លៃ ជួលផ្ទះ មានន័យថា មានប
ៃៃ

ក់តិចសម
ៃៃ
ប់អា
ហ
រ, ការថ ៃ
ទាំសុទាំ
សុខភាព ឬការអប់រំ។
Executive Summary | Housing for All
19 Executive Summary
January, 2022
27%
24%
long beach
los angeles county
white
2%
7%
15%
3%
5%
9%
5 10
15 20
25 30
black latino api
Overcrowding Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 2017
ទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច គឺជាទីកៃុងមួយក្នុងចំណោម
ទីកៃុងជាចៃើននៅក្នុងរដ្ឋ ដៃលរងផល
ប៉ះពាល់យ៉ាងធ្ងន់ធ្ងរពីវិបត្តិលំនៅដ្ឋាន,
ជួបបៃទះនូវតម្លៃខ្ពស់, ភាពគ្មៃនផ្ទះសមៃបៃង,
ការចៃើនកកកុញ, និងសកា្តៃនុពលនៃការបំ
លាស់ប្តូរទីលំនៅរបស់បៃជាពលរដ្ឋ។
ហៃតុអ្វីបានជារឿងនៃះសំខាន់?
មានវិបត្តិលំនៅដ្ឋៃន នៅទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច។ តម្លៃលំនៅដ្ឋៃនខ្ពស់ និងកង្វះខាតលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃលមានភាពសមរមៃយ មានការ ប៉ះពាល់ដល់បៃជាពលរដ្ឋទាំងអស់។ ទីកៃុងកំពុងធ្វើការដើមៃបីបង្កើតនូវផៃនការលំនៅដ្ឋៃន ដើមៃបីដោះសៃៃយវិបត្តិនៃះ។ “តើអ្វីដៃលចាត់ទុកថាជា លំនៅដ្ឋៃន “”មានតំលៃសមរមៃយ””?”
លំនៅដ្ឋៃនមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ បៃសិនបើវាចំណាយមិនលើសពី ៣០% នៃបៃៃក់ចំណូលបៃចាំខៃ របស់នរណាមា្នៃក់។ ជាឧទាហរណ៍, គៃួសរដៃលរកបានចំណូល ៣,០០០ ដុលា្លៃរក្នុងមួយខៃ នឹងតៃូវបង់ថ្លៃលើការជួល មិនលើសពី ៩០០ ដុលា្លៃរ ដើមៃបី ឱៃយមានលទ្ធភាពអាចជួលបានឬថាមានតំលៃសមរមៃយ។ តើគមៃៃងនៃះ នឹងសងសង់លំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃរឬទៃ?
ការធ្វើបច្ចុបៃបន្នភាពនៃះ បង្កើតនូវផៃនទីបង្ហៃញផ្លូវ និងគោលនយោបាយនានា ដើមៃបីបំពៃញនូវតមៃូវការលំនៅដ្ឋៃនរបស់ បៃជាពលរដ្ឋទីកៃុងឡុងប៊ិច ក្នុងរយៈពៃលបៃៃំបីឆ្នៃំខាងមុខ, ប៉ុន្តៃការសងសង់ពិតបៃៃកដ គឺនិងធ្វើឡើង ដោ យអ្នក អភិវឌៃឍន៍ឯកជន និងមិនរកបៃៃក់ចំណៃញ។ លំនៅដ្ឋៃនភាគចៃើនដៃលទីកៃុងកំពុងរៀបចំផៃនការ នឹងជាលំនៅដ្ឋៃនដៃល មានតំលៃសមរមៃយ។
តើអ្នកអាចធ្វើអ្វីបាន?
យើងសូមអញ្ជើញអ្នក ឱៃយ "ចៃករំលៃករឿងរា៉ៃវរបស់អ្នក", ផ្តល់យោបល់លើការពងៃៀងផៃនការ និងចូលរួមក្នុងបញ្ជីសំបុតៃ របស់ពួកយើង។ សមៃៃប់ធនធានទាំងអស់នៃះ និងអ្វីៗជាចៃើនទៀតទៀត, សូមចូលទៅកាន់គៃហទំព័រធាតុ លំនៅដ្ឋៃន ដៃលមាននៅ៖ https://bit.ly/LBHEU21។ ផងដៃរ អ្នកក៏អាចផ្ញើអ៊ីម៉ៃលមកយើងខ្ញុំតាមរយៈ៖ HousingElementUpdate@ longbeach.gov ឬទូរស័ព្ទមកយើងតាមលៃខ៖ (៥៦២) ៥៧០-៦១៩៤
ផលប៉ះ ពាល់នៃ លំនៅ ដ្ឋៃនដៃ លមិនគៃ ប់គៃៃ ន
ការផ្គត់ផ្គង់លំនៅ ដ្ឋៃនមាន
កមៃឹ ត និងការចំណាយ
កើ នឡើ ងឡើ បណា្តៃល
អោ យមានមនុសៃស ចៃើ ន
កកកុញ, ដៃ លប៉ះ ពាល់
ដោ យមិនមានសមាមាតៃ
គ្នៃចំពោះ សហគមន៍ដៃ
លមានពណ៌ សមៃបុ រ
ចមៃុះ ។ បៃ ជាពលរដ្ឋកៃុ ង
កៃុ ឡុងប៊ិចជាង ២ មុឺននាក់
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1Introduction
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“Housing is important to have a safe place
from which to live, plan, play, dream, and be
protected. ”
Long Beach Resident

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Housing Element Purpose and Content�� 23
Relationship to Other General Plan Elements ��25
Community Context �� 26 Housing Context �� 26 Long Beach’s Guiding Vision for the Community �27
Organization of the Housing Element �� 27 Data Sources and Methods �� 28 Summary of Public Participation �� 28 Community Events �� 29 Focus Group Meetings �� 29 Introduction | Housing for All
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INTRODUCTION
Housing Element Purpose and Content
The State of California has stated that the availability of decent and suitable housing for every California family is “a priority of the highest order” . This objective has become increasingly urgent in recent years as communities across the state, including Long Beach, struggle to meet the
housing needs of all of their residents. The State Housing Element Law, established in 1969, recognizes the vital role local governments play in the supply and affordability of housing and requires all cities and counties in California establish a long-range plan to meet their fair share of regional housing needs. Cities are charged with planning for the welfare of their citizens, including ensuring that the existing and projected demands for housing are adequately met. The Housing Element is the primary tool used by
the State to ensure local governments are appropriately planning for and accommodating enough housing across
all income levels. This Housing Element covers the planning period 2021-2029. The Housing Element is a mandatory
part of a jurisdiction’s General Plan but differs from other General Plan elements in two key aspects. The housing
element must be updated every eight years for jurisdictions Community members planting trees to beautify Long Beach neighborhoods within a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) on a
4-year regional transportation plan (RTP) cycle, such as the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG).

The housing element must also be reviewed and approved
(i.e., certified) by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to ensure compliance
with statutory requirements.

Though the Housing Element is predominantly a housing
planning document, the City of Long Beach recognizes the importance of an aligned, coordinated strategy with other local initiatives to achieve a broader range of City priorities.

As such, this document aims to promote housing policies that also further other goals, such as building inclusive and equitable communities, addressing systemic racism,
and reversing climate change. Effective housing policy is not concerned solely with providing enough housing but
ensuring that it meets diverse needs by considering where and for whom housing is built. Community development
has had an ongoing history of racially discriminatory
policies and outcomes and this Housing Element update
is one of many tools the City is using to move towards the creation of an equitable community for its residents.
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At the time of publication, COVID-19 has impacted Long
Beach in significant ways. This has made the issue of
housing security even more acute as residents face job loss, housing cost pressures and disparate health impacts form the pandemic. On a practical level, the housing element has had to respond to these conditions by transitioning the public outreach process to reflect the limitations brought on by COVID-19. These actions are detailed in this report.

From a policy perspective, the impact on housing security has shown how many of Long Beach’s residents have
tenuous access to housing and the need to secure more
housing alternatives for all members of Long Beach’s most vulnerable populations.

Cabrillo Gateway revitalized a former military base to provide new housing for homeless veterans and families. “The most important issue is the
fairness of housing. ”
Century Villages at Cabrillo
Youth Resident
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Relationship to Other General Plan
Elements
The Housing Element is one of nine mandatory elements
of the City’s General Plan, a long-range vision document that provides guidance for future development in Long
Beach. City Council most recently adopted the Land Use
Element (LUE) update and Urban Design Element (UDE) in
2019. For the General Plan to provide effective guidance on land use issues, the goals, policies, and programs of each element must be internally consistent with other elements.

This Housing Element builds upon the existing General
Plan and is consistent with its goals and policies. In the event an element of the General Plan is amended, the City will consider the impacts of the amendment on the other elements to maintain consistency across all documents.

Senate Bill (SB) 1000 was approved by Governor Jerry
Brown on September 24, 2016. SB 1000 amended
Government Code Section 65302 to require that both
cities and counties that have disadvantaged communities to incorporate environmental justice policies into
their general plans, either in a separate environmental justice element or by integrating related goals,
policies, and objectives throughout the other elements
upon the adoption or next revision of two or more
elements concurrently. The City of Long Beach includes
Environmental Justice communities, and rather than
develop a separate Environmental Justice Element, Long
Beach is incorporating environmental justice goals, policies and programs into every other element of the General Plan, including the Housing Element. Environmental justice
refers to the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, religion, origin, income or sexual orientation with respect to the development,
implementation and enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies. The purpose of SB 1000 is to identify disadvantaged communities and to put forward
strategies to reduce unique or compounded health risks
to these communities, identify objectives and policies to promote civil engagement in the public decision‐making
process, and identify objectives and policies that prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of
disadvantaged communities. Therefore, to comply with
Government Code Section 65302(h), environmental justice policies should be incorporated in the Housing Element
Update.

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Community Context
Long Beach is a coastal city in the South Bay region of Southern California. It is the seventh largest city in the State of California, serving a population of 466,776 as of 2019.

The City has a number of local and regional assets that make Long Beach an attractive place to live. The City also has distinctive and culturally diverse neighborhoods many with access to amenities including the beach and parks
along with close proximity to jobs and transportation.

Long Beach’s economy is anchored by the second-busiest
container port in the country, a premier public university, and an active downtown district. The City’s economy
was originally reliant on defense spending for local
manufacturing and aerospace industries, which made up
a large portion of the City’s economic growth during and after World War II, as well as on growing international trade through the port. As defense contracts wound down, Long Beach has continued to evolve its aerospace economy,
working to position itself as a hub for the high tech and space industries. Many employers continue to be attracted to Long Beach due to its close proximity to engineering talent from Cal State University-Long Beach (CSU-LB). While the City grows its specialized workforce, it maintains its commitment to growing and diversifying its employment
base by promoting sectors such as education, health
services, entertainment, and retail, as well as maritime industries and tourism along the waterfront.

Long Beach is considered to be one of the most ethnically diverse major cities in the country. Almost three quarters of the City are residents of color, with much of this growth coming from the City’s Hispanic population. The City does not have a single ethnic majority and one in four residents are foreign born. At the same time, Long Beach remains
deeply segregated as a result of longstanding and ongoing political, social, and other factors. The diversity in cultures, languages, and needs combined with longstanding
patterns of spatial segregation underscore the greater
need for the City to ensure equal and equitable access to opportunity and stability for all residents. This commitment is especially important as the population is expected to grow by 15% through 2035, much more than in the past
two decades.
“Housing the most vulnerable is clearly
the priority. ”
Long Beach Resident – Housing Advocates
Focus Group Meeting
Housing Context
A large share of Long Beach residents are experiencing
difficulty paying for housing. Currently, over 4 in 10 residents are housing cost-burdened, which means they pay more
than 30% of their income in rent or mortgage payments
and may have difficulty affording other basic necessities such as food, medical care, or transportation. This strain is even more evident for lower-income households, in which the majority are cost-burdened. The high cost of living, exacerbated by low incomes, results in the inability to meet basic needs or having to live in substandard, overcrowded housing. Households of color are also disproportionately impacted by these effects.

The City of Long Beach is committed to improving access to safe and high-quality housing for residents across all income levels. Promoting a diversity in housing types,
increasing utilization of all usable space, and ensuring that development can occur across all regions of the City are just some of the ways the City plans to meet its housing commitment and continue to affirm that housing is a
human right for all residents.

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Long Beach’s Guiding Vision for the
Community
The updated Land Use Element establishes a vision for “city that thrives” , in which environmental considerations are integral to all planning and development decisions. The LUE envisions a city with:
» Shared Economic Prosperity.
» Enhanced Mobility Choices.
» Healthy and Active Neighborhoods.
» Housing Opportunities, Housing Quality.
» Education and Life-long Learning.
» Responsive Recreational Facilities and Open Space.
» A City at the Water’s Edge.
» Safe and Secure Living Environments.
» Environmental Health.

In order to achieve that vision, the LUE seeks to:
» Target Growth and Mobility.
» Capitalize on Our Regional Strategic Location and
Strengths.
» Build Up Local Businesses and Educational Institutions. » Become a Smarter City.
» Provide Clean, Renewable Energy.
» Prioritize Green and Healthy Living Approaches.
» Address and Adapt to Climate Change.
» Celebrate and Support Our Diversity.

The Housing Element is one of the ways in which the City will support its growth, providing building blocks for the City to make progress towards its development goals and long-term vision.

To maximize local efforts, this housing element aims to be consistent not only with other elements of the General Plan, but also with other City initiatives that include housing policy recommendations and solutions, such as
the Mayor’s Taskforce on Workforce & Affordable Housing, the Everyone Home and Everyone In Initiatives, the
Climate Action & Adaptation Plan, and the Framework for Reconciliation for addressing systemic racism.

Organization of the Housing Element
Per California Government Code Sections 65580-65589, a
housing element must consist of the following components:
» Review of the Previous Housing Element: This section
reviews the results of the goals, policies, and programs adopted in the previous Housing Element and compares
projected outcomes with actual achieved results.
» Housing Needs Assessment: This section reviews the
existing and projected housing needs of the community.

It provides a profile of socio-demographic information, such as population characteristics, household
information, housing stock, tenure, and housing
affordability. The assessment also considers local special housing needs, such as, seniors, farmworkers, homeless, large households, and female-headed households.
» Resources and Inventory of Adequate Sites: This
section provides resources an inventory of adequate
sites that are suitably zoned and available within the
planning period to meet the jurisdiction’s fair share of regional housing needs across all income levels.
» Governmental and Nongovernmental Constraints:

This section identifies and analyzes impediments to
housing production across all income levels.
» Housing Plan: This section provides a statement of
the community’s goals, quantified objectives, and
policies to maintain, preserve, improve, and develop
housing, as well as a schedule of implementable
actions to be taken during the planning period to
achieve the aforementioned goals, objectives, and
policies. Quantified objectives for new construction,
rehabilitation, and conserved units by income category
(i.e. very low, low-moderate, and above-moderate) are
included to make sure that both the existing and the
projected housing needs are met, consistent with the
City’s share of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation
(RHNA).
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Sections II through V of this Housing Element provide a summary of the above technical analyses, and Section
VI contains the implementation plan that undergirds the City’s housing strategy. The document was supported
by comprehensive research and analysis, which are
compiled in appendices at the end of the document.

These appendices contain the full set of information used to inform the City’s goals, policies, and programs. The appendices are as follows:
– Appendix A: Public Participation Report
– Appendix B: Housing Needs Assessment
– Appendix C: Site Inventory
– Appendix D: Housing Constraints
– Appendix E: Review of Past Accomplishments
– Appendix F: Fair Housing Assessment
Data Sources and Methods
This Housing Element was updated per HCD guidelines
for the 6th Cycle, incorporating additional considerations required under new State housing-related legislation.

Specific documents are referenced throughout the
Housing Element, including but not limited to the Long
Beach 2040 General Plan, Long Beach Uptown Plan, Long
Beach Downtown Community Plan, Midtown Specific Plan,
and Racial Equity and Reconciliation Report. The analyses and findings in this document relied on data compiled
from various sources, including:
» US Census Bureau (American Community Survey)
» California Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD)
» California Department of Finance (DOF)
» US Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD)
» Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
» SCAG pre-certified data
This document was also informed by information provided by residents, business groups, local institutions, City staff, and elected officials.

Summary of Public Participation
Public participation is crucial in shaping the City of Long Beach’s housing strategy. Understanding the needs of
the community enables the development of housing
strategies that are most appropriate and effective. Public outreach also allows the City to identify concerns unique to certain stakeholders that may not have been initially apparent. To ensure a comprehensive and responsive
housing plan, the City reviewed each public comment
submitted during the outreach process to determine if
and how to best incorporate it into the City’s housing
strategy during the eight-year planning period. The
recommendations set forth in the Housing Element have
been informed by feedback heard throughout the public
outreach and engagement process. Feedback received
was utilized to develop and refine City goals, policies, and programs to address identified housing needs. Community priorities incorporated into the plan include the need for more housing, particularly affordable housing; the need for housing assistance particularly for those with the least resources; a multitude of strategies for addressing fair housing issues; more desired pathways to community
ownership and empowerment; tailored specific housing
solutions for special needs groups; and anti-displacement measures and tenant protections. See Appendix A: Public Participation Report, Section A.1 Introduction, for a
summary of the outreach process and how it guided the
development of goals, policies and programs contained
in the 6th Cycle Housing Element. When the comment
resulted in a change to the Housing Element, goal or
program references are provided.

As part of the development of this Housing Element,
the City’s public participation program included the
following events and meetings (for a more detailed
report, please see Appendix A). Additionally, there have been several recent planning processes and community
conversations related to housing and homelessness in
the City of Long Beach over the past few years. Feedback and policy recommendations, including for the Everyone
Home, Everyone In, the Mayor’s Affordable and Workforce Housing Taskforce, the Framework for Reconciliation and the Blueprint for Economic Development, have been
incorporated and considered as feedback for the Housing Element Update process.

This section will be updated. Public Participation is ongoing as of the publication of this draft and to inform the Housing Element.

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Community Events
The City conducted six community-wide events to solicit input on housing needs:
» English Digital Workshop: Saturday, August 8, 2020,
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
» Community Forum #1: Wednesday, August 12, 2020,
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
» Spanish Digital Workshop: Saturday, August 15, 2020,
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
» Community Forum #2: Wednesday, August 19, 2020,
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
» Community Meeting #1: Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
» Community Meeting #2: Saturday, May 1, 2021, 11:00
a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, all community events were held over webinar. Notifications of the community
events were distributed through the City’s LinkLB
notification database and to identified representatives of various stakeholder groups including community
based and neighborhood organizations, affordable
housing developers and advocates, homeless services
representatives, local business representatives and more.

In addition, printed brochures with information on the
project, meeting time and location, and resources for
individuals affected by COVID-19 were mailed to over
25,300 addresses across the City. The mailer brochures
were provided in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Khmer.

Comments provided by community members at the 4
events are documented in Appendix A and summarized
below.
» The lasting impacts of COVID-19 are a major
concern, with many noting the need for heightened
tenant protection measures, such as improved
code enforcement, right-to-counsel, and other
anti-displacement measures.
» Availability of affordable housing throughout the City is an issue. Current market rate rents can often cost over 50% of renters’ monthly salaries.
» Many tenants, especially undocumented immigrants,
those with criminal records, and other marginalized
renters, are affected by rent gouging. This has various negative effects, from exacerbating housing insecurity
to putting homeownership out of reach.
» Systemic racism has impacted the physical form of Long Beach which the City should consider when enacting
new policies, such as moving away from exclusionary
zoning regulations.
» Location of affordable housing should be spread
throughout the City, not just concentrated in the
Downtown.
» People experiencing homelessness should be prioritized when accessing new housing, including Accessory
Dwelling Units (ADUs).
» Overcrowding is a major issue that could be alleviated with the production of new housing.
» The availability of parking is a safety concern for
low-income residents who may not have access to safe
alternative forms of transportation, especially at night and as the City promotes more housing development.
» In a city that is majority-renter, there should be more programs to assist in first-time homeownership.
» Community ownership of land, perhaps funded through
a dedicated revenue source for affordable housing,
could provide affordable housing while preventing
displacement in the long-term.
» There is significant interest in ADUs and micro-units along with other alternative housing typologies.

Focus Group Meetings
The City conducted various focus group meetings with
community stakeholders, including:
» Business Focus Group: Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
» Affordable Housing Developers Focus Group: Thursday,
October 15, 2020, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
» Advocates Focus Group: Thursday, October 22, 2020,
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
» Homeless Services Advisory Committee (HSAC) and
Continuum of Care: January 6 & 12, 2021
» Affordable Housing Working Group: February 11, 2021,
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
» Century Villages at Cabrillo Residents Group: March 23, 2021, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
» Long Beach Aging Services Collaborative: April 7, 2021, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Housing Needs
Summary
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Due to the ongoing restrictions around gathering in person due to COVID-19, all focus groups were held over webinar.

Notifications of the focus group meeting were distributed to key stakeholders identified by the City. Comments
received from stakeholders are documented in Appendix A and are summarized below.
» Homelessness is a major issue. The economic impacts of COVID-19 have made the situation worse. Transitional
and supportive housing is needed, as well as exploring
other housing types such as tiny homes and the
expansion of the Safe Parking program.
» Long Beach has experienced rapid gentrification.

Other underserved populations include low-income
households, communities of color, immigrants, seniors,
and students, who are more likely to be displaced when
their units are redeveloped and leased at market rates. » Improved access to affordable mortgages is needed.
» In the event of a housing market shock, the City should be prepared to be competitive with investment firms to
purchase properties for long-term affordability.
» Affordable housing should be in high-opportunity
areas and near job centers and address historic issues
of segregation.
» Funding for affordable housing should be ensured in
areas where historically disadvantaged groups have
been excluded explicitly or implicitly by zoning laws.
» Community land ownership models are needed to
prevent displacement.
» There is a need for missing middle-income/workforce
housing for people transitioning out of affordable
housing.
» Housing for people experiencing homelessness should
include critical services to maintain placement, such as food delivery and mental health services.
» More senior housing and cohousing will allow for
greater filtering as the elderly have more opportunities to downsize.

Housing Needs
Summary
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“Housing trends and rent control should correlate
with the current job market. ”
Long Beach Resident - Local Businesses and
Institutions Focus Group Meeting
Housing for the Community
Housing Needs
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2 Introduction �� 33 Population Trends �� 33 Employment Trends �� 34 Housing Stock �� 35 Household Characteristics �� 36 Housing Affordability ��37 Special Groups �� 38 Housing Needs Summary | Housing for the Community
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HOUSING NEEDS SUMMARY
Introduction
Housing needs are determined by a city’s population and its existing housing stock. This information provides context to inform housing policy, such as the provision of which types of housing, its affordability levels, architectural design, and any on-site features and modifications. This housing element’s strategy is guided by a thorough understanding of Long Beach’s demographic and housing conditions and
characteristics. These factors have come about through
planning and policy decisions in the context of cycles of economic growth. Importantly, decades-long restrictive
local land use regulations have contributed to lack of
sufficient housing stock leading to high housing costs, overcrowded housing, with disproportionate impacts on
lower-income households, and have in turn maintained
geographic and racial segregation across Long Beach. This section provides a summary of the housing needs in the
City of Long Beach. For the complete assessment, please see Appendix B.

Population Trends
Based on population, Long Beach is the seventh largest City in California and the forty-third largest city in the US. The population of Long Beach is both growing and changing.

For example, the proportion of young people is declining and the City is getting older. In 2019, the City’s median age was 34.9, up from 32.6 in 2010. While the City’s overall population size has changed little since 2010, the share of people under 18 years of age declined about 15% while
people over 45 years of age increased by more than 20%.

The City has continued to become more racially diverse.

Over a span of 30 years, white, Non-Hispanic residents
declined by more than half while Hispanic residents grew almost fourfold. Long Beach is a multi-racial, majority- minority city, in which no single race/ethnicity comprises more than 50% of the population.

Housing availability in Long Beach should reflect a number of shifting needs of its residents. While Long Beach as a whole is an ethnically diverse community, it remains
segregated. White residents and residents of color are
geographically concentrated. Areas with concentrations of minority residents often have different needs and a dearth of resources, particularly in areas where recent immigrants tend to reside. These geographic disparities also suggest a need to provide housing for historically marginalized communities in high-opportunity areas.
7 out of 10 Long Beach residents are non white.

Age Characteristics
18-44 years old
44+ years old
less than
17 years old
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Employment Trends
The City’s housing development should in part be
informed by the types of jobs available in Long Beach and be able to accommodate employees and their families.

For example, a growing personal service sector indicates the need for more affordable housing to accommodate
people earning lower wages. On the other hand, a rising professional services sector would create new jobs that offer a wide wage scale, resulting in the need for diverse housing options. Housing to meet the needs of local
employees is important for increasing quality of life by reducing commute times for those who live closer to work.

As described in the City’s Climate Action & Adaptation Plan (CAAP), transportation accounts for nearly 50% of citywide greenhouse gases; consequently, creating housing
opportunity for employees close to work is a critical
strategy for helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by reducing commute trip lengths and making it more
feasible for people to walk, bike or take transit to work.

Additionally, maximizing opportunities for affordable
housing development and employment uses near transit,
combined with renter protections, will help improve the accessibility of low-income residents to jobs while helping prevent displacement.

In 2019, the three largest industry sectors in Long Beach were educational services/healthcare/social services (23%), professional/scientific/management (13%), and arts/
entertainment/food service (11%).

With regard to job type, 8 out of 10 jobs in Long Beach are in three main occupational categories (and their
corresponding median wages): management/business
($63,500), sales/office ($32,000), and services ($21,500).

Since 2010, both management/business and service jobs
grew, but sales/office jobs declined. The rising number of both high-wage and low-wage jobs indicate a bifurcating economy in which the middle-class is shrinking and both high- and low-income earners are expanding.

At the time of this element’s drafting the final impacts of COVID-19 commuting, working and housing practices is
not yet known. While many changes are speculated such
as the need for larger units with in-home offices, or the potential for conversion of office use to residential, actual trends will not be known for many years. The City will
continue to track annual progress of the Housing Element and other elements of the General Plan and make periodic adjustments to reflect changing trends and needs.

Occupation and Wage Comparison
occupation
median household income
median annual earnings
management,
business,
science, and
arts
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000
$70,000
service sales and
office
natural resources,
construction, and
maintenance
production,
transportation,
and material
moving
37%
20%
22%
7%
14%
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Housing Stock
Available housing in Long Beach has not kept pace
with demand. According to the California Department
of Finance, since 1990, population has increased by 10
percent while the number of housing units has increased by only 4 percent. In 2018, vacancy rates for rental and ownership housing were both below the industry-standard rates considered “healthy” in a housing market (4.6 percent which is below the 5 percent healthy rate floor for rental housing and 0.4 percent which is below the 1.5 percent
healthy rate floor for ownership). In addition, more than 80 percent of housing units in Long Beach are more than 50 years old. This aging housing stock indicates that a large portion of housing stock in Long Beach is likely in need for rehabilitation and repair.
“Finding affordable housing, especially
on a fixed income, is one of the biggest
challenges Long Beach residents are
facing due to the highly competitive
rental market and lack of affordable
housing. You have to be first in line to
put in an application. ”
Long Beach Resident – Housing Advocates
Focus Group Meeting
18,807
10,687
19,258
16,519
15,413
10,331
4,964
2,715
1,094
566
1939 or earlier

RENTER-OCCUPIED UNITS OWNER-OCCUPIED UNITS
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-1013
2014 or later
13,207
12,925
19,009
6,433
5,661
4,076
2,435
2,202
350
161
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), 2015-2019, 5-year Estimates Housing Units by Year Built
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Household Characteristics
Household composition is also another factor that
determines housing need. Compared to single individuals, families have different housing needs, typically requiring larger housing units. Though the number of households
in Long Beach has remained fairly constant since 2010, the number of families with children declined by 10% while the number of single-person households increased 11%. This
decline in families with children is likely due the rising cost of housing in Long Beach which makes it more difficult for family households with children present to find housing.

Long Beach is also a city of renters, as 61% of households rent their home. Renters are more economically vulnerable than homeowners, as renters do not build equity through asset ownership like homeowners do. Rents generally
increase over time whereas homeowners lock-in their
monthly payments for the duration of the mortgage while building equity. Additionally, incomes have generally not kept pace with rents over recent decades, exacerbating
the racial wealth gap between renters and homeowners.

Therefore, renters are more at-risk of losing their home in the event of a crisis or emergency.

Percent of Overcrowded Renter and Owner Households
5% of
owners are
overcrowded
15% of
renters are
overcrowded
Many households are forced to double-up or rent out rooms in an effort to alleviate high housing costs, which can result in overcrowding. Overcrowding occurs when more than
one person per room, excluding bathrooms and kitchens,
and places households at risk of adverse health outcomes, such as increased exposure to infectious diseases or mental health problems. The lack of privacy can also put stress on relationships between members of the household
and result in negative living experiences. Overcrowded situations can disproportionately impact children. Such housing can cause learning difficulties and lower health outcomes, leading to lower health and wellbeing and the perpetuation of intergenerational social inequities.

Renters by Race/Ethnicity
non-hispanic
white
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
hispanic or
latino
black asian msome other
race
mtwo or
more races
race
percent of renters
71% 76%
59%
71% 65%
46%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), 2015-2019, 5-year Estimates renter
households
owner
households
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Housing Affordability
The median sales price of a home in Long Beach was
$640,284 and the median rent across all rental properties was $1,895 per month. These costs are out of the reach for many Long Beach residents. As shown below, for residents earning near or below the median income levels for higher- paying jobs, or residents working lower-paying jobs, both rental and ownership housing is out of reach without
pooling together multiple incomes, which can lead to
overcrowding, unhealthy housing conditions, and lack of money to spend on other basic necessities such as food, education or medical care.

As a result of high rent and home values, residents are spending too much of their income on housing expenses.

Housing is considered to be affordable when a household pays less than 30% of their pre-tax income towards rent or mortgage payments. If a household pays 30% or more of
their income in housing costs, they are considered to be housing cost-burdened. Similarly, households paying 50% Income Needed to Afford Housing Compared with Median Income by Occupation occupation
income needed to buy a home, $126,358
income needed to rent an apt., $90,960
median annual earnings
management,
business,
science, and
arts
$0
$20,000
$40,000
$60,000
$80,000
$100,000
$120,000
$140,000
service sales and
office
natural
resources,
construction,
and
maintenance
mproduction, trans-
portation, and material
moving
or more of their income in housing costs are considered to be severely housing cost-burdened. A 2020 SmartAsset analysis found that Long Beach ranks fourth across the
entire country with the highest proportion of residents who are severely housing cost-burdened. 1 Forty-three
percent (43%) of all Long Beach households are housing
cost burdened, however cost burden also impacts different groups differently. Eighty percent (80%) of very low-income renters are cost-burned, compared to just 5% of renter
households earning above-moderate income. Black and
Hispanic renter households are 20% and 12% more likely to be housing cost-burdened than white renter households,
respectively.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), 2015-2019, 5-year estimates; Veronica Tam and Associates, 2020. 1 Most and Least Severely Housing Cost-Burdened Cities – 2020 Edition, Smart Asset 38 Housing Needs
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Special Groups
Certain segments of the population encounter more
difficulty in finding decent, affordable housing due to special circumstances. Special needs may be related to
one’s employment type and income, family characteristics, medical condition or disability, or household characteristics.

These households may require special accommodations,
such as on-site supportive services, unique building design, or spatial accommodations. Special considerations should be taken to ensure adequate housing for seniors, single- parent households, people with disabilities, people living below the poverty line, students, and people experiencing homelessness.
10%
of residents

EXPERIENCE DISABILITY
11%
of residents are
65 OR OLDER
12%
of all residents

LIVE BELOW

THE POVERTY LEVEL
2,034
residents are

EXPERIENCING HOMELESS,
of which 78% ARE

UNSHEL TERED

12.5% of csulb
students EXPERIENCED
HOMELESSNESS at
least once in the past year2
34%
of FEMALE-HEADED

HOUSEHOLDS LIVE IN

POVERTY
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7%
of households are SINGLE

PARENT HOUSEHOLDS
and
2 https://www.csulb.edu/news/article/the-need-for-food-and-housing-continues-to-increase-among-students#:~:text=Crutchfield’s%20research%20 showed%20that%2012.5,in%20the%20last%2012%20months.

Projected Housing
Need
Meeting Future Demand
3 “Having more homes built near public transit
stations, jobs, local businesses so people can
commute less by car and use other ways to
get around the city will help promote and
build a sense of community. ”
Long Beach Resident - Local Businesses and
Institutions Focus Group Meeting
Projected Housing
Need
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PROJECTED HOUSING NEED
Introduction
State Housing Element law (Government Code §
65580 et. seq.) requires regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to identify for each member
jurisdiction its “fair share allocation” of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment provided by the California
Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD). In turn, each city and county must demonstrate
the capacity to accommodate their local share of regional housing needs in the community’s housing element. Each
jurisdiction’s responsibility for meeting the overall regional housing need is established as a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA).

The Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG), the MPO for the Long Beach area, adopted its 6th cycle RHNA Allocation Methodology in March 2020 and
adopted its 6th Cycle RHNA Final Allocation Plan in March 2021. SCAG considered several factors in preparing the
methodology, which weighed both projected and existing
need. Projected need was informed by household growth,
future vacancy need, and replacement need, while existing need considered transit accessibility, job accessibility, and residual need in disadvantaged communities demonstrated by factors such as household overcrowding. The
distribution of the RHNA across the four income categories factored in a social equity adjustment, which allocated a lower proportion of lower-income RHNA to jurisdictions
that already had a high concentration of such households in comparison to the County, and inversely, allocated a greater proportion of such households to jurisdictions with an existing low concentration of lower-income households.

The social equity adjustment also includes the goal to
Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH), which adjusted the distribution of RHNA in jurisdictions considered either very low or very high resource areas.

The projected housing needs are broken down by income
category based on definitions in the California Health and Safety Code (Section 50079.5). HCD calculates “extremely low” , “very low” , “low” , “median” , “moderate” , and “above moderate” income limits, and publishes these limits at the county level. Los Angeles County’s 2020 income limits are shown in Table HE-1�
Table HE-1: Los Angeles County 2020 Income Limits
Number of Persons in Household 1 2 3 4
Extremely Low $23,700 $27,050 $30,450 $33,800
Very Low $39,450 $45,050 $50,700 $56,300
Low $63,100 $72,100 $81,100 $90,100
Median $54,100 $61,850 $69,550 $77,300
Moderate $64,900 $74,200 $83,500 $92,750
extremely
low
very low
low
median
moderate
above
moderate
Income Limits
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SCAG adopted the final RHNA allocation in March 2021.

The RHNA for Long Beach is shown in Table HE-2. The City has a total allocation of 26,502 units for the October 2021 to October 2029 planning period. In the prior planning
period, Long Beach was allocated 7,048 units. The current 6th Cycle RHNA for the planning period of 2021-2029
represents an increase of 275%, which not only considers projected future demand for housing but existing need.

The City of Long Beach is not responsible for the actual construction of these units. Long Beach is, however,
responsible for creating a regulatory environment in which the private market could build the number of units and unit types included in the RHNA allocation. This includes the creation, adoption, and implementation of policies, zoning standards, municipal code changes, and/or economic
incentives to encourage the construction of various types of units.

Table HE-2: 6th Cycle RHNA
Long Beach Los Angeles County SCAG
Area/Income Number of
Units Percent Number of
Units Percent Number of
Units Percent
Total 26,502 100% 812,060 100% 1,341,827 100%
Extremely Low/Very Low 7,141 26.9% 217,273 26.8% 351,796 26.2% Low 4,047 15.3% 123,022 15.1% 206,807 15.4%
Moderate 4,158 15.7% 131,381 16.2% 223,957 16.7%
Above Moderate 11,156 42.1% 340,384 41.9% 559,267 41.7% Note: Projected housing needs for extremely low income households are estimated at 50 percent of the very low income RHNA, i.e., at 3,570 units.

However, for the purpose of identifying sites for the RHNA, no separate accounting of sites capacity for extremely low income housing is required.

Housing Resources
Addressing the Need
4 “There are apartments on the east side on
major corridors and near the college and
the university that are “old” and could be
redeveloped to accommodate more student
residents. ”
Long Beach Resident - Housing Element
Community Meeting
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Introduction ��45 Land Resources ��45 Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) ��45 Entitled and Proposed Developments ��45 Identification of Sites Suitable for Housing ��46 Estimation of Dwelling Unit Capacity ��46 Summary of Adequate Sites ��49 Financial Resources ��50 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funds ��50 HOME Investment Partnership Program ��50 Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) ��50 Housing Trust Fund ��50 CDBG CV (Rounds 1 and 3) ��50 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP)
– Rounds 1 and 2 ��51 Project Homekey��51 ESG-CV 1 ��52 ESG-CV 2 ��52 Coastal Replacement Housing Fund (Mello) ��52 Inclusionary Housing In-Lieu Fee ��52 SB2 Grants ��53 Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) Grants ��53 CalHome ��53 Administrative Resources ��54 Long Beach Community Investment Company (LBCIC) ��54 Long Beach Housing Authority��54 Greater Affordable Housing Development Community ��54 Long Beach Continuum of Care (CoC) ��54 Opportunities for Energy Conservation ��55 City Efforts ��55 Other Resources ��56 Housing Resources | Addressing the Need
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HOUSING RESOURCES
Introduction
The following section provides an overview of the
resources available to support the continued development, preservation, and rehabilitation of housing in Long Beach.

It includes a summary of vacant or underutilized land
available to accommodate future housing in the City. The full site inventory analysis is in Appendix C. This section also includes a list of federal, state, and local programs that provide financial assistance to support the City in meeting its housing goals.

Land Resources
A critical part of the Housing Element is the site inventory, which identifies a list of sites that are suitable for future residential development. State law mandates that each
jurisdiction ensure availability of an adequate number of sites that have appropriate zoning, development standards, and infrastructure capacity to meet its fair share of the regional housing need at all income levels. The inventory is a tool that assists in determining if the jurisdiction has enough land to meet its RHNA given its current regulatory framework.

The City’s adopted Land Use Element (LUE) of the General Plan offers adequate capacity to accommodate the City’s RHNA for all income categories. However, Zoning Code
amendments and rezoning of properties is necessary to
implement the LUE as there is not sufficient capacity under existing zoning and many properties across the City still need to be rezoned consistent with and to implement the LUE.

Land Use Element PlaceType Map
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
The City has seen an increase in ADU activity since new State laws passed in 2018 that facilitated the development of these secondary units. Given recent development trends of ADUs in Long Beach, this Housing Element assumes an
annual average of 159 ADUs between 2021 and 2029, for
a total of 1,272 units. This projected trend is based on the annual average number of ADU applications approved in
Long Beach between 2018 and 2020. Appendix C provides
the detailed methodology for estimating the projected
trend of ADUs.

Entitled and Proposed Developments
The Housing Element can apply units in pipeline projects towards the RHNA if the housing development is expected to be issued building permits after the RHNA projection period begins. The City has identified 548 units in projects that have been approved, entitled, or proposed but not yet permitted.

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Identification of Sites Suitable for Housing
The City recently updated its General Plan Land Use
Element (LUE) in 2019, which uses PlaceTypes to designate allowable land uses. The PlaceTypes approach shifts from districts solely shaped by allowed land uses to a more hybrid perspective that accommodates more mixed uses and
also considers the physical characteristics (building form, design, and function) that contribute to neighborhood
quality and characteristic. The City has since been
incrementally amending its Zoning Code to add new zones and rezone properties to those new zones to implement
the new LUE, but current zoning regulations do not yet fully implement the LUE PlaceTypes. Because not all properties have yet been rezoned in the City to implement the LUE
PlaceTypes, this Housing Element estimates dwelling
unit capacity under two separate scenarios: 1) under the current Zoning Code; and 2) under the LUE PlaceType to be implemented with the updated Zoning Code. Since there
is not sufficient capacity to accommodate the RHNA under the current Zoning Code scenario, this Housing Element
includes Program 1.1: Adequate Sites for RHNA, that
commits the City to rezone all properties to implement the LUE for sites in the site inventory, within three years of the Housing Element statutory deadline.

Estimation of Dwelling Unit Capacity
This Housing Element employs a comprehensive and
iterative methodology to estimate dwelling unit capacity on a given parcel. The City developed a methodology which applied a uniform set of objective criteria to all parcels in the City under both the Current Zoning and PlaceType
scenarios. As required by state law, the methodology has to result in sites that have a high potential to be developed with housing and reflect a reasonable estimate of the
dwelling unit capacity of eligible sites that is informed by past trends and substantial evidence. In its methodology, Staff focused on identifying the sites most likely to develop in the near future rather than estimating the development likelihood of all potentially eligible sites. Given the limited available data for the residential construction through recent development cycles and the anticipated
major shift from past development trends due to the
newly updated General Plan LUE, rather than estimate
the development likelihood for all eligible sites, the City focused on identifying the sites most likely to develop in the near future. Development likelihood and feasibility was determined by a number of different variables, including improvement-to-land value ratio, existing lot coverage, lot size, future development potential, and existing use and unit count where applicable. The City analyzed the most current parcel-level data across such variables to determine which sites were most appropriate for the inclusion into the site inventory and to estimate the number of additional units that are likely to be developed. In sum, the City took a conservative approach using a front-end method of
filtering out in order to include only sites that are the most likely to develop.

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Dwelling Unit Capacity Under Current Zoning Code
Under the current Zoning Code, the City can accommodate a total of 14,847 units. There are 84 parcels for a total of 34.36 acres that can facilitate the development of 2,972 lower income units based on current zoning. In addition, sites zoned for lower intensities can potentially accommodate 245 moderate and 11,630 above moderate-income units.

Table HE-3: Current Zoning - Dwelling Unit Capacity
Zone Zone Name Number of
Units Acres Number of
Parcels
Affordable (Lower
Income) 2,972 34.36 84
PD-22 Pacific Railway District 23 0.57 1
PD-30 Downtown District 1,046 6.94 14
SP-1-CDR Midtown Corridor District 999 14.23 35
SP-1-TN Midtown Transit Node District 809 10.08 33
SP-2 Southeast Area Specific Plan 95 2.54 1
Market-Rate 11,875 194.46 702
Moderate-Income 245 24.43 125
R-1-M Single-family Residential, moderate lot 7 0.8 1
R-1-N Single-family Residential, standard lot 97 16.36 63 R-2-A Two-family Residential, accessory second unit 11 0.88 6 R-2-N Two-family Residential, standard lot 130 11.07 60 Above Moderate-Income 11,538 173.16 586
CCN Community R-4-N Commercial 112 5.15 14
CCR Community R-4-R Commercial 13 0.61 3
CNR Neighborhood Commercial and Residential 258 22.81 103 CO Office Commercial 46 2.19 10
PD-22 Pacific Railway District 11 0.27 1
PD-30 Downtown District 8,074 53.45 186
R-3-4 Low-density Multi-family Residential 59 2.98 18
R-3-S Low-density Multi-family Residential, small lot 117 7.29 40 R-3-T Multi-family Residential, Townhouse 88 7.51 35
R-4-N Medium-density Multiple Residential 194 8.84 31
R-4-R Moderate-density Multiple Residential 208 9.66 53 R-4-U Dense Multiple Residential, urban 12 0.56 1
SP-1-CDR Midtown Corridor District 446 6.28 38
SP-1-TN Midtown Transit Node District 668 8.36 37
SP-2 Southeast Area Specific Plan 1,324 29.45 5
Total 14,847 228�82 786
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Dwelling Unit Capacity Under PlaceTypes
Under the PlaceTypes land use policy, the City can
accommodate a total of 28,571 units. There are a total of 183 sites across 169.48 acres that can facilitate the

development of 12,943 lower income units based on the PlaceTypes approach. In addition, parcels zoned for lower intensities can potentially accommodate 1,446 moderate- income and 14,182 market-rate units.

Table HE-4: PlaceTypes - Dwelling Unit Capacity
PlaceType PlaceType Name Number of
Units Acres Number of
Parcels
Affordable (Lower
Income) 12,943 210.13 441
DT Downtown 1,918 6.94 14
FCN Founding and Contemporary Neighborhood 166 6.48 3
MFR-L Multi-Family Residential - Low 203 5.34 8
MFR-M Multi-Family Residential - Moderate 436 7.38 22
NSC-L Neighborhood-Serving Center or Corridor -
Low 1,532 39.43 88
NSC-M Neighborhood-Serving Center or Corridor -
Moderate 4,552 68.38 149
RSF Regional Serving Facility 95 2.54 1
TOD-L Transit-Oriented Development - Low 1,933 18.79 54 TOD-M Transit-Oriented Development - Moderate 2,108 14.2 50 Market-Rate (Moderate/
Above) 15,628 251.55 839
DT Downtown 6,875 52.12 181
FCN Founding and Contemporary Neighborhood 209 17.48 22 MFR-L Multi-Family Residential - Low 229 7.56 39
MFR-M Multi-Family Residential - Moderate 494 12.08 71
NSC-L Neighborhood-Serving Center or Corridor -
Low 1,323 42.94 200
NSC-M Neighborhood-Serving Center or Corridor -
Moderate 3,217 66.04 189
RSF Regional Serving Facility 1,312 29.06 4
TOD-L Transit-Oriented Development - Low 720 10.06 61
TOD-M Transit-Oriented Development - Moderate 1,249 14.21 72 Total 28,571 421�03 1,228
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Summary of Adequate Sites
The following table summarizes the City’s strategy for
meeting the RHNA. Based on current zoning, the City
has a shortfall of 9,835 units (6,809 lower income units and 3,026 moderate and above-moderate income units). The
City commits to amending the Zoning Code within three
years to fully implement the LUE PlaceTypes

for all sites that are part of the site inventory. Dwelling unit capacity based on allowable densities under PlaceTypes
can accommodate 12,943 lower income and 15,628
moderate and above moderate-income units, exceeding
the remaining RHNA before considering the projected ADU trend and approved/pipeline projects.

Table HE-5: Residential Dwelling Unit Potential and RHNA Very Low
Income Low Income Moderate-
Income
Above
Moderate-
Income
Total
RHNA 7,141 4,047 4,158 11,156 26,502
Approved Projects 53 34 1 0 88
Proposed/Pipeline Projects 293 161 6 0 460
Accessory Dwelling Units 299 567 27 379 1,272
Zoning Scenario Inventory Capacity 2,972 11,875 14,847
Zoning Scenario Total
(Pipeline + ADU + Inventory Sites) 4,379 12,288 16,667
Zoning Scenario (Shortfall)/Buffer (6,809) (3,026) (9,835) PlaceType Scenario Inventory Capacity 12,943 15,628 28,571 PlaceType Scenario Total
(Pipeline+ ADUs+ Inventory sites) 14,350 16,041 30,391
PlaceType Scenario (Shortfall)/Buffer 3,162 727 3,889
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Financial Resources
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Funds
Through the CDBG program, HUD provides funds to local
governments for a range of community development
activities. The eligible activities include but are not limited to: acquisition and/or disposition of real estate or property, public facilities and improvements, relocation, rehabilitation and construction (under certain limitations) of housing, homeownership assistance, and clearance
activities. In addition, these funds can be used to acquire or subsidize at-risk units. Long Beach receives approximately $6 million annually in CDBG funds.

Long Beach utilizes a Place-Based Neighborhood
Improvement Strategy (PBNIS) in the implementation of
its CDBG programs. The place-based initiative is a strategic approach where resources are targeted to address
issues at the neighborhood level. Five PBNIS Areas have been established in Long Beach based on their greatest
cumulative need. Four of these areas are defined by HUD as Racial/Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/
ECAPs). The fifth area is in North Long Beach and includes a business corridor.

HOME Investment Partnership Program
Long Beach also receives an annual entitlement under the HOME program. HOME funds can be used for activities
that promote affordable rental housing and lower-income homeownership, including but not limited to: building
acquisition, new construction, reconstruction, moderate or substantial rehabilitation, first-time homebuyer assistance, and tenant-based assistance. A federal priority for use of these funds is preservation of the at-risk housing stock. A city must also provide matching contributions on a sliding scale: 25% local share for rental assistance or rehabilitation, 33% for substantial rehabilitation, and 50% for new
construction. The City receives about $3 million in HOME funds annually. The City uses HOME funds primarily for
new construction of affordable rental housing, residential rehabilitation, and acquisition/rehabilitation activities.

Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG)
In addition to CDBG and HOME funds, Long Beach is also
entitled to receive Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) from HUD. ESG funds are used to support the operation of
emergency shelters for the homeless. Annually, the City receives approximately $500,000 in ESG funds.

Housing Trust Fund
The City has established a Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to assist in the delivery of affordable housing. The HTF is funded through the portion of the City’s Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) generated from long-term stays (30 days or more) in local hotel and motels. As of December 2020, the HTF has a balance of $55,987. However, the balance of the HTF is expected to grow substantially in the years to come due to receipts from the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance. The purpose of the HTF is to complement funding sources such as HOME funds. As such, the HTF will be used to provide affordable housing for extremely low-income households
(with incomes at or below 30% AMI) and middle income
households (with incomes between 120 and 150% AMI).

Extremely low-income households are not specifically
identified in the regulations that govern HOME funds.

Middle income households in Los Angeles County do not
earn adequate incomes to afford homeownership but they
are not eligible for any State and federal housing programs.

Therefore, the HTF is used to augment State and federal programs to expand affordable housing opportunities for these underserved groups.

CDBG CV (Rounds 1 and 3)
In March 2020, the U.S. Congress approved emergency
funding to assist local governments and community
residents to respond to economic and other impacts of
the Coronavirus pandemic, through the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act included all jurisdictions already receiving federal grant funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG) program. The City of Long Beach was
initially awarded $3,618,830 from this program, known as CDBG-CV, and was subsequently awarded an additional
$4,585,285 through a third round of allocations, known
as CDBG-CV3. It should be noted that of the CDBG-CV3
allocation, $1,700,000 was dedicated to commercial rental assistance.

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The first round CDBG-CV allocation supported the Long
Beach CARES Program, an emergency rental assistance
program which provided up to $3,000 to households
earning 80% Area Median Income (AMI) or below who had
also experienced an economic hardship due to COVID-19.

Additionally, this program was bolstered by a reallocation of $2,000,000 in HOME Improvement Partnerships Program
(HOME) funds. The LB CARES program assisted nearly 1,700 households.

CDBG-CV3 was applied to a variety of rental assistance and housing programs (Artist Relief program, LB CARES and
eviction prevention assistance). These programs are still ongoing.

Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP)
– Rounds 1 and 2
On December 27, 2020, the Federal Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2021, authorized the Emergency
Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), which provided funding directly to some local jurisdictions and at the state level.

Long Beach received a direct allocation from the U.S.

Treasury in the amount of $13.8 million, as well as a State Block Grant in the amount of $16.4 million (totaling $30.2 million). These funds established the local ERAP , which in contrast to the LB CARES program, did not place a cap on the total amount of assistance that could be provided.

Instead, the ERAP established six priority groups in order of greatest economic need and can offer up to 80% of a
tenant’s total averages, including utility debt.

In May 2021, the U.S. Treasury announced a second round of ERAP funding (ERAP 2) in the amount of $21.2 million, bringing the total ERAP assistance to $51.4 million. These funds will supplement the current ERAP program to allow the City to support as many applicants as possible.

Project Homekey
On July 16, 2020, the State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released a
Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for approximately $600 million in grants as part of the Homekey Program
(Homekey). The program is a statewide effort to rapidly sustain and expand housing for persons experiencing
homelessness and impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
by partnering with local entities to acquire and rehabilitate a variety of housing types. On October 20, 2020, the City Council adopted a Resolution to accept and expend grant funding from the HCD for the acquisition and operation
of an existing hotel and conversion into interim housing options for persons experiencing homelessness. Through this funding, the City acquired a 102 room hotel for
Homeless Services Housing and also contracted with an
agency to provide services at the PHK location for people experiencing homelessness. This program has begun to fill a crucial gap in the City’s Homeless Services. The 102 units represent 6.4 percent of the unsheltered population identified in the Long Beach 2020 homeless count and will ensure more effective transitions into permanent housing. “Understand that the City is made
up of different types of living
environments, which is part of what
makes Long Beach exciting. ”
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ESG-CV 1
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act
(CARES Act) was signed on March 27, 2020, to prevent,
prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic
(COVID-19). The CARES Act made available $4 billion in
Emergency Solutions Grant Coronavirus (ESG-CV) funds.

The City of Long Beach was awarded $1,846,866 in the first round of funding. Through this funding, the City was able to erect and operate two temporary, congregate shelters to quickly house 115 people experiencing homelessness
(PEH) to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These emergency shelters operated seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Each person was provided daily meals and connected to the City’s Multi-Service Center where they were given case management and access to services. Clients benefiting from the congregate shelters were screened and entered
through the Coordinated Entry System (CES). This funding has also enhanced the City’s overall outreach strategy for PEH and provided support for homeless prevention.

ESG-CV 2
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act
(CARES Act) was signed on March 27, 2020, to prevent,
prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic
(COVID-19). The CARES Act made available $4 billion in
Emergency Solutions Grant Coronavirus (ESG-CV) funds.

The City of Long Beach was awarded $13,496,694 in the
second round of funding.

Funding will provide street outreach, emergency shelter, prevention, and rapid rehousing services.

Coastal Replacement Housing Fund (Mello)
The City has established a one-to-one replacement policy within the coastal zone. Developers can pay an in-lieu fee to fulfill this requirement. The in-lieu fees are updated annually in accordance with the change in the Building Cost Index (BCI) from January to January. Currently, the fees range from $127,000 to $404,000 per removed unit depending
on the unit’s size and affordability level. Funding is used to create affordable housing in the coastal zone. Currently, there is a balance of $113,212 in the Coastal Replacement Housing Fund. An update to the underlying ordinance and fee is pending at the time of this document’s preparation.

Because preservation of coastal housing is preferable to demolition and in the case of demolition full replacement is preferable to fee payment, this fund is not expected to accrue significant funds into the future.

Inclusionary Housing In-Lieu Fee
In July 2020, the City Council approved the Inclusionary Housing Program that requires, after a three-year phase-in period, 11 percent of a rental housing development be
affordable to very low-income households and 10 percent of an ownership housing project be affordable to moderate- income households. An in-lieu fee between $223,000 and
$383,000 per required affordable housing unit has been
established. The total projected amount to be collected is unknown at this time and will depend on market activity.

These fees are deposited within the Housing Trust Fund. “There should be a stronger emphasis
on conservation and keeping the
construction of the houses sustainably
and powered by green energy”
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SB2 Grants
In 2017, Governor Brown signed a 15-bill housing package aimed at addressing the State’s housing shortage and high housing costs. Specifically, it included the Building Homes and Jobs Act (SB 2, 2017), which establishes a $75 recording fee on real estate documents in order to increase the supply of affordable homes in California. Because the number of real estate transactions recorded in each county will vary from year to year, the revenues collected will fluctuate.

The first year of SB 2 funds are available as planning
grants to local jurisdictions. The City of Long Beach
received $625,000 for planning efforts to facilitate housing production. The City used these funds to update the zoning code for the Anaheim Street corridor per the City’s updated General Plan Land Use Element, as well as to update and conduct an environmental review of the Century Villages at Cabrillo Master Plan and the Atlantic Farms homeless shelter and services center master planning efforts.

For the second year and onward, 70 percent of the funding will be allocated to local governments for affordable
housing purposes. A large portion of Year Two allocations will be distributed using the same formula used to allocate federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG).

Year Two funding is known as Permanent Local Housing
Allocation (PLHA). HCD is in the process of closing out the Year One planning grant allocations and has begun
to allocate Year Two affordable housing funds. The City of Long Beach was allocated $2.93 million in the first year of the PLHA program, and including this amount, expects to receive an estimated $17.56 million to be allocated to the City through PLHA through the next five years. SB2 PLHA funds can be used to:
» Increase the supply of housing for households at or
below 60 percent of AMI
» Increase assistance to affordable owner-occupied
workforce housing
» Assist persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness » Facilitate housing affordability, particularly for lower and moderate-income households
» Promote projects and programs to meet the local
government’s unmet share of regional housing needs
allocation
PHLA monies will be distributed by the City of Long
Beach through a competitive NOFA process focused on
construction of new lower-income housing units.

Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) Grants
In the 2019-20 Budget Act, Governor Gavin Newsom
allocated $250 million for all regions, cities, and counties to do their part by prioritizing planning activities that accelerate housing production to meet identified needs
of every community. With this allocation, HCD established the Local Early Action Planning Grant Program (LEAP)
with $119 million for cities and counties. LEAP provides one-time grant funding to cities and counties to update their planning documents and implement process
improvements that will facilitate the acceleration of
housing production and help local governments prepare
for their 6th cycle RHNA much like the SB2 Planning Grants.

Long Beach was awarded $750,000, which was used to
fund the Housing Element update.

CalHome
On July 20, 2020, the Long Beach Community Investment
Company (LBCIC) was awarded a grant in the amount of
$4,940,000 from the California Department of Housing
and Community Development (HCD), CalHome Program.

The purpose of the CalHome Program is to enable low-
and very low-income households to become or remain
homeowners. Locally, the CalHome Program is funding the following activities: $1.1 million for first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance (MA), and $3.84 million for accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or junior accessory dwelling unit
(JADU) development assistance. Both activities will provide loans of up to $100,000 to low-income households earning up to 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI). The LBCIC
aims to serve up to 10 homebuyers under the MA activity, and up to 32 ADU/JADU units under the ADU activity.

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Administrative Resources
Described below are public and non-profit agencies that have been actively involved in housing activities in the City of Long Beach. These agencies play important roles in meeting the housing needs of the City. In particular, they are critical in the improvement of the housing stock and the preservation of at-risk housing units in Long Beach.

Long Beach Community Investment Company
(LBCIC)
The Long Beach Housing Development Company
(LBHDC) was recently disbanded and reconfigured as the
Long Beach Community Investment Company (LBCIC).

The LBCIC is a non-profit, public benefit corporation
created by the City of Long Beach to aid in the support, financing and development of affordable housing based
on needs identified, in part, by the Housing Element.

The City advances money to the LBCIC from its Housing
Development Fund (see above) for the production,
improvement, or preservation of affordable housing
throughout Long Beach.

Long Beach Housing Authority
The Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach receives funds from the federal Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to provide Section 8 rental assistance to low income individuals and families so that they can afford to rent decent, safe, and sanitary housing. The number of Section 8 vouchers provided by HUD do not
meet the need in Long Beach.

Greater Affordable Housing Development
Community
In addition, many affordable housing developers have
expressed interested in providing affordable housing in Long Beach. These include:
– Abode Communities
– Amcal
– Bridge Housing
– Century Housing Corporation
– Clifford Beers Housing
– Habitat for Humanity
– Jamboree Housing
– LINC Housing
– Mercy Housing
– Menorah Housing
– Meta Housing Corporation
– National Community Renaissance (National CORE)
Long Beach Continuum of Care (CoC)
In accordance with the Homeless Emergency Assistance
and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (HEARTH Act),
enacted into law on May 20, 2009, representatives from
organizations that serve homeless and formerly homeless individuals within the City of Long Beach have established a Continuum of Care to carry out planning, coordination, and implementation activities to address homelessness in Long Beach.

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Opportunities for Energy Conservation
City Efforts
Municipal Green Building Policy� This policy requires
that the City:
» Plan, design, construct, manage, renovate, and maintain facilities and buildings in a sustainable manner.
» Consider use of the US Green Building Council LEED
Rating System and achieve LEED Certification for all
new City projects and additions of over 7,500 square
feet. Other rating systems that promote sustainable
buildings may be used as an alternative to LEED.
» Apply it to City constructed and owned new construction & additions of over 7,500 square feet.
» Budget appropriations for projects to include funding to meet the policy requirements.
» The Policy also includes building remodel and retrofit goals, and green infrastructure goals.

Requirements for Private Development. All private
development projects that meet the following criteria
will be required prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, to 1) have registered their project with the U.S. Green Building Council with the intent to achieve
a minimum level of LEED Certification in their final
building design, or to 2) provide third-party verification or show through standardized checklist that they meet
the equivalent of the minimum requirements of LEED
Certification in the final building design.
» Residential/Mixed Use: 50 or more housing units
» Commercial/Industrial: 50,000 or more square feet
building area
Construction and Demolition Recycling. The City also
has a Construction and Demolition Recycling program that requires certain demolition and/or construction projects to divert at least 60% of waste from landfills through recycling, salvage or deconstruction.

CAAP & Buildings. The City’s Climate Action & Adaptation Plan (CAAP) will be implemented during the 2021-2029
Housing Element Cycle. The CAAP includes actions that
call on the City to:
» Ensure that new municipal buildings are net-zero
facilities constructed in accordance with the most
up-to-date green building standards, and to the extent
feasible. Apply these standards to the rehabilitation
of existing municipal facilities when upgrades are
undertaken.
» Maximize to the extent feasible the attainment of green building standards that improve energy and water
efficiency in municipal projects (BE-6.4).
» Evaluate building codes to incentivize all-electric new residential and commercial buildings (BE-7).
» Identify potential incentives and requirements for water reuse strategies, such as rainfall capture and harvesting in private developments (DRT-5.1).
» Increase recycling and waste diversion in residential and commercial developments and properties (W-1 to W-4).

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Other Resources
Utility-related costs can directly impact housing affordability.

However, California’s Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6 of the California Code of Regulations) provide energy saving recommendations for residential and nonresidential buildings. These standards are updated periodically to allow for consideration and possible incorporation of new energy efficiency technologies and methods. The California Home Energy Guide, published by the California Energy
Commission, satisfies the requirements under the Energy Efficiency Standards for builders to give new homeowners information on how to efficiently operate their new homes.

General residential energy conservation opportunities
include: replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs; reducing water usage
by installing faucet aerators, low-flow showerheads, and low-flush toilets; reducing use of air conditioners; using ENERGY STAR qualified appliances and equipment; turning off all unnecessary lighting; washing clothes in cold water; and testing for air leaks next to windows, doors and where there is a possible air path to the outside.

Southern California Edison offers the following Income
Qualified Programs for payment assistance:
» California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) Program, providing eligible low-income customers with discounts
in monthly electric bills.
» Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) Program, which offers discounted monthly electric rates for eligible
families.

The City of Long Beach also offers the following utility payment assistance programs to qualified City residents:
» Low-Income Discount Program for eligible low-income
households and non-profit group living facilities.
» Low Income Senior and Disabled Program, consisting
of a Utility Users Tax Exemption Program and a Utility
Users Tax Refund Program for eligible low-income senior citizens and disabled persons.
» Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), a federally
funded program that assists qualified low-income
households in winter gas and electric bill payments.
» Additional Baseline Therm Allowance for Certain Medical Conditions, which allows residents with a qualifying
medical condition to receive additional therms of gas at the baseline rate.
» Third-Party Notification, which allows elderly, disabled, or eligible residents with special health risks or medically necessary equipment to designate an additional
individual to be notified prior to termination of services for non-payment of a utility bill to provide additional time to pay.
» Level Pay Plan, a bill-averaging program to assist City residents with high winter gas bills.

Other local programs include:
» Grid Alternatives, a non-profit that provides no-cost solar installation for households qualifying as low-income.
» Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) allows property owners to finance energy efficiency, renewable energy,
and water conservation upgrades to buildings without
paying out-of-pocket, up front costs.

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and neighborhood protections from the
effects of gentrification. ”
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HOUSING CONSTRAINTS
Introduction
The provision of decent, safe, and affordable housing is an important goal of the City of Long Beach. However,
there are a variety of factors that encourage or constrain the development, maintenance, and improvement of
the housing stock in the City. These include market
mechanisms, government codes and regulations, and
physical and environmental constraints. This section
provides an overview of these potential constraints. For the complete analysis, see Appendix D- Constraints Analysis.

Governmental Constraints
Local policies and regulations can impact the availability of housing and, in particular, the provision of affordable housing. Land use controls, residential development
standards, fees and exactions, and permit processing
procedures among others may increase the cost of housing maintenance, development, and improvement.

Land Use Controls
The City adopted a new General Plan Land Use Element
(LUE) in 2019, which establishes a “PlaceTypes” approach to land use regulation. This innovative approach helps
to facilitate the production of a variety of uses, including multi-family residential and mixed-use projects. The
PlaceTypes approach is a shift of focus from strictly
thinking about allowed land uses, to a more hybrid and
form-based approach that also takes into consideration
the physical characteristics (building form, design, and function) that contribute to the great neighborhoods,
corridors, and districts that make up Long Beach. The
PlaceTypes approach moves away from the Euclidean
zoning approach of segregating land uses, which has
historically favored single-family residential projects and discouraged multi- family product types, and instead
emphasizes flexibility, context sensitive development, and allows for a mix of compatible uses. However, while the new LUE significantly expands the City’s capacity for new housing development, there remain constraints in terms
of opportunities for new housing in some areas in the City due to a combination of PlaceType designation and height limits established in the LUE. These constraints stem in part from multigenerational land use patterns and planning
decisions that have limited new housing development in
highest opportunity areas and will require multifaceted strategies to address both through policy and a variety of non-governmental approaches including market and
finance, education workforce development and others.

The City’s Zoning Code (Code), Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code, was last comprehensively updated more
than 30 years ago. While it has been amended numerous
times, including significant revisions in 1997 along with a number of recent and ongoing amendments, the Code
does not align with current goals, the new LUE, new City priorities, or today’s realities.

Existing development standards, including parking
requirements, density limits, and height restrictions,
constrain new development, especially when combined.

The cumulative effect of existing standards is to significantly disincentivize housing production in most areas of Long Beach. These regulatory constraints impact not only total housing production, but the affordability of housing as well, since housing supply has not kept up with rising demand.

Most development is happening in the Downtown, which
does not have the same zoning constraints but represents less than 2% of the City’s land area and has a unique real estate submarket. Market conditions result in more luxury product types than smaller projects on smaller sites,
with more attainable units. In addition to the transit-rich downtown, the Midtown plan area along the Metro
“We need to have increased
homeownership opportunities. In
order to do that, we need to stabilize
renters and increase job opportunities
and wages, so more renters can
build enough savings and wealth to
purchase a home. ”
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A-line similarly lacks the same zoning constraints and has resulted in hundreds of new affordable units over the
past few years since the Plan’s adoption. Newly adopted zoning regulations in the North Long Beach (Uptown) Plan (UPLAN) area are the early steps in implementing the new LUE and the new mixed-use zones begin to address some
of the regulatory constraints to residential development of the outdated Zoning Code outside the Downtown and
Midtown areas. The City is also underway on updating
the zones in Central Long Beach per the LUE through its Anaheim Corridor Zoning Implementation Plan (ACZIP).

Although the UPLAN and ACZIP codes are a sign of
progress, the current Zoning Code continues to constitute a constraint to the production of housing for the vast
majority of the City.

The City has also worked to facilitate affordable and
special needs housing through ordinances implementing
density bonuses, inclusionary zoning, emergency shelters, condominium conversion regulations, and other local
programs and policies. The City offers the State mandated density bonus to facilitate the production of affordable housing, housing for seniors, and special group residences.

In January 2021, the City adopted a new inclusionary
housing policy requiring new residential projects in select portions of the City with 9 or more units to set aside
10-11 percent of units for affordable housing (depending on for sale or rental). The City has expanded allowances for emergency shelters for the homeless to many more
zones, and continues to work with service providers to
identify sites for and open new shelters. Since 2015, the City of Long Beach has housed more than 5,000 individuals experiencing homelessness, with an average of 1,000
individuals annually. Additionally, in response to the
increased demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City has operated four temporary shelters which offer a variety of necessities and services. Beyond temporary shelter, the City has supportive policies regarding the conversion of low-income apartments to condominiums, which require
potentially displaced low- or very low-income households to receive advance notice and relocation support.

Permit, Processing, and Procedures
The City’s permit and approval processes and timeframes vary depending on the type of project. Most residential projects require some degree of site plan review, either approval by the Site Plan Review Committee or the
Planning Commission. Raising the threshold for the project size that would require formal Site Plan Review (SPR) can reduce the amount of time for project review for smaller multifamily and mixed use projects.

During a 2019 audit of the City code and entitlement
processes, stakeholders noted concern that the site plan review process is overly complicated and inconsistent. One reason for this may be because the threshold for site plan review is too low, which can create delays in the project review process for larger projects. The threshold for Site Plan Review is 5 or more new units in most zones, and can be as low as one new unit for example for the Downtown
Plan (PD-30).

Additionally, City’s existing technology systems and
processes create inefficiencies that can lead to lengthier review times. These include inadequate software, and
staffing, and lack of automation.

Finally, permit and processing fees charged by local
governments contribute to the cost of maintaining,
developing, and improving housing. Long Beach collects
fees to recover the costs of processing permits (permit fees) and providing the necessary services and infrastructure related to new development (impact fees). The City
conducts an annual assessment of its fees to ensure that they reflect the cost of providing services and thereby attempt to keep fees in line with other communities, and minimize any undue constraint. Fees are generally not
waived, because they represent the actual cost for service, are a relatively minor portion of the total building valuation, and therefore are not considered to be an undue constraint upon the production or maintenance of housing.

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In addition to planning fees, the City charges various
development impact fees upon new development.

In contrast to service fees that recover the costs of
providing services, impact fees are intended to fund the improvements in infrastructure and services needed to
accommodate new housing development. Common
examples include school fees, park and recreation fees, sewer fees, and transportation improvement fees. The City conducts a periodic nexus study that links service costs to the actual impacts of the development. To ensure that fees do not constrain the production of affordable housing, the City waives development impact fees – parks and recreation and transportation improvement fees – for housing that is dedicated as affordable to lower income households.

Market Constraints
The availability of financing, the price of land, and
construction costs contribute to the cost of housing
investment and can potentially hinder the production
of affordable housing. Although many of these potential constraints are market-driven and generally outside of
direct government control, jurisdictions have some options to address these constraints. This section analyzes these constraints as well as the activities that the City can take to mitigate their impacts.

Housing Context
In 2018, 48 percent of Long Beach’s total housing units were single-family houses, 51 percent were multi-family, and 1 percent were mobile homes. Since 2010, overall
housing stock in Long Beach has increased by 1 percent, or an average of 152 units per year. The stock of single-family houses remained constant, averaging just 19 new units per year, while the stock of multi-family homes, concentrated in the Downtown, grew by 1 percent, averaging about 137 units per year.

Overall, the City has an older housing stock. 71 percent of housing in Long Beach is over 50 years old, compared to just 61 percent across LA County. Cities with an aging housing stock need to ensure its housing does not fall
into disrepair to continue to provide a healthy, safe living space. Older units have historically served as a source of market-rate naturally occurring affordable housing. This process, known as “filtering” , requires the construction of new housing to replace the aging stock. In markets
with a lack of new construction, even older housing can continue to command premium rents. There are a number
of factors that influence filtering that can contribute to a shortage of entry-level housing. This includes taxation benefits of long-term ownership due to Proposition 13,
which results in overconsumption of housing. Because of patterns of urban development, older housing tends to be closer to employment locations. With increasing pressure on transportation systems, there is a premium on housing locations near employment.

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Market Activity
As of February 2020, the median home value for a single- family home in Long Beach was $666,500. Since 2010, Long Beach home values are typically slightly above but have generally kept pace with LA County as a whole. Home
values range widely across the City, from $515,000 in 90810 to $1.2 million in 90803. Home values are generally higher in the east side of Long Beach.

Rental housing rates for Long Beach have trended similarly to the County. The median rental unit in Long Beach in
2019 is $1,324. Since 2010, Long Beach rents grew by 28 percent while rents in LA County grew by 31 percent.

Higher rents can offset the cost of development. Thus,
areas that command higher rents are more likely to attract private market-rate development. Above-average rents, in addition to greater developmental potential, has resulted in increased development interest in the Downtown
and Midtown districts. However, the high cost of new
construction (such as construction materials and labor) and expensive land costs throughout Southern California can constrain residential development in areas outside of these districts with more restrictive development standards and/ or lower achievable market rents.

Environmental and Infrastructure
Constraints
Environmental issues and infrastructure capacity or other limitations could possibly affect the type and amount
of residential development in a given location. If not
addressed, these types of constraints could preclude a
jurisdiction from facilitating the development of housing that is needed to meet its RHNA assignment. Many sites
in Long Beach have environmental issues, which require
additional remediation before developing housing on-site.

Many of the remaining vacant or underutilized sites in
the City are former sites where oil drilling took place.

Therefore, additional processes, requirements and costs related to remediation and permitting can constrain the ability for such sites to be developed. Other environmental conditions impacting the production of housing in Long
Beach include vulnerability to flooding and seismic risk.

Community Concerns & Opposition to
Housing Development
In addition to governmental, market, and environmental
constraints on housing production, there are also
local non-governmental constraints that affect all the
aforementioned. In recent decades local community
opposition to new housing production, especially
affordable housing, has emerged in Long Beach and other coastal California cities. This can result in delays or appeals and lawsuits for housing project applications in the City, or exclusionary zoning in high-opportunity areas.

More detailed information on the above-summarized
constraints can be found in Appendix D.

Housing Plan
Meeting Housing Needs
“The most important housing issue for me is to
maintain my housing by all means. To maintain my
housing, we need supportive services. ”
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Introduction �� 67 Goals and Policies �� 67 Housing Production �� 67 Government Constraints to Housing Development �� 68 Housing Affordability �� 69 Housing Opportunities for Special Needs Residents �� 70 Housing and Neighborhood Improvement �� 70 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Access to Resources � 71 Administration �� 72 Programs �� 73 Housing Production �� 73 Program 1�1: Adequate Sites for RHNA �� 73 Program 1�2: By-Right Approval for Projects with 20 Percent Affordable Units �� 74 Program 1�3: Monitoring of No Net Loss �� 75 Program 1�4: Public Land for Affordable Housing �� 76 Program 1�5: Religious Facility Housing Overlay �� 76 Program 1�6: Affordable Housing Development Assistance �� 77 Program 1�7: Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) �� 78 Mitigation of Government Constraints �� 79 Program 2�1: Development Incentives �� 79 Program 2�2: Adaptive Reuse �� 81 Program 2�3: Zoning Code Amendments �� 81 Program 2�4: A Variety of Housing Types �� 82 Program 2�5: Micro-Units Pilot Program �� 82 Program 2�6: Development Review Process �� 83

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6 Housing Affordability �� 84 Program 3�1: Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Programs �� 84 Program 3�2: Project-Based Vouchers�� 86 Program 3�3: Homeownership Assistance �� 87 Program 3�4: New Funding Mechanisms for Affordable Housing 88 Housing Opportunities for Special Needs Residents �� 89 Program 4�1: Continuum of Care �� 89 Program 4�2: Supportive Housing/Century Villages at Cabrillo �� 91 Program 4�3: Hotel/Motel Conversion �� 92 Housing Preservation and Neighborhood Improvements �� 93 Program 5�1: Preservation of At-Risk Units �� 93 Program 5�2: Tenant Protection �� 94 Program 5�3: Home Rehabilitation �� 95 Program 5�4: Comprehensive Code Enforcement �� 96

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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing ��97 Program 6�1: Fair Housing Outreach and Enforcement ��97 Program 6�2: Visitability Ordinance ��98 Program 6�3: Voucher Mobility ��98 Program 6�4: Replacement Housing Requirements ��99 Program 6�5: Tenants Right to Counsel ��100 Program 6�6: Unpermitted Dwelling Unit Amnesty Program 100 Program 6�7: Inclusionary Housing ��101 Program 6�8: Community Land Trust ��101 Program 6�9: Monitoring of Housing Production ��102 Program 6�10: Zoning Code Updated Tailored to
Disadvantaged Communities ��103 Program 6�11: Consolidated Plan Update ��104 Program 6�12: Housing Rehabilitation ��104 Program 6�13: Neighborhood Resources ��105 Program 6�14: Neighborhood Leadership Development ��105 Housing Administration ��106 Program 7�1: Housing Action Plan ��106 Program 7�2: Dedicated Rental Housing Staff ��107 Program 7�3: Mid-term Evaluation of HE Implementation ��107 Quantified Objectives ��108 Housing Plan | Meeting Housing Needs
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HOUSING PLAN
Introduction
This section describes the City of Long Beach’s housing strategy for the 6th Cycle planning period (2021-2029). The housing plan is organized by goals. Goals are aspirational purpose statements that indicate the City’s direction on housing-related needs. Each goal encompasses several
policies, statements that describe the City’s preferred course of action among a range of other options. Each
goal also includes programs, or efforts taken to achieve the City’s goals. Each program is associated with actions, which are steps the City will take to implement the program and further the City’s policies and goals.

The following goals, policies, and programs were
developed to meet the needs of all economic segments of the City. They are informed by the technical assessments conducted throughout the Housing Element update, such
as the housing needs assessment, governmental and
non-governmental constraints assessment, and review
of the prior Housing Element plan. Strategies in this plan were also informed by notable best practices in other
jurisdictions, as well as feedback gathered from community members, local stakeholders and advocacy groups.

Goals and Policies
Housing Production
Issue: The shortage of housing, particularly affordable housing, has risen to a crisis situation in Long Beach, as in many communities throughout the State. Facilitating the development of a diversity of housing to meet the needs of all residents is a City priority. Housing cost burden and overcrowding continue to disproportionately impact the
City’s lower income and minority households. Production is one of the key strategies for mitigating housing cost escalations and relieving overcrowding.

Goal 1: Provide Increased Opportunities for the
Construction of High-Quality Housing

» HE Policy 1�1: Implement the 2019 Land Use/Urban
Design Element update through a comprehensive
rezoning program citywide that will provide
adequate sites, zoned at the appropriate densities
and development standards, to facilitate the housing
production and affordability goals set forth in the
2021-2029 RHNA.
» HE Policy 1�2: Facilitate the development of affordable housing by streamlining the approval process for
projects with substantial levels of affordable housing. » HE Policy 1�3: Achieve a balance of rental and
homeownership opportunities, including apartments,
townhomes, condominiums, single-family houses, and
accessory dwelling units, micro-units and alternative
housing options to accommodate the housing needs
of all socioeconomic segments of the community,
including large families.
» HE Policy 1�4: Facilitate the development of medium
density housing options such as duplex, triplex,
fourplex, garden court apartments, and cottages to
bridge the “missing middle” housing gap between high
density apartments and condominiums and low density
single-family houses.
» HE Policy 1�5: Encourage new high-quality rental and ownership housing through the implementation of
objective design standards, and architectural and green building standards in alignment with the Urban Design
Element of the General Plan.
» HE Policy 1�6: Facilitate adaptive reuse of existing
structures for residential purposes.
“Social services, workforce training
centers, and grocery stores
are needed near new housing
developments. ”
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» HE Policy 1�7: Encourage residential development
along transit corridors, in the downtown and close
to employment, transportation and activity centers;
and encourage infill and mixed-use developments in
designated districts in alignment with the City’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) to minimize carbon
emissions by focusing new housing near transit and
jobs.
» HE Policy 1�8: Maintain a vacant and underutilized
residential sites inventory, including City-owned sites, and assist residential developers in identifying land
suitable for residential development.
» HE Policy 1�9: Establish and maintain partnerships with nonprofit organizations, affordable housing builders,
and for-profit developers, to provide greater access to affordable housing funds.
» HE Policy 1�10: Support the development of housing
that is technology-friendly and designed to meet the
housing needs of the emerging information, remote
learning and working, and technology industry
workforce.
» HE Policy 1�11: Utilize inclusionary housing and
enhanced density bonuses that expand upon the density
bonus and development standard concessions and
incentives offered as tools to facilitate the development of more affordable housing, with a mix of affordability levels within mixed-income housing.
» HE Policy 1�12: Provide incentives for housing that is accessible and affordable to lower income households,
seniors, and disabled persons (including persons with
developmental disabilities), such as through density
bonus incentive programs that offer bonuses and
concessions beyond those offered by the State Density
Bonus Statute (Government Code Section 65915).
» HE Policy 1�13: Promote mixed income and/or mixed-
generation housing that fosters integration of residents of different socioeconomic backgrounds.
» HE Policy 1�14: Expand partnerships with local colleges, universities, and vocational training programs to provide a well-trained workforce to construction trades.
» HE Policy 1�15: Explore mechanisms to pay for the
removal and remediation of oil and gas wells on vacant
or underutilized sites, to increase the number of lots
available for development.
» HE Policy 1�16: Explore additional locations that may be suitable for housing, such as within the City’s Tidelands area or on other publicly owned land.

Government Constraints to Housing
Development
Issue: Market factors and government regulations
can have a significant impact on the development,
improvement and affordability of housing. Although
market conditions are beyond the direct influence of
any jurisdiction, communities can encourage housing
investment by ensuring the reasonableness of local land use controls, development standards, permit-processing
procedures, fees and exactions, and governmental
requirements that will impact residential development.

The City of Long Beach is committed to addressing
governmental constraints through innovative and
proactive land use planning and regulations.

Goal 2: Mitigate Government Constraints to Housing
Investment and Affordability
» HE Policy 2�1: Evaluate existing zoning and design
policies, impact fees and other regulations for
their impact on housing construction cost through
unnecessary delays or logistical roadblocks.
» HE Policy 2�2: Reform the Site Plan Review process to assure objectives, standardized reviews are done as
quickly as possible while still upholding high-quality
design and community standards.
» HE Policy 2�3: Offer financial and/or regulatory
incentives, such as density bonuses and fee reductions
or waivers, where feasible, to reduce the costs and/or to remove impediments to developing affordable housing,
particularly near transit.
» HE Policy 2�4: Utilize hybrid zoning and other planning tools to allow flexible residential development standards in designated areas.
» HE Policy 2�5: Explore removing minimum unit size
requirements, based on results of the micro-unit pilot
program, as a means to provide market-rate units
that are affordable by virtue of their housing typology and can provide more affordable housing options for
students and young professionals.
» HE Policy 2�6: Provide density bonus incentives
beyond those offered by the State Density Bonus
Statute (Government Code Section 65915) to further
facilitate the construction of affordable housing as part of mixed-income, multi-family housing development
citywide, while also offering no net loss protections that exceed those required by the State and the City’s local ordinance.

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» HE Policy 2�7: Provide for streamlined, timely and
coordinated processing of development projects and
associated environmental clearances to minimize
project-holding costs.
» HE Policy 2�8: Support the use of technology to improve communications between the City government and the
community, and to facilitate housing development such
as upgraded permit software to provide a streamlined
planning and building review and inspection process.

Housing Affordability
Issue: Housing unaffordability has been a crisis in Long Beach even before COVID-19. The pandemic further
exacerbated the situation, rendering many lower income
households at risk of becoming homeless. The exact
magnitude and duration of the economic impacts of this
pandemic is unknown at this time, partly due to COVID-19 response and recovery measures (such as CARES Act
funding and eviction moratorium) available. However, such measures are likely to ultimately expire. The City’s priority is to address housing affordability issues for renters, who have limited to no last-resort options.

Goal 3: Provide Housing Assistance and Preserve
Publicly Assisted Units
» HE Policy 3�1: Leverage local financial assistance with other sources of funding for affordable housing to
maximize the number of affordable units and to reach
the deepest level of affordability.
» HE Policy 3�2: Utilize a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) or other competitive application processes
to solicit affordable development proposals that
incorporate innovative designs and housing options.
» HE Policy 3�3: Identify new funding sources and
strategies to support affordable housing.
» HE Policy 3�4: Continue implementing the Housing
Choice Voucher (HCV) and other rent subsidies
programs.
» HE Policy 3�5: Provide emergency rental assistance for residents in greatest need as a strategy for preventing homelessness.
» HE Policy 3�6: Work with property owners and nonprofit housing providers to preserve assisted multi-family
units at risk of conversion to market rents and extend
the affordability covenants in perpetuity whenever
feasible.
» HE Policy 3�7: Continue the City’s rehabilitation loan and grant programs to assist in the preservation of
affordable housing units.
» HE Policy 3�8: Preserve and expand the stock of single room occupancy housing as a source of permanent,
affordable housing.
» HE Policy 3�9: Preserve mobile home parks as an
important resource of affordable housing, especially to seniors.
» HE Policy 3�10: Incentivize the development of for-sale housing that is priced for entry-level homeowners,
including smaller units and affordable homeowner’s
association fees.
» HE Policy 3�11: Assist first-time homebuyers with
financial readiness, such as financial literacy and credit counseling.
» HE Policy 3�12: Pursue opportunities to partner with lenders to provide a streamlined application process
and favorable terms for mortgage financing to lower
income households.
» HE Policy 3�13: Pursue homeownership opportunities,
with an emphasis on providing affordable options
for lower and moderate-income households with a
particular focus on black households and households of
color who historically could not access homeownership.
“Low-income students, seniors, and
single mothers need more housing
assistance. ”
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Housing Opportunities for Special Needs
Residents
Issue: Certain groups face greater difficulty in
finding decent, affordable housing due to their special circumstances. Special circumstances may relate to one’s income, family characteristics, disability or health issues.

Long Beach is home to a sizable population of persons
with special needs including: people experiencing
homelessness, elderly, disabled persons, single parents, large households, veterans, college students, and others.

Goal 4: Address the Unique Housing Needs of
Special Needs Residents
» HE Policy 4�1: Continue efforts to implement and
expand the Long Beach Continuum of Care for people
experiencing homelessness.
» HE Policy 4�2: Provide housing that addresses the needs of the disabled (including persons with developmental
disabilities), the mentally ill, persons with substance problems, persons with HIV/AIDS, veterans and other
groups needing transitional and supportive housing.
» HE Policy 4�3: Encourage universal design of housing products and environments, making them usable by a
wide range people with different physical and mental
abilities.
» HE Policy 4�4: Integrate and disperse special needs
housing within the community and in close proximity to
transit and public services.
» HE Policy 4�5: Encourage California State University at Long Beach and other institutions of higher education
to build student, staff, and faculty housing to meet the needs of their students and employees. Partner with
educational institutions to expand on-campus and
near-campus student housing, in order to relieve the
strain on supply for the general city population/housing. » HE Policy 4�6: Proactively seek out new models and
approaches for the provision of affordable housing, such as co-housing, micro units, motel/hotel conversions,
and assisted living facilities.
» HE Policy 4�7: Identify stable revenue sources for the Housing Trust Fund.

Housing and Neighborhood Improvement
Issue: Housing and neighborhood conservation and
improvement in Long Beach is an important means to
improving the quality of life for residents. As an older, highly urbanized and densely populated community, Long Beach
is confronted with a range of community development
issues, particularly in older neighborhoods where housing conditions, public improvements, community facilities, and neighborhood amenities (such as access to healthy food
and open space) are either lacking or in need of upgrading or replacement. These conditions disproportionately
impact the City’s lower income residents and communities of color.

Goal 5: Retain and Improve the Quality of Existing
Housing and Neighborhoods
» HE Policy 5�1: Maintain and improve the housing stock and neighborhood conditions.
» HE Policy 5�2: Ensure that City regulations support the ability for property owners to maintain and improve
existing housing stock.
» HE Policy 5�3: Promote continued maintenance of
quality ownership and rental housing by offering
assistance to encourage preventative maintenance and
repair.
» HE Policy 5�4: Prioritize public improvements (such
as streets and drainage, sidewalks and alleys, green
spaces and parks, street trees, and other public facilities, amenities and infrastructure) in neighborhoods with
the greatest need, including neighborhoods with high
concentrations of poverty and limited existing resources and amenities.
» HE Policy 5�5: Preserve and maintain the City’s
historical and architecturally significant buildings and neighborhoods by maintaining historic landmarks and
districts.
» HE Policy 5�6: Create healthy neighborhoods by
performing ongoing property inspections, eliminating
threats to the public health, promoting business
establishments that offer healthy food choices, and
encouraging sustainable cooling options (solar panels,
tree-planting, cool building materials and pavements)
to protect at-risk populations such as children and older adults.
» HE Policy 5�7: Encourage place-based strategies
for neighborhood planning and improvements that
incorporate biking, pedestrian, and public transit
connections from lower-resource to higher-resource
areas and providing shade coverage, such as tree
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canopy or awnings, at public transit, to enhance access to amenities throughout the city.
» HE Policy 5�8: Promote strong, on-site management of
multi-family complexes to ensure the maintenance of
housing and neighborhood quality.
» HE Policy 5�9: Conduct education and outreach to
tenants regarding the City’s Code Enforcement program
and their rights as a tenant to decent, safe, and sanitary housing.
» HE Policy 5�10: Link affordable housing with programs and projects that complement other community
development goals and resources.
» HE Policy 5�11: Promote green building standards in
the rehabilitation of existing housing.
» HE Policy 5�12: Balance the need for safety with
housing supply and affordability in any citywide
mandatory seismic upgrade policy. Provide incentives
for affordability in upgraded buildings
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and
Access to Resources
Issue: Systematic and structural barriers related to
housing and employment have placed a disproportionate
number of lower-income households and communities
of color at a disadvantage in pursuing personal and
economic advancements. Working to address these issues in pursuit of the fundamental right to equal access to
decent and affordable housing is a guiding principle of this Housing Element.

Goal 6: Ensure Fair and Equal Housing Opportunity
» HE Policy 6�1: Ensure planning policies and
development regulations follow the principle of equal
access to housing opportunities.
» HE Policy 6�2: Avoid the overconcentration of lower
income housing in neighborhoods of low resources.
» HE Policy 6�3: Prioritize neighborhood conditions
improvements in low income communities of color
through coordinated community development efforts.
» HE Policy 6�4: Require at minimum the replacement
of housing units that are demolished because of
proposed development at the same or greater levels of
affordability based on deed restrictions or incomes of
previous tenants.
» HE Policy 6�5: Establish programs and actions to
mitigate development impacts on displacement and
gentrification and offer tenant protection.
» HE Policy 6�6: Conduct fair housing outreach and
education for Long Beach residents, property owners,
and housing providers to ensure each understands their
rights and responsibilities.
» HE Policy 6�7: Identify mechanisms to increase
production and access to housing in high resource areas through the City’s 2022-2026 Consolidated Plan update.
» HE Policy 6�8: Enforce notification and relocation
assistance for low income households displaced due
to demolition, condominium conversion, and persons
displaced due to code enforcement activities of illegally converted or substandard residential dwellings.
» HE Policy 6�9: Improve the regulatory pathway for
legalizing unpermitted dwelling units to help protect
tenants in those units and preserve the housing stock.
“We need to ensure that cities follow
through on affirmatively furthering
fair housing; not just rezoning for low-
income housing but ensuring that
it is funded. The City should create
incentives for getting low-income
housing built and make sure that a
reasonable portion of it is allocated to
high opportunity areas where people
of lower incomes or historically
disadvantaged groups have been
excluded. ”
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» HE Policy 6�10: Support Community Land Trusts,
neighborhood investment companies and/or other
models for facilitating community ownership of
affordable housing and to provide ways to empower
community members to participate in community
development.
» HE Policy 6�11: Facilitate affordable housing in high opportunity areas, including through the provision
of Accessory Dwelling Units and through acquisition,
rehabilitation and conversion of existing housing units to be affordable.
» HE Policy 6�12: Seek to expand the City’s inclusionary housing program to additional neighborhoods.
» HE Policy 6�13: Pursue funding opportunities to finance ADUs in high-resource areas with tenancy of the ADU
restricted for low and moderate-income renters.
» HE Policy 6�14: Increase housing stock accessible to all ability statuses.
» HE Policy 6�15: Continue funding and explore
expanding the HOME-funded CHDO program that
provides smaller-scale affordable housing, including for those with disabilities, in all areas of the City.
» HE Policy 6�16: Increase access to and knowledge of
City resources for low-income neighborhoods.
» HE Policy 6�17: Maximize the preservation and
replacement of affordable housing units through no net
loss and other strategies.

Administration
Issue: Implementing some of the programs outlined in
this Housing Element would require legal and technical
expertise in the housing field. The City may need to
consider increasing its staffing capacity and provision of resources to meet this need.

Goal 7: Ensure Effective and Efficient Delivery of
Housing Programs and Services
» HE Policy 7�1: Dedicate staffing and resources necessary to deliver housing programs and services set forth in
this Housing Element.

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Programs
Housing Production
Program 1.1: Adequate Sites for RHNA
The City of Long Beach has a RHNA of 26,502 units:
» 7,141 very low-income units
» 4,047 low income units
» 4,158 moderate-income units
» 11,156 above moderate-income units
With anticipated approved/proposed/pipeline projects
and projected ADUs, a total of 3,348 units can be credited toward the City’s RHNA. The remaining 23,154 RHNA units (6,137 very low, 2,603 low, 4,092 moderate, and 10,322
above moderate-income units) must be accommodated
through adequate sites planning.

The City of Long Beach updated its General Plan Land
Use Element (LUE) in 2019, which uses PlaceTypes
to designate allowable land uses. The City has been
incrementally amending its Zoning Code to create
or modify zoning districts and rezone properties to
implement the new LUE PlaceTypes. Based on existing
zoning, the City has adequate sites for 14,667 units,
with a shortfall of 10,776 units. The City is committed to amending the Zoning Code within three years from
October 15, 2021 to rezone all properties on the site
inventory to fully implement the PlaceTypes, which
would provide a total capacity of approximately 30,115
units as outlined in Chapter 4 and further detailed in
Appendix C.

Because the site inventory cannot be accommodated
under existing zoning, the City acknowledges that all
by-right provisions of Government Code §65583.2,
including subdivisions (h) and(i), will apply.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.1.1: Continue to build out Title 22, the Transitional Zoning Code, to implement LUE PlaceTypes, prioritizing those PlaceTypes where residential dwelling unit capacity is identified for the RHNA through the site inventory.

Rezone all site inventory sites by October 15,
2024
Action 1.1.2: Through Title 22 implementation, facilitate the by-right development of naturally occurring affordable housing to encourage low-cost housing typologies such as bungalow-style apartments.

By October 15, 2024
Action 1.1.3: Begin the process of converting the City’s legacy Planned Development Districts (PDs) into Specific Plans or conventional zoning in order to implement the LUE, standardize and streamline future development and encourage the creation of new housing units.

By October 15, 2024
Action 1.1.4: As part of the rezoning program (Action 1.1.1), enact more flexible ground-floor requirements for mixed-use zones to maximize housing development viability and respond to community needs such as through incentives for community priorities including grocery stores or community spaces.

By October 15, 2024 in conjunction with
Action 1.1.1
Action 1.1.5: Make sites inventory available online and assist developers in identifying additional opportunities for residential development such as through technical assistance on how to use the Enhanced Density Bonus incentives.

By mid-2022, publish site inventory and
publish information bulletin
Action 1.1.6: Monitor ADU development trends to determine if increased efforts are necessary to promote ADU development.

Monitor trends on development rates and
ADU affordability every other year and
take appropriate action, such as adjusting
assumptions , within six months. If necessary,
revise strategy in 2025. Monitor ADU
production by TCAC opportunity zone and
investigate causes of any imbalance in the
creation of units in targeted areas.
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Program 1.2: By-Right Approval for Projects with 20
Percent Affordable Units
Pursuant to AB 1397 (Adequate Sites) passed in 2017, the City will amend the Zoning Code to provide a by-right
approval process for housing development that includes
20 percent of the units as housing affordable to lower
income households, on sites being used to meet the 6th
cycle RHNA if the sites meet the following conditions:
» A vacant site for RHNA identified in the previous two Housing Element cycles;
» A nonvacant site for RHNA identified in the previous one Housing Element cycle; or
» A site rezoned for RHNA after the statutory deadline of the current Housing Element cycle
The “reuse” and rezone sites are specifically identified in the inventory (see Appendix C).

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.1.7: Provide technical and financial assistance to developers of low and moderate-income housing.

Ongoing and annually through affordable
housing allocation through a NOFA process.

Focus efforts in areas of the city that are
underserved by affordable unit inventory.

Prioritize high resource, amenity and transit
rich locations where possible.

Action 1.1.8: Develop a pilot program through the Consolidated Plan update (see Program 6.11) to pursue deed restriction of housing for low income households in TCAC high and highest resource areas, including in East Long Beach and Bixby Knolls, in exchange for a lump-sum grant or loan.

By the end of 2022
Action 1.1.9: Pursuant to SB 1087, adopt policy and procedure to prioritize water services to affordable housing development proposals. By the end of 2022 Action 1.1.10: Pursuant to SB 1087, provide a copy of the Adopted Housing Element to the City’s sewer service provider (Los Angeles County Sanitation District).

Within 30 days of Housing Element adoption
Responsible Agency:

Development Services Department/ Planning
Bureau
Development Services Department/ Housing
& Neighborhood Services Bureau
Long Beach Community Investment Company
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
State and Federal Grant Funds
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 1.2.1: Amend Zoning
Code to implement a by-right
approval process pursuant to
AB 1397.

Establish program in
2022
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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The recently adopted Enhanced Density Bonus Ordinance,
which provides greater incentives for including more
affordable housing in mixed-income projects, includes
a No Net Loss requirement that goes above and beyond
those required by state law and instead incorporates
consideration both of rent levels and income levels when determining whether a replacement affordable unit is
required. The intension is to preserve naturally occurring affordable units, whether or not the unit was occupied by a lower income household, so that the maximum amount of
affordable housing is preserved.

There is a significant amount of existing multi-family
residential development in the City that is built at densities which exceed the allowances of today’s zoning or land use regulations because the development was built before the current zoning was in place. Such properties have “legal non-conforming” status and therefore not only have limited allowances for maintenance and improvements, but such
legal non-conforming properties are not currently allowed to rebuild to the same densities should a developer wish to redevelop such a site. In the existing R-1 and R-2 zoning districts alone there are estimated to be over 24,000 units with said nonconforming status. To address this challenge, the City is exploring pathways to allow for nonconforming residential structures to conduct appropriate maintenance and improvements.

Program 1.3: Monitoring of No Net Loss
Building upon SB 166 (No Net Loss) passed in 2017, SB 330 (the “Housing Crisis Act of 2019”), was adopted by the State on October 9, 2019 to, among other things, prevent the loss of existing housing and land available for future residential use unless such housing is replaced in other areas of the affected jurisdiction to ensure “no net loss” in residential capacity, and the City’s local ordinance adopted by City Council on February 2, 2021 and codified in LBMC Chapter

21.11 (No Net Loss) to ensure the City’s compliance with SB 330, the City will expand and improve upon the ongoing
no net loss efforts to develop a procedure to track:
» Unit count and income/affordability assumed on parcels included in the sites inventory.
» Actual number of units achieved and income/
affordability when parcels are developed.
» Net change in capacity and summary of remaining
capacity in meeting remaining Regional Housing Needs
Allocation (RHNA).

Unit count and income/affordability are identified in the inventory (see Appendix C).

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.3.1: Expand City of Long Beach Housing Dashboards to monitor RHNA progress and remaining sites capacity including No Net Loss provisions, and continue using the dashboard to monitor ADU development Track unit production by TCAC opportunity area http://www.longbeach.gov/lbds/planning/housing-dashboards/ Modify Dashboards in 2022
Action 1.3.2: Pilot expanded no net loss provisions through the Enhanced Density Bonus Ordinance 2022
Action 1.3.3: Update non-conforming regulations to reconcile no-net-loss provisions and allow for the maintenance, improvement, and rebuilding of existing unit density that may exceed the underlying zone.

Adopt ordinance by 2023
Action 1.3.4: Evaluate areas of where non-conforming units outnumber conforming properties for strategic plan designation change and up-zoning.

Complete analysis by 2024
Action 1.3.5: Explore an in-lieu fee program for developments that build below-targeted densities in specific neighborhoods Explore program feasibility in 2023 Responsible Agency: Development Services Department/ Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 1.4: Public Land for Affordable Housing
Public agencies (such as the City, school district, public utilities, County, State, and Federal agencies) may own surplus properties that could be appropriate for affordable housing development. Additionally, future development projects by public agencies could include the provision of affordable housing. The City will monitor the potential disposition and opportunity for affordable housing on these properties.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.4.1: Maintain a list of publicly owned properties with potential for affordable housing.

Establish list in 2023 and
update annually thereafter
Action 1.4.2: Quantify the residential dwelling unit potential of publicly owned properties and explore a program that requires future public development projects to incorporate the provision of affordable housing to the extent feasible, especially housing for extremely low income households. Prioritize sites that are in high resource areas, in high quality transit areas and neighborhoods in the city with that are underserved in terms of affordable units.

Explore program in 2024.

Action 1.4.3: Identify housing types that could be realistically built in the Tidelands and initiate a discussion with State regulatory agencies to explore expanding allowable land uses to address the local and statewide need for affordable housing.

Initiate discussion with State
Lands Commission by 2026
Action 1.4.4: Explore the use of sovereign immunity for City-owned properties that could allow housing development regardless the zoning or General Plan designation by reviewing examples from other cities and examining case law on the matter.

Publish recommendations
in 2025 and pursue feasible
options in the following year
Responsible Agency: Development Services
Department/ Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 1.5: Religious Facility Housing Overlay
AB 1851 (Religious Facility Housing) provides relief in parking requirements when a religious institution partners with a nonprofit organization to provide affordable housing on site. This new state law applies only to religious facility properties in residential zones or nonresidential zones that also allow residential uses. Religious facilities are located throughout the City and oftentimes are situated on large sites with high proportions of undeveloped land, including in high resource areas where there is currently insufficient supply of affordable housing. The residential sites inventory has been expanded to include religious facility properties, particularly in high resource areas. The City will adopt an overlay to:
» Provide incentives and parking relief to religious facility properties, including in zones that do not normally permit residential uses.
» Designate religious properties in the Founding and Contemporary Neighborhood (FCN) PlaceType as part of the Overlay, with specific provisions to allow for affordable housing at an increased density of 30 units per acre.

Given the religious facility opportunity sites in high resource areas of the City, this program is important to the City’s strategy for creating more affordable housing opportunities in high resource areas to address fair housing goals.

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Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.5.1: Adopt an overlay that would provide incentives and relief for developing affordable housing on religious facility properties, especially housing that includes units for extremely low income households.

Adopt the Religious Facilities Housing
Overlay by the end of 2023
Responsible Agency: Development Services Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 1.6: Affordable Housing Development Assistance
The Long Beach Community Investment Company (LBCIC) provides assistance to non-profit and for-profit housing developers for the construction or acquisition/rehabilitation of affordable rental and for-sale ownership housing. LBCIC assistance usually takes the form of low-interest loans and all assisted units are deed-restricted for occupancy by lower income households. The LBCIC seeks out other sources of funding, including HOME, State, and Federal funds. Specifically, LBCIC will continue to utilize the 15 percent HOME Community Development Housing Organization (CHDO) set-aside funds to pursue affordable housing opportunities through new construction, substantial rehabilitation, and/or acquisition/ rehabilitation.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.6.1: Annually monitor availability of State and federal funding and partner with affordable housing developers, if necessary, in applying for additional funds. Prioritize sites in high opportunity areas and in communities that are underserved by existing affordable units
Annually
Action 1.6.2: Identify qualified nonprofit developers for partnership in affordable housing construction and acquisition/rehabilitation projects.

Annually through the NOFA
process
Action 1.6.3: Continue to provide funding to help gap-finance for approximately 75 affordable housing units annually. Priority in funding is granted to projects housing extremely low income households and special needs groups (such as the elderly and the disabled, including those with developmental disabilities) and/or enriched with supportive services such as childcare, health programs, job training, and financial and legal counseling.

Assist in the development
of 600 lower income
units over the eight year
planning period
Responsible Agency:

LBCIC
Development Services
Department/ Housing &
Neighborhood Services
Funding Sources:

HOME
Inclusionary Housing
In-Lieu fee
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Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 1.7.1: Continue to expand City webpage on ADU
requirements and resources.
http://www.longbeach.gov/lbds/planning/adus/
Ongoing
Action 1.7.2: Pursue mechanisms to facilitate the construction of ADUs, including but not limited to:
» Expanding pre-approved standard ADU plan types and
resources
» Pursue funding to assist lower and moderate-income
homeowners in constructing ADUs
» Pursue funding and other incentives to assist in the
development of ADUs restricted to low and moderate-
income renters, particularly in high resource areas
» Consider expanding/extending fee waivers for ADUs beyond State law
Initiate efforts in 2022
Responsible Agency: Development Services Department/ Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
“I want to see the city collaborate
with forward thinking design studios
and architecture schools to develop
innovative and low-cost construction
solutions. ”
Long Beach Resident - Housing Element
Community Forum
Program 1.7: Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) represent an important
opportunity to create more affordable housing for lower and moderate-income households. The State has passed
multiple bills in recent years to remove constraints to the development of ADUs (including AB 587, AB 671, AB 68, and SB 13, among others). The City’s current ADU regulations do not comply with State law. As of January 2019, the City has locally implemented the State regulations and continues to assist applicants in the ADU application, permitting, and construction process. To facilitate ADU development, the City has dedicated a webpage to provide clear and concise information about ADU requirements and application/
review process.

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Mitigation of Government Constraints
Program 2.1: Development Incentives
The City of Long Beach utilizes various mechanisms to
lessen the impact of government policies and regulations that may have an implication on the cost of housing
development, especially affordable housing development.

In Long Beach, some of these policies and regulations
include residential development standards, fees or
exactions paid for new residential development. Several programs designed to mitigate these constraints are as
follows:

Density Bonus: While the local density bonus ordinance has not yet been updated to reflect the most recent
changes to the State Density Bonus law, the City of Long Beach implements all state density bonus provisions.

Enhanced Density Bonus : In September 2021, the City
adopted an Enhanced Density Bonus program that offers
density increases citywide beyond state law, with up to 100 percent bonuses for areas near high quality transit and a suite of other concessions, in exchange for the inclusion of affordable housing units and more stringent no net loss provisions.

Fee Waivers and Financial Incentives: The Long Beach
Municipal Code exempts new affordable housing units from payment of the City’s development impact fees for parks and recreation and transportation improvements if the
criteria on length of affordability and income/affordability levels are met. Additional financial incentives may also be available pursuant to the construction of a density bonus project as outlined in the City’s ordinance.

Streamlined Review: The City has proactively identified and utilized multiple avenues for streamlining housing
development review pursuant to the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to reduce the time and cost associated with housing development. CEQA review
typically adds significant time and cost to the approval process for housing developments. In 2012, the City
developed a Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)
for the Downtown Plan (PD-30) in 2012 and has since
been successful in streamlining CEQA review of housing
and mixed-use development projects consistent with the
Downtown Plan in accordance with Section 15168(c)(2) of the State CEQA Guidelines. Based on this success, the City has expanded the use of a PEIR to streamline development of hundreds of new affordable housing units within the
Midtown Plan (SP-1). In 2019, the City adopted a PEIR for the citywide Land Use Element (LUE) update, allowing it to streamline CEQA review for housing development projects across the City when they are consistent with the LUE
through the use of an Environmental Compliance Checklist and uniformly applicable development standards. When
appropriate, the City employs other methods for reducing the time and cost of CEQA review for housing development projects, such as through Class 32 Infill Exemptions and through State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183.3 which allows streamlining for certain qualified infill projects. The City is now in the process of developing a CEQA Guide to assist in identifying additional opportunities for streamlining the CEQA process for future projects.

Additionally, on April 16, 2020, the Planning Commission adopted a resolution that delegates review authority to Site Plan Review Committee (SPRC) for residential projects (regardless of the number of units) that are comprised of 100 percent affordable units or are interim housing projects.

This change allows 100% affordable housing projects of any size to go through a more streamlined ministerial review process since such projects are no longer required to go through approval of the Planning Commission, thereby
reducing the time and entitlement cost for residential
projects that address these critical housing needs. The delegation of review authority for affordable housing and interim housing projects is consistent with the guidance provided by state law. In addition, the City will develop a streamlined review procedure for projects that qualify for SB 35 processing.
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Reasonable Accommodation: The City also has an
ordinance allowing people with disabilities reasonable
accommodation in rules, policies, practices and procedures that may be necessary to ensure equal access to housing.

The ordinance provides a process whereby persons
with disabilities can make requests for reasonable
accommodation in regard to relief from the various land use, zoning or building laws, rules, policies, practices or procedures of the City.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 2.1.1: Continue to offer regulatory incentives to accommodate the development of accessible and affordable housing. Monitor production by TCAC opportunity zone to determine if tweaks are necessary to incentivize production in high resource areas
Ongoing
Action 2.1.2: Complete the CEQA Guide and continue to develop and employ available strategies for streamlining CEQA review of housing and mixed-use development.

Complete the CEQA guide by 2023;
employ CEQA streamlining options on
an ongoing basis
Action 2.1.3: Assess the effectiveness of the Enhanced Density Bonus program in creating affordable housing and revise the program as necessary and appropriate.

Assess program in 2024 and as
appropriate, make revisions in 2025
Action 2.1.4: Annually review development trends to determine the effectiveness of the City’s new LUE in facilitating development and if adjustments to the City’s housing production strategies are necessary as part of the City’s General Plan Annual Report.

See also Program 6.9: Monitoring of
Housing Production
Action 2.1.5: Promote incentives to interested developers and provide technical assistance regarding the potential use of various incentives through pre-application meetings.

Ongoing, with promotion efforts at
least twice a year
Action 2.1.6: As funding permits, provide financial assistance to affordable housing development.
600 lower income units over eight
years (see also Program 1.6: Affordable
Housing Development Assistance)
Action 2.1.7: Develop a streamlined review procedure for projects that qualify for SB 35 processing regardless of whether the applicant invokes SB 35, in order to prioritize projects with certain levels of affordability.

Develop procedure in 2022.

Action 2.1.8: Assess existing processes to investigate additional review processes may be delegated to a streamlined, ministerial review for projects that include a percentage of affordable housing units.

Assess and update procedures by 2025
Responsible Agency: Development Services Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
HOME
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Program 2.2: Adaptive Reuse
The City has many older commercial and industrial
buildings that are no longer being occupied by the highest and best uses or compatible uses with its surrounding
neighborhoods. The economic impacts of COVID-19 have
further accelerated the decline of these properties. The City will pursue amendments to the municipal code to establish alternative building regulations for the conversion of
existing buildings to other uses.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 2.2.1: Evaluate, and if
appropriate, amend Municipal
Code to remove potential
constraints for adaptive reuse,
such as review/approval process
and parking standards.

In 2024
Action 2.2.2: Promote adaptive
reuse to property owners and
interested developers.

Ongoing
Responsible Agency:

Development
Services
Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental
Budget
Program 2.3: Zoning Code Amendments
The City’s Zoning Code current does not contain clear
provisions for certain types of housing. Specifically,
employee housing for six or fewer persons (Health and
Safety Code Section 17021.5) should be treated as a single- family structure with a residential land use designation.

Also, manufactured homes installed on permanent
foundation meeting State building standards should be
permitted where housing is permitted. Manufactured
homes are currently not permitted in R-2-A zone in the City.

Furthermore, residential care facilities for seven or more persons require a Conditional Use Permit and are excluded in certain residential zones. This is viewed by the State as a potential constraint to housing for persons with disabilities.

The Zoning Code contains a definition of family
that prescribes certain housekeeping activities and
responsibilities. This definition may be considered too prescriptive for zoning and land use purposes.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 2.3.1: Amend Zoning
Code to address the provision
of employee housing and
manufactured homes.

By the end of 2022
Action 2.3.2: Amend the CUP
requirements and parking
standards for residential and
congregate care facilities for more
than six persons, regulating use
and parking for large residential
care facilities in residential zones
similar to other residential uses in
the same zone.

Amend CUP
and parking
requirements in
section 21.41.216
-table 41 (b) for
residential care
facilities by 2023
Action 2.3.3: Amend the Zoning
Code to either remove the
definition of family or to revise
the definition removing detailed
descriptions that may not be
needed for zoning purposes.

By the end of 2022
Action 2.3.4: Clarify that
transitional and supportive
housing is allowed in mixed-use
zones through code amendments
as needed.

Adopt code
amendments by
the end of 2023
through UPLAN
phase 2 update
Responsible Agency:

Development
Services
Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental
Budget
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Program 2.4: A Variety of Housing Types
Through the comprehensive Zoning Code update, provide
use and development regulations to reflect the intent of the LUE Founding and Contemporary Neighborhoods
PlaceType to accommodate a variety of housing types
to help increase access to housing in high opportunity
neighborhoods as identified in the Long Beach Assessment for Fair Housing (AFH).

The size of housing units is very important as well.

Construction and land costs are key cost factors that
influence pricing and affordability. The City will explore alternative housing types such as tiny homes and
cohousing that promote the efficient use of land and/
or reduce construction costs. Additionally, the City will promote the development of housing units of various sizes and bedroom counts to help meet the needs of all family and household sizes.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 2.4.1: Amend the Zoning
Code to facilitate a variety of
housing types in low density
zones.
2023
Action 2.4.2: Evaluate the
effectiveness of current City policy
on facilitating developments that
include large units (with three or
more bedrooms) and update City
policy if appropriate. A potential
policy update may be requiring
a mix of unit sizes (number of
bedrooms) for projects above a
certain size.
2023
Action 2.4.3: Establish a pilot
program to providing funding
in the form of grants or loans in
exchange for the deed restriction
of housing units for low income
households, targeting units in
high resource areas.

Establish pilot
program by the
end of 2022
Responsible Agency:

Development
Services
Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental
Budget
Program 2.5: Micro-Units Pilot Program
In December 2020, the City Council approved a pilot
program, amending the Zoning Code to provide for micro- units (typically less than 350 square feet). Specific revisions address the following:
» Defer to Building Code for minimum unit size
requirements
» Allow micro-unit adaptive reuse
» Remove barriers relating to required parking and open space requirements
This pilot program is available to the Downtown Plan
(PD-30) and Midtown Plan (SP-1) areas, with a cap of 500 units (entitled).

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 2.5.1: Assess the
effectiveness of the Micro-Unit
pilot program to determine if
the program should be made
permanent and expanded to
other locations.
2024
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 2.6: Development Review Process
The City’s permit and approval processes and timeframes vary depending on the type of project. Most residential projects require some degree of site plan review, either approval by the Site Plan Review Committee or the Planning Commission. Raising the threshold for the project size that would require formal Site Plan Review can reduce the
amount of time for project review for smaller multifamily and mixed use projects. Through Actions 2.6.1 and 2.6.2, SPR thresholds will be increased as part of the City’s
development of new zones, creation of objective design
standards, and comprehensive rezoning to implement the
LUE.

Additionally, City’s existing technology systems and
processes create inefficiencies that can lead to lengthier review times. These include inadequate software, staffing, and lack of automation.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 2.6.1: Incorporate
objective design standards
into new zoning districts
as part of the Citywide
comprehensive code update.

By 2024
Action 2.6.2: Increase the SPR
committee thresholds for
existing zones, incorporate
appropriate SPR thresholds
into new zoning districts,
and amend SPR findings to
facilitate housing production
as part of the Citywide
comprehensive code update
By 2024
Action 2.6.3: Identify new or
improved data and technology
solutions to support faster
development project review
and greater access to housing
and land use information such
as through online dashboards
and other publicly accessible
online resources.

Ongoing
Action 2.6.4 Develop
recommendations for
additional resources to
support faster and smoother
project review, such as an
applicant guide or additional
staffing.

Develop
recommendations
2022; if necessary,
submit a budget
proposal in 2023
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Housing Affordability
Program 3.1: Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
Programs
The City of Long Beach offers a number of tenant-based
rental assistance programs:

COVID Relief: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many
lower income renters are facing loss of employment
and income. The City utilizes funding received from the CARES Act to provide temporary rental assistance to those impacted by COVID-19. The City’s COVID-related rental
assistance programs include: Residential Rent Payment
Match Program; Lower Income Artist Rental Assistance.

Housing Choice Vouchers: The tenant-based Housing
Choice Voucher (HCV) program provides a portable form of housing assistance. Funded by HUD and administered by
the Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach (HACLB), this program provides an income-qualified household a
voucher that can be used everywhere. The HCV program is one of the most significant housing programs for extremely low-income households in the City. To further assist those households most in need, the City further subsidizes
voucher holders through a program to provide a security deposit, using HOME funds.

Security Deposits: The City uses HOME funds to provide
security and utility deposit assistance for homeless families and seniors seeking permanent shelter.

Family Self-Sufficiency Program: The FSS program is
designed to assist HCV participants in identifying and
breaking down barriers that keep them from securing
and maintaining employment that will eventually lead
them to self-sufficiency. The basic goal of the program is to overcome these obstacles, provide opportunities that allow the participants to gain education and supportive services necessary to secure and maintain employment,
and eventually transfer them off welfare services. During the program, the HACLB provides rent subsidies and
administers an escrow savings account for each participant.

HOME Security/Utility Deposit: This program provides
funding to close the gap for homeless individuals and
families who have sources of income sufficient to pay
modest monthly apartment rent but are unable to secure
permanent housing because they could not save enough
money for security deposit and utility hookup fees.

Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH): This
program provides rental assistance to homeless veterans with case management and clinical services provided by
the Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center.

HACLB works closely with the VA office that provides
referrals to the City’s rental assistance program.

HOPWA Long-Term Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
Program: This Housing Opportunity for Persons with Aids (HOPWA) program provides one to two years of Section 8
rental assistance, after which the assistance is rolled over into the HACLB Housing Choice Voucher program.

HOPWA Short-Term Assistance Program (STAP): This
program provides periodic grants to help lower income
tenants catch up with rent and utility payments and
pay moving expenses. The grants provide two types of
financial assistance, Short-Term Rent, Mortgage, Utilities (STRMU) assistance and Permanent Housing Placement
(PHP) assistance.
» STRMU: Provides assistance for up to 21 weeks during
any 52-week period with rent, mortgage, and/or utilities (gas, electric, water and sewer), which may not be
consecutive. Applicants must be living in permanent
housing in Los Angeles County.
» PHP (Move-In): Provides assistance with reasonable
costs to move persons into permanent housing by
covering the security deposit.

Flexible Funding Pool: This option explores establishing a funding pool, possibly through partnerships with other agencies and organizations, to provide funding that can be used flexibly to assist households and individuals
experiencing homelessness. For example, funding can be
used to provide rent subsidies for households that do not qualify for federal assistance under the Section 8 program due to previous immigration status or criminal records, or to provide interim assistance as households are awaiting federal assistance. The Long Beach community raised
the importance of supporting residents who may have a
criminal record or are undocumented, including during
the Framework for Reconciliation process. An initial pilot program is being funded through COVID recovery dollars.

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Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 3.1.1: Outreach and educate to potential
tenants and landlords/property management
regarding the new State law that prohibits housing
discrimination based on source of income, including
public subsidies. Prioritize outreach in high resource
areas such as East Long Beach and Bixby Knolls, as
well as for new developments that have included
density bonus provisions to aid accessibility by
income qualified residents.

Annually
Action 3.1.2: Promote programs, including through
City website, newsletters, and brochures at public
counters.

COVID Relief: [Ongoing]
Ongoing; to annually benefit:

HCV: 6,300 households
FSS: 80 households
HOME: 115 households
VASH: 800 households
HOPWA: 50 households
Action 3.1.3: Actively seek and collaborate with
public and non-profit agencies to jointly apply for
local, State, and Federal funding sources to make
permanent the pilot Flexible Funding Pool after
COVID recovery dollars have been utilized.

Initiate program in 2023 with applications at least once a year until permanent funding is secured
Responsible Agency:

Long Beach Community Investment Company
Long Beach Health and Human Services Department/
Homeless Services Division
Funding Sources:

HUD CARES Act
HUD Section 8 allocation
HOME
HUD-VASH Voucher Program
HOPWA
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Program 3.2: Project-Based Vouchers
The City utilizes project-based vouchers to provide affordable housing for extremely low and very low income households and special needs populations such as youth aging out of the foster care system, veterans, persons with disabilities, and people experiencing homelessness.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 3.2.1: Continue to expand project-based voucher use for extremely low/very low income households and special needs populations through increased partnership with
nonprofit housing providers.

Ongoing; to serve as many households as possible,
contingent on available funding
Responsible Agency: HACLB
Funding Sources: HUD Section 8 allocation
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Program 3.3: Homeownership Assistance
With diminishing funding and increasing needs, the City has prioritized its funding to provide assistance to lower income renter-households who have limited options
and are most at-risk of becoming homeless. However,
homeownership remains a City goal, as it allows lower
income households to build wealth through equity and
eventually move toward financial independence. This has become an even greater priority since the City’s Framework for Reconciliation in 2020, through which black residents and communities of color underscored the criticality of homeownership as a pathway to wealth that has been and
remains less accessible to people of color. In response, in the City’s Fiscal Year (FY) 22 budget, new funds have been allocated for a new downpayment assistance program.

The City also offers homeownership assistance through
Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Homeownership Program.

This program allows households that are assisted under
the HCV program to use their voucher to buy a home and
receive monthly assistance in meeting homeownership
expenses. To participate in the HCV homeownership
program, the HCV household must meet specific income
and employment requirements, be a first-time homeowner, and attend and satisfactorily complete the pre-assistance homeownership and housing counseling program
required by HACLB. A constraint to this program is that the HCV program cannot be used for down payment or closing
costs.

The latest stimulus package from HUD provides funding for homeowner assistance to the State. The City anticipates receiving an allocation from the State.

Newer models such as neighborhood investment
companies, which are a type of neighborhood-specific Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), may provide an alternative way for community members to achieve ownership and
build wealth by becoming a shareholder in a company that owns a portfolio of properties in a neighborhood.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 3.3.1: Pursue funding sources and other tools to reinstate homebuyer assistance programs such as updated lease-to-own options. Specifically, pursue funding that can complement the City’s HCV Homeownership Program by providing down payment and closing costs assistance. Target investments in FCN neighborhoods, particularly in high resource areas like East Long Beach, in order to facilitate increased economic diversity.
2023 and annually thereafter
Action 3.3.2: Continue to offer HCV Homeownership Program and explore other ways to provide assistance to first-time homebuyers with a focus on low-income communities of color.

Ongoing; to benefit 20 households over eight
years.

Action 3.3.3: Establish homeowner assistance programs with Recovery Act Stimulus funds. In 2021-2022
Action 3.3.4 Provide focused outreach to residents in R/ECAPs and to communities of color to ensure they take advantage of homeowner assistance programs.

Dedicate consolidated plan funding in 2022 to
provide focused outreach
Action 3.3.5: Provide supportive services to assist first-time homebuyers in achieving homeownership, such as financial readiness, credit counseling, and access to mortgage financing.

Upon reinstatement of homebuyer assistance
programs.

Action 3.3.6: Pursue opportunities to partner with lenders to streamline mortgage application process and provide favorable terms to lower income homebuyers.
2023
Action 3.3.7 Explore newer models for accessing property ownership such as through a neighborhood investment company. Engage philanthropic sector as potential investment partners, prepare presentations on potential programs to community development banks and where possible, showcase locations that can access empowerment zone funding.
2024
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“We need a dedicated local
source of revenue to build
affordable and supportive
housing… ”
Long Beach Resident -
Housing Element Community
Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 3.3.8: Actively seek and apply for funding sources, including State, Federal and private/non-profit sources, as well as explore financing mechanisms to assist in facilitating housing development that is priced for entry level homeowners. Maintain inventory of suitable sites in high opportunity areas.
2024
Responsible Agency:

Development Services Department/ Housing
& Neighborhood Services Bureau
Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 3.4: New Funding Mechanisms for
Affordable Housing
Development of affordable housing requires substantial
and multi-layered public assistance. With the elimination of redevelopment in California, the City of Long Beach lacks a substantive and steady source of revenue to support
affordable housing. During the process of developing the Housing Element Update, the City met with a roundtable
of local affordable housing developers who shared that a consistent local funding source is important, and that even a small amount of reliable and available funding from the City to develop affordable housing would be impactful
because proof of a local match often makes affordable
housing development projects more competitive for other sources such as state tax credits.

The City will pursue new funding mechanisms in the future with a focus on how to leverage new funding mechanisms
to help achieve fair housing goals. Funding sources to produce new housing units will be prioritized for high
resource areas (as is already happening for project-based vouchers per program 6.3). Identification of funding
for place-based improvements, such as through the
Consolidated Plan, is to be focused in areas of concentrated poverty and limited investment within West, Central and North Long Beach in identified R/ECAPs.
» Annual Budget Process: As part of its annual budget
development process, the City should seek to identify
any available funds that could be allocated to support
the development or provision of affordable housing as
well as housing support services.
» Capital Improvement Program (CIP): As part of its
annual CIP development process, the City should
prioritize funding for neighborhood improvements
in areas of concentrated poverty in the City through
targeted investment within West, Central, and North
Long Beach with an equity focus in R/ECAPs including for improvements to housing stock and to neighborhood
assets such as park and library buildings.
» Consolidated Plan Update: As part of the City’s update to its Consolidated Plan for investing funds from the
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), allocate funds to help increase access to housing and homeownership in high resource areas (see also
program 6-11).
» Commercial Linkage Fee: Explore the feasibility of
commercial linkage fees or alternatives for businesses
moving into adaptively reused spaces. Linkage fees
can be assessed on new non-residential development,
including retail centers, industrial or manufacturing
facilities, and other commercial projects. These
facilities stimulate the creation of jobs, but ordinarily do not include affordable housing for new workers in
lower-wage jobs. The need to meet the demand for
affordable housing created by new growth provides the
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justification for charging linkage fees, which are used to preserve or create affordable housing.
» Business Tax for Housing: This option explores
reallocation or increasing of business taxes collected by the City, to set aside a portion for affordable housing in recognition of the need for affordable housing to serve the local workforce needs of businesses.
» Parcel Tax: This option explores increasing the parcel tax for the purpose of affordable housing development.
» Real Estate Transfer Tax: California requires a transfer tax in the amount of $1.10 per $1,000 of property
valuation. Local jurisdictions can levy an increased tax as a source of revenue (e.g. San Jose’s real estate transfer tax is set at $3.30 per $1,000).
» Short-Term Rental Taxes or Fees: This option explores the collection of short-term rental taxes or fees and
dedicating a portion of the collected revenues for
affordable housing.
» CAAP Compliance Fees: This option explores
generating fees for affordable housing projects near
transit paid for by development projects as a mechanism for meeting their GHG reduction requirements pursuant
to the CAAP .

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 3.4.1: Evaluate new
mechanisms for funding
affordable housing, including
but not limited to those
listed above, select the most
viable to implement in the
planning period and make
recommendations with a
focus on how to help achieve
fair housing goals through
use of additional allocated
funds using an equity lens.

Provide
recommendations for
funding mechanisms to
the City Council in 2023
to support funding for
at least 100 additional
affordable units during
the planning period
with at least 30% of
units in high resource
areas.

Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Housing Opportunities for Special
Needs Residents
Program 4.1: Continuum of Care
The Homeless Services Division is responsible for
coordinating homeless services and addressing the
impacts of homelessness citywide. Located within the
Department of Health and Human Services (Long Beach
Health Department), this division provides oversight of the Long Beach Continuum of Care (CoC), a coalition of
homeless service providers funded by HUD. The City of
Long Beach’s CoC program is responsible for coordinating more than $7 million in federal funding each year. The City distributes over half of this money for homeless services to its partner community agencies.

The Long Beach community has also developed several
innovative programs to engage the homeless:
» Multi-Service Center (MSC): The MSC is a collaborative partnership between the City, the Port of Long Beach
and non-profit agencies co-located on one site.

Services provided at the MSC range from showers,
laundry and mail/phone messaging to licensed
childcare, medical clinic and employment assistance,
drug/alcohol treatment, case management, shelter
and housing placement assistance. The City plans to
continue establishing other mini service hubs similar
to the MSC in other parts of the City. In October 2020, the new Atlantic Farms Bridge Housing Community
(ABC) opened in North Long Beach. The village-style
development is designed to help address a critical gap
in the City’s Continuum of Care and offer a safe place
and supportive resources for individuals experiencing
homelessness. The bridge housing model is designed
to match people to housing options as they become
available, with supportive services to help individuals move into permanent housing as quickly as possible.

The 2.28-acre community consists of modular-style
dormitories for adults with a total capacity of 125.
» Century Villages at Cabrillo (CVC): Located next to the MSC, the CVC is a collaborative partnership of multiple agencies providing the largest non-governmental
housing/social services program for homeless veterans
in the nation. Services provided range from emergency
and transitional shelter to permanent affordable housing for singles, unaccompanied youth, families, Native
Americans and veterans. Additional support services
(childcare, employment counseling, mental health/
medical) include a program to help children re-integrate into the public school system in Long Beach.
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» Safe Parking: Funding for a pilot Safe Parking program was secured through the State of California funding for the Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP). The goal of a Safe Parking program is to provide a safe place to park overnight for individuals who are residing in their cars, with access to basic amenities, and provide connection to social service programs that will assist with a transition to permanent housing. The pilot program allows for the operation of a lot that accommodates 13 vehicles. Additionally, as part of the Interim Housing Ordinance adopted in 2020, the City now allows for safe parking sites in specific zoning districts citywide.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 4.1.1: Continue to support services and programs that are part of the Continuum of Care system for the homeless through the City’s annual funding allocation process.

Ongoing
Action 4.1.2: Analyze service gaps or barriers to service, such as lack of convenient transportation to services, and identify strategies for helping address unmet needs.

Complete analysis and provide recommendations
report by 2025
Action 4.1.3 Pursue funding to provide at least two
additional safe parking locations to help meet the excess demand.

Identify and pursue funding mechanisms by 2023
Action 4.1.4: Determine feasibility of setting up three sanctioned encampments to provide temporary shelters
that enforce social distancing guidelines, improving upon the more crowded conditions in some encampments that
previously left homeless people at greater risk for illness.

Sanctioned encampments shall be sited as close as feasibly possible to existing ad hoc encampments.

Complete feasibility analysis by 2022
Action 4.1.5: Pursue the establishment of additional mini service hubs in other parts of the City, building upon the MSC model.

Evaluate the success of the newly opened Atlantic Farms Bridge Housing Community in North Long Beach in
2024 and make recommendations to City Council about
expanding the model to open hubs in other parts of the
City
Responsible Agency:

ESG
CDBG
HEAP
Shelter Plus Care
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 4.2: Supportive Housing/Century Villages at Cabrillo The Villages at Cabrillo is in the process of revising its master plan, with the goal of expanding the campus to provide additional supportive housing on the 27 acre campus community serving veterans, including singles, unaccompanied youth, families, Native Americans and veterans.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 4.2.1: Support the CVC’s master planning efforts in increasing supportive housing opportunities to serve special needs households including seniors, persons
with disabilities, female headed households and large
families.

Ongoing; adding a net increase of 515 new residential units onsite
Responsible Agency:

Development Services Department/ Planning Bureau
Development Services Department/ Housing &
Neighborhood Services Bureau
Health and Human Services Department/Homeless Services
Division
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 4.3: Hotel/Motel Conversion
The City adopted an ordinance in 2020 to allow the
conversion of hotel/motel rooms to affordable housing on a non-permanent basis. The substantially curbed global traveling due to COVID-19 has opened up additional
opportunities for the conversion of hotels/motels into
permanent housing.

The City has been awarded nearly $16.7 million in funding for Project Homekey, California’s program to purchase and rehabilitate housing - including hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings and other properties - and convert
them into permanent, long-term housing for people
experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.

Project Homekey will help serve adults experiencing
homelessness as they prepare for permanent housing
solutions. The program will focus primarily on people
experiencing homelessness with extremely low income
and who are prioritized for housing through the City’s
Coordinated Entry System.

The City plans to convert an existing hotel into interim housing units, with a local operator selected by the City to help manage on-site operations. The City has acquired a Best Western, which will become operational as interim housing in 2021. The facility will operate as interim housing for the foreseeable future while the City identifies additional funds for full conversion to permanent supportive housing.

Future motel/hotel conversions can be leveraged to
help the City meet its fair housing goals by providing
supportive housing while reducing the negative impacts
of nuisance motels in R/ECAPs and other disadvantaged
neighborhoods.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 4.3.1: Pursue funding to convert the acquired Project Homekey Best Western into permanent supportive housing
and identify additional hotels/motels to pursue funding for through Project Homekey or other state or federal resources.

Identify new Project Homekey opportunities with a focus on converting nuisance motels to affordable housing in R/ECAP and other disadvantaged neighborhoods
Convert 100 units from interim housing to permanent
supportive housing, focusing on extremely low income
households
Responsible Agency:

Long Beach Community Investment Company
Development Services Department/ Housing &
Neighborhood Services Bureau
Funding Sources: Project Homekey
CDBG and ESG
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Housing Preservation and
Neighborhood Improvements
Program 5.1: Preservation of At-Risk Units
Long Beach has a large inventory of rental complexes that receive government assistance in return for providing
housing that is affordable to low-income households.

Of this total, 2,089 units may be at risk of losing their affordability controls by October 15, 2031 (ten-year timeline of at-risk housing analysis) due primarily to the expiration of project-based Section 8 contracts.

Options to preserve affordability of these units are as follows:
– Provision of rental assistance to tenants using other funding sources including the HCV administered by
HACLB;
– Refinancing the projects;
– Provision of staff or technical assistance; and
– Provision of financial incentives (if available) to
maintain continued affordability.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 5.1.1: Monitor status of the 2,089 affordable housing units in 22 projects that are at risk of converting to market rate. Seek to preserve these affordable units for extremely low income households and very low income households.

Annually
Action 5.1.2: In the event that a property is scheduled for conversion, coordinate with the property owner to ensure that proper noticing is (three-year, one-year, six-month) circulated to the at-risk tenants and that tenant education is provided regarding their options, such as other affordable housing developments and City programs, and special HUD Section 8 vouchers for tenants displaced due to expiration of project-based Section 8 assistance.

Three years prior to potential project
conversion, with follow-up contacts one year
and six months prior to conversion
Action 5.1.3: In the event that a property is scheduled for conversion, contact qualified, non-profit entities, from the State’s qualified entities list, to inform them of the opportunity to acquire affordable units.

Also inform them of financial assistance available through City, State, and federal programs.

Three years prior to potential project
conversion
Action 5.1.4: In the event that a property is scheduled for conversion, explore the possibility of using available housing funds to acquire or facilitate the acquisition of the units to preserve affordability.

Three years prior to potential project
conversion
Responsible Agency:

HACLB
Development Services Department/ Housing
& Neighborhood Services Bureau
Funding Sources:

HOME
CDBG
HUD funds
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Program 5.2: Tenant Protection
Lower income households displaced by development
assisted with federal funds are required to adhere to the relocation and displacement requirements under the
Uniform Relocation Act. The City has adopted an ordinance that provides a right of first refusal to tenants displaced due to condominium conversion. Tenants are given an
exclusive right of 90 days to purchase or rent the new units under the same or more favorable terms and conditions
that such units will be initially offered to the general public.

Furthermore, the City of Long Beach has adopted a Local Housing Preference Policy that requires developers to give preference and priority to people who live and/or work in Long Beach when selling or renting affordable housing
units created through the assistance of the LBCIC or the City.

In July 2020, the City adopted the Inclusionary Housing Program for the Downtown and Midtown subareas. The
City will explore establishing first right of refusal for the inclusionary units for income-qualified residents displaced by developments in these areas.

In July 2021, City Council approved a recommendation to temporarily prohibit lease terminations and evictions due to substantial remodel of property. Council directed the City Manager and City Attorney to explore the feasibility establishing a renovation administration program to allow landlords to renovate without subjecting tenants to either unlivable housing conditions during renovation work or
forced permanent displacement. In December 2021, the
City Council provided direction and requested the City
Attorney to prepare an ordinance amending Chapter

8.99 of the Long Beach Municipal Code, Just Cause for
Termination of Tenancies. As part of that action, Council directed staff to design a data collection process to begin addressing the lack of data on this issue. The establishment of this program would continue to ensure the ability to conduct substantial remodels to improve housing quality, particularly given the aging housing stock in the City, while mitigating any negative impacts to tenants through the
removal of substantial remodels from the list of no-fault just cause evictions and increasing tenant relocation benefits.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 5.2.1: Expand
current City policies on
tenant protection by
establishing first right of
refusal (or similar policy)
for inclusionary units
for income-qualified
residents displaced by
developments in the
Downtown and Midtown
areas, as well as other areas
if the Inclusionary Housing
Program is expanded in the
future.

Right of first refusal or
similar program for units
developed through the
Inclusionary Housing
Requirement to be
adopted by the City by
2025
Action 5.2.2: Establish a
program to allow
substantial remodels while
minimizing displacement.

Ensure this program is
being utilized by eligible
tenants through community
outreach and the
preparation of a fact sheet
and online guide.

Adopt code amendment
related to substantial
remodels, provide
fact sheet and online
resources and begin
collecting data by 2022
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 5.3: Home Rehabilitation
The City offers a number of rehabilitation assistance
programs:
» Home Improvement Grant Program: This program is
scheduled to replace the existing Home Improvement
Loan Program, which offers low-interest loans to
homeowners to make improvements and repairs to
their homes, generally up to a maximum of $10,000 per
unit at an interest rate of three percent. Instead, the new grant program will offer direct grants eligible applicants, including seniors and very low income homeowner-
occupants. This program will be funded with CDBG.
» Multi-Family Rehabilitation Loan: The Multi-Family
Rehabilitation Loan Program provides zero percent
interest loans to owners of rental properties with
two or more units on a lot. The loans are used to
make improvements and repairs to the property and
grounds. To qualify for the rehabilitation loan, the
property must be occupied by lower income tenants
and the units maintained at affordable rents. A portion of the assistance will benefit extremely low income
households. This program is funded with HOME funds.
» Lead-Based Paint Hazard Abatement: In FY 2019, the
City of Long Beach received $4,100,000 from HUD for its Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program (LHC) for a
42-month period from May 1, 2019 through October 30,
2022. The LHC Program identifies low income residences
(with a focus on families with children under six years old), and addresses lead poisoning hazards created by
lead-based paint.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 5.3.1: Continue to
provide housing rehabilitation
assistance to lower income
households.

Annually assist:

Home Improvement
Grant: 30 households
Home Improvement
Loan: 10 households
Multi-Family
Rehabilitation: 3 units
Lead-Based Paint
Hazard Abatement: 50
units
Action 5.3.2: Continue to
pursue funding for lead hazard
control.

Renewal application
in 2021-2022
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Housing
& Neighborhood
Services Bureau
Health and Human
Services Department/
Homeless Services
Division
Funding Sources:

CDBG
HUD Lead-Based Paint
Hazard Control
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Program 5.4: Comprehensive Code Enforcement
Code enforcement activities can help improve the quality of the current housing stock to sustain a suitable living environment for the City’s residents. Code Enforcement
(using several funds including both federal and local funds) also helps address blight on private property along the City’s business corridors and in residential neighborhoods.

Development Services Department, Code Enforcement
Bureau also administers a proactive Multi-Unit Housing
Inspection Program to ensure that sanitation, maintenance, use and occupancy standards are adhered to. Under
this program, inspectors provide both routine proactive inspections through the Proactive Rental Housing
Inspection Program (PRHIP), as well as complaint driven inspections of residential buildings of four units or more.

The program also has a comprehensive tenant education
component which includes information on how to maintain a clean and healthful environment and addresses issues of indoor air pollution, asthma triggers and safety hazards.

Moving forward, the City will retool the Code Enforcement program to emphasize problem-solving and social
service approaches to neighborhood improvement.

Code enforcement activities will be complemented with
connections to social service and economic support to
assist households with addressing Code and household
habitability issues. Expanded training is needed to improve the capacity of staff to competently work with the City’s diverse communities, recognizing and being sensitive
to cultural differences, language barriers, and financial constraints. This effort will focus be focused within the City’s Code Enforcement Designated Area (CE-DA), which is demonstrated to have disproportionately high needs and
lack of investment in improving the building stock within areas of Central, West and North Long Beach, including R/ ECAPs (see more detail in Appendix F). The focus will be on providing resources and ensuring units are suitable for use by households in protected classes including seniors, persons with disabilities, female headed households and large families.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 5.4.1: Perform inspections
with a focus on addressing health
and safety issues while also
preserving the City’s housing stock.

Ongoing, with
at least 2,500
inspections
through which
tenants or
landlords
were provided
resources each
year
Action 5.4.2: Connect City housing
rehabilitation programs with code
enforcement efforts to ensure
assistance is provided to lower
income households when making
improvements to comply with
building code, with a focus in the
CE-DA within Central, West and
North Long Beach.

Ongoing;
improved resource
handouts to
be developed
and begin
disseminating by
2023
Action 5.4.3: Provide annual
trainings during the planning
period to improve capacity of
code enforcement staff to work
with diverse communities, in a
culturally competent manner with
a focus on problem solving and
with connections to social and
economic support services
Begin providing
annual trainings
to staff by 2023
Responsible Agency:

Development
Services
Department/
Code Enforcement
Funding Sources:

Departmental
Budget
CDBG
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Pursuant to AB 686, the following programs aim to help the City meet its goal to affirmatively further fair housing and to foster inclusivity and equal housing opportunity for all residents through fair housing outreach and enforcement, strategies to support housing mobility, anti-displacement new affordable housing in high resource areas, and place- based strategies for community improvement. The specific programs are based on community input, best practices,
and incorporate findings from the City’s Fair Housing
Assessment (See Appendix F), and specifically the 2020
Long Beach Framework for Reconciliation, informed by
community listening sessions, town halls, and a community survey which, in total, reached over 1,000 residents and City staff. This process identified housing discrimination as a top theme in responses, including a need for proactive efforts around tenant protections to prevent displacement.

More detailed information on the City’s strategy is available in Appendix F.

Fair Housing Outreach and Enforcement
Program 6.1: Fair Housing Outreach and
Enforcement
Long Beach contracts with the Fair Housing Foundation
(FHF), a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan agency to promote enforcement of fair housing laws. The FHF encourages
open housing opportunities through education,
enforcement activities, counseling services and outreach programs. The FHF takes a proactive stance on random
audit testing in underserved areas and employs a full-time bilingual counselor. FHF provides counsel and mediation for landlords, tenants, and home seekers; educates tenants, landlords, owners, realtors, and property management
companies on fair housing laws; promotes media and
consumer interest; and secures grass roots involvement
with the community.

FHF services are critical to the City’s ability to meet its fair housing goals, and services must be available citywide
in order to address incidences of discrimination for
people throughout the city including in both low-income communities of color and in high resource areas. An
analysis of services for FY18-19 revealed that the top 5 zipcodes within the City where services were most utilized were in zipcodes representing Downtown, Central, and
North Long Beach:

1. 90802: 17% of cases

2. 90813: 17% of cases

3. 90805: 14% of cases

4. 90804: 10% of cases

5. 90806: 9% of cases
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.1.1: Continue to
provide fair housing services
citywide, with increased
outreach
and education activities in
identified communities
including focused outreach
in R/ECAPs.

Annually assist 2,000
persons with at least
50% of services in
zipcodes representing
Central, West and North
Long Beach
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Housing &
Neighborhood Services
Bureau
Funding Sources: CDBG
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Housing Mobility
Program 6.2: Visitability Ordinance
Visitability is a growing trend nationwide. The term refers to single-family or owner-occupied housing designed in such a way that it can be lived in or visited by people who have trouble with steps or who use wheelchairs or walkers. A house is visitable when it meets three basic requirements:
» One zero-step entrance
» Doors with 32 inches of clear passage space
» One bathroom on the main floor you can get into in a
wheelchair
The City requires these standards to be met through a
Visitability Ordinance that applies to City-assisted new construction of single-family houses and duplexes.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.2.1: Expand Visitability
Ordinance to multi-family
housing assisted by City funds.
2025-2026
Action 6.2.2: Pilot Visitability
and Universal Design
Incentive and Recognition
Program in partnership with
Dept. of Health and Human
Services to encourage
design and construction of
housing to meet Visitability
Standards. Incentives could
include certification, public
recognition, or streamlined
permit approvals.

Implement pilot
program by 2026
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau/Health and
Human Services
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 6.3: Voucher Mobility
Use of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) is Long Beach
is concentrated in the City’s neighborhoods with older
rental housing units. With the new State source of income protection (SB 329 and SB 222), the City has the opportunity to expand voucher use in other neighborhoods, including in single-family houses and Accessory Dwelling Units, as well as by making changes to how the City awards vouchers by prioritizing use of new vouchers in high-opportunity areas.

Voucher mobility is crucial to the City’s ability to meet its fair housing goals in order to improve access to housing in high resource areas for low-income households.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 6.3.1: Encourage
the use of vouchers
in high opportunity
neighborhoods, including
by providing priority
points for voucher use in
high-opportunity areas
through the City’s NOFA
processes for both project-
based and individual
vouchers.

Begin piloting new process
by the end of 2022
Action 6.3.2: Promote
voucher mobility
through awareness
campaign targeted
at high-opportunity
neighborhoods with
limited or no voucher use.

By 2023, conduct audit
of spatial distribution of
voucher use to inform a
geographically targeted
promotion campaign
Action 6.3.3 Provide
focused outreach to
residents in R/ECAPs and
to communities of color
to ensure new voucher
holders from those
communities are aware of
options in high resource
areas
Dedicate consolidated
plan funding in 2022 to
provide focused outreach
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Anti-Displacement Strategies
Program 6.4: Replacement Housing Requirements
Pursuant to AB 1397 (Adequate Sites) passed in 2017,
the City will amend the Zoning Code to require the
replacement of existing residential units on nonvacant
RHNA sites as a condition of project approval. Specifically, sites that currently have residential uses, or within the past five years have had residential uses that have been vacated or demolished, that are or were subject to a
recorded covenant, ordinance, or law that restricts rents to levels affordable to persons and families of low or very low income, subject to any other form of rent or price control, or occupied by low or very low income households, will be subject to a policy requiring the replacement of all those units affordable to the same or lower income level as a condition of any development on the site. Replacement
requirements should be consistent with those set forth in the State Density Bonus Law.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 6.4.1: Pilot anti-displacement strategies that go above and beyond State Law to determine how verification of both tenant income and rent levels for no net loss requirements can be administered.

Pilot programs begin in 2021.

Action 6.4.2: Amend the Zoning Code to establish the
replacement requirements pursuant to AB 1397. Amend Zoning Code in 2022.

Responsible Agency: Development Services Department/ Planning Bureau Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Additionally, in 2021 the City adopted two housing
ordinances that include provisions for no-net loss that go above and beyond state law, for development that is
subject to the Mello Act for replacement housing in the Coastal Zone, as well as for projects that take advantage of the Enhanced Density Bonus. In both cases, the
replacement of affordable housing units is now being
considered both based on the income of the tenant, so that affordable housing units are replaced for lower-income
households, as well as based on the rent levels being paid, regardless of income, in order to help preserve “naturally occurring” affordable housing. The administration of these new provisions will take additional time and resources
that will be better understood through piloting efforts for implementing the Mello Act updates and the Enhanced
Density Bonus program.
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Program 6.5: Tenants Right to Counsel
To implement SB 91 (COVID Rent Relief ) passed in 2021, the City entered into an agreement with the Los Angeles Fair Housing Foundation to provide right to counsel and eviction prevention services to Long Beach tenants.

Resources and services provided include assistance to
at least 3,500 households with counseling, declaration
statements and other forms, and education on applicable laws and programs through virtual workshops. As part of the City’s implementation plan for the Federal CARES Act, at least $80,000 have been allocated for additional legal assistance to tenants affected by the COVID19 pandemic
and advertising for said services. As part of the City’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget, the City allocated an additional $810,000 for Housing Support and Right to Counsel to
serve more than 3,500 additional households.

Expanded tenant right to counsel services are critical to the City’s ability to meet its fair housing goals, and services must be available citywide. Focused outreach can help
ensure that those in greatest need, including low-income communities of color, are connected to available services.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.5.1: Provide right
to counsel services for at
least 3,500 households
in Long Beach at risk of
eviction.

Ongoing
Action 6.5.2 Provide
focused outreach to
residents in R/ECAPs
and to communities of
color to ensure they take
advantage of tenant right
to counsel services.

Dedicate consolidated
plan funding in 2022 to
provide focused outreach
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 6.6: Unpermitted Dwelling Unit Amnesty
Program
The City adopted the Unpermitted Dwelling Unit Amnesty
Program in January 2021 to provide a pathway for legalizing unpermitted dwelling units. Prior to this program, a property owner seeking legalization for an existing unpermitted unit was required to go through a discretionary process with approval by the Zoning Administrator at a public hearing.

The eligible units captured by that program were limited to those created prior to 1964. The new amnesty program provides for the following:
» Approval Process: Ministerial review by the Site Plan Review Committee
» Review process to ensure fire, Life, and safety standards are met
» Target Units: Units that do not qualify for legalization as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
» Eligible Zones: All zones, excluding heavy industrial zones
» Date of Occupancy: Occupied, as a residence, for more than 30 continuous days prior to December 31, 2016
» Affordability Covenant: The lower of 1) the existing
tenant’s income level or 2) moderate-income rent
restriction for a period of 10 years, subject to an annual covenant monitoring fee
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.6.1: Assess the
effectiveness of the
Unpermitted Dwelling Unit
Amnesty Program in creating
affordable housing and revise
the program as necessary
and appropriate.

Assess program in 2024
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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New Housing Choices in High Opportunity
Areas
Program 6.7: Inclusionary Housing
On February 2, 2021, the City Council approved the
Inclusionary Housing Program that requires, over a
three-year phasing-in period, to reach 11 percent of a rental housing development be affordable to very low-income
households and 10 percent of an ownership housing
project be affordable to moderate-income households.

Currently, the Inclusionary Housing Program applies only to the Downtown and Midtown submarkets of the City. As
specified in 6.7.2, commit to expanding the inclusionary housing requirements in areas of the city that are being actively targeted for redevelopment and new investment
as early as is legally feasible. The goal of this policy should be to lead the emergence of highly active markets prior to a significant escalation in land values. Having these programs for inclusionary requirements in place proactively as new markets for investment emerge through the city can serve as a program to mitigate displacement and meet the needs of vulnerable populations.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.7.1: Monitor the
effectiveness of the current
Inclusionary Housing Program to
determine if modifications would
be necessary. Modifications
to be considered may include
increases in affordability
requirements or in-lieu options,
such as allowing developers to
provide land instead of paying
an in-lieu fee.
2023
Also see Program

6.6: Community
Land Trust
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.7.2: Expand the
Inclusionary Housing Program to
other submarkets and monitor
the effectiveness of the program
in producing new below-market
rate units.
2024
Responsible Agency:

Development
Services
Department/
Planning Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental
Budget
Program 6.8: Community Land Trust
Community land trusts are nonprofit, community-based
organizations designed to ensure community stewardship
of land. Community land trusts can be used for many types of development but are primarily used to ensure long-term housing affordability. New and evolving models, such as neighborhood investment companies, may also provide
ways to empower community members to participate in
community development. Prioritize identifying potential partners and sites within TCAC High Opportunity Zones.

The City’s FY 22 budget provides $3 million in funding
for Economic Empowerment Zones, which includes some
dedicated funding to land trust research and investment.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.8.1: Provide technical
assistance to community
groups and other private
organizations in pursuing/
establishing Community
Land Trusts or other models
for facilitating community
ownership of affordable
housing, including identifying
and pursuing eligible funding
pools.
2022
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 6.9: Monitoring of Housing Production
The Long Beach LUE seeks to provide a variety of housing types throughout the City, with the greatest opportunity for housing near transit stations and corridors throughout the City. The newly adopted inclusionary housing program in the Downtown and Midtown areas is a tool for providing affordable housing units in areas with the greatest
opportunity for housing development.

The Enhanced Density Bonus Ordinance can provide
another vehicle for encouraging mixed-income housing
production citywide including in high-opportunity areas.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.9.1: Monitor housing
production to determine the
geographic distribution of
units, especially lower income
units, to be monitored by
TCAC opportunity area,
CalEnviroScreen ranking and
RECAP status, and tracked
by geographic subregions
(Central, Downtown, West,
North, East, Southeast).

Provide annual reporting on
the ratio of unit production in
these sensitive areas relative
to city wide production.

Ongoing
Action 6.9.2: If
implementation of the
LUE is not achieving the
goal of expanding housing
opportunities for all income
in state-identified high
opportunity areas, explore
other land use strategies
(such as an Affordable
Housing Overlay) to be
implemented in these areas.

Assess progress in 2025
and adjust land use
strategies as necessary
and appropriate within
one year.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.9.3: Monitor how
long housing production
takes by establishing a
housing data dashboard
showing average, minimum
and maximum days to
obtain any permits required
for housing construction,
including entitlements and
building permits.

By 2028
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Place-Based Strategies for Community
Improvement
Program 6.10: Zoning Code Updates Tailored to
Disadvantaged Communities
The Uptown Planning Land Use and Neighborhood
Strategy (UPLAN), is a collaborative effort between the City and the North Long Beach community to come up
with laws and policies to guide future development and
create a new vision in North Long Beach. The UPLAN
project generally applies to areas within the boundaries of the 90805 zipcode, bounded by Green Leaf Blvd to the north, Del Amo Blvd to the south, Susana Road to the west, and Downey Avenue to the east.. UPLAN represents a
planning process done through an equity framework that
geographically prioritizes communities of color with the greatest need for new strategies from the LUE, including flexibility and incentives for community-prioritized
needs. UPLAN is the first process for implementing the
LUE through development of new zones tailored to meet
the specific community goals prioritized by North Long
Beach residents. UPLAN’s equity framework is focused on both the planning process and the changes in planning
regulations. North Long Beach was prioritized first as a 93% person of color community with the largest number
of black residents in the City. UPLAN has been grounded in a community empowerment and capacity building
process in which communities most impacted by planning
decisions, including young people and people of color,
were prioritized in the process and had their voices and feedback uplifted, leading to special regulations
incentivizing grocery stores, banks, more affordable
housing, locally-serving jobs, civic institutions and other identified needs. UPLAN also includes strategies to help residents, workers, and businesses to remain in North
Long Beach. The UPLAN model is now being replicated in
Central Long Beach through the Anaheim Corridor Zoning
Implementation Plan (ACZIP), which began in late 2021
and involves developing new context-sensitive zoning
regulations for the area bounded by 10th Street, Pacific Coast Highway, and Ximeno Avenue. Building off of UPLAN efforts, the zoning recommendations will implement the
LUE and will be tailored to the local context, planning best practices and community feedback with the goal of
facilitating housing production through a SB 2 Planning Grant from HCD. Efforts are currently underway and are
co-led by the Central Long Beach based nonprofit design firm City Fabrick in partnership with community based
organizations including Long Beach Forward and United
Cambodian Communities. City Council adoption of the
new zones is expected in early 2023. Similarly, efforts will begin in 2022 to update the zoning code in West Long Beach along Santa Fe Ave and Willow Street west of the LA river which are designated by the LUE as “Neighborhood Serving Corridors. ” This process is being driven by a moratorium that was put in place in 2021 to address incompatibilities between the LUE and existing zoning code along those
corridors. The code update will be focused on tailoring regulations to meet both housing needs and community
interest in neighborhood serving commercial uses needed such as grocery stores.

Actions Objectives and Timeframe
Action 6.10.1: Identify
and mitigate negative
environmental,
neighborhood,
housing and health
impacts associated
with undesirable land
uses in disadvantaged
communities.

By 2025, adopt new zoning
districts for Central, West
and North Long Beach to
correspond with the new
LUE to incentivize more
desirable and sustainable
uses in disadvantaged
communities such as
housing and grocery stores.

Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 6.11: Consolidated Plan Update
The Long Beach Consolidated Plan describes and prioritizes the City’s housing and community development needs, as
well as activities to address those needs as defined and funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). The current Plan will be updated in
2022 to strategically align with and help implement the 2021-2029 Housing Element and strengthen place-based
strategies to expand housing mobility and housing supply in high-opportunity areas. The update will also seek to improve areas of concentrated poverty in the City through targeted investment and programming, including West,
Central, and North Long Beach.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.11.1: Identify
mechanisms to increase
production and access to
housing in high resource areas,
such as through acquisition,
rehabilitation and conversion
of existing housing units to be
affordable, the construction of
Accessory Dwelling Units, or
through financial incentives in
exchange for deed restriction
of housing units for low
income use. In addition,
through the Consolidated
Plan process the City will
focus resources to improve
conditions in the RECAPs
Adopt consolidated
plan update in 2022
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau/Housing
and Neighborhood
Services Bureau
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Program 6.12: Housing Rehabilitation
To strategically align with the City’s place-based approach to improving neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and
disproportionate housing needs (West, Central, and North Long Beach), the City will consider establishing a targeted housing rehabilitation program with dedicated funding.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.12.1: Pursue
State and federal funding
to establish a housing
rehabilitation program
that dedicates funding and
staff resources to targeted
neighborhoods. Establish
program components
and guidelines that are
appropriate for the nature
and extent of housing
rehabilitation needs and
income/affordability levels of
the neighborhood residents.

In 2022 and as funding
is needed thereafter
Responsible Agency:

Funding Sources:

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Program 6.13: Neighborhood Resources
The City’s Neighborhood Resource Center (NRC) offers
free assistance to neighborhood and community groups
to increase their effectiveness. The NRC provides free access to a library of neighborhood improvement resource materials, and hosts a variety of training workshops on relevant community topics. Grant announcements and
grant writing technical assistance are provided to help groups leverage neighborhood improvement funds from
multiple sources. The NRC is being phased out from a
physical location to a virtual resource center, which could potentially increase its impacts to neighborhoods citywide.

The City’s FY 2022 budget includes $2.2 million to bridge the digital divide, including support for non-profit digital navigator grants for community-based organizations to
assist with ongoing implementation.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.13.1: As funding
permits, continue to support
neighborhood and community
groups with services and
technical support.

Annually assist 10,000
residents
Action 6.13.2: Through the
City’s Digital inclusion initiative,
expand access to online
resources for neighborhood
groups in disadvantaged
communities impacted by the
digital divide.

Continue to
implement the 2021
Digital Inclusion
Roadmap through
2025 to provide
quality household
internet access to at
least 95% of the City.

Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Housing
& Neighborhood
Services Bureau
Funding Sources: CDBG
Program 6.14: Neighborhood Leadership
Development
The Neighborhood Leadership Program is a six-month
program that trains residents in CDBG Target Areas the
principles of effective leadership and provides examples of how to solve neighborhood problems. Each student
must complete a community project to “graduate” from the program.

The City has been developing additional models for
catalyzing and supporting community leadership and
capacity building through the Uptown Planning Land Use
and Neighborhood Strategy (UPLAN) process. UPLAN
represents a planning process done through an equity
framework that geographically prioritizes communities
of color with the greatest need for new strategies
from the LUE, including flexibility and incentives for
community-prioritized needs. UPLAN is the first process for implementing the LUE through development of new zones
tailored to meet the specific community goals prioritized by North Long Beach residents. UPLAN’s equity framework is focused on both the planning process and the changes in planning regulations.

North Long Beach was prioritized first as a 93% person of color community with the largest number of black residents in the City. UPLAN has been grounded in a community
empowerment and capacity building process in which
communities most impacted by planning decisions,
including young people and people of color, were
prioritized in the process and had their voices and feedback uplifted, leading to special regulations incentivizing
grocery stores, banks, more affordable housing, locally- serving jobs, civic institutions and other identified needs.

UPLAN also includes strategies to help residents, workers, and businesses to remain in North Long Beach.
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Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 6.14.1: As funding
permits, continue to support
neighborhood and community
groups with training, services
and technical support.

Annually assist 30
persons
Action 6.14.2: Catalyze
community leadership and
collaborative decision-making
processes for land use policies
through capacity-building
engagement and planning.

By 2023 establish
Department policies
for community
engagement that
prioritize power-
sharing and capacity-
building.

Responsible Agency:

Development
Services Department/
Housing &
Neighborhood
Services Bureau
Funding Sources: CDBG
Housing Administration
Program 7.1: Housing Action Plan
The Housing Action Plan has been a planning tool used
by the City to outline specific, short-term actions to
be undertaken with City resources available, including
available funds and city-owned properties available for housing. This Housing Element has included several
programs that incorporate a monitoring component. In
addition, the State HCD will also conduct a mid-term review in 2025 for the purpose of determining SB 35 (Streamlined Review) eligibility. Therefore, the City will prepare and implement a Housing Action Plan (HAP) in 2025 to align
with HCD review and make any necessary adjustments to
the Housing Element commitments and strategies. The
HAP will cover a range of topics, including the following:
» Address the potential uses of a variety of funding
sources available to the City (see also Program 3.6: New Funding Mechanisms for Affordable Housing).
» Establish target populations for various programs, i.e. senior, disabled, veterans, families, etc.
» Devise appropriate strategies for different
neighborhoods.

Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 7.1.1: Prepare
Housing Action Plan (HAP) In 2025
Responsible Agency:

Development Services
Department/ Planning
Bureau
Development Services
Department/ Housing &
Neighborhood Services
Bureau
Rental Housing Division
(see Program 7.2)
Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
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Program 7.2: Dedicated Rental Housing Staff
Many of the potential new housing programs outlined in this Housing Plan, and others that the City may explore during this planning period, require significant staffing resources in terms of technical and legal expertise to research
program feasibility, to establish program implementation framework, to deliver programs and services, and to
monitor compliance and effectiveness. A dedicated Rental Housing team–either within Development Services or the
Housing Authority or across multiple departments–that
focuses on all matters related to rental housing may be necessary to effectively implement some of the more
complex and labor intensive programs. These may include:

» Improved and expanded rental housing inspections
» Expanded protections against sudden, substantial rent increases which can destabilize households, such as
through rent stabilization policies
» Requiring covenants in perpetuity when feasible
» Preference Policy for Inclusionary Units
» Renter Resource Center to provide information on rights of tenants under state and local laws.
» Tenant protection and anti-displacement policies
» Housing Legislation Lobbying
» First Right of Refusal (Program 5.2)
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Action 7.2.1: Consider
establishing a separate Rental
Housing Division.

Develop a budget
estimate for the
City Council by
2024; propose a
recommendation
for establishing the
division by 2025
Action 7.2.2: Explore additional
housing programs such as Rent
Stabilization and tenant/landlord
mediation services including
through research on successful
programs in nearby jurisdictions.

Provide a report
on successful
programs in nearby
jurisdictions by 2023
Action 7.2.3: Conduct
intergovernmental relations
to pursue legislation that can
assist Long Beach in addressing
housing affordability and
availability issues.

Ongoing
Actions Objectives and
Timeframe
Responsible Agency:

City Council action
would be needed
to establish such
a division and
to provide the
necessary resources
to staff it
Funding Sources: General Fund
Program 7.3 Mid-term Evaluation of Housing
Element Implementation
The City is committed to monitoring the success and
implementation of the Housing Element. Several actions
already focus on ongoing monitoring to ensure housing
objectives are met, such as:
» Action 6.9.3: Monitor how long housing production
takes by establishing a housing data dashboard showing
average, minimum and maximum days to obtain any
permits required for housing construction, including
entitlements and building permits.
» Action 6.9.1: Monitor housing production to determine the geographic distribution of units, especially lower
income units.
» Action 1.1.6: Monitor ADU development trends to
determine if increased efforts are necessary to promote ADU development particularly in high resource areas
» Action 1.3.1: Expand City of Long Beach Housing
Dashboards to monitor RHNA progress and remaining
sites capacity including No Net Loss provisions and
continue using the dashboard to monitor ADU
development.
» Action 5.1.1: Monitor status of the 2,089 affordable
housing units in 22 projects that are at risk of converting to market rate. Seek to preserve these affordable
units for extremely low-income households and very
low-income households.
» Action 6.7.1: Monitor the effectiveness of the current Inclusionary Housing Program to determine if
modifications would be necessary. Modifications to
be considered may include increases in affordability
requirements or in-lieu options, such as allowing
developers to provide land instead of paying an in-lieu fee.
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As part of a mid-term the review the City will look holistically at high level and meaningful indicators of the City’s
progress in meeting Housing Element and Fair Housing
Goals, including on implementation of the site inventory, AFFH monitoring as outlined in Table F-17, outcomes of
the enhanced density bonus and inclusionary housing
ordinances, and overall progress on increasing access to affordable housing in high resource areas.

This program ensures a comprehensive evaluation of the
Housing Element is conducted at the mid-term point in
the housing cycle to assess the effectiveness of the plan in meeting stated goals and objectives, and to revise the Housing Element, if necessary, to meet the City’s housing goals.
» Action: The City shall prepare a mid-term evaluation of implementation programs and conduct a City Council
Workshop in the Spring of 2025 to review the progress
of meeting their stated objectives. City staff will then recommend adjustments to implementation programs
that are not on-track to meeting their stated objectives by the Fall of 2025.
» Timeframe: 2025
» Responsible Agency: Development Services
Department/ Planning Bureau
» Funding Sources: Departmental Budget
Quantified Objectives
Table HE-6 presents the City’s quantified objectives for construction, preservation, and rehabilitation for the
2021 – 2029 planning period that will be achieved through the policies and programs described above. The City of
Long Beach has extensive housing needs that far exceed
the City’s financial and administrative capacity, given the City’s current and projected levels of funding and staffing resources. The quantified objectives below are estimated based on funding levels and development trends:
» New Construction: Between 2014 and 2020, the City
permitted an average of about 550 units annually. The
City expects to be able to accelerate its construction
activities based on new PlaceType implementation and
significant ADU trends in recent years. For the next
eight years, the City anticipates a construction goal of 9,900 units, slightly less than 1,250 units annually; the City averaged around 1,100 units permitted for the
two most recent calendar years of the current RHNA
cycle. Past performance reports recorded 18 percent
of the new units were lower income. With the City’s
new Inclusionary Housing and Enhance Density Bonus
programs, the City also expects to be able to expand
its affordable housing opportunities (at 31 percent of
all new units). However, a significant portion of the
lower income housing is expected to come from ADUs.

In 2021, the City has already permitted over 350 ADUs;
projecting that over 8 years yields 2,800 ADUs. In
addition, the City anticipates providing gap financing
for the construction or acquisition/rehabilitation of 600 rental housing units for lower income households using
primarily HOME funds. The City is also working with its partners to expand its affordable housing inventory
through supportive housing at the Century Villages at
Cabrillo and Project Homekey.
» Preservation: The City provides ownership housing
rehabilitation and acquisition/rehabilitation of multi- family housing for lower income households. CDBG
and HOME funds are the primary sources for housing
rehabilitation activities, which can only benefit
households up to 80 percent AMI.
» Conservation: The City has a large number of households being assisted under various voucher programs.

The goal is to maintain the affordability for these
households and to expand additional opportunities if
possible. The City has an inventory of 2,089 affordable lower income units that may be at various levels of risk of converting to market-rate housing. The City will work toward extending the affordability of these units. Other programs that work to maintain affordability are also
included in this category.

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Table HE-6 Quantified Objectives
Extremely
Low Income
Very Low
Income
Low
Income
Moderate-
Income
Above
Moderate-
Income
Total
RHNA 3,570 3,571 4,047 4,158 11,156 26,502
New Construction 350 750 1,100 1,500 4,000 7,700
Affordable Housing Gap
Financing 150 150 300 0 0 600
ADU 191 108 1,204 168 952 2,800
Supportive Housing 215 300 0 0 0 515
Project Homekey 100 0 0 0 0 100
Rehabilitation 162 222 360 0 0 744
Improvement Grants 40 80 120 0 0 240
Improvement Loans 10 30 40 0 0 80
Multi-Family Rehabilitation
Loans 12 12 0 0 0 24
LBP Abatement 100 100 200 0 0 400
Conservation 4,377 5,003 1,044 0 0 10,424
Voucher Programs 3,295 4,000 0 0 0 7,295
HCV Homebuyer Program 0 20 0 0 0 20
Security/Utility Deposit 460 460 0 0 0 920
Preservation of at- Risk
Housing 522 523 1,044 0 0 2,089
Total 5,495 6,383 3,708 1,668 4,952 22,383
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