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Goal Action Equity Impact
GOAL I: Protect Oak-
land Residents from
Displacement and
Prevent Homeless-
ness.
Create and maintain
the conditions that en-
able BIPOC Oaklanders
to remain in their
homes and communi-
ties.
Action 1.1.1: Continue to Implement the Rent
Adjustment Ordinance.
Action 1.1.2: Enforce Just Cause for Eviction
measures.
Action 1.1.3: Enforce and Strengthen Ellis Act
protections.
Action 1.1.4: Implement tenant relocation
measures.
Action 1.1.5: Implement a right to counsel in
Rent Adjustment Program proceedings.
Action 1.1.6: Enhance housing related legal
services
Action 1.1.7: Expand our ability to enforce
rent control to maintain affordability.
Action 1.1.8: Monitor neighborhood displace-
ment
Action 1.1.9: Implement a rental housing reg-
istry.
Action 1.1.10: City Enforcement of the Tenant
Protection Ordinance (TPO).
Action 1.1.11: Enforce the tenant right to re-
turn and protections from coercive buyouts.
Action 1.1.12: Provide a local preference in
affordable housing projects
Action 1.1.13: Negotiate for appropriate com-
munity benefits during development agree-
ment approvals for major entitlements and
use of City land.
Action 1.1.14: Protect Oakland residents from
displacement and becoming homeless.
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Appendix: Housing Action Plan Equity Impacts
City of Oakland Housing Element 2023-2031
GOAL II: Preserve
and Improve Exist-
ing Housing Stock
The Housing Element
conserves and im-
proves the affordabil-
ity of existing housing
stock in Oakland and
addresses substandard
conditions..
Action 2.1.1: Support home rehabilitation
programs.
Action 2.1.2: Promote healthy homes and
lead- safe housing.
Action 2.1.3: Conduct proactive rental inspec-
tions.
Action 2.1.4: Support historic preservation
and rehabilitation.
Action 2.1.5: Implement universal design
strategies
Action 2.1.6: Increase funding for improved
indoor air quality.
Action 2.2.1: Continue to implement resale-
controls on assisted housing.
Action 2.2.2: Enforce, monitor, and preserve
affordable housing covenants with an em-
phasis on "at-risk" units.
Action 2.2.3: Enforce residential demolition
and conversion restrictions for residential
hotels.
Action 2.2.4: Limit condominium conver-
sions.
Action 2.2.5: Extend local replacement unit
provisions.
Action 2.2.6: Reduce short-term home pur-
chases/sales (i.e., "house flipping") to ensure
affordability and prevent displacement.
Action 2.2.7: Provide additional subsidy for
residential hotels.
Action 2.2.8: Investigate a Tenant/ Commu-
nity Opportunity to Purchase Act.
Moderate/High
Moderate/High
Moderate/High
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
High
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate/High
High
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GOAL III: Close the
Gap Between Afford-
able and Market-
Rate Housing Pro-
duction by Expand-
ing Affordable Hous-
ing Opportunities
Facilitates the produc-
tion of housing for ex-
tremely low, very low,
low, and moderate-in-
come households.
Provides a diversity of
housing types, owner-
ship opportunities, liv-
ing arrangements, and
features supportive of
special needs.
Locates new housing to
further access to op-
portunity (while simul-
taneously investing in
and protecting tenants
in disinvested commu-
nities) and removes
constraints to afforda-
ble housing develop-
ment.
Action 3.1.1: Develop a project-based rental
or operating subsidy program for extremely-
low-income residents.
Action 3.1.2: Align and target Oakland Hous-
ing Authority Section 8 Vouchers for perma-
nent supportive housing and extremely-low-
income units.
Action 3.2.1: Develop zoning standards to en-
courage missing middle and multi-unit hous-
ing types in currently single-family- domi-
nated neighborhoods, including flats, du-
plexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes/
rowhouses, and ADUS
Action 3.2.2: Promote and protect live/work
housing and housing for artists
Action 3.2.3: Promote flexibility in adaptive
reuse to increase the housing stock.
Action 3.2.4: Provide financial incentives for
lower-income homeowners to legalize ADUS
Action 3.2.5: Reduce constraints to the devel-
opment of ADUS
Action 3.2.6: Monitor affordability of permit-
ted ADUs
Action 3.2.7: Proactive Short-Term Rental En-
forcement
Action 3.3.1: Sale or ground-lease of City-
owned property for affordable housing.
Action 3.3.2: Expansion of Section 8 vouchers.
Action 3.3.3: City of Oakland Emergency
Rental Assistance Program.
Action 3.3.4: Development of permanent
housing affordable to extremely-low-income
(ELI) households on public land.
Moderate
Moderate
High
Moderate
Unknown
Moderate/High
Moderate
Moderate
High
High/Moderate
High
High
High
City of Oakland Housing Element 2023-2031
Action 3.3.5: Implement an affordable hous-
ing overlay.
Action 3.3.6: Access to low-cost financing for
development.
Action 3.3.7: Study the targeted implementa-
tion of an inclusionary housing requirement
Action 3.3.8: Right-sized development fees on
market-rate developments
Action 3.3.9: Adjusting or waiving City fees
and payment timing for affordable housing
developments.
Action 3.3.10: Consider a citywide Enhanced
Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD)
Action 3.3.11: Support innovations by design
Action 3.3.12: Continue the Acquisition and
Conversion to Affordable Housing (ACAH)
Program.
Action 3.3.13: Expand availability of prede-
velopment funding and low-cost debt prod-
ucts for affordable housing development.
Action 3.3.14: Evaluate the creation of a lev-
eraged acquisition fund or debt/ equity funds
for small sites to support site acquisitions for
affordable housing
Action 3.3.15: Continue and expand density
bonus incentives.
Action 3.3.16: Analyze the Real Estate Trans-
fer Tax structure and its current effect on the
Affordable Housing subsidy and the effect on
the General Purpose Fund
Action 3.3.17: Support low-income, grass-
roots, and BIPOC affordable housing develop-
ers.
High
High
High
High
High
Unknown
Moderate
High
High
High
High
Unknown/High
High
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Action 3.3.18: Implement affordable housing
investments contained in Measure U
Action 3.3.19: Sites Inventory and Fair Hous-
ing Accomplishments Tracking Program
Action 3.4.1: Revise development standards,
including allowable building heights, densi-
ties, open space and setback requirements
Action 3.4.2: Study the Relationship Between
Zoning and Racial Segregation as Part of the
Phase 2 General Plan Update
Action 3.4.3: Revise Conditional Use Permit
(CUP) requirements
Action 3.4.4: Revise citywide parking stand-
ards
Action 3.4.5: Revise open space requirements
Action 3.4.6: Correct zoning district bounda-
ries that cut through parcels
Action 3.4.7: Capture the diversity of existing
built fabric in zoning
Action 3.4.8: Implement objective design
standards
Action 3.4.9: Implement new ADU standards
that streamline approvals and address un-
permitted units.
Action 3.4.10: Implement a Housing Sites
Overlay Zone to permit sites included in the
Housing Sites Inventory to develop with af-
fordable housing by right
Action 3.4.11: Promote educator and/or stu-
dent housing on public land by reviewing the
zoning and General Plan designations of Oak-
land Unified School District (OUSD) and Per-
alta Community College District-owned sites
for consistency with housing
High
High
High/Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Low/Moderate
Unknown
High
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate/High
Moderate
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Action 3.5.1: Support community land trusts
and other shared equity model
Action 3.5.2: Support housing cooperatives,
co-living, and cohousing models
Action 3.5.3: Advocate for statewide legisla-
tion on social housing
Action 3.5.4: Monitor and consider adopting
shallow subsidy programs for lower-income
households
Action 3.5.5: Study Feasibility of Single-Stair
Residential Buildings
Action 3.6.1: Streamline the City permitting
process, especially for low-income and non-
profit builders
Action 3.6.2: Provide increased flexibility in
development standards
Action 3.6.3: Expand by-right approvals and
implement entitlement reform for affordable
housing
Action 3.6.4: Continue SB 35 streamlining
and encourage projects to use it.
Action 3.6.5: Continue one-stop and online
permitting services.
Action 3.7.1: Incentivize the development of
senior housing and provide financial assis-
tance to developers of housing for seniors
and persons with special needs.
Action 3.7.2: Provide housing for persons
with HIV/AIDS.
Action 3.7.3: Accessible units in new housing
developments.
Action 3.7.4: Implement the sponsor-based
Housing Assistance Program.
High
High
High
High
Unknown
High
Moderate
High
High
High
Low/Moderate
High
High
High
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Action 3.7.5: Encourage a range of unit sizes
for affordable housing that matches local
household needs and family sizes
Action 3.7.6: Expand areas where rooming
units and efficiency units are permitted by
right
Action 3.7.7: Amend Planning Code to comply
with the Employee Housing Act
Action 3.7.8: Expand areas where Residential
Care Facilities are permitted by right
Action 3.8.1: Continue to implement the Va-
cant Property Tax (VPT)
Action 3.8.2: Encourage the conversion of va-
cant ground floor commercial space to resi-
dential uses in appropriate locations
Action 3.8.3: Tax vacant residential rental
units
Action 3.8.4: Continue the Oakland Commu-
nity Buying Program and support scattered
site acquisition efforts.
Action 3.8.5: Partner with Alameda County
Tax Collector to redevelop tax defaulted
properties.
High
High
High
Unknown
High
Unknown
High
High
High
City of Oakland Housing Element 2023-2031
GOAL IV: Address
Homelessness and
Expand Resources
for the Unhoused
The Housing Element
recognizes housing as
a human right and re-
duces homelessness
through Housing First
approaches and sup-
port coordination
across the spectrum,
from homelessness
prevention to transi-
tional housing/shelter
and services to perma-
nent housing with re-
sources for long-term
support
Action 4.1.1: Expand, improve, and maintain
crisis response beds
Action 4.1.2: Expand, improve, and maintain
crisis response beds, especially for unshel-
tered communities of color
Action 4.1.3: Expand health and hygiene facil-
ities and services and improve access to bath-
rooms and showers.
Action 4.1.4: Provide needed support and in-
come to people who have been homeless so
they can avoid returning to homelessness.
Action 4.2.1: Enhance operations of the City's
2020 Encampment Management Policy
Action 4.2.2: Lead strategic homelessness re-
sponse operations and homeless services
from the Homelessness Division, Office of the
City Administrator
Action 4.2.3: Strengthen interdepartmental
Encampment Management Team
Action 4.2.4: Increase the oversight of home-
lessness strategies, investments, outcomes,
and encampment operations with Commis-
sion on Homelessness.
Action 4.2.5: Expand co-governance and part-
nerships with unsheltered residents in the
design and delivery of homelessness services.
Action 4.3.1: Finance the construction and
maintenance of permanent supportive and
deeply affordable housing for homeless
households to expand the supply of deeply af-
fordable and supportive housing for Oak-
land's most vulnerable residents.
Action 4.3.2: Streamline approval for modu-
lar developments to provide quality shelter
quickly to address the scale of the crisis
High
Moderate
High
High
Moderate
Low/Moderate
Low/Moderate
High
High
High
High
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Action 4.3.3: Remove regulatory constraints
to the development of transitional housing
and supportive housing
Action 4.3.4: Ensure that the authority pro-
vided by the City's Shelter Crisis Ordinance
and Declaration of a Local Emergency re-
garding Homelessness remains in place until
public health and safety concerns no longer
persist
Action 4.3.5: Provide development standards
for low barrier navigation centers
Action 4.3.6: Expand opportunities for the
permitting of emergency shelters
High
Unknown
High
High
City of Oakland Housing Element 2023-2031
GOAL V: Promote
Neighborhood Sta-
bility and Health
The Housing Element
promotes resilient de-
velopment in safe,
healthy, and just com-
munities. It also in-
creases resources in
disinvested communi-
ties and create long-
time stability through
homeownership oppor-
tunities.
Action 5.1.1: Provide first-time homebuyer
programs.
Action 5.1.2: Expand access to low-cost fi-
nancing for home purchase.
Action 5.1.3: Provide paths to homeowner-
ship for Section 8 voucher holders.
Action 5.2.1: Protect against smoke and wild-
fire.
Action 5.2.2: Promote infill, transit-oriented
development (TOD), and mixed-use develop-
ment.
Action 5.2.3: Study options to provide financ-
ing for the remediation of environmentally
contaminated sites, with priority for afforda-
ble projects.
Action 5.2.4: Secure funding from the State's
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Commu-
nities (AHSC) Program.
Action 5.2.5: Encourage earthquake-resilient
housing.
Action 5.2.6: Encourage climate-resilient
housing.
Action 5.2.7: Consider the adoption of a disas-
ter reconstruction overlay zone
Action 5.2.8: Encourage new affordable hous-
ing in higher resource neighborhoods
Action 5.2.9: Prioritize improvements to meet
the needs of low-resourced and dispropor-
tionately burdened communities.
Action 5.2.10: Promote the development of
mixed-income housing to reduce income-
based concentration
High
High
High
Moderate
High
High
Moderate
Moderate
High
Moderate
High
High
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Action 5.2.11: Provide accountability
measures for housing programs, including
annual monitoring.
Action 5.3.1: Provide fair housing services
and outreach.
Action 5.3.2: Promote awareness of preda-
tory lending practices.
Action 5.3.3: Provide targeted outreach and
support to disproportionately burdened
groups and areas.
Moderate/High
High
High
High
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Key
Average Equity Impact by
Goal
Moderate
Moderate to High
High