AR 7 RESOLUTION EXHIBIT B - 2021-2029 Housing Element EXHIBIT B TO RESOLUTION — Pasadena City Council, July 18, 2022 (part 2 of 2)

For these workshops, the City conducted extensive outreach and advertising to encourage participation, consisting of:
• Posting on the Housing Element webpage
• Posts on the OurPasadena Instagram account (an account set up initially to advertise the specific plans update program)
• Posts on the City of Pasadena Facebook account
• Email blasts to OurPasadena and Housing Element new sletter subscribers (1,485 total subscribers)
• Emails to City Council District Liaisons (each liaison has their own list of constituents)
• Email to the Northwest Commission coordinator
• Direct outreach to the following community organizations o Adelante Youth Alliance
o Day One
o Old Pasadena Management District
o Pasadena Beautiful Foundation
o Pasadena Community Job Center
o Pasadena Education Network (PEN)
o Playhouse District Association
o Making Housing Happen
o Pasadena Tenants Union
o Pasadena Black Pages
o Pasadena En Espanol
o League of Women Voters- Pasadena
o Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
o Abundant Housing LA
o NAACP Pasadena
o South Lake Avenue BID
o PCC Associated Students

The public was also invited to attend the final Task Force meetings conducted in March and April 2022 as the Task Force crafted its final recommendations. The first two meetings were conducted as on -line meetings, with about 50 participants each at the two March meetings. The third final meeting was conducted as a hybrid meeting , with 27 members of the public attending virtually.

Community Workshop #1
On April 15 and 22 , 2021, the City of Pasadena ’s Planning and Community Development Department conducted two workshop sessions to engage the community in a discussion of local housing needs. The fir st session was conducted in English and the second in Spanish. Approximately 110 residents and other community members participated. Both sessions included an approximately 25-minute presentation from the City’s planning consultant, MIG, Inc., followed by a facilitated discussion.

At the workshop sessions, participants were asked to respond to these three questions:

1. What are the major housing issues and challenges in Pasadena today and in the future?

2. What types of housing are needed in the community?

3. Where should new housing be located in Pasadena?
Participants’ responses were recorded on a virtual whiteboard in real time that was visible to all workshop participants. Copies of the whiteboards are included as appendices, as are the presentations.

Community Workshop #2
On June 2, 2021, the City of Pasadena Planning and Community Development Department conducted two simultaneous workshop sessions to engage the community in a discussion of local housing needs, focusing particularly on housing pr ograms. The sessions were conducted in English and Spanish.

Approximately 55 people participated in the English session and four in the Spanish session . Both sessions involved a brief presentation from the City’s planning consultant, MIG, Inc., followed b y facilitated discussions in breakout groups for the English session.

A series of breakout group sessions were held to allow participants to have detailed discussion about the following topics:
• Improving City processes
• Easing development regulations
• Creative housing solutions
• Addressing special housing needs
• Improving the existing housing stock
• Advancing housing equity and access
C I T Y O F P A S A D E N A | H O U S I N G E L E M E N T E - 5 Each breakout group consisted of a facilitator, City staff, and a note taker. The Spanish workshop did not have breakout sessions, but residents were asked to discuss and provide thei r thoughts on the topics presented. The note takers recorded participants’ ideas and responses in a format that allowed for easy consolidation of the discussion from each group. Copies of the recorded comments are included at the end of this Appendix.

Prior to formal Planning Commission and City Council adoption hearings in the spring of 2022, the City conducted a third community workshop to receive public comments on the proposed adoption draft Housing Element.

Community Survey
A Housing Element survey was made available during the months of May to July 2021 to provide residents with the opportunity to voice their thoughts and opinions related to housing needs and challenges. To further increase accessibility and inclusion , the City provided the survey in b oth English and Spanish languages; printed survey copies were also made available in locations such as local libraries and senior centers. The extensive outreach for the community workshops was also utilized for the community survey.

Approximately 900 survey responses were received.

Survey Questions:

1. How long have you lived in Pasadena?

2. Which City Council district do you live in?

3. What is your age?

4. Which best describes your current living situation?

5. What types of housing does Pasadena need most?

6. Rank the importance of current housing challenges in Pasadena.

7. To meet the City’s long -term housing needs, the City will need to plan for more homes. This includes single -family homes as well as apartments, townhomes, and condominiums. Please rank the ideas below bas ed on what you think are the best general locations in Pasadena for new housing.

8. How has COVID -19 changed your housing needs in a manner that you think will continue past the pandemic?

9. In some Pasadena neighborhoods and particularly in Northwest Pasadena, rising housing prices—both rental and for-sale housing—are causing lower -income, long -established residents to move because they can no longer afford their homes. This is an effect of “gentrification.” Is gentrification of concern to you in your neighborhood?

10. If yes, what are your concerns related to gentrification?

11. Many Pasadena residents have indicated that increasing the supply of affordable housing represents the most pressing housing need in the City. Please rank, from most important to least important, the strategies you think should be used to increase the amount of affordable housing.

As you answer, note that the City currently requires that affordable housing units be included in any new development project of 10 or more units, pay a fee to fund affordable housing, or provide affordable housing elsewhere in Pasadena.

12. Do you have other ideas for increasing the supply of affordable housing?

13. How many bedrooms do you need to accommodate your household’s needs?

14. What features are important to you in mult i-family housing developments?

15. Are you aware of the resources the City offers to renters to help find and afford suitable housing?

16. If you didn't know, the City offers resources to help renters find and afford suitable housing. Those resources can be found here:
https://www.cityofpasadena.net/housing/

17. What else would you like the City to consider regarding housing needs and programs?

18. Please indicate your gender.

19. How do you identify yourself?

20. What language is primarily spoken in your household?

21. Which best describes your annual household income?

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C I T Y O F P A S A D E N A | H O U S I N G E L E M E N T E - 11 Planning Commission Workshops
In May and July, 2021, Planning staff conducted t wo study sessions with the Planning Commission to review ideas and programs for the Housing Element prior to submitting the draft to HCD for review. The Commission reviewed and considered inputs from the Task Force meetings, community survey, and community workshops.

The first session held in May provided the Commission with a brief overview of the program timeline and goals, followed by a discussion on the current state of housing in the City. The Commission was informed on the current programs in place to f urther housing goals, and then commented and expanded on key themes and topics to be addressed in the element.

The second session focused on discussion of the proposed housing goals, policies, and programs and potential housing sites.

Following receipt of the HCD comment letter of the second draft Housing Element and three Task Force meetings focused on that letter , the Planning Commission held a study session on April 27, 2022 to hear additional public comment.

City Council Workshops
The City Council c onvened on August 2 , 2021 to review the first draft of the Housing Element prior to its submittal to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Methods of Outreach
The following are the methods the City used to encourage resident participation, particularly from communities of color, lower-income residents, and community organizations:
• Posts on the OurPasadena Instagram page
• Posts on the City of Pasadena Instagram page
• Posts on the City of Pasadena Facebook page
• Press releases
• Advertisements in local newspapers
o Pasadena Journal
o Pasadena Independent
o Pasadena Weekly
o Pasadena Star News
o Pasadena Now
o La Opinión (Spanish Language)
• Email blasts to Our Pasadena newsletter subscribers (1,485 total subscribers)
• Email to City Council District Liaisons – Each liaison has their own email list and disseminates information to constituents
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E - 12 C I T Y O F P A S A D E N A | H O U S I N G E L E M E N T • Email to Housing Task Force members
• Email to the Northwest Commission coordinator
• Email to 36 specific community organizations/individuals (e.g., Making Housing Happen, Spanish Language News, PCC Associated Students, Pasadena Tenants Union)
• Printed copies of the survey at libraries throughout Pasadena and at the Senior Center
• Direct outreach to the following community organizations o Adelante Youth Alliance
o Day One
o Old Pasadena Management District
o Pasadena Beautiful Foundation
o Pasadena Community Job Center
o Pasadena Education Network (PEN)
o Playhouse District Association
o Making Housing Happen
o Pasadena Tenants Union
o Pasadena Black Pages
o Pasadena En Espanol
o League of Women Voters- Pasadena
o Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
o Abundant Housing LA
o NAACP Pasadena
o South Lake Avenue BID
o PCC Associated Students

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The City developed the Housing Element Update webpage as a central hub for residents seeking additional resources and information related to the 2021-2029 Housing Element Update. The webpage provide d background information related to the Housing Element, such as legal requirements and its key role in the General Plan. Along with background information, the webpage offer ed access to important documents and reports produced by the City with regards to current housing programs and key housing laws. The City’s webpage also provided a library of past meeti ngs and workshops that the City has conducted in their efforts to collect viable public input and comments, with links to recordings and presentation slides. Lastly, the website provided a link to the Housing Survey for residents to complete and provide th eir input in the various housing-related topics.

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E - 14 C I T Y O F P A S A D E N A | H O U S I N G E L E M E N T Responses to Public Comments
The City received public comments throughout the Housing Element preparation and public review periods via the workshops, survey, Planning Commission and City Council study s essions, final three Task Force meetings, and written communications. All materials were made available to the Task Force, Planning Commission, and City Council during preparation of the Housing Element. In particular, the Task Force discussed public comment in detail and reflected those discussions in a priority matrix of programs the group produced. Key themes raised from the public included:

Housing Challenges and Constraints

• The lack of supply of affordable housing
• In-lieu fees allow developers to get around affordable housing requirements.
• The high cost of new buildings makes it difficult to provide more affordable housing.
• The racism of freeway building is a blot on Pasadena’s past that still deeply scars the present.
• Current zoning regulations limit affordable housing.
o Pasadena restricts attached and detached ADUs and on
multifamily.
o Minimum lot sizes are overly restrictive.
o Minimum parking requirements undercut affordable housing development.
o The law in Pasadena does not allow over garages; this needs to be changed. They should be allowed over garages,
especially if they are for Section 8.
• The Inclusionary Housing Ordinance does not go far enough. • Fair housing implications of COVID crisis and evictions have exacerbated the state of affordable housing.
• We need to make sure that gentrification doesn't permanently displace low and moderate-income tenants.
• Over 23,000 people are on Pasadena’s Section 8 waiting list.

Housing Needs

• Affordable housing should be dispersed across the City and not concentrated in only a few communities and Council districts. • Pasadena residents have an excessive rent and mortgage burden, which has created a desperate need for more affordable housing. • We need to create conditions that will generate more stable housing situations for Pasadena residents.

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• Address the affordable housing needs of youth and students. • There is a need to address the needs of the availability or lack thereof of affordable and accessible housing for people with various disabilities, as well as developmental disabilities.
• The needs of the unhoused are not being met. Pasadena needs more bridge housing.
• Affordable housing projects should also be designed to improve quality of life by building in green space and encouraging walkable neighborhood.
• We need more housing with more bedrooms for larger families, families with kids and grandparents.

Housing Opportunities

• Revise City zoning and parking regulations to encourage more affordable housing development.
• Ensure the incentives for the provision of affordable housing are working as intended and if not, reform or eliminate them. • Adopt measures to improve housing security and stability, including rent control, just cause eviction, a rent registry, and tenant antiharassment ordinance and enforcement.
• The City should allow for a greater variety of housing types, including duplexes/triplexes/ fourplexes, courtyard apartments, micro-units, and SROs.
• The City could encourage more affordable housing in the giant hole/stub the I-710 left by Old Pasadena.
• Allow churches and other religious institutions to have affordable housing built on their underutilized property by rezoning church land and to permit housing on their land by right.
• Allow mixed-use everywhere.
• Examine the potential of developing affordable housing in conjunction with transportation infrastructure.
• Fourplex ordinance; see Portland model.
• Locate housing along arterials, such as S. Arroyo Blvd. (giant warehouse, before 110 freeway) Prime location for multi-use given ample services and public transportation availability.
• Higher mixed-use density along Colorado in the East Colorado Specific Plan area
• Look at history of segregation and exclusion; advance fair housing.

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E - 16 C I T Y O F P A S A D E N A | H O U S I N G E L E M E N T In response to public comments, the Housing Element was revised in its three iterations to commit the City to:

• Removing development caps set forth in the General Plan and implementing specific plans
• Moving forward with an ordinance to allow housing on religious facility sites
• Adopting measures that encourage ADU production
• Adopting meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing • Including unbundled parking provisions in the specific plans • Creating a housing replacement program for non -vacant sites included in the sites inventory
• Investigating means to establish local revenue sources for affordable housing production, such as a residential property vacancy tax, real estate transaction fee, and commercial and industrial development linkage fee
• Finding ways to increase the number of housing vouchers available in Pasadena
• Identifying older multifamily rental properties for potential acquisition and rehabilitation
• Using a joint powers authority to acquire existing housing developments and restrict tenancy to middle - and lower -income households
• Allowing residential development within select Specific Plan areas on properties zoned primarily for commercial use
• Considering establishment of a “safe parking” ordinance • Strengthening the City’s Tenant Protection Ordinance
• Committing to reimagine the I -710 “stub” for housing and recreating community connections
The comment letters received reflected many of the above comments but also put forth this question: Why was the City not increasing development densities and making other land use changes to increa se housing capacity citywide? In developing the sites inventory, the City found that existing zoning and land use policy in the 2015 General Plan provides suitable sites to accommodate the RHNA and that updating the specific plans will provide the regulati ons to implement policy. Also, with removal of the development caps for the specific plan areas, any prior constraints will be removed.

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Community Workshop #1 Summary

Community Workshop #1
Pasadena Housing Element Update
April 15 and 22, 2021

Introduction
On April 15 and 22, 2021, the City of Pasadena Planning and Community Development Department conducted two workshop sessions to engage the community in a discussion of local housing needs. The first session was conducted in English and the second in Spanish. Approximately 110 residents and other community members participated. Both sessions included an approximately 25-minute presentation from the City’s planning consultant, MIG, Inc., followed by a facilitated discussion. Due to the constraints on public gatherings imposed by COVID- 19, both sessions occurred as virtual on-line workshops.

As required for every California jurisdiction, the City of Pasadena updates its General Plan Housing Element on an eight-year cycle, with the update now underway covering the 2021-2029 planning period. The City’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) allocation for this period is 9,429 housing units, meaning that City’s land use policies, programs, and regulations must demonstrate capacity for this number of units, divided among four household income categories as follows:
1 At the workshop sessions, participants were asked to respond to these three questions:

1. What are the major housing issues and challenges in Pasadena today and in the future?

2. What types of housing are needed in the community?

3. Where should new housing be located in Pasadena?

Participants’ responses were recorded on a virtual whiteboard in real -time, with the whiteboard visible to all workshop participants. The whiteboards are included as appendices, as are the presentations. The following

1 AMI (Average Median Income for Los Angeles County, 2020). 1-person household = $54,100; 2-person household = $61,850; 3-person household = $69,550; 4-person household = $77,300.

Income Categories (AMI= Area Median Income)
• Very Low – 31 to 50% of AMI
• Low – 51 to 80% of AMI
• Moderate – 81 to 120% of AMI
• Above Moderate – 120%+ of AMI

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bullet points report the responses, organized by the three questions stated above, as well as an “Other Comments” category and direct questions asked during the workshop sessions. In many instances, participants cited similar concerns. (The whiteboard comments have been edited for clarity; verbatim comments from Zoom’s “chat” feature and summaries of oral comments can be read in the appendices.)

I. Key Housing Challenges and Constraints

• Supply of affordable housing has been reduced by the influence of corporate landlords (lots of single - family home units lost in 2008) and by developers who leverage existing housing regulations to their advantage.
o In-lieu fees allow developers to get around affordable housing requirements . o In the past, HUD public housing was sold to a developer; tenants were displaced. o Developers are concentrating expensive housing in desirable districts . o Developers have run amok using in-lieu fees to push lower-income residents into lower-income neighborhoods.
• The high cost of new buildings makes it difficult to provide more affordable housing . o Part of the reason that housing is so expensive here is that the City's development fees are huge.

Entitlement and permit fees are approximately $75,000 per dwelling unit - More if you elect to pay the in-lieu fees!
o There’s no incentive to build affordable units. We need to change that. It shouldn’t have to be a mandate. It needs to be financially feasible.
• What has been done in the past to encourage affordable housing hasn’t worked. o Tax credit units aren’t affordable to those who need the affordable housing most . o Concentrating low-income housing failed; red-line zoning, concentrating low-income people reduces opportunities and economic mobility.
o We need to ask ourselves, are what we're doing going to do will it actually address/ solve the issue?
• The racism of freeway building is a blot on our past that still deeply scars the present. o Displacement caused by I-210 (eminent domain)
o Housing lost due to freeway construction (I-710 stop): We need to make reparations to displaced families.
o 24% drop in the African American population is scary. I hope less this Census. See https:// www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-newspress/tn-pas-0807-census-story.html • Given the limited availability of vacant land and the need for housing of different size and types , the City of Pasadena should stop restricting the combination of attached and detached accessory dwelling units when built on parcels containing multifamily buildings. • The City should also stop restricting second story ADUs built over garages. Why halfway address the housing crisis and create a parking crisis?
• ADUs are nice, but they are a drop in the bucket in terms of addressing this problem. They are more complicated to construct, more expensive per unit, and they don’t address the landlord problem. We need to focus our efforts on multifamily construction.
• Current zoning regulations limit affordable housing.
o Pasadena restricts attached and detached ADUs and on multifamily. o Minimum lot sizes are overly restrictive.
o Minimum parking requirements undercut affordable housing development .

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o There are zoning barriers to mixed-use.
o Change zoning.
o Churches want to build affordable housing. North Fair Oaks wants to build 52 units but the zoning doesn't allow it.
o The law in Pasadena does not allow over garages; this needs to be changed. They should be allowed over garages especially if they are for Section 8. • The Inclusionary Housing Ordinance does not go far enough. o The problem with the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance is that the cost of subsidizing the affordable units is passed along to the people paying rent or mortgage on the market rate units in the same building. So, we could increase it to 30% or 50% but that would just push the cost up for everyone else. It’s a private subsidy, not a public subsidy. o Not that the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance is bad, but it has that consequence, and changing it would increase the consequence.
• A lot of new housing is being built up against I-210, which is a recipe for poor health outcomes. o High-density housing is currently located near highways - pollution is an issue. o Pollution and air quality needs to be considered when developing housing . o Not next to freeways
• Building bigger doesn't necessarily mean more affordable. • Fair housing implications of COVID crisis and evictions have exacerbated the state of affordable housing. • Consider the impact of vacant units and Airbnb units on the supply of affordable housing . • We need to make sure that gentrification doesn't permanently displace low and moderate -income tenants.
• Lack of affordable housing, especially for families
• My family can’t live in Pasadena because there are not affordable home prices for first-time buyers. • Lots of people in houses with very few bedrooms
• Make sure houses are built efficiently for utilities so households can afford them. • Concerned over transitional housing if it means the traditional type of transitional. Need permanent not transitional housing.
• Identifying 25-35% of parcels to be used for affordable housing • Think about who we're serving when we preserve buildings (historical preservation) . • Given the catastrophic loss of affordable housing in Pasadena, can we meet the RHNA goals by only allowing affordable housing projects?
o RHNA number is too low - plan beyond.
• Over 23,000 people are on Pasadena’s Section 8 waiting list. o They qualify for affordable housing, but there aren’t enough landlords renting to Section 8 tenants.
o They could end up losing their vouchers if they are not able to find a landlord. • The condos on Cordova and Euclid don't seem to be affordable housing . • College and universities can also drive displacement. • I worry about paying rent.
• Having to work two jobs to be able to pay rent
• Rents increase too frequently. My rent just went up 11 percent.

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II. Housing Needs

• Affordable housing should be dispersed across the city and not concentrated in only a few communities. o Concentrating poor people in one place is bad for them and for the city; disperse affordable housing.
o We need affordable housing dispersed throughout out city, which is a good reason to allow churches to have affordable housing built on their underutilized property. o But we also need affordable housing in the lower-income areas of the city where those in need live.
o Affordable housing should be located in every part of our city. We know that well -designed housing like Marv’s Place enhances a neighborhood and creates safety. o Affordable housing should be in all 7 council districts. • We also need affordable housing in the lower-income areas of the city where those in need live in overcrowded areas.
o Too often overcrowded areas are equated with overly dense but actually , density is the solution to overcrowding.
• Pasadena residents have an excessive rent and mortgage burden, which has created a desperate need for more affordable housing.
o If 56% of people right now are paying more than 30% of income for rent/mortgage, then we need way more than 20% of new housing to be affordable. o According to the previous Housing Element, most Pasadenans are overpaying for housing.

Housing overpayment refers to paying more than 30% of income toward housing. o Moderate overpayment refers to paying 30% to 49% of income toward housing, and severe overpayment is anything higher. In Pasadena, 43% of owners and 51% of renters overpay for housing.
o At that time (2012), nearly 12,000 renters and over 8,000 homeowners were severely cost - burdened, paying over 50% of their income on housing. That’s why we need at least 6,000 units of affordable housing in the next 8 years.
o The rising rent burden that Laura just talked about isn’t going to stop. o Rent is triple the cost here compared to Mississippi. o Houselessness isn't about a lack of jobs.
• Core segments of the community can no longer afford to live in Pasadena and are being driven out by high rents and housing costs.
o Families who can't afford to stay in their home communities. o People who grew up here can't live here. How can we support residents work toward homeownership?
o Most children growing up in Pasadena can’t afford to live here. Teachers and C ity workers can’t afford to live here. Essential workers can’t afford to live here. o People who work in restaurants, who help feed the community, can't afford to live here, which is problematic.
o Our teachers should be able to live here and based on the average incomes , they are not able to live here. We must make enough affordable housing available. • We need to create conditions that will generate more stable housing situations for Pasadena residents.

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o Given the instability of housing, especially for tenants, I hope that this e lement looks at how to achieve housing stability, not just how (many) units need to be produced/preserved. o Housing instability: We need to keep people housed.
o There is a need for assistance finding housing and staying in housing . • Large housing need: need multiple strategies
o Need more housing opportunities in all Pasadena communities o Affordable housing of all types that are accessible for students, people on fixed incomes, families, etc.
• People of color are being displaced.
o Must rectify past displacement - all communities need to participate o Reparations and right to return for families harmed by racist freeway planning o Highway decimated African American community
• Address the affordable housing needs of youth and students. o Address the housing needs of former foster youth, those lacking support and safety nets . o We need affordable housing for families and students that are homeless or housing insecure . o Let's make sure that we make housing for student housing for PUSD. o Between 10-20% of PCC students are experiencing homelessness. That’s between 2,600 and 5,200 students.
o School districts define homelessness by a definition set forth in the federal McKinney-Vento Act, as someone who lacks a “fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence,” including those who are “doubled up” – that is, staying in a friend’s or family member’s home because they lost their own housing. By that definition, between 500-700 students are homeless in PUSD and 300 families (see https://doorofhope.us/2019/05/23/how-manyhomeless-families-in-pasadena/). • There is a need to address the needs of the availability or lack thereof of affordable and accessible housing for people with various disabilities, as well as developmental disabilities. • We need housing for women experiencing homelessness. Women living on the street are extremely vulnerable. It should be the goal of our City to house every woman experiencing homelessness as soon as possible.
• I love the ideas of meeting the need of all those in our city, including our homeless seniors. We need affordable and supportive housing for seniors.
o Because seniors live on fixed income and housing costs are rising faster than the cost of living, seniors are the fast-growing homeless population.
o (Affordable) senior housing
• We need affordable housing for veterans. Many veterans who attend Pasadena City College are homeless or housing insecure.
• Affordable housing projects should also be designed to improve quality of life by building in green space and encouraging walkable neighborhood.
o I think we encourage developers to keep trees and gardens, increase the green space for everyone in Pasadena. Not to keep projects from being built but to keep them a nice place for everyone living there.
o Housing designed with safe outdoor spaces
o Housing that incentivizes a more car “light” lifestyle (less new housing for cars, more housing for people)
o New housing should be focused in walkable neighborhoods (like Old Pasadena) with good access to stores, transit, parks, recreation, etc., reducing the need for cars.

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o Parking maximums
• We need fewer landlords and more homeowners! Renters should not have to pay for someone's mortgage.
• We need more housing with more bedrooms for larger families, families with kids and grandparents.

III. Housing Opportunities

• Revise City zoning and parking regulations to encourage more affordable housing development. o Reform zoning to make it possible to build affordable housing in areas of lower density and also areas that are now zoned exclusively for single-family homes. o Allow more on street parking and eliminate overnight parking bans that undercut affordable housing opportunities.
o Pasadena restricts attached and detached ADUs and on multifamily. The City should allow for a combination of both.
• I hope this Housing Element will incentivize more accessory dwelling units being built throughout the city. o How about three ADUS allowed in parts of the city. For example, on single family sites at 10,000 square feet or more.
o Studies have shown that ADUs do not increase traffic and tend to be rented at lower than market rate. ADUs held keep families together.
o Low-income homeowners should be incentivized to build ADUs for Section 8 renters. Maybe a grant of $20,000 and dropping all fees if it's an affordable ADUs? And to allow them over garages if affordable?
o Need to make ADUs as affordable and simple to build as possible, including having the City provide preapproved plans.
o I'd like to see low-income homeowners receive a subsidy for ADUs if they rent to Section 8. This would help keep low-income homeowners in our city and provide much needed affordable housing at a very low cost.
• Ensure the incentives for the provision of affordable housing are working as intended and if not, reform or eliminate them.
• Adopt measures to improve housing security and stability, including rent control, just cause eviction, a rent registry, and tenant antiharassment ordinance and enforcement. o Develop a rent registry: what housing stock we have, cost, vacancy, landlords. o Tenants are insecure due to the COVID situation. Develop ways to create more protection and security.
o Rent control and just cause for evictions should be included in the Housing Element to create housing stability.
• City should allow for a greater variety of housing types, including duplexes/triplexes/ fourplexes, courtyard apartments, micro-units, and SROs.
o Duplexes, tiny homes on church property, motel conversions for homeless with full supportive services
o We need co-ops, small apartments, and bungalow courts—both for owners and renters. o Mixed use - all kinds/ levels of housing make better communities o Neighborhood scale multi-family housing like bungalow courts • Disperse affordable housing throughout the city in all communities and all City Council districts.

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o Make sure that affordable housing is across the city, not just in the Northwest, Districts 1 - 3 and

5. o I suggest that SROs should be allowed in all RM districts. Clearly this does not work with the unit density rules. Perhaps a set of graduated FAR rules could provide the necessary limits. o Identify sites for new affordable housing throughout the city, as it is obligated under State law. o Especially in more affluent neighborhoods with superior access to employment, education, etc. and less vulnerability to displacement
• The City could encourage more affordable housing in the giant hole/stub the I -710 left by Old Pasadena.

Caltrans razed an affordable neighborhood that had been there. o I-710 area that's been abandoned
o Make sure that the development of the I-710 stub is used to repair damage to low-income communities who were harmed by the construction of the freeway. • Allow churches and other religious institutions to have affordable housing built on their underutilized property by rezoning church land and to permit housing on their land by right. • I see a lot of vacant parking lots in Pasadena where housing could be built. • Allow mixed-use everywhere.
o Need mixed use housing next to metro station (on Lake Street) o Mixed-use at Colorado and El Nido
• Examine the potential of development affordable housing in conjunction with transportation infrastructure.
o Housing bridging freeways
o Multi-use housing on arterials
o Close off and reclaim low-traffic streets for other uses (parks, bike lanes, housing). o Create a no car zone: area for housing without parking requirements. • Implement a variety of strategies to increase the supply of affordable housing. o Older homes are often cheaper (e.g., older apartments, fourplexes, etc.). o Turn empty commercial buildings into loft housing.
o Adaptive reuse and mixed-use. In the wake of the pandemic there are a lot of vacant commercial spaces.
o Rental and for-sale strategies
o I like that triplex idea; that could help.
o Develop an onramp to ownership: creative forms of ownership, including multi -unit developments.
o Community-owned
o De-commodified housing
o Fourplex ordinance; see Portland model
o Solar energy
o Manufactured housing: regulations need to allow them. Modular units built quickly o Transitional housing for the unhoused, such as tiny homes projects (Echo Park and N. Hollywood) o Community land transfer - land is held in common on a 99-year lease; need to incentivize this o Co-ops
o Lets' have more triplexes and duplexes if they are for Section 8. o I love the idea of all neighborhood of choice.
o It should be a public subsidy. I mean if, as Laura said, “housing is a human need, ” then the City should subsidize it.

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Community Workshop #1 Summary

o Identify additional sites as needed to meet the RHNA allocation. o Target affordable housing tax credit units to long-term residents. o Church housing programs for the homeless: churches rotate housing individuals and families over night
o Specific Plan updates
• Specific locations and types of sites for affordable housing:
o Build housing along Metro stations. Housing on arterial streets (Lake Avenue/ Walnut) o Allen Avenue can be developed more.
o Blighted areas
o Near Cal Tech and PCC
o Unused shopping malls
o Affordable housing in Districts 7, 6, 2 and 4
o Locate housing in arterials, such as S. Arroyo Blvd. (giant warehouse, before 110 freeway) Prime location for multi-use given ample services and public transportation availability. o What about redeveloping the hospital, St. Luke’s on East Washing ton near Altadena drive for affordable housing or housing for people who are currently unhoused. o Higher mixed-use density along Colorado in the East Colorado Specific Plan area o North Lake Ave Specific Plan; add housing where it's not currently zoned for it . o There was previously discussion about the PUSD school that closed. It's City property and it would be a shame to see it fall into private hands.
• Look at history of segregation and exclusion; advance fair housing. o We can adopt HOMEWISE recommendations to make ownership affordable/possible to compensate for the racially discriminatory history of housing development in Pasadena . • We can have green space along with housing. Some of that is filling in church grounds, some of it is mixed use, some is adaptive reuse.
• Projects must have supportive services.

IV. Other Comments

• In-lieu fees are also used for low-income homeownership projects. • What those in-lieu fees actually accomplish is (to increase the) concentration of high -end developments in the most desirable areas in the City with the most shopping and services. They should be jettisoned. • More outreach could have been done. I became aware of this meeting through the NAACP social media account.
• People in the community are a great resource. There should be more than two workshops (at least two more if not three or four).
• Natural gathering places for additional workshops - would like to see more workshops before June draft element.
• The affordable housing programs on the slide seem conflated with bridge or emergency housing. • Mayor's Housing Task Force, Planning Commission, Northwest Commission • SB 1000 allows for the environmental justice pieces to be included in other elements but it’s also super important that we see those pieces.
• Green space and housing are not contradictory.
• The RHNA numbers only take into account those households likely to move into the City, but they do not take into account those households already living in Pasadena who are in need of affordable housing. We

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should combine the two numbers when planning for the number of affordable housing units that are needed.
• I think you said the law allowing affordable housing to be built on church (religious) land was passed last year. It was not passed. SB 899 died in committee in the assembly, but we need S tate and local legislation that will allow that. That could provide more than 1,000 units of affordable housing here in Pasadena. • Implement rent control to prevent the increase of rent costs.

V. Questions

• Can we plan for only affordable housing?
• Only affordable housing makes sense. How many non-affordable existing units are staying empty? • What is the difference between green space and open space? • Average rent assumes current market value, average mortgage does not. What is the average mortgage for recent home sales?
• Is there affordable housing available for the mentally unstable population? • Percentage of renters?
• What does the City do with Inclusionary Housing in-lieu fees paid by developers? • Can we more clearly define these categories?
• When will there be additional workshop for public input before the draft is due to June? • What AFFH components is the plan exploring?
• Why doesn't Pasadena have a mandated Environmental Justice element of the General Plan? • What sort of funding is there to support co-op houses? • Are you looking at any for sale housing strategies?
• How much of existing housing is empty - unrented or unsold? • Do we have any numbers on how many people per year these programs are keeping in their homes? • Can you cite a couple of examples of recently built affordable housing projects supported by developer in- lieu fees?
• Vacancy taxes? How many units are vacant? Could a program subsidize landlords renting vacant housing affordability?
• How many stories is "low rise" vs. "medium rise"?
• What about energy efficiency and energy generation?
• Specify affordable for whom?
• If people are being displaced and areas are being gentrified, who's history are we preserving? • Can we lose affordable housing?
• Why did RHNA allocate above moderate-income housing?

Housing Element
Community Workshop
April 15, 2021

Laura Stetson
Principal
MIG, Inc.

Welcome and Introductions
Jessie Hernandez
Project Associate
MIG, Inc.

Alexis Bueno
Associate
Veronica Tam &
Associates
Arlene
Granadosin-Jones
Project Manager
City of Pasadena
Alfonso Ramirez
Project Associate
MIG, Inc.

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Agenda Review
III. About the Housing Element
IV. Pasadena’s Housing Needs
V. Meeting Housing Needs
VI. Discussion
VII. Next Steps
Tonight’s Agenda

Focus of Tonight’s Workshop

1. What are the major housing
issues and
challenges in
Pasadena today and in the
future?

2. What types of housing are
needed i
n the community?

3. Where should new housing
be locat
ed in Pasadena?

How to Zoom

Getting to Know You
How long have you lived in
Pasadena?
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 4 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 19 years
• 20 years or more
• I do not live in Pasadena

Getting to Know You
Where do you live?
• District 1 (Tyron Hampton)
• District 2 (Felicia Williams)
• District 3 (John J. Kennedy)
• District 4 (Gene Masuda)
• District 5 (Jess Rivas)
• District 6 (Steve Madison)
• District 7 (Andy Wilson)
• I am not sure
• I do not live in Pasadena
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7 A Snapshot of Pasadena
Who We Are
141,023 residents

34.9% residents 65 years and over
34%
38%
17%
6%
4%

RACE & ETHNICITY
Hispanic or Latino
White Non-Hispanic
Asian
Black or African American
Two or More Races

18.2% residents under 18 years

30.0% foreign-born residents
Who We Are
55,224 households

14.5% residents live in poverty
$83,068 Median Household Income

44.9% households speak language
other than English at home

Participants in Today’s Workshop
What is your age?
• Under 18
• 18-44
• 45-64
• Over 65

Test Your Pasadena Knowledge!
Which celebrity is NOT from
Pasadena? Select all that
apply.
• Julia Child
• Jackie Robinson
• Donald Glover
• Robert Reed (Mr. Brady)

About the General Plan
What is a General Plan?
• Belongs to the community
and refl
ects local vision and
values
• Blueprint for growth and
de
velopment
• Comprehensive long-term
plan (15 to 25 years)
• Eight required chapters
call
ed elements

What is a General Plan?
Mobility
Noise
Open Space &
Conservation
Land
Use
Housing
Mobility
Safety
Green
Space,
Parks & Rec
Pasadena General Plan – Guiding Principles
• Targeted growth to serve community needs – Ce ntral District, Transit Villages, and Neighborhood Villages
• Diverse economic base, with housing choices reflecting the labor pool • A city where people can circulate without cars
• Complete neighborhoods
• Regional center for culture, entertainment, and education • Residents’ involvement in shaping policy and plans
• Commitment to publi c education
• Historic resource preser vation
Housing Element Legislative Intent
“The availability of housing is of vital statewide
importance…[and] local and state governments
have a responsibility to…facilitate the
improvement and development of housing to
make adequate provision for the housing needs
of all economic segments of the community.”
About the Housing Element
• Must be updated every 8 years
• Sets numeric housing goal s
• Identifies locations f or new
housing
• State review required by
C
alifornia Housing and Community
Development Department (HCD)
• Adoption deadline: Oc tober 15,
2021
• Non-compliance has
consequences

Consequences of Noncompliance
• Schedule resets to every 4 years
• Limited access to State funding
• Potential for lawsuits
• Recent legislation:
─ AB 72 authorizes HCD to find a jurisdiction out of
compliance with housing law at any time, with ability
to decertify Housing Element
─ SB 35 subjects a jurisdiction to rigid streamlining
Pasadena General Plan – 2014- 2021 Housing Element
Overarching Objectives
• Sustainable, complete neighborhoods
• Adequate supply and diversity of rental
and ow
nership housing for all
households of all incomes and lifestyles
• Housing opportunities for special needs
indi
viduals: senior, disabled, homeless,
large families
• Preservation of existing affordable
housing

Housing Element Contents

Our Housing Needs
Identifying Statewide and Regional Housing Needs
• Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA): i dentifies the housing need in every California jurisdiction
• Every jurisdiction is re quired to plan for its RHNA allocation • The RHNA is N OT a construction obligation

Pasadena’s 2021- 2029 RHNA Goal
Allocated by income categories
• Very Low – 31 to 50% of AMI
• Low – 51 to 80% of AMI
• M
oderate – 81 to 120% of AMI
• Above Moderate – 120%+ of AMI
AMI (Average Median Income for Los Angeles County, 2020) 1-person household = $54,100 3-person household = $69,550 2-person household = $61,850 4-person household = $77,300

Affordable Housing
How much of your gross monthly
household income do you spend
for housing (rent or mortgage)?
• Less than 20%
• 20% to 30%
• Over 30%
• I do not pay rent or a mortgage

What is Affordable Housing?
• Affordable housing: when a
household pays no more than 30% of
its annual income on housing
• Cost burden: when monthly housing
costs (including utilities) exceed 30%
of monthly income
• 56% of Pasadena households
experienced
housing cost burden in
2017

Who Can Afford Housing in Pasadena?

How Does Pasadena Meet Affordable Housing Needs Today?
Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
Requires developers to include affordable housing in all new housing developments, pay an in-lieu fee, build units elsewhere, or donate land for affordable unit construction
• For-sale Units: 20% must be affordable
• R
ental Units:
- 5%
very low income
- 5% very low or low income
- 10% very low, low income, or moderate income
How Does Pasadena Meet Affordable Housing Needs Today?
• Affordable units today = 3,775
• Units in the pipeline = 902
• Project RoomKey
• Emergency Rental Assistance
• Weather-acti vated Motel
Vouchers
• Safe Haven Program (Religious
Faci
lities and Shelters)

Housing Production
• Permanent Supportive
Housi
ng
• New Construction
• Acquisition Rehabilitation
• Preservation
• Inclusionary Housing
• First-time Homebuyer
Housing Programs in Action: Affordable Housing Production Demonstration/Pilot Programs
• ADU Pilot
• S
hared Housing Demonstration
Proj
ect

• Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8)
─ Tenant Based
─ Project Based
• Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing
• Continuum of Care Vouchers
• Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
• Case Management
• Landlord Incentives
Housing Programs in Action: Rental Assistance
• Outreach
─ HOPE, PORT, USHS, FID, BIDs,
Li
braries
• Homeless Prevention
• Emergency Housing
─ Family Shelter, Adult Shelter, Bad
Weat
her Shelter
─ Motel Vouchers
• Permanent Housing
─ Rapid Rehousing, Permanent
Suppor
tive Housing
• Homeless Programs
Housing Programs in Action: Unhoused Individuals

https://www.cityofpasadena.net/housing/
Jim Wong - [email protected]
To Find Out More About Housing Programs
Meeting Our
Housing Needs
Where We Live Today
What type of housing do you live in?
• Detached single-unit house
• Duplex, Triplex, or Quadplex
• Townhouse
• Low-r ise apartment or condo
• Medium- to high -rise apartment or condo
• Mobile home
• Live/work unit
• Accessory dwelling unit
• I do not have a home right now

How Do We Meet Our Housing Need?
• Recently approved projects
• Projects in the application
pipel
ine
• Potential sites for new housing
─ Vacant Properties
─ Redevelopment of
“U
nderutilized” Sites
─ Accessory Dwelling Units
─ Adaptive Reuse of Existing
Com
mercial Buildings
─ Religious Institution Sites

Housing Strategies: Mixed- Use
• Ground-floor commercial with residential above
• P
edestrian- and transi t-oriented design
• Pasadena has six Gold Line stations/TOD areas

Housing Strategies: Accessory Dwelling Units
• Cities are required to allow
ADUs
• A
llowed in all residential
zones
• Can be a garage conversion
• Self-contained dwelling:
─ Attached or detached
─ Factory built or custom

Housing Strategies: Adaptive Reuse
• Office to residential
exampl
e: 388 Cordova
• Industrial buildings
converted
to live/work
units
• Hotels/motels to
permanent
housing

Housing Strategies: Micro Apartments
• One-room living units 150-300 square feet
• Kitchenettes and/or communal kitchens
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Housing Strategies: Cohousing/Shared Housing
• Community of private homes supplemented by shared facilities, resources, and
meals
• Planned, owned, and managed by residents
• Supports people at all stages of life: singles, couples, families, empt
y nesters, and retirees

Discussion
Discussion Format
• Comments will be documented in real-ti me using
a digital white board
• Please enter your comments into the chat or
r
aise your hand
Discussion

1. What are the major housing
issues and
challenges in
Pasadena today and in the
future?

2. What types of housing are
needed i
n the community?

3. Where should new housing
be locat
ed in Pasadena?

Next Steps
Update Process

2021- 2029 Housing Element Update
Outreach Program
April 2021
• Community
Workshop
Series #1
(ENG/SPAN)
• Online Survey
(ENG/SPAN)
May 2021
• PC Study
Session #1
• Online
Survey
(ENG/SPAN)
June 2021
• Community
Workshop
Series #2
(ENG/SPAN)
• PC Study
Session #2
• CC Study
Session
September
2021
• Planning
Commission
Public
Hearings (2)
October 2021
• City Council
Public
Hearings (2)
• Housing
Element
AdoptionSubmit
Draft HE
to HCD
Next Steps
Stay Involved!
• Survey beginning week of April 25
• Visit Housing Element webpage for information and
updates:

https://www.cityofpasadena.net/planning/planning-
division/community-planning/general-plan/housing-
element-update/#about
• Share additional comments and ideas:
[email protected]
One Last Question …
Which famous “first” did
NOT happen in Pasadena?
• The first freeway
• The first U.S. satellite
• The first Trader Joe’s
• The first cheeseburger

Housing Element
Community Workshop
April 15, 2021

Elemento de Vivienda
Taller Comunitario
22 de abril del 2021

Noe Noyola
Gerente de
Proyectos
MIG, Inc.

Bienvenida y presentaciones
Ana Padilla
Asociada del proyecto
MIG, Inc.

Arlene
Granadosin-Jones
Directora del
Proyecto
Ciudad de
Pasadena
Alfonso Ramirez
Asociado del proyecto
MIG, Inc.

I. Bienvenida y presentaci ones
II. Revisión de la orden del día
III. Sobre el elemento de vivienda
IV. Necesidades de vivi enda de
Pasadena
V. Cubrir las necesidades de
vi
vienda de Pasadena
VI. Discusión
VII. Próximos pasos
Agenda de esta noche

Enfoque del taller de esta noche

1. ¿Cuáles son l os principales
problemas y desafíos de la
vivienda en Pasadena
actualmente y en el futuro?

2. ¿Qué tip o de viviendas se
necesitan en la comunidad?

3. ¿En qué lugar deberíamos de
ubi
car las nuevas viviendas
en Pasadena?

Cómo usar el Zoom
Barra de menú en la parte abajo de la pantalla
Audio
Por favor,
apague su
micrófono
cuando no esté
hablando
Participantes
• Ver otros
• Renómbrese
(nombre y
afiliación a un
grupo u
organización, si
procede)
• Levante la mano
(recuerde
bajarla después)
Función de chat
Las preguntas
pueden ser
chateadas en
cualquier
momento
Ver
Galería/altavoz
La función para ver
los vídeos y de la
pantalla
compartida se
puede cambiar en
la esquina de arriba
del lado derecho
Queremos saber de usted
¿Cuánto tiempo lleva viviendo en
Pasadena?
• Menos de 1 año
• 1 to 4 años
• 5 to 9 años
• 10 to 19 años
• 20 años o más
• No vivo en Pasadena

Queremos saber de usted
¿En dónde vive?
• Distrito 1 (Tyron Hampton)
• Distrito 2 (Felicia Williams)
• Distrito 3 (John J. Kennedy)
• Distrito 4 (Gene Masuda)
• Distrito 5 (Jess Rivas)
• Distrito 6 (Steve Madison)
• Distrito 7 (Andy Wilson)
• No estoy seguro
• No
vivo en Pas adena
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7 Un retrato de Pasadena

Quiénes somos
141,023 residentes

34.9% residentes mayores de 65
años
34%
38%
17%
6%
4%

RACE & ETHNICITY
Hispanic or Latino
White Non-Hispanic
Asian
Black or African
American
Two or More Races

18.2% residentes menores de
18 años

30.0% Nacidos en el extranjero
Hispano o Latino
Blanco No Hispano
Asiático
Black or
Africoamericano
Dos o más razas

RAZA Y ETNICIDAD
Quiénes somos
55,224 Hogares

14.5% residentes en situación de
pobreza
$83,068 Ingreso promedio

44.9% Hogares que hablan otro
idioma en casa además de inglés

Participantes en el taller de hoy
¿Qué edad tiene?
• menos de 18
• 18-44
• 45-64
• más de 65

¡Ponga a prueba sus conocimientos sobre Pasadena!
¿Qué celebridad NO es de
Pasadena?
• Julia Child
• Jackie Robinson
• Donald Glover
• Robert Reed (Señor Brady)

Información sobre el Plan
General

¿Qué es un Plan General?
• Pertenece a la comunidad y
re
fleja la visión y los
valores locales
• Plan de crecimiento y
de
sarrollo
• Plan integral de largo plazo
(15 a 25 años)
• Contiene ocho capítulos
obli
gatorios llamados
elementos

¿Qué es un Plan General?
Uso de la tierra
Movilidad
Vivienda Ruido
Espacios
abiertos y
conservación
Seguridad Justicia
Ambiental
Espacios
verdes,
parques

Plan General de Pasadena - Directrices
• Crecimiento ori entado a satisfacer las necesidades de la comunidad- Distrito central, Centrales de transporte público y zonas vecinales
• Una base económica diver sa, con opciones de vivienda que reflejen la mano de obra
• Una ciudad en la que l as personas puedan circular sin coche • Vecindarios compl etas
• Centros regionales par a la cultura, entretenimiento y educación • Participación de los r esidentes en la elaboración de políticas y planes • Compromiso con la educaci ón pública
• Preservación de l os Recursos Históricos
Intención Legislativa del Elemento de Vivienda
“La disponibilidad de vivienda es de vital
importancia en todo el estado …[y] los gobiernos
locales y estatales tienen la responsabilidad de
…facilitar la mejora y el desarrollo de las
viviendas para satisfacer adecuadamente las
necesidades de vivienda de todos los segmentos
económicos de la población.”
Sobre el Elemento de Vivienda
• Debe ser act ualizado cada 8 años
• Establece los números de
vivienda
• Identifica los sitios para vivienda
• Revisión estat al requerida por el
Depto de Vivienda y Desarrollo
Comunitario de California (HCD)
• Fecha para adoptar el plan:15 de
octubre del 2021
• Incumplimiento ti ene
consecuencias

Consecuencias por Incumplimiento
• El calendario se restablece cada 4 años
• A
cceso limitado al f inanciamiento estatal
• Posibles demandas judiciales
Plan General de Pasadena – Objetivos Generales del Elemento de Vivienda 2014-2021
• Vecindarios int egrales sustentables
• Oferta adecuada y diver sidad de
vivienda para todos los hogares de
todos los ingresos y estilos de vida
• Oportunidades de vivi enda para
personas con necesidades especiales:
personas mayores, discapacitados,
personas sin hogar, familias
numerosas
• Conservar las viviendas asequibles ya
existentes

Contenido del Elemento de Vivienda

Nuestras Necesidades de
Vivienda

Identificación de las necesidades de vivienda a nivel estatal y regional
• Evaluación Regional de Necesidades de Vivienda (RHNA): ide ntifica las necesidades de vivienda en cada jurisdicción de California • Cada jurisdicción está o bligada a planificar su asignación de RHNA • La RHNA NO obliga a construir

Objetivo del RHNA de Pasadena para -
Asignación por categoría de ingresos
• Muy bajo – 31 to 50% of AMI
• Bajo – 51 to 80% of AMI
• M
oderado – 81 t o 120% of AMI
• Por encima de moderado – 120%+ of
AMI
AMI (Ingreso promedio del Condado de Los Ángeles, 2020) Hogar de 1 persona = $54,100 Hogar de 3 personas = $69,550 Hogar de 2 personas = $61,850 Hogar de 4 personas = $77,300

Vivienda Asequible
¿Qué porcentaje de sus ingresos
brutos mensuales destina a la
vivienda (renta o hipoteca)?
• Menos del 20%
• 20% to 30%
• Más del 30%
• No pago renta o alquiler

¿Qué es la vivienda asequible?
• Vivienda Asequible: Cuando en un
hogar no se destina más del 30% de
sus ingresos anuales para vivienda
• Carga de costos: Cuando los costos
mensual
es de la vivienda incluyendo
los servicios públicos superan el 30%
de los ingresos mensuales
• El 56% de los hogares en
Pasad
ena sufrieron una carga de
costos de vivienda en

¿Quién puede pagar por una vivienda en Pasadena?

¿Cómo satisface Pasadena las necesidades de vivienda asequible en la actualidad?
Ordenanza de Viviendas Inclusivas
Exige a los promotores que incluyan viviendas asequibles en los nuevos desarrollos, que paguen una cuota de sustitución, que construyan unidades en otro lugar o que donen terrenos para la construcción de unidades asequibles
• Unidades en venta: 20% deben ser asequibles
• Unidades en renta:
- 5% M
uy bajos ingresos
- 5% Muy bajos o bajos ingresos
- 10% Muy bajos ingresos, bajos o moderados
¿Cómo satisface Pasadena las necesidades de vivienda asequible en la actualidad?
• Unidades asequibles actualmente = 3,775
• Unidades en desarrollo = 902
• Proyecto RoomKey
• Ayuda de emergencia de para la renta
• Vales para motel activados por el clima
• Programas Safe Haven (albergue en
lugares religiosos y refugios)

Producción de viviendas
• Viviendas permanent es de
apoyo
• Nueva construcci ón
• Adquisición y Rehabi litación
• Conservación
• Vivienda inclusiva
• P
rimeros compradores
Programas de vivienda en acción: Producción de viviendas asequibles Demostración/programa piloto
• Piloto para ADU
• P
iloto de demost ración de
viviendas compartidas

• Vales para seleccionar vivi enda (Sección 8)
─ Basado en el in quilino
─ Basado en el proyect o
• Viviendas de apoyo para veteranos
• P
rograma de vivienda con apoyo social
• Oportunidades de vivi enda para personas con SIDA
• Gestión de casos
• Incentivos para los dueños de las propiedades
Programas de vivienda en acción: Asistencia para la renta • Difusión social
─ HO
PE, PORT, USHS, FID, BIDs,
Bib
liotecas
• Prevención de perdi da de vivienda
• Vivienda de emer gencia
─ Refugio para fa milia, para adultos,
por mal clima
─ Vales para motel
• Viviendas perm anentes
─ Realojamiento rápi do, viviendas de
apoyo permanentes
Programas de vivienda en acción: Personas sin vivienda

https://www.cityofpasadena.net/housing/
Jim Wong - [email protected]
Para mayor información sobre los programas de vivienda
Satisfaciendo nuestras
necesidades

Donde vivimos hoy
¿En qué tipo de vivienda vive?
• Casa unifamiliar
• D
úplex, Tríplex, o Cuádruplex
• Townhouse
• Departamento o condo de baja altura
• Departamento o condo de altura media, alta
• Casa móvil pr efabricada
• Unidad de vivienda/trabaj o
• Unidad de vivienda acc esoria
• No tengo una vi vienda en este momento

¿Cómo cubrimos nuestras necesidades de vivienda?
• Proyectos aprobados recientemente
• Proyectos en trámite de permisos
• Posibles lugares para nuevas
vivi
endas
─ Propiedades vacías
─ Reurbanización de sitios mal
uti
lizados
─ Unidades de vivienda accesorias
─ Reutilización de edificios comerciales
exi
stentes
─ Sitios de instituciones religiosas

Estrategias de vivienda: uso mixto
• Planta baja comercial con vivienda en planta alta
• Diseño orientado a peatones y transporte público
• Pasadena tiene 6 estaciones de la línea dorada/áreas de transport
e público

Estategias de vivienda: Unidades accesorias de vivienda • Las ciudades están obligadas a
p
ermitir las ADU´s
• Se permiten en todas l as zonas
residenciales
• Puede ser la conversi ón de una
cochera
• vivienda independiente:
─ Conectado o independi ente
─ Prefabricada o a l a medida

Estrategias de vivienda: Reutilización adaptativa
• Ejemplo de conversión
de ofi
cina en viviendas:
388 Cordova
• Edificios industriales
converti
dos en unidades
de vivienda/trabajo
• Hoteles/moteles
converti
dos a viviendas
permanentes

Estategia de vivienda: Microapartamentos
• Unidades de vivienda de 150-300 pi es cuadrados
• Cocinetas y/o cocinas comunes
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
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• Comunidad de vivi endas privadas con instalaciones, recursos y comedores compartidos
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Taller Comunitario
22 de abril del 2021

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 12
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Appendix C- Pasadena Housing Element Workshop

Housing Element: Workshop #1
Thursday, April 15, 2021
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Agenda
- Introductions
- About the Housing Element
- Pasadena's Housing Needs
- Discussion
Key Themes
What types of housing are needed in the community?
Given the instability of housing,
especially for tenants, I hope
that this Element looks at how to
achieve housing stability, not
just how units that need to be
produced/preserved.

According to the previous
Housing Element, most
Pasadenans are overpaying for
housing. Housing overpayment
refers to paying more than 30%
of income toward housing.

Where should new housing be located in Pasadena?
What are the major housing issues and challenges in Pasadena today and in the future?
Additional Questions and Comments
1 23
45 6 7
Moderate overpayment refers to
paying 30 to 49% of income
toward housing, and severe
overpayment is anything highe r.

In Pasadena, 43% of owners and
51% of renters overpay for
housing.

At that time (2012), nearly 12,000
renters and over 8,000 homeowners
were severely cost-burdened, paying
over 50% of their income on housing.

That’s what we need at least 6,000
units of aﬀordable housing in the next
8 years.

People who work in
restaurants, who help feed
the community can't aﬀord
to live here. Which is
problematic
Our teachers should be able to
live here -and based on the
average incomes they are N OT
able to live here. WE must make
enough aﬀordable housing
available
Most children growing up in
Pasadena can’t aﬀord to live
here. Teachers and city
workers can’t aﬀord to live
here. Essential wor kers
can’t aﬀord to live here.

People of color are
being displaced.

There is a desperate need for
more aﬀordable housing. That's
why the City needs to plan for at
least 6,000 units of aﬀordable
housing in the next 8 years.

The rising rent burden
that Laura just talked
about isn’t going to
stop
Houselessness isn't
about a lack of jobs.
tenants are insecure,
due to the COVID
situation. Develop ways
to create more
protection and security.

Pasadena restricts
attached and
detached ADU's and
on multifamily
The City should allow
for a combination of
both
We need to make sure
permanently displace low-
and moderate-income
tenants
aﬀordable housing
needs of youth - former
foster youth, those
lacking support and
safety nets
Housing instability -
we need to keep
people housed
Rent registry: what
housing stock we
have, cost, vacancy,
landlord,
We need aﬀordable
housing for families
and students that are
homeless or housing
insecure
tenant anti-
harassment
ordinance and
enforcement
Rent is triple the cost
here compared to
Mississippi
Families who can't
aﬀord to stay in their
home communities
we also need aﬀordable housing in
the lower income areas of the city
where those in need live in
overcrowded areas. Too often over
crowded areas are equated with
overly dense, but the actually density
is the solution to overcrowding .
housing and staying
in housing; social
services
let's make sure that
we make housing for
student housing for
PUSD.

Between 10-20% of PCC
students are experiencing
homelessness. That’s
between 2,600 and 5,200
students!
I love the ideas of meeting
the need of all those in our
city, including our homeless
seniors. We need aﬀordable
and supportive housing for
seniors.

Because seniors live on
costs are rising faster than
the cost of living, seniors
are the fast growing
homeless population.

I hope this HE will incentivize more
accessory dwelling units built
throughout the city. How about three
ADUS allowed in parts of the city..
for example on single family sites at
10,000 sf or more?
Studies have shown that ADUs
to be rented at lower than
market rate. ADUs held keep
families together.
can we plan for ONLY
aﬀordable housing?
I suggest that SRO should be
allowed in all RM districts . Clearly
this does not work with the unit
density rules. Perhaps a set of
graduated FAR rules could
provide the necessary limits.

ONLY aﬀordable housing
makes sense. How many non
aﬀordable existing units are
staying empty?
I like that Triplex idea,
that could help +community-owned
1) Lack of aﬀordable housing
especially for families. A lot of
new housing is being built up
against the 210 which is a recipe
for poor health outcomes
Low-income homeowners should be
incentivized to build ADUs for Section
8 renters. Maybe a grant of $2 0,000
and dropping all fees if it 's an
aﬀordable ADU s? And to allow them
over garages if aﬀordabl e?
If 56% of people right now are
paying more than 30% of income
for rent/mortgage, then we need
way more than 20% of new
housing to be aﬀordabl e.
) Aﬀordable housing of all types that
are accessible for students, people
housing that incentivizes a more car -
lite lifestyle (less new housing for
cars, more housing for people)
3) New housing should be
focused in walkable
neighborhoods with good
access to stores, transit,
parks, etc.

There is a need to address the
nees of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.

Adaptive reuse and
mixed-use
In the wake of the
pandemic there are a
lot of vacant
commercial spaces
Onramp to ownership -
creative forms of
ownership, including
multi-unit
developments
We need aﬀordable housing
for Vets. Many veterans who
attend Pasadena City College
are homeless or housing
insecure.
(Aﬀordable) Senior
housing
Fourplex Ordinance -
see Portland model
and housing costs are rising
faster than the cost of living,
seniors are the fast growing
homeless population.

Would be great if the City could
encourage more aﬀordable housing
in the giant hole / stub the 710 left by
Old Pasadena. Caltrans razed an
aﬀordable neighborhood that had
been there
We need aﬀordable housing dispersed
throughout out city, which is a good reason
to allow churches to have aﬀordable
housing built on their underutilized
property. Churches want to be good
neighbors and will ma ke sure that any
housing built will be in keeping with the
character of the neighborhood .

Allowing churches to
build aﬀordable
housing on
underutilized land
Aﬀordable housing should be
located in every part of our cit y.

We know that well-designed
housing like Marv’s Place
enhances a neighborhood and
creates safety.

Mixed-use at
Colorado and El Nito
Near Cal Tech and
PCC
Parking lots - church
areas and commercial
properties
increase walkability
and reduce need for
cars
Churches have a lot
of land All 7 council districts Blighted areas
Think about who we're
serving when we
preserve buildings
(historical preservation)
Churches want to build
aﬀordable housing
(North Fair Oaks wants
to build 52 units but the
zoning doesn't allow it)
Change zoning
Not next to freeways
Concentrating poor
people in one place is bad
fo rthem and for the City -
disperse aﬀordable
housing
Allow mixed-use
everywhere
Allow religious
institutions to build
housing on their land
by right.

Church lots and
properties
Need mixed use
housing next to metro
station (on Lake St.)
multi-use housing on
arterials
Unused shopping
malls
Aﬀordable housing in
Districts 7, 6, 2 and 4
Create a no car zone
- area for housing
without parking
requirements
What is the diﬀerence
between green space
and open space?
Percentage of
renters?
I love the idea of all
neighborhood of
choice.

Why doesn't Pasadena have
a mandated Environmental
Justice element of the
General Plan?
How much of existing
housing is empty -
unrented or unsold?
More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.

Given the catastrophic loss of
aﬀordable housing in
Pasadena, can we meet the
RHNA goals by ONLY allowing
aﬀordable housing projects?
Can we more clearly
categories?
What does the City do
with Inclusionary
Housing in-lieu fees
paid by developers?
In-lieu fees are also
used for low-income
homeownership
projects
What those in-lieu fees actually
accomplish is concentration of high-
end developments in the most
desirable areas in the City with the
most shopping and services. They
should be jettisoned.

Can you cite a couple of
examples of recently-built
aﬀordable housing projects
supported by developer in-
lieu fees?
District 3 resident here.

More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.

SB 1000 allows for the
environmental justice pieces to
be included in other elements
but it’s also super important that
we see those pieces.
he Inclusionary
Housing Ordinance
does not go far
enough.
the problem with the Inclusionary Housing
Ordinance is that the cost of subsidizing the
aﬀordable units is passed along to the people
paying rent or mortgage on the market rate
units in the same building. So we could
increase it to 30% or 50% but that would just
push the cost up for everyone else. It’s a private
subsidy, not a public subsidy.

Average rent assumes current
market value, average
mortgage does not. What is
the average mortgage for
recent home sales?
When will there be
additional workshop for
public input before the
draft is due to June?
Rent control and just cause
for evictions should be
included in the Housing
Element to create housing
stability.

Part of the reason that housing is so
expensive here is that the city's
development fees are huge.

Entitlement and Permit fees are
approximately $75,000 PER
DWELLING UNIT - More if you elect to
pay the in-lieu fees!
Do we have any numbers
on how many people per
year these programs are
keeping in their homes?
The aﬀordable housing
programs on the slide seem
emergency housing.

How many stories is
"low rise" vs. "medium
rise"?
can we plan for
ONLY aﬀordable
housing?
or, it should be a public
subsidy. I mean if, as Laura
said, “housing is a human
need”, then the city should
subsidize it.

The condos on
Cordova and Euclid
don't seem to be
aﬀordable housing
abolish the in-leiu fee
the law in Pasadena does
not allow over garages, this
needs to be changed. they
should be allowed over
garages especially if they
are for section 8.

ADUs are nice, but they are a drop in
the bucket in terms of addressing this
problem. They are more complicated
to construct, more expensive per unit,
and they don’t address the landlord
problem. We need to focus our eﬀorts
on multifamily construction .
what sort of funding is
there to support co-
op houses?
Not that the Inclusionary
Housing Ordinance is bad,
but it has that consequence,
and changing it would
increase the consequence.

We need less landlords and
more homeowners! Renters
should not have to pay for
someone's mortgage.

Over 23,000 people are on Pasadena’s
Section 8 waiting list. They qualify for
aﬀordable housing, but there are n’t
enough landlords renting to Section 8
tenants. They could end up losing their
landlord. Lets' have more triplexes and
duplexes if they are for Section 8.
'd like to see low-income homeowners
receive a subsidy for ADUs if they rent
to Section 8. This would help keep
low-income homeowners in our city,
and provide much needed aﬀordable
housing at a very low cost .

Given the limited availability of vacant land and
the need for housing of diﬀerent size and
types. The city of Pasadena should stop
restricting the combination of attached and
detached accessory dwelling units when built
on parcels containing multifamily buildings.

Further they should also stop restricting second
story ADUs built over garages.

Are you looking at
any for sale housing
strategies?
I think you said the law allowing aﬀordable
housing to be built on church (religious) land
was passed last year. It was not passed. SB
899 died in committee in the assembly, but
we need state and local legislation that will
allow that. That could provide more than
1,000 units of aﬀordable housing here in
Pasadena.

Parking maximumms
We can adopt HOMEWISE
recommendations to make
ownership aﬀordable/possible to
compensate for the racially
discriminatory history of housing
development in Pasadena
All areas should be
walkable and
bikeable
SRO should be allowed in all
RM districts. Clearly this does
not work with the unit density
rules. Perhaps a set of
graduated FAR rules could
provide the necessary limits.
there’s no incentive to build
aﬀordable units. we need to
change that. it shouldn’t have
to be a mandate, it needs to be
developers have run amok
using in-lieu fees to push
lower income residents into
lower income
neighborhoods.

Given the limited availability of vacant land and
the need for housing of diﬀerent size and types .

The city of Pasadena should stop restricting the
combination of attached and detached accessory
dwelling units when built on parcels containing
multifamily buildings. Further they should also
stop restricting second story ADUs built over
garages. Why halfway address the housing crisis
and create a parking crisis?
What AFFH
components is the
plan exploring?
I support the eﬀorts to promote as much
aﬀordable housing as possible, by re-
zoning church land and making sure that
the development of the 710 stub is used
to repair damage to low-income
communities who were harmed by the
construction of the freeway.

While we need aﬀordable housing dispersed
throughout out city, which is a good reason to
allow churches to have aﬀordable housing built
on their underutilized propert y, but we also need
aﬀordable housing in the lower income areas of
the city where those in need live in overcrowded
areas. Too often over crowded areas are
equated with overly dense, but the actually
density is the solution to overcrowding.

College and
universities can also
drive displacement
uplexes, tiny homes on church property,
motel conversions for homeless WITH full
supportive services Turning empty
commercial buildings into loft housing.

Again, let’s make sure that aﬀordable
housing is across the city not just in the
Northwest, Districts 1 - 3 and 5.

We need housing for women
experiencing homelessness. Women
living on the street are extremely
vulnerable. It should be the goal of our
city to house every woman
experiencing homelessness as soon
as possible
Rental and for sale
strategies
City should allow for a greater
variety of housing types
including duplexes/triplexes/
fourplexes, courtyard apartments,
micro-units, and SRO. Housing
we can have green space
along with housing. Some of
grounds, some of it is mixed
use, some is adaptive reuse.

Highway decimated
African American
community
reparations and right
to return for families
harmed by racist
freeway planning.
710 area that's been
abandoned
Build housing along
metro station. Housing
on arterial streets (Lake
Ave./ Walnut)
Allen Ave can be
developed more.

El Nido/ Colorado,
underutilized
shopping center.

High-density housing
is currently located
near highways -
pollution is an issue
Pollution and air
quality needs to be
considered when
developing housing
Locate housing in arterials, such
as S. Arroyo Blvd. (giant
warehouse, before 110 fwy).

Prime location for Multi-use.

Given ample services and public
transportation availability.

What about redeveloping the
hospital, St. Lukes on East
Washington near Altadena drive
for aﬀordable housing or housing
for people who are currently
unhoused.

Lack of aﬀordable
housing - new
buildings are
expensive
In lieu fee allows
developers to get
around aﬀordable
reqiurements
Vacant units
Is there aﬀordable
housing available for
the mentally unstable
population?
Is there aﬀordable
housing available for
the mentally unstable
population?
Question 1: major housing issues are
supply of aﬀordable housing. At the
same time Districts 3 and 5 are the
most densely populated. Aﬀordable
housing should be spread across the
city, I do not agree with allowing
ADU’s on multifamily dwellings.
set forth in the federal McKinney-Vento Act, as
nighttime residence,” including those who are
“doubled up” – that is, staying in a friend’s or family member’s home because they lost their own
students are homeless in PUSD and 300 families
(see https://dooro/f_hope.us/2019/05/23/how-many-
homeless-families-in-pasadena/).
rent control
Vacancy taxes? How many
units are vacant? Could a
program subsidize
landlords renting vacant
housing aﬀordability?
What about energey
generation?
Church housing programs
for the homeless -
churches rotate housing
individuals and famillies
over night
Historical
preservation
Housing lost due to
freeway construction
(710 stop) - we need to
make reparations to
displaced families
Is what we're doing
going to address/
solve the issue?
Older homes are
often cheaper (e.g.
older apartments,
fourplexes, etc.)
Must rectify past
displacement - all
communities need to
participate
Displacement caused
by 210 (eminent
domain)
Building bigger
doesn't necessarily
mean more
aﬀordable
Larger developments
should contribute
aﬀordable housing
corporate landlords
dentify additional sites
as needed to meet the
RHNA allocation.

Why did RHNA
allocate above
moderate income
housing?
In 2008 we lost a lot
of single-family units
to corporate landlords
Impact of Airbnb units
Fair housing
implications of COVID
crisis and evictions
Tax credit units aren't
aﬀordable to those who
need aﬀordable housing
most - should target credits
to long-term residents
what we've done so far
hasn't worked. We've seen
developers concentrate
expensive housing in
desirable districts
concentrating low-income
housing failed - redzoning,
concentrating low-income
people reduces
opportunities and economic
mobility
challenges, zoning, we
need to make it possible for
aﬀordable housing in areas
that are lower dense
ncluding rent control,
just cause eviction,
rent registry, & anti-
harassment.

Public housing
There is a need to address the
needs of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.

Large housing need -
need multiple
strategies
more housing
opportunities in all
Pasadena
communities
Minimum lot sizes are
overly restrictive
fair housing
RHNA number is low -
plan beyond
Look at history of
segregation and
exclusion - advance
fair housing
Need mixed use
housing next to metro
station (on Lake St.)
The City is obligated under State law to
identifying sites for new housing throughout the
neighborhoods with superior access to
employment, education, etc. and less
vulnerability to displacement. This includes
areas currently zoned exclusively for single-
family homes.

People who grew up
here can't live here.

How can we support
residents work toward
homeownership?
Transitional housing for
the unhoused - tiny
homes projects (Echo
Park and N. Hollywood)
HUD public housing
was sold to a
developer; tenants
were displaced
We need co-ops, small
apartments and bungalow
courts - both for owners and
renters
The racism of freeway
building is a blot on our
past that still deeply
scars the present.

I think we encourage developers etc
to keep trees and gardens, increase
the green space for everyone in
Pasadena. Not to keep projects from
being built but to keep them a nice
place for everyone living there
Minimum parking
requirements
Many types
Neighborhood scale
multi-family housing
like Bungalow Courts
Community land
transfer - land is held
in common on a 99
year lease
Need to incentivize
this
Modular units built
quickly
How do we help
unhoused people get
oﬀ the street and have
their own space?
Projects must have
supportive services
Overnight parking
ban should go
Allow more parking
on the streets
Solar energy
Make sure houses are
utilities, so households
can aﬀord them
Close oﬀ and reclaim
other uses (parks, bike
lanes, housing)
Housing bridging
freeways
Manufactured
housing - regulations
need to allow them
Housing designed
with safe outdoor
spaces
Walkable Villages
with grocery stores,
recreation (Old
Pasadena)
Stable housing
Identifying 25-35% of
parcels to be used for
aﬀordable housing
Co-ops
Mixed use - all kinds/
levels of housing ma ke
better communities
Concerned over
transitional housing if it
means the traditional
type of transitional
Need permanent not
transitional housing
need to make ADUs as
aﬀordable and simple to
build as possible,, including
having the city provide pre-
approved plans.

Zoning barriers to
mixed-use
People in the community
are a great resource - there
should be more than two
workshops (at least two
more if not 3 or 4)
24% drop in African Americans is scary. I
hope less this census. https://
www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-
press/tn-pas-0807-census-story.html
Mayor's Housing Task
Force, Planning
Commission,
Northwest Commission
Green space and
housing are not
contradictory
specify aﬀordable for
whom
If people are being
displaced and areas
who's history are we
preserving?
The RHNA #s only take into account those
households likely to move into the City, but
they do not take into account those
households already living in Pasadena who
are in need of aﬀordable housing . We
should combine the two numbers when
planning for the number of aﬀordable
housing units that are needed.

Can we lose
aﬀordable housing?
There was previously
discussion about the PUC
school that closed. It's City
property and it would be a
shame to see it fall into
private hands
Natural gathering places
for additional workshops
- would like to see more
workshops before June
Draft
Higher mixed use
density along Colorado
in the East Colorado
North Lake Ave
housing where it's not
currently zoned for it
Church on North
Grove.

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 13
Community Workshop #1 Summary

What are the major housing issues and challenges in Pasadena today and in the future?
Lack of aﬀordable
housing - new
buildings are
expensive
In lieu fee allows
developers to get
around aﬀordable
reqiurements
Vacant units
Building bigger
doesn't necessarily
mean more
aﬀordable
Larger developments
should contribute
aﬀordable housing
corporate landlords
In 2008 we lost a lot
of single-family units
to corporate landlords
Impact of Airbnb units
Fair housing
implications of COVID
crisis and evictions
ncluding rent control ,
just cause eviction ,
rent registry, & anti-
harassment .

HUD public housing
was sold to a
developer; tenants
were displaced
The racism of freeway
building is a blot on our
past that still deeply
scars the present.

Minimum parking
requirements
Overnight parking
ban should go
Allow more parking
on the streets
Lack of aﬀordable
housing - new
buildings are
expensive
In lieu fee allows
developers to get
around aﬀordable
reqiurements
Vacant units
Building bigger
doesn't necessarily
mean more
aﬀordable
Larger developments
should contribute
aﬀordable housing
corporate landlords
In 2008 we lost a lot
of single-family units
to corporate landlords
Impact of Airbnb units
Fair housing
implications of COVID
crisis and evictions
including rent control ,
just cause eviction ,
rent registry, & anti-
harassment .

HUD public housing
was sold to a
developer; tenants
were displaced
The racism of freeway
building is a blot on our
past that still deeply
scars the present.

Minimum parking
requirements
Overnight parking
ban should go
Allow more parking
on the streets
People of color are
being displaced .

The rising rent burden
that Laura just tal ked
about isn’t going to
stop
Houselessness isn't
about a lack of jobs.

Pasadena restricts
attached and
detached ADU's and
on multifamily
The City should allow
for a combination of
both
We need to make sure
permanently displace low -
and moderate -income
tenants
Housing instability -
we need to keep
people housed
Rent registry : what
housing stock we
have, cost, vacancy,
landlord,
We need aﬀordable
housing for families
and students that are
homeless or housing
insecure
tenant anti -
harassment
ordinance and
enforcement
Rent is triple the cost
here compared to
Mississippi
Historical
preservation
Housing lost due to
freeway construction
(710 stop) - we need to
make reparations to
displaced families
Is what we're doing
going to address /
solve the issue?
Older homes are
often cheaper (e.g.
older apartments ,
fourplexes, etc.)
Large housing need -
need multiple
strategies
more housing
opportunities in all
Pasadena
communities
Minimum lot sizes are
overly restrictive
fair housing
RHNA number is low -
plan beyond
Look at history of
segregation and
exclusion - advance
fair housing
Historical
preservation
Housing lost due to
freeway construction
(710 stop) - we need to
make reparations to
displaced families
Is what we're doing
going to address /
solve the issue?
Older homes are
often cheaper (e.g.
older apartments ,
fourplexes, etc.)
Large housing need -
need multiple
strategies
more housing
opportunities in all
Pasadena
communities
Minimum lot sizes are
overly restrictive
fair housing
RHNA number is low -
plan beyond
Look at history of
segregation and
exclusion - advance
fair housing

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 14
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Tax credit units aren't
aﬀordable to those who
need aﬀordable housing
most - should target credits
to long-term residents
challenges, zoning, we
need to make it possible for
aﬀordable housing in areas
that are lower densePeople who grew up
here can't live here.

How can we support
residents work toward
homeownership?
what we've done so far
hasn't worked. We've seen
developers concentrate
expensive housing in
desirable districts
concentrating low -income
housing failed - redzoning ,
concentrating low -income
people reduces
opportunities and economic
mobility
challenges, zoning, we
need to make it possible for
aﬀordable housing in areas
that are lower densePeople who grew up
here can't live here.

How can we support
residents work toward
homeownership?
I think we encourage developers etc
to keep trees and gardens , increase
the green space for everyone in
Pasadena. Not to keep projects from
being built but to keep them a nice
place for everyone living there
Given the instability of housing,
especially for tenants, I hope
that this Element loo ks at how to
achieve housing stabilit y, not
just how units that need to be
produced/preserved.

According to the previous
Housing Element, most
Pasadenans are overpaying for
housing. Housing overpayment
refers to paying more than 30%
of income toward housing.

Moderate overpayment refers to
paying 30 to 49% of income
toward housing, and severe
overpayment is anything higher.

In Pasadena, 43% of owners and
51% of renters overpay for
housing.

At that time (2012), nearly 12,000
renters and over 8,000 homeowners
were severely cost-burdened, paying
over 50% of their income on housing.

That’s what we need at least 6,000
units of aﬀordable housing in the n ext
8 years.

There is a desperate need for
more aﬀordable housing. That 's
why the City needs to plan for at
least 6,000 units of aﬀordable
housing in the next 8 years.
tenants are insecure,
due to the COVID
situation. Develop ways
to create more
protection and security.
aﬀordable housing
needs of youth - former
foster youth, those
lacking support and
safety nets
Families who can't
aﬀord to stay in their
home communities
housing and staying
in housing ; social
services
At that time (2012), nearly 12,000
renters and over 8,000 homeowners
were severely cost-burdened, paying
over 50% of their income on housing.

That’s what we need at least 6,000
units of aﬀordable housing in the n ext
8 years.

People who work in
restaurants, who help feed
the community ca n't aﬀord
to live here. Which is
problematic
Most children growing up in
Pasadena can’t aﬀord to live
here. Teachers and city
workers can’t aﬀord to live
here. Essential workers
can’t aﬀord to live here.
tenants are insecure,
due to the COVID
situation. Develop ways
to create more
protection and security.
aﬀordable housing
needs of youth - former
foster youth, those
lacking support and
safety nets
Families who can't
aﬀord to stay in their
home communities
housing and staying
in housing ; social
services
Must rectify past
displacement - all
communities need to
participate
Displacement caused
by 210 (eminent
domain)
Must rectify past
displacement - all
communities need to
participate
Displacement caused
by 210 (eminent
domain)
we also need aﬀordable
housing in the lower income
areas of the city where those
in need live in overcrowded
areas. Too often over we also
need aﬀordable housing in
the lower income areas of
the city where those in need
live in overcrowded areas .

Too often over crowded areas
are equated with overly dense ,
but the actually density is the
solution to overcrowding .

The City is obligated under
State law to aﬃrmatively further
fair housing, which means
identifying sites for new housing
throughout the City- especially
in more aﬄuent neighborhoods
with superior access to
employment, educationa, etc.
and less vulnerability to
displacement. This includes
areas currently zoned
exclusively for single- family
homes.

Out teachers should be
able to live here - and
based on the average
incomes they are NOT
able to live here . WE
must make enough
aﬀordable housing
available.

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 15
Community Workshop #1 Summary

What types of housing are needed in the community?
let's make sure that
we make housing for
student housing for
PUSD.

Can we plan for
ONL Y aﬀordable
housing?
I like that Triplex idea,
that could help
+community-owned (Aﬀordable) Senior
housing
Rental and for sale
strategies
HousingPublic housing
Need mixed use
housing next to metro
station (on Lake St.)
We need co-ops, small
apartments and bungalow
courts - both for owners and
renters
Many types
Community land
transfer - land is held
in common on a 99
year lease
Need to incentivize
this
Modular units built
quickly
How do we help
unhoused people get
oﬀ the street and have
their own space?
Solar energy Housing bridging
freeways
Manufactured
housing - regulations
need to allow them
Housing designed
with safe outdoor
spaces
Walkable Villages
with grocery stores,
recreation (Old
Pasadena)
Stable housing
Identifying 25-35% of
parcels to be used for
aﬀordable housing
Co-ops
Mixed use - all kinds/
levels of housing ma ke
better communities
Zoning barriers to
mixed-use

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 16
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Studies have shown that ADUs
to be rented at lower than
market rate. ADUs held keep
families together.
1) Lack of aﬀordable housing
especially for families. A lot of
new housing is being built up
against the 210 which is a recipe
for poor health outcomes
If 56% of people right now are
paying more than 30% of income
for rent/mortgage, then we need
way more than 20% of new
housing to be aﬀordable.
) Aﬀordable housing of all types that
are accessible for students , people
housing that incentivizes a more car -
lite lifestyle (less new housing for
cars, more housing for people )
3) New housing should be
focused in walkable
neighborhoods with good
access to stores, transit,
parks, etc.

In the wake of the
pandemic there are a
lot of vacant
commercial spaces
Onramp to ownership -
creative forms of
ownership, including
multi-unit
developments
Fourplex Ordinance -
see Portland model
and housing costs are rising
faster than the cost of living ,
seniors are the fast growing
homeless population .

We need housing for women
experiencing homelessness. Women
living on the street are extremely
vulnerable. It should be the goal of our
city to house every woman
experiencing homelessness as soon
as possible
City should allow for a greater
variety of housing types
including duplexes/triplexes/
fourplexes, courtyard apartments,
micro-units, and SRO.
we can have green space
along with housing . Some of
grounds , some of it is mi xed
use, some is adaptive reus e.

Highway decimated
African American
community
Neighborhood scale
multi-family housing
like Bungalow Courts
Concerned over
transitional housing if it
means the traditional
type of transitional
Need permanent not
transitional housing
Studies have shown that ADUs
do not increase traﬃc and tend
to be rented at lower than
market rate. ADUs held keep
families together.
1) Lack of aﬀordable housing
especially for families. A lot of
new housing is being built up
against the 210 which is a recipe
for poor health outcomes
If 56% of people right now are
paying more than 30% of income
for rent/mortgage, then we need
way more than 20% of new
housing to be aﬀordable.

Aﬀordable housing of all types that
are accessible for students , people
on ﬁxed incomes, families, etc. Also
housing that incentivizes a more car -
lite lifestyle (less new housing for
cars, more housing for people )
3) New housing should be
focused in walkable
neighborhoods with good
access to stores, transit,
parks, etc.

In the wake of the pandemic
there are a lot of vacant
commercial spaces. Adaptive
reuse and mix-use.

Onramp to ownership -
creative forms of
ownership, including
multi-unit
developments
We need aﬀordable housing
for Vets. Many veterans who
attend Pasadena City College
are homeless or housing
insecure.

Fourplex Ordinance -
see Portland model
and housing costs are rising
seniors live on ﬁxed income
faster than the cost of living ,
seniors are the fast growing
homeless population .

We need housing for women
experiencing homelessness. Women
living on the street are extremely
vulnerable. It should be the goal of our
city to house every woman
experiencing homelessness as soon
as possible
City should allow for a greater
variety of housing types
including duplexes/triplexes/
fourplexes, courtyard apartments,
micro-units, and SRO.
we can have green space
along with housing . Some of
that is ﬁlling in church
grounds , some of it is mi xed
use, some is adaptive reus e.

Close oﬀ and reclaim
low-traﬃc streets
for other uses
(parks, bike lanes,
housing.)

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 17
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Between 10-20% of PCC
students are experiencing
homelessness. That ’s
between 2,600 and 5,200
students!
I love the ideas of meeting
the need of all those in our
city, including our homeless
seniors. We need aﬀordable
and supportive housing for
seniors.

Because seniors live on
costs are rising faster than
the cost of living, seniors
are the fast growing
homeless population.

I hope this HE will incentivize more
accessory dwelling units built
throughout the city. How about three
ADUS allowed in parts of the city..
for example on single family sites at
10,000 sf or more?
I suggest that SRO should be
allowed in all RM districts. Clearly
this does not work with the unit
density rules. Perhaps a set of
graduated FAR rules could
provide the necessary limits.

ONLY aﬀordable housing
makes sense. How many non
aﬀordable existing units are
staying empt y?
Low-income homeowners should be
incentivized to build ADUs for Section
8 renters . Maybe a grant of $2 0,000
and dropping all fees if it 's an
aﬀordable ADU s? And to allow them
over garages if aﬀordabl e?
There is a need to address the
nees of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.
uplexes, tiny homes on church propert y,
motel conversions for homeless WITH full
supportive services Turning empty
commercial buildings into loft housing.

Again, let’s make sure that aﬀordable
housing is across the city not just in the
Northwest, Districts 1 - 3 and 5.
reparations and right
to return for families
harmed by racist
freeway planning.

There is a need to address the
needs of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.

Transitional housing for
the unhoused - tiny
homes projects (Echo
Park and N. Hollywood )
Projects must have
supportive services
Make sure houses are
utilities, so households
can aﬀord them
need to ma ke ADUs as
aﬀordable and simple to
build as possibl e,, including
having the city provide pre-
approved plans.

Between 10-20% of PCC
students are experiencing
homelessness. That ’s
between 2,600 and 5,200
students!
I love the ideas of meeting
the need of all those in our
city, including our homeless
seniors. We need aﬀordable
and supportive housing for
seniors.

Because seniors live on
costs are rising faster than
the cost of living, seniors
are the fast growing
homeless population.

I hope this HE will incentivize more
accessory dwelling units built
throughout the city. How about three
ADUS allowed in parts of the city..
for example on single family sites at
10,000 sf or more?
I suggest that SRO should be
allowed in all RM districts. Clearly
this does not work with the unit
density rules. Perhaps a set of
graduated FAR rules could
provide the necessary limits.

ONLY aﬀordable housing
makes sense. How many non
aﬀordable existing units are
staying empt y?
Low-income homeowners should be
incentivized to build ADUs for Section
8 renters. Maybe a grant of $20,000
and dropping all fees if it's an
aﬀordable ADUs? And to allow them
over garages if aﬀordable?
There is a need to address the
nees of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.
duplexes, tiny homes on church propert y,
motel conversions for homeless WITH full
supportive services Turning empty
commercial buildings into loft housing.

Again, let’s make sure that aﬀordable
housing is across the city not just in the
Northwest, Districts 1 - 3 and 5.
reparations and right
to return for families
harmed by racist
freeway planning.

There is a need to address the
needs of the availability or lack
thereof of aﬀordable and
accessible housing for people
with various disabilities as well as
developmental disabilities.

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 18
Community Workshop #1 Summary

We need housing for women
experiencing homelessness. Women
living on the street are extremely
vulnerable. It should be the goal of our
city to house every woman
experiencing homelessness as soon
as possible
City should allow for a greater
variety of housing types
including duplexes/triplexes/
fourplexes, courtyard apartments,
micro-units, and SRO.
we can have green space
along with housing . Some of
grounds , some of it is mi xed
use, some is adaptive reus e.

In the wake of the
pandemic there are a
lot of vacant
commercial spaces.

Adaptive reuse and
mixed-use
Onramp to ownership -
creative forms of
ownership, including
multi-unit
developments
We need aﬀordable housing
for Vets. Many veterans who
attend Pasadena City College
are homeless or housing
insecure.

Fourplex Ordinance -
see Portland model
and housing costs are rising
seniors live on ﬁxed income
faster than the cost of living ,
seniors are the fast growing
homeless population .

We need housing for women
experiencing homelessness. Women
living on the street are extremely
vulnerable. It should be the goal of our
city to house every woman
experiencing homelessness as soon
as possible
City should allow for a greater
variety of housing types
including duplexes/triplexes/
fourplexes, courtyard apartments,
micro-units, and SRO.
we can have green space
along with housing . Some of
that is ﬁlling in church
grounds , some of it is mi xed
use, some is adaptive reus e.

Close oﬀ and reclaim
low-traﬃc streets
for other uses
(parks, bike lanes,
housing.)

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 19
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Where should new housing be located in Pasadena?
Would be great if the City could
encourage more aﬀordable housing
in the giant hole / stub the 710 left by
Old Pasadena. Caltrans razed an
aﬀordable neighborhood that had
been there
We need aﬀordable housing dispersed
throughout out city, which is a good reason
to allow churches to have aﬀordable
housing built on their underutilized
property. Churches want to be good
neighbors and will make sure that any
housing built will be in keeping with the
character of the neighborhood.

Allowing churches to
build aﬀordable
housing on
underutilized land
Aﬀordable housing should be
located in every part of our cit y.

Mixed-use at
Colorado and El Nito
Near Cal Tech and
PCC
Parking lots - church
areas and commercial
properties
increase walkability
and reduce need for
cars
Churches have a lot
of land
All 7 council districts
Blighted areas
Think about who w e're
serving when we
preserve buildings
(historical preservation )
Churches want to build
aﬀordable housing
(North Fair Oa ks wants
to build 52 units but the
zoning does n't allow it)
Change zoning
Concentrating poor
people in one place is bad
fo rthem and for the City -
disperse aﬀordable
housing
Allow mixed-use
everywhere
Allow religious
institutions to build
housing on their land
by right.

Church lots and
properties
Need mixed use
housing next to metro
station (on Lake St.)
multi-use housing on
arterials
Unused shopping
malls
Aﬀordable housing in
Districts 7, 6, 2 and 4
Create a no car zone
- area for housing
without parking
requirements
710 area that's been
abandoned
Build housing along
metro station . Housing
on arterial streets (Lake
Ave./ Walnut)
Allen Ave can be
developed more.

El Nido/ Colorado,
underutilized
shopping center.

High-density housing
is currently located
near highways -
pollution is an issue
Pollution and air
quality needs to be
considered when
developing housing
Locate housing in arterials , such
as S. Arroyo Blvd. (giant
warehouse, before 110 fwy).

Prime location for Multi-use.

Given ample services and public
transportation availability.

What about redeveloping the
hospital, St. Lukes on East
Washington near Altadena drive
for aﬀordable housing or housing
for people who are currently
unhoused.

Higher mixed use
density along Colorado
in the East Colorado
North Lake Ave
housing where it's not
currently zoned for it
Church on North
Grove.

Allowing churches to
build aﬀordable
housing on
underutilized land
Aﬀordable housing should be
located in every part of our
city. We know that well-designed
housing like Marv’s Place
enhances a neighborhood and
creates safety.

Mixed-use at
Colorado and El Nito
Near Cal Tech and
PCC
Parking lots - church
areas and commercial
properties
increase walkability
and reduce need for
cars
Churches have a lot
of land
All 7 council districts
Blighted areas
Think about who w e're
serving when we
preserve buildings
(historical preservation )
Aﬀordable housing
(North Fair Oaks wants
to build 52 units but the
Churches want to build ,
zoning doesn ’t allow it)
Change zoning
Not next to
freeways
Concentrating poor
people in one place is bad
fo rthem and for the City -
disperse aﬀordable
housing
Allow mixed-use
everywhere
Allow religious
institutions to build
housing on their land
by right.

Church lots and
properties
Need mixed use
housing next to metro
station (on Lake St.)
multi-use housing on
arterials
Unused shopping
malls
Aﬀordable housing in
Districts 7, 6, 2 and 4
Create a no car zone
- area for housing
without parking
requirements
710 area that's been
abandoned
Build housing along
metro station . Housing
on arterial streets (Lake
Ave./ Walnut)
Allen Ave can be
developed more.

El Nido/ Colorado,
underutilized
shopping center.

High-density housing
is currently located
near highways -
pollution is an issue
Pollution and air
quality needs to be
considered when
developing housing
Locate housing in arterials , such
as S. Arroyo Blvd. (giant
warehouse, before 110 fwy).

Prime location for Multi-use.

Given ample services and public
transportation availability.

What about redeveloping the
hospital, St. Lukes on East
Washington near Altadena drive
for aﬀordable housing or housing
for people who are currently
unhoused.

Higher mixed use
density along Colorado
in the East Colorado
North Lake Ave
housing where it's not
currently zoned for it
Church on North
Grove.

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Community Workshop #1 Summary

What is the diﬀerence
between green space
and open space?
Percentage of
renters?
I love the idea of all
neighborhood of
choice.

Why doesn't Pasadena have
a mandated Environmental
Justice element of the
General Plan?
Given the catastrophic loss of
aﬀordable housing in
Pasadena, can we meet the
RHNA goals by ONLY allowing
aﬀordable housing projects?
Can we more clearly
categories?
What does the City do
with Inclusionary
Housing in-lieu fees
paid by developers?
In-lieu fees are also
used for low-income
homeownership
projects
Average rent assumes current
market value, average
mortgage does not. What is
the average mortgage for
recent home sales?
When will there be
additional workshop for
public input before the
draft is due to June?
How many stories is
"low rise" vs. "medium
rise"?
abolish the in-leiu fee
what sort of funding is
there to support co-
op houses?
Parking maximumms
All areas should be
walkable and
bikeable
developers have run amok
using in-lieu fees to push
lower income residents into
lower income
neighborhoods.

College and
universities can also
drive displacement
Is there aﬀordable
housing available for
the mentally unstable
population?
Is there aﬀordable
housing available for
the mentally unstable
population?
What about energey
generation?
Green space and
housing are not
contradictory
specify aﬀordable for
whom
What is the diﬀerence
between green space
and open space?
Percentage of
renters?
I love the idea of all
neighborhood of
choice.

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 21
Community Workshop #1 Summary

How much of existing
housing is empty -
unrented or unsold?
More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.

Can you cite a couple of
examples of recently-built
aﬀordable housing projects
supported by developer in-
lieu fees?
District 3 resident here.

More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.
he Inclusionary
Housing Ordinance
does not go far
enough.

Rent control and just cause
for evictions should be
included in the Housing
Element to create housing
stability.

Do we have any numbers
on how many people per
year these programs are
keeping in their homes? The aﬀordable housing
programs on the slide seem
emergency housing.
can we plan for
ONLY aﬀordable
housing?
The condos on
Cordova and Euclid
don't seem to be
aﬀordable housing
We need less landlords and
more homeowners ! Renters
should not have to pay for
someone's mortgage.

Are you looking at
any for sale housing
strategies?
there’s no incentive to build
aﬀordable units. we need to
change that. it shouldn’t have
to be a mandate, it needs to be
What AFFH
components is the
plan exploring?
rent control
Vacancy taxes? How many
units are vacant? Could a
program subsidize
landlords renting vacant
housing aﬀordabilit y?
Church housing programs
for the homeless -
churches rotate housing
individuals and famillies
over night
dentify additional sites
as needed to meet the
RHNA allocation.

Why did RHNA
allocate above
moderate income
housing?
Mayor's Housing Task
Force, Planning
Commission,
Northwest Commission
If people are being
displaced and areas
who's history are we
preserving?
Can we lose
aﬀordable housing?
There was previously
discussion about the PUC
school that closed. It 's City
property and it would be a
shame to see it fall into
private hands
Natural gathering places
for additional workshops
- would like to see more
workshops before June
Draft
How much of existing
housing is empty -
unrented or unsold?
More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.

Can you cite a couple of
examples of recently-built
aﬀordable housing projects
supported by developer in-
lieu fees?
District 3 resident here.

More outreach could have
been done. I became aware
of this meeting through the
NAACP social media
account.

The Inclusionary
Housing Ordinance
does not go far
enough.

Rent control and just cause
for evictions should be
included in the Housing
Element to create housing
stability.

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 22
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Part of the reason that housing is so
expensive here is that the city 's
development fees are hug e.

Entitlement and Permit fees are
approximately $75,000 PER
DWELLING UNIT - More if you elect to
pay the in-lieu fees!
the law in Pasadena does
not allow over garages, this
needs to be changed. they
should be allowed over
garages especially if they
are for section 8.

Further they should also stop restricting second
story ADUs built over garages.

Given the limited availability of vacant land and
the need for housing of diﬀerent size and types.

The city of Pasadena should stop restricting the
combination of attached and detached accessory
dwelling units when built on parcels containing
multifamily buildings. Further they should also
stop restricting second story ADUs built over
garages. Why halfway address the housing crisis
and create a parking crisi s?
I support the eﬀorts to promote as much
aﬀordable housing as possible, by re-
zoning church land and making sure that
the development of the 710 stub is used
to repair damage to low-income
communities who were harmed by the
construction of the freeway.

Question 1: major housing issues are
supply of aﬀordable housing. At the
same time Districts 3 and 5 are the
most densely populated. Aﬀordable
housing should be spread across the
city, I do not agree with allowing
ADU’s on multifamily dwellings.
set forth in the federal McKinney -Vento Act, as
nighttime residenc e,” including those who are
“doubled up” – that is, staying in a friend ’s or family member’s home because they lost their own
students are homeless in PUSD and 300 families
(see https://dooro/f_hope.us/2019/05/23/how-many-
homeless-families-in-pasadena/).

Part of the reason that housing is so
expensive here is that the city 's
development fees are hug e.

Further they should also stop restricting second
story ADUs built over garages.

Given the limited availability of vacant land and
the need for housing of diﬀerent size and types.

The city of Pasadena should stop restricting the
combination of attached and detached accessory
dwelling units when built on parcels containing
multifamily buildings. Further they should also
stop restricting second story ADUs built over
garages. Why halfway address the housing crisis
and create a parking crisi s?
I support the eﬀorts to promote as much
aﬀordable housing as possible, by re-
zoning church land and making sure that
the development of the 710 stub is used
to repair damage to low-income
communities who were harmed by the
construction of the freeway.

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What those in-lieu fees actually
accomplish is concentration of high-
end developments in the most
desirable areas in the City with the
most shopping and services. They
should be jettisoned.

SB 1000 allows for the
environmental justice pieces to
be included in other elements
but it’s also super important that
we see those pieces.
the problem with the Inclusionary Housing
Ordinance is that the cost of subsidizing the
aﬀordable units is passed along to the people
paying rent or mortgage on the market rate
units in the same building . So we could
increase it to 30% or 50% but that would just
push the cost up for everyone else. It’s a private
subsidy, not a public subsidy.
or, it should be a public
subsidy. I mean if, as Laura
said, “housing is a human
need”, then the city should
subsidize it .

I think you said the law allowing aﬀordable
housing to be built on church (religious ) land
was passed last year. It was not passed . SB
899 died in committee in the assembly, but
we need state and local legislation that will
allow that. That could provide more than
1,000 units of aﬀordable housing here in
Pasadena.

We can adopt HOMEWISE
recommendations to ma ke
ownership aﬀordable/possible to
compensate for the racially
discriminatory history of housing
development in Pasadena
SRO should be allowed in all
RM districts. Clearly this does
not work with the unit density
rules. Perhaps a set of
graduated FAR rules could
provide the necessary limits.

While we need aﬀordable housing dispersed
throughout out city, which is a good reason to
allow churches to have aﬀordable housing built
on their underutilized property, but we also need
aﬀordable housing in the lower income areas of
the city where those in need live in overcrowded
areas. Too often over crowded areas are
equated with overly dense, but the actually
density is the solution to overcrowding.

People in the community
are a great resource - there
should be more than two
workshops (at least two
more if not 3 or 4)
24% drop in African Americans is scar y. I
hope less this census. https://
www.latimes .com/socal/glendale-news-
press/tn-pas-0807-census-stor y.html
The RHNA #s only ta ke into account those
households likely to move into the Cit y, but
they do not take into account those
households already living in Pasadena who
are in need of aﬀordable housing. We
should combine the two numbers when
planning for the number of aﬀordable
housing units that are needed.

What those in-lieu fees actually
accomplish is concentration of high-
end developments in the most
desirable areas in the City with the
most shopping and services. They
should be jettisoned.

SB 1000 allows for the
environmental justice pieces to
be included in other elements
but it’s also super important that
we see those pieces.
the problem with the Inclusionary Housing
Ordinance is that the cost of subsidizing the
aﬀordable units is passed along to the people
paying rent or mortgage on the market rate
units in the same building . So we could
increase it to 30% or 50% but that would just
push the cost up for everyone else. It’s a private
subsidy, not a public subsidy. Not that
Inclusionary Housing Ordinance is bad , but it
has that consequence and changing it
would increase the consequence .
or, it should be a public
subsidy. I mean if, as Laura
said, “housing is a human
need”, then the city should
subsidize it .

While we need aﬀordable housing dispersed
throughout out city, which is a good reason to
allow churches to have aﬀordable housing built
on their underutilized property, but we also need
aﬀordable housing in the lower income areas of
the city where those in need live in overcrowded
areas. Too often over crowded areas are
equated with overly dense, but the actually
density is the solution to overcrowding.

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Appendix D-
Pasadena Housing Element Workshop Mural (Spanish)

Elemento de vivienda: Taller #2
Jueves, 22 de abril, 2021
6:00 - 8:00 PM
La Orden del Día
- Presentaciones
- Sobre el elemento de vivienda
- Necesidades de vivienda de Pasadena
- Discusión
Temas
¿Qué tipo de viviendas se necesitan en la comunidad?
¿En qué lugar deberíamos de ubicar las nuevas viviendas en Pasadena? ¿Cuáles son los principales problemas y desafíos de la vivienda en Pasadena actualmente y en el futuro?
Preguntas y Comentarios Adicionales
1 23
45 6 7Se necesitan mas
viviendas con mas
recamaras para familias
con niños o con
abuelos
Precupo de pagar la
renta
mi familia no puede vivir en
Pasadena, porque no hay
vivienda asequible para
personas que quieren
comprar hogares por la
primera ves.

Muchas personas en
menos cuartos
Tiene que trabajar 2
trabajos para pagar la
renta
Precupar sober como
pagar la renta
hogar accesible.
hicieran viviendas
accesibles para
personas de bajo
ingreso. en los espacios
de estacionamiento.
viviendas asequibles
Control de Renta La renta se sube
cuando quiere (11%)
Implementacion del
control de renta, para
prevenir la aumentacion
del costo de renta.
6 personas en 2
recamaras

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Community Workshop #1 Summary

¿Cuáles son los principales problemas y desafíos de la vivienda en Pasadena actualmente y en el futuro?
Se necesitan mas
viviendas con mas
recamaras para familias
con niños o con
abuelos
Precupo de pagar la
renta
mi familia no puede vivir en
Pasadena, porque no hay
vivienda asequible para
personas que quieren
comprar hogares por la
primera ves.

Muchas personas en
menos cuartos
Tiene que trabajar 2
trabajos para pagar la
renta
Precupar sober como
pagar la renta
hogar accesibl e.
hicieran viviendas
accesibles para
personas de bajo
ingreso. en los espacios
de estacionamiento.
viviendas asequibles
Control de Renta
La renta se sube
cuando quiere (11%)
6 personas en 2
recamaras
Preguntas y Comentarios Adicionales
Implementacion del
control de renta , para

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Appendix E- Pasadena Housing Element Community Workshop Flyers (English & Spanish)

Pasadena Housing Element 2021-2029 27
Community Workshop #1 Summary

Community Workshop #2
Pasadena Housing Element Update
June 2, 2021
Introduction
On June 2, 2021, the City of Pasadena Planning and Community Development Department conducted two simultaneous workshop sessions to engage the community in a discussion of local housing needs, focusing particularly on housing programs. The sessions were conducted in English and Spanish.

Approximately 55 people participated in the English session and four in the Spa nish session; a poll that was administered during the presentation collected information on their district of residence (shown in the chart). Both sessions involved a brief presentation from the City’s planning consultant, MIG, Inc., followed by facilitated discussions in breakout groups for the English session. Due to constraints on public
gatherings imposed by COVID‐19, both sessions occurred as on‐line workshops.

As required for every California city and county, the City of Pasadena updates its General Plan Housing Element on an eight‐year cycle, with the update now underway covering the 2021‐2029 planning period.

The City’s Regional Housing Ne eds Assessment (RHNA) allocation for this period is 9,429 housing units, 10%
10%
16%
6%26%
6%
. 16%
10%
Where do you live? (by District)
District 1 (Tyron Hampton) District 2 (Felicia Williams) District 3 (John J. Kennedy) District 4 (Gene Masuda) District 5 (Jess Rivas) District 6 (Steve Madison) District 7 (Andy Wilson) I do not live in Pasadena

meaning that City land use policies, programs, and regulations must demonstrate capacity for this number of units, divided among four household income categories as follows: 1

The breakout group format allowed participants to have detailed discussion about the following topics:

 Improving City processes;
 Easing development regulations;
 Creative housing solutions;
 Addressing special housing needs;
 Improving the existing housing stock; and
 Advancing housing equity and access.

Each breakout group consisted of a fa
cilitator, City staff, and a note taker. The Spanish workshop did not have breakout sessions, but residents were asked to discuss and provide their thoughts on the topics presented.

The note takers recorded participants’ ideas and responses in a format that allowed for easy consolidation of the discussion from each group. Th
e following summarizes some of the responses,
organized by the discussion topics stated above, as well as an “other comments” category and direct questions presented. A full list of participant responses is included in the appendix.

Improving City Processes
 “Educating the public, in general, about the planning and city processes.” o Participants expressed a need for proper educational/informational resources when it comes to the design, permitting, building, and inspection processes. They expressed frustration with several procedures and regulations, stating that certain aspects can be very complicated and can delay the development pro cess.  “The City's website is not very user friendly.”

1 AMI (Average Median Income for Los Angeles County, 2020). 1‐person household = $54,100; 2‐person household = $61,850; 3‐person household = $69,550; 4‐person household = $77,300.

Income Categories
• Very Low – 31 to 50% of AMI
• Low – 51 to 80% of AMI
• Moderate – 81 to 120% of AMI
• Above Moderate – 120%+ of AMI

o A discussion regarding the City’s website also accompanied the need for educational/informational resources. Residents expressed that their experiences navigating the website were too difficult. Some suggested that the City provide a step‐ by‐step process diagram for building an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU). Others expressed the need for a “flow chart” that ill ustrates the building processes and includes a timeline and description of potential “detours” one might run into during the process.  “Planning staff are very helpful, but it is difficult to access them.” o Participants identified a lack of staff as a potential barrier in being able to get projects done in an efficient ma
nner, stating that the City does not have sufficient staff in the departments, and that often they just are not available to help.  “Coordination/collaboration between city and affordable housing developers.…” o Some recognized the need for resources on potential partnerships as a means to support the development of affordable housing. They explai ned how this collaboration
can help streamline the approval processes and help identify incentives for the development of affordable housing throughout the City.

Easing Development Regulations
 “Eliminate traditional zoning code….”
o When it comes to housing in Pasadena, a few participants expressed the need for the City to steer away from single‐family housing. One person explained how this type of housing separates communities by income, which in turns separates communities by race. Others explained that the City needs to adjust the Zoning Code not only to focus on single‐
family housing but on religious organizations and their ability to develop housing on their underutilized lots, as plenty of capacity exists to build affordable housing on these properties.
o Others expressed a need for emergency/bridge housing to support te mporarily unhoused individuals in emergencies.
 Restrictions related to Accessory Dwelling Units
o The City needs to reconsider development standards in specific zones to support ADU development over existing accessory structures. Limitations on height and number of stories creates barriers for residents who want to develop ADUs over garages.  “Re‐eval
uate the no overnight parking restrictions.”
o Residents expressed a need to re‐consider the restrictions on overnight parking.

Removing this restriction may support homes where there is a need for parking, such as homes with existing ADUs or future ADUs where the allocated parking per home does not support tenants.

Creative Housing Solutions
 “Housing has to be sensitive to the needs of the area that it is built in….” o Participants expressed the need for new housing in a neighborhood to be sensitive to the needs of existing residents. This would mean building housing that accommodates residents with sufficient parking spaces so as not to exacerbate the existing demand for parking spaces by current residents.

 “Allow affordable housing to be developed on land owned by religious institutions….” o A proposition by several participants included the development of housing on land owned by religious institutions. They expressed that many of the churches throughout Pasadena have the capacity to do so.
 “There is potential capacity for housing on . . . parkin g lots….” o People also proposed utilizing parking structures for housing. This solution would utilize already developed land for new dwellings units.
 “Adaptive/re‐use of vacant hospital site . . . to support senior housing.” o Another proposal for re‐use of space and land involves redeveloping vacant ho spital sites to accommodate senior housing, referencing the success of a Boyle Heights project with a similar concept.
 “Que tengan la oportunidad de hacer viviendas en el área de arriba del espacio comercial o de venta.” (“People should have the opportunity to live above retail/ commercial”). o Residents suggested that the City incorporate more mixed‐use zoning that allows residents to live above commercial/retail properties.

Addressing Special Housing Needs
 “Need permanent supportive housing....”
o Several people expressed a need to create permanent supportive housing for at‐risk youth, as well as families, noting that supportive housing tends to be focused on individuals rather than entire families in need of emergency shelter.  Student Housing Needs
o A resident spoke out about the needs for student s attending Pasadena City College, stating that there is inadequate housing for students. They cited potential funding opportunities and partnerships with companies like Amazon and Apple to help address housing issues for college students.

Improving the Existing Housing Stock
 “. . . [D]evelop programs/incentives that assist residents in purchasing their own homes across all income levels....”
o Participants suggested developing a resource that provides financial assistance to residents looking to purchase homes.

Advancing Housing Equity and Access
 “Public needs education to understand what development does.” o Participants expressed the need for proper education of the public when it comes to development; this way there is a stronger understanding of their rights as homeowners and tenants.
 “There needs to be income diversity as we are building housing.” o Some stressed the im
portance of avoiding income silos and zoning that create separation between incomes throughout the city. They also mentioned the need to adequately distribute affordable housing and new development equally throughout the

City, stating that some areas are getting denser while others are seeing a small share of new housing development.
 “¿Por qué la Ciudad de Pasadena no tiene control sobre los precios de los alquileres?” (“Why doesn't the City of Pasadena have control of rent prices?”) o Residents advocated for the City to impl ement rent control to help protect tenants, referencing a local group, “Pasadena Tenants Union,” as a resource. Residents believe they need to be informed of the benefits of rent control and how it supports their ability to continue living in the City of Pasadena.

Additional Comments:
 “Transit statio ns are inconvenient and feel unsafe. Focus on making the city more walkable.” o Some stated that prioritization of pedestrians is insufficient, explaining that the City has focused primarily on long‐range transportation and not enough on local transit. Others explained that the City should also focus on improving walkability and con nectivity between different areas of the city.

Appendix

PASADENA HOUSING ELEMENT WORKSHOP - BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Improving City Processes
Group 1:
 Educate the public in general about planning and city processes.  People do not even know what to do to pull a permit or build an ADU. It is very complicated.  More education: Step by step online info about, for instance, building an addition.  Renters need to understand development pro cess.
 Planning staff are very helpful, but it is difficult to access them. The commenter noted that in going through the process of restoring her house, and it was so complicated, and it is hard to know ahead of time what is required.
 The city's website is not very user frie ndly.
 The commenter once was chair of the Design Commission, and it was a great way to learn how long the development process takes. However:
 The public has no access to understanding what it takes to build something from the ground up.
 The City's website is too difficult to navigate, and the staff are not available to help. He had to hire an ex
pediter. The City lacks compassion in understanding the user's perspective.  A flow chart would help in understanding the development process, including the timeframe.

And including what the potential "detours" might be/what can go wrong (and how long it can take
as a result).
 It seems like there is not sufficient staff in the departments to help with the development process and alleviate logjams.
 Current development standards can really slow down the development process.  ADU standards, parking standards need addressing.
 Need transpar
ency ‐ it would be nice to know where properties are zoned for housing.  Need a resource for people who own properties and developers to create partnerships and know what lots are available—and to help incentivize and reward the people whom the City serves. The landowners or developers who want to do good, and do not know how, can be matched to o
rganizations, funding, or parcels—anything that helps support affordable development.

Group 2:
 District 4 has not done much for affordable housing; respondent is in favor of splitting lots.  Use congregational land for affordable housing. Fast‐track process for churches to build affordable housing.
 Affordable housing projects should not have to wait in line with other projects; streamline.  Reduce ADU fees.
 Simplifying review
process will backfire and will continue building patterns that are not compatible.

 ADU design and review process: approved designs to streamline process.

Group 3:
 Concerns that reducing fees or regulations might lead to lower‐quality affordable housing.  Promote home ownership as much as possible to encourage wealth building.  Preservation of single‐family neighborhoods.
 Support workforce housing programs.
 Make it easier to acquire permits and speed up the inspection process.  Address any discrepanc ies in city documents/regulations, such as for ADUs and ensure city contacts are easy to access to ensure these issues are addressed; make sure the processes are easy to understand as well.
 Coordination/collaboration between city and affordable housing developers on how best to streamline the approval process for affordable housing.  More incenti
ves for affordable housing developers such as for offering housing to Section 8 voucher holders, or reduction in fees, etc.

Easing Development Regulations
Group 1:
 Church overlay zone would help offer more capacity for affordable housing. There is a lot of capacity there.

Group 2:
 Form‐based coding which is more in keeping in Pasadena's history (architectural character); traditional zoning is the modern equivalent of racial covenants.  No purpose to single‐family housing; it segregates the community by income (and therefore race).
 Single‐family housing is not "sacred"‐ ADUs, bungalow courts, duplexes have not ca used collapse.
 Eliminate traditional zoning code; abolish single‐family zoning.  Need emergency/bridge housing in our city. SB 2 requires the Housing Element to include allowing for emergency shelters to meet the city's need. We are not even close to meeting the need for bridge housing in our city.
 Outlaw
parking for new construction; robust parking program already in place.  City planning has only focused on long trips for transit, not local trips (school, shopping). Transit stations are inconvenient and feel unsafe. Focus on making city more walkable.  Pedestrians overlooked in planning process. Spend money and planning efforts on ped estrian networks.
 Do not agree with ADU over a garage. This is a program that benefits homeowners (which tend to be rich, older); it continues to be a cost burden on renters based on rental rates ($2,000).

Would agree to incentivizing ADUs if restricted to affordable housing.  Need to consider ex
isting conditions of different areas of City when transit planning; some areas well connected, and others like Hasting Ranch need it.

 Consider district‐specific needs: Pasadena’s 7. But every district must participate in providing equitable and affordable housing.

Group 3:
 Re‐evaluate the no overnight parking restrictions, particularly in North Pasadena; complicates things for those with visitors in multi‐family developments.  In favor of ADUs above garages; however, the city has restrictions on heights. Reconsider development standards in these zones to support taller ADUs.  Change code on minimum square footage per unit/house.  More transparency on regulations and how
they are developed; more outreach when
regulations are drafted or updated.
 More discussion/outreach/conversations on how housing is developed with local residents.  Diversification of unit types, as there is concern that most recent development has focused on 1‐ and 2‐bedroom developments; consi der ways to incentivize a variety of unit types.

Creative Housing Solutions
Group 1:
 There are grants available from $1M to $30M for housing from Amazon and Apple. These can be used to build student housing on the parking lots around PCC, for example.  There is potential capacity for housing on the parking lots around PCC.  Housing has to be sensitive to the needs of the area that it is built in, including parking needs.  Street parking is not as regulated on the north side of the freeway. It is highly regulated on the south side and works better for the residents.
 We need to make sure that the people who are parked on s treets are residents. There is also a safety concern with too much traffic in the alley.
 People value their neighborhoods, and we need parking that meets their needs.

Group 2:
 Build housing over I‐210; close South Raymond Avenue and build housing there.  Compact or consolidate office structures.
 See Cordova and S Los Robles parking structure. Wrap it to create housing.

Group 3:
 Concerns about an increase in homelessness among seniors; adaptive/re‐use of vacant hospital site (St. Luke's) to support senior housing; Boyle Heights has a good example of such a project.  United Dwelling is a program that will manage/assist homeowners in developing housing in their back yards.
 Providing more multi‐ generational housing to ensure young professionals have access to housing.
 Support for community land trusts as a way to provide affordable homeownership to low‐ income individuals.

 Allow affordable housing to be developed on land owned by religious institutions; ease restrictions for these sites.
 Many churches in Pasadena are ready to begin development.  More education/outreach/and community buy‐in to gain support from local residents on denser housing developments.
 Reconsider calling them adult dorms and ins tead use co‐housing.

Addressing Special Housing Needs
Group 1:

Students:
 2018 Study by Temple University: "Still Hungry and Homeless in College." There are statistics about student hunger and lack of adequate housing. It is a national crisis.  If the statistics were transposed to PCC, there are a lot of students in need. PCC has around 26,000 students.
 PCC does not have fundin g for housing right now but there are grant opportunities available. For example, from Amazon and Apple. There needs to be a better match between the capacity for student housing and ways of getting it funded and built.

People with Disabilities:
 Are the new developments going to meet ADA requirements? Group 2:
 Can reduce opposition to affordable housing by using form‐based codes.  Specialty group should include 18 to 25‐year‐olds. Need permanent supportive housing for at‐ risk TAY youth; service component is important to have them succeed; see ACOF‐A Community of Friends.
 Need permanent supportive housing for families, who are underser ved. Supportive housing tends to focus on single individuals.
 Need to develop system to monitor/enforce affordable ADUs.

Group 3:
 Palette homes as a short‐term solution to provide transitional housing.

Improving the Existing Housing Stock
Group 1:
 Match grantors with people who own land or are looking to rehabilitate housing. Easier coordination.

Group 2:

No comments.

Group 3:
 Explore/develop programs/incentives that assist residents in purchasing their own homes across all income levels; homeownership supports financial stability.

Advancing Housing Equity and Access
Group 1:
 Developers come in and take over: Renters need to understand what developers do and what the processes are.
 Public needs education to understand what development does.  The city is supposed to be looking out for everyone, not just developers.  Knowledge is power when it comes to understanding "how development gets in."  How is a developer doing anything for those who are barely able to stay in their rental? The City is responsible for addressing this.
 How do developers serve the collective?
 Tenants need to understand their rights to their units and their recourses if they are being pushed out.

 The speaker was in one of the first of the 16 families who got a PTO (?). Jim Wong of the planning department helped the tenants understand what to do. He is a great staff person. The process was brutal, but the council helped, and Jim Wong helped.  We need a lot more housing because the people with jobs cannot stay in the city. They risk becoming homeless because of affordability.
 There needs to be income diversity as we are building housing. We need to keep the character of the city diverse in terms of income and avoid income silos and segregation.

Group 2:
 Strategies of up‐zoning are not equitable; some areas are getting denser while others are getting a small share of new housing.
 Who benefits from ADUs? When designing housing, it has to be high quality. ADUs are not high quality and need to consider livable. Other types of housing for affordable housing (apartm ents, duplexes) consider these needs better.
 Affordable housing should be available everywhere, across all 7 districts.  Need for bridge funding.
 Need to make sure SB2 which codifies providing emergency shelter is followed.

Group 3:
 Ensure that housing is equitably distributed among all neighborhoods and that neighborhoods do not continue legacy of exclusivity.
 Ensure there is a broader portfolio of housing, such as moderate‐income housing, to ensure housing is available across all income levels, not just for very low/low‐income individuals.  Ensure housing is a ccessible to those who work in Pasadena.

 Address potential displacement risks by subsidizing the development of junior ADUs on lower‐ income properties; this can provide revenue for lower‐income property owners and reduces risk of displacement of homeowners.
 Ensure the quality of the architectural design of new housing stocks is maintained and not compromised due to less restrictions in development standards.  Ensure affordability is in
corporated across all potential solutions.
 Develop incentives to ensure those that grew up in Pasadena can stay in the city.

Spanish
Improving City Processes
 Donde tienen los negocios, que puedan vivir los dueños también (unidades asequibles). La idea de usos mixtos, áreas in Washington/ Norte de Fair Oaks/ Lincoln donde hay muchos negocios.

Que tengan la oportunidad de hacer viviendas en el área de arriba del espacio comercial o de venta.
o Translation: Where there is bu siness, business owners should be able to live there as well (affordable housing units). Having more mixed‐use development in areas where there are lots of commercial/retail businesses (along Washington, North of Fair Oaks, along Lincoln). Business owners should have the opportunity to live above their retail/commercial spaces (businesses).

Easing Development Regulations
No comments.

Creative Housing Solutions
 Construir viviendas sobre estructuras de estacionamiento que no se utilizan al máximo de su capacidad. Especialmente para estudiantes de universidades locales, como PCC. Donde el 19% de los estudiantes no están alojados.
o Translation: Building housing over parking structures that are not being utilized to their maximum ability. Especially for students in local colleges, such as PCC, where 19% of students are unhoused.
 Usar las propiedades de la iglesia para crear más viviendas. Es muy importante que esto esté permitido. La ordenanza de zonificación no permite estos desarrollos, y esto debe ajustarse.

Este debería ser un programa en el Elemento de Vivienda. Esto es urgent e e importante.

También tendrá que ser alojamiento para el estacionamiento en estos espacios. o Translation: Using church properties to create more housing. It is very important that this be permitted. The zoning ordinance does not permit these developments, and this needs to be adjusted. This should be a progra m in the Housing Element. This is urgent and important. There will also need to be accommodation for parking in these spaces.

Addressing Special Housing Needs
No comments.

Improving the Existing Housing Stock
No comments.

Advancing Housing Equity and Access
 El control de alquileres es importante. Pero también no permitir el desalojo de las personas que están siendo desalojados debido a que el propietario quiere convertir unidades en condominios. Inquilinos actuales deben tener la capacidad de hacer estas compras en su lugar.

Inquilinos actuales deben tener la capacidad de decir no a la conversión de unidades en condominios. Y que tienen asistencia financiera a ser capaz de pagar estos. o Translation: Rent control is important. But also not permitting the eviction of people who are being evicted because the owner wants to convert units into condos. Current renters should have the ability to make these purchases instead. Current renters should have the ability to say no to the conversion of units into condos. And th at they have financial assistance to be able to afford these.
 ¿Por qué la Ciudad de Pasadena no tiene control sobre los precios de los alquileres? Sindicato de inquilinos de Pasadena trabajando para controlar los alquileres. Hay mucha desinformación y poca comprensión de los beneficios.
o Translation: Why doesn 't the City of Pasadena have control of rent prices? Pasadena Tenants Union working towards rent control. There is a lot of disinformation and poor understanding of the benefits.
 Registro de alquiler. El 58% de la ciudad son inquilinos, necesitamos saber cuánto está pagando la gente el alquiler.
o Translation: Rent registry. 58% of the City are renters; we need to know how much people are paying rent.
 El legado del racismo en la vivienda está afectando las situaciones actuales con respecto a la capacidad de acceder a viviendas y recursos asequibles hoy en Pasadena. Reconocimiento del forro rojo.
o Translation: The legacy of racism in housing is aff
ecting current day situations regarding
the ability to access affordable housing and resources today in Pasadena.

Acknowledgement of redlining.
 Los miembros de la comunidad están trabajando durante reuniones importantes como estas, es importante que la Ciudad haga más alcance y salga a la comunid ad para participar con ellos. Es necesario que haya más acomodación para que se escuchen más voces. o Translation: Community members are working during important meetings such as these; it is important that the City do more outreach and go out to the community to engage with them. The
re needs to be more accommodation so that more voices are heard.  Las iglesias son buenos lugares para que las personas se reúnen y se encuentran en las proximidades de los residentes.
o Translation: Churches are good locations for people to convene and are in close proximity to residents.
 La creación de incentivos
para las personas a participar en importantes procesos de toma de decisión.

o Translation: Creating incentives for people to participate in important decision‐making processes.
 Usar las escuelas y las reuniones de padres y maestros para transmitir mensajes a los residentes.

Los correos electrónicos escolares son muy beneficiosos. o Translation: Using schools and parent teacher meetings to get messages across to reside
nts. School emails are very beneficial.
 Crear “block parties” para transmitir mensajes a los residentes (cuando esté permitido). o Translation: Creating block parties to get messages across to residents (when allowed).

Housing Element
Community Workshop
June 2, 2021

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Agenda Review
III. Recap: The Housing Element
and Current Housing
Programs
IV. Community Voices: Housing
Needs and Constraints
V. Interactive Discussion: Ideas
for Expanding Programs
VI. Next Steps
Tonight’s Agenda

Focus of Tonight’s Workshop
Identify approaches and programs that can:
 Make it easier to build new housing in Pasadena
 Provide affordable housing for people of all needs
How to Zoom in Breakout Rooms
While in
breakout
rooms
How to Zoom in Breakout Rooms
While in
breakout
rooms
Getting to Know You
Where do you live?
• District 1 (Tyron Hampton)
• District 2 (Felicia Williams)
• District 3 (John J. Kennedy)
• District 4 (Gene Masuda)
• District 5 (Jess Rivas)
• District 6 (Steve Madison)
• District 7 (Andy Wilson)
• I am not sure
• I do not live in Pasadena
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7 Getting to Know You
Do you:
___ Rent your current residence?
___ Own your current residence?
___ Don’t pay for housing (living with friends or family) ___ None of the above
Housing Element Overview

Part of the General Plan
Mobility
Noise
Open Space &
Conservation
Land Use
Housing
Mobility
Safety
Green Space,
Parks & Rec

Housing Element Contents

Pasadena’s 2021-2029 RHNA Goal
Allocated by income categories
• Very Low – 31 to 50% of AMI
• Low – 51 to 80% of AMI
• Moderate – 81 to 120% of AMI
• Above Moderate – 120%+ of AMI
AMI (Average Median Income for Los Angeles County, 2020) 1-person household = $54,100 3-person household = $69,550 2-person household = $61,850 4-person household = $77,300

The Community Has Said…

April 15 and 21 Workshops
We need more
affordable
housing

April 15 and 21 Workshops
We need more
affordable
housing
Find ways to
preserve existing
affordable housing
April 15 and 21 Workshops
We need more
affordable
housing
Find ways to
preserve existing
affordable housing
Housing with 3+
bedrooms for
large families

April 15 and 21 Workshops
We need more
affordable
housing
Find ways to
preserve existing
affordable housing
Housing with 3+
bedrooms for
large families
What can be done
to keep rents from
rising so fast and
so high?
More housing for
people with
special needs:
disabled, foster
youth, homeless
Housing Task Force
Use zoning, policies,
and funding to
facilitate affordable
housing production

Housing Task Force
Use zoning, policies,
and funding to
facilitate affordable
housing production
New places for housing:
church properties, surplus
school land, aging
commercial centers
Housing Task Force
Use zoning, policies,
and funding to
facilitate affordable
housing production
New places for housing:
church properties, surplus
school land, aging
commercial centers
Allow
neighborhoods
to have a mix of
compatible
housing types
and densities

Housing Task Force
Use zoning, policies,
and funding to
facilitate affordable
housing production
New places for housing:
church properties, surplus
school land, aging
commercial centers
Allow
neighborhoods
to have a mix of
compatible
housing types
and densities
Revise regulations to allow
community‐style housing and
other approaches for special
needs groups
Housing Task Force
Use zoning, policies,
and funding to
facilitate affordable
housing production
New places for housing:
church properties, surplus
school land, aging
commercial centers
Allow
neighborhoods
to have a mix of
compatible
housing types
and densities
Revise regulations to allow
community‐style housing and
other approaches for special
needs groups
Help the entire
community
understand what is
needed to house
everyone equally
and equitably
Housing Programs
Today – A Sampling

Current Housing Programs and Services (A Sampling)
Lower‐Income Housing
 Inclusionary housing ordinance
 Density bonuses
 City funding assistance for lower‐
income housing construction
 Rental assistance/vouchers
 Senior housing
Middle‐Income Housing
 Inclusionary housing ordinance
 Density bonuses
 Westgate and The Hudson
Apartments: City purchased 513
units to rent to middle‐income
households
Current Housing Programs and Services (A Sampling)
Homeless Services
 10‐Year Strategy to End Homelessness
 Supportive housing (example: Marv’s
Place)
 Vouchers/rental assistance
 Targeted programs for youth
 Job training
 Mental health services
New Housing Construction
 Mixed‐use and transit‐oriented
development
 Adaptive reuse (limited)
 Accessory dwelling units (ADUs)
 Inclusionary housing ordinance
 Density bonuses
 City/developer partnerships (example:

Habitat for Humanity)
Current Housing Programs and Services (A Sampling)
Housing Preservation
 Code compliance
 Maintenance Assistance to
Homeowners (MASH)
 City assistance with
rehabilitation (La Villa Lake
senior housing)
Advancing Equity
 Targeted programs in Northwest
Pasadena
 Contract with the Housing Rights
Center
 Tenant Protection Ordinance
New Ideas for Meeting
Housing Needs –
Group Discussion

New Ideas – Examples
Improving City Processes
 Streamline review for affordable
housing development applications
 Reduce fees for ADUs rented as
affordable housing
 Simplify the Design Review process
Easing Development
Regulations
 Revisit parking requirements
 Allow ADUs above garages
 Reduce minimum lot sizes in the
R‐S zones
New Ideas – Examples
 Co‐housing (“adult dorms”)
 Conversion of office, commercial,
and industrial buildings (adaptive
reuse)
 More on‐campus housing at
Caltech and Art Center
 Community land trusts
Creative Housing
Solutions
 Continued conversion of motels for
supportive/transitional housing
 Density bonuses for apartments
with 3+ bedrooms
Addressing Special
Housing Needs
New Ideas – Examples
 Increased grant and loan funding
for lower‐income household
home improvements
 Increased funding for
acquisition/rehabilitation
projects
Improving the Existing
Housing Stock
 Increased landlord and tenant
education, in multiple languages
 Stronger tenant protections when
buildings are sold
 Affordable housing distributed
among all neighborhoods in
Pasadena
Advancing Housing
Equity and Access
Group Exercise

Discussion Format
• Comments will be documented in real-time
• Cover the six topic areas
• Please raise your hand or enter comments into
the chat
• 45 minutes of discussion
• Return to main room for final remarks
Discussion Topics

1. Improving City
processes

2. Easing development
regulations

3. Creative housing
solutions

4. Addressing special
housing needs

5. Improving the existing
housing stock

6. Advancing housing equity
and access
Report Back and Next
Steps

Highlights from Breakout Discussions
 Amber - Improving City processes
 Veronica - Easing development regulations
 Genevieve - Addressing special housing needs
 Joan - Advancing housing equity and access
 Laura - Creative housing solutions/Improving the existing housing stock
2021-2029 Housing Element Schedule
June 2021
• Online Survey
(ENG/SPAN)
•H o u s i n g Task
Force Meeting #3
July 2021
•P C Study Session
–D r a f t HE
•C C Study Session
–D r a f t HE
September 2021
• Planning
Commission
Public Hearings
October 2021
•C i t y Council
Public Hearings
• Housing Element
Adoption
Submit
Draft HE
to HCD
Next Steps
Stay Involved!
• Survey through June 30, 2021
• Visit Housing Element webpage for information and
updates:
https://www.cityofpasadena.net/planning/planning-
division/community-planning/general-plan/housing-
element-update/#about
• Share additional comments and ideas:
[email protected]
Housing Element
Community Workshop #2
June 2, 2021

Taller comunitario
Elemento de vivienda #2
June 2, 2021

I. Bienvenida y introducciones
II. Revisa del agenda
III. Resumen: Elemento de
vivienda y los programas
actuales de vivienda
IV. Voces comunitarias:

Necesidades y limitaciones
de vivienda
V. Discusión Interactiva: Ideas
para expandir programas
VI. Próximos pasos
Agenda de esta noche

Enfoque del taller de esta noche
Identificar enfoques y programas que puedan:
 Simplificar el proceso de construir viviendas nuevas en Pasadena
 Proporcionar viviendas asequibles para personas de todas necesidades.

Departamento de Vivienda
Audio
Por favor oprima
cuando no este
participando
Vídeo
Puede ser
oprimado para
oculatar el video
Participantes
Ver a otros
• Cambiar su nombre
Su nombre y Agencia
[si es applicable]
Función de Chat
Preguntas se
pueden poner aquí
en cualquier
momento
Formato de Video
El formato de los
videos se puede
ajustar aquí
• Levantar Mano
virtualmente
(recuerde hacer Bajar Mano,
después de su participación)
Levantar la mano
Cómo utilizar la aplicación de Zoom
Audio
Por favor oprima
cuando no este
participando
Vídeo
Puede ser
oprimado para
oculatar el video
Participantes
Ver a otros
• Cambiar su nombre
Su nombre y Agencia
[si es applicable]
Función de Chat
Preguntas se
pueden poner aquí
en cualquier
momento
Formato de Video
El formato de los
videos se puede
ajustar aquí
• Levantar Mano
virtualmente
(recuerde hacer Bajar Mano,
después de su participación)
Levantar la mano
Cómo utilizar la aplicación de Zoom
Sobre usted
¿En que distrito vives?
• Distrito 1 (Tyron Hampton)
• Distrito 2 (Felicia Williams)
• Distrito 3 (John J. Kennedy)
• Distrito 4 (Gene Masuda)
• Distrito 5 (Jess Rivas)
• Distrito 6 (Steve Madison)
• Distrito 7 (Andy Wilson)
• No estoy seguro
• No vivo en Pasadena
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7 Sobre usted
Usted:
___ ¿Alquila su residencia actual?
___ ¿Eres dueño de tu residencia actual?
___ No paga para vivienda (vive con amigos o familiares) ___ Ninguno de los opciones
Descripción general del
Elemento de Vivienda

Parte del Plan General
Mobility
Ruido
Espacio abierto
y conservación
Uso de Tierra
Vivienda
Movilidad
Seguridad
Espacios
verdes, y
parques

Contenido del Elemento de Vivienda

Objetivo RHNA 2021-2029 de Pasadena
Asignado por categorías de
ingresos
• Muy bajos – 31 a 50% del IMÁ
(Ingreso medio del área)
• Bajos – 51 a 80% del IMÁ
• Moderado – 81 a 120% del IMÁ
• Más que moderado – 120%+ del IMÁ
AMI (Ingreso promedio para el condado de Los Ángeles, 2020) Hogar de 1 persona = $54.100 Hogar de 3 personas = $69,550 Hogar de 2 personas = $61850 Hogar de 4 personas = $77,300

La comunidad ha dicho ...

Talleres de Abril 15 y 21
Necesitamos
viviendas más
asequibles

Talleres de Abril 15 y 21
Buscar maneras de
preservar las viviendas
asequibles existentes
Necesitamos
viviendas más
asequibles

Talleres de Abril 15 y 21
Vivienda de 3+
recamarás para
familias numerosas
Buscar maneras de
preservar las viviendas
asequibles existentes
Necesitamos
viviendas más
asequibles

Talleres de Abril 15 y 21
¿Qué se puede
hacer para evitar
que la renta suba
tan rápido y tan
alto?
Vivienda de 3+
recamarás para
familias numerosas
Buscar maneras de
preservar las viviendas
asequibles existentes
Necesitamos
viviendas más
asequibles

Talleres de Abril 15 y 21
Más viviendas para
personas con necesidades
especiales: discapacitados,
jóvenes adoptivos,
personas sin hogar
¿Qué se puede
hacer para evitar
que la renta suba
tan rápido y tan
alto?
Vivienda de 3+
recamarás para
familias numerosas
Buscar maneras de
preservar las viviendas
asequibles existentes
Necesitamos
viviendas más
asequibles

Grupo de trabajo para vivienda
Utilizar la zonificación, las
políticas y la financiación
para facilitar la
producción de viviendas
asequibles.

Utilizar la zonificación, las
políticas y la financiación
para facilitar la
producción de viviendas
asequibles.

Nuevos lugares para la
vivienda: propiedades de la
iglesia, terrenos escolares
excedentes, centros
comerciales envejecidos
Grupo de trabajo para vivienda
Utilizar la zonificación, las
políticas y la financiación
para facilitar la
producción de viviendas
asequibles.

Nuevos lugares para la
vivienda: propiedades de la
iglesia, terrenos escolares
excedentes, centros
comerciales envejecidos
Permitir que los
vecindarios tengan
una combinación
de tipos y
densidades de
viviendas
compatibles
Grupo de trabajo para vivienda
Utilizar la zonificación, las
políticas y la financiación
para facilitar la
producción de viviendas
asequibles.

Nuevos lugares para la
vivienda: propiedades de la
iglesia, terrenos escolares
excedentes, centros
comerciales envejecidos
Permitir que los
vecindarios tengan
una combinación
de tipos y
densidades de
viviendas
compatibles
Revisar las regulaciones
para permitir viviendas de
estilo comunitario y otros
enfoques para grupos con
necesidades especiales.

Grupo de trabajo para vivienda
Utilizar la zonificación, las
políticas y la financiación
para facilitar la
producción de viviendas
asequibles.

Nuevos lugares para la
vivienda: propiedades de la
iglesia, terrenos escolares
excedentes, centros
comerciales envejecidos
Permitir que los
vecindarios tengan
una combinación
de tipos y
densidades de
viviendas
compatibles
Revisar las regulaciones
para permitir viviendas de
estilo comunitario y otros
enfoques para grupos con
necesidades especiales.

Ayudar que toda la
comunidad comprenda
lo que se necesita para
albergar a todos
igualmente y
equitativamente
Grupo de trabajo para vivienda
Programas de vivienda
actuales: una muestra

Programas de vivienda actuales: una muestra
Vivienda para personas
de bajos ingresos
 Ordenanza de vivienda inclusiva
 Bonificaciones de densidad
 Asistencia financiera de la ciudad
para la construcción de viviendas
para personas de bajos ingresos
 Asistencia de alquiler / vales
 Vivienda para personas mayores
Vivienda para personas de
ingresos medios
 Ordenanza de vivienda inclusiva
 Bonificaciones de densidades
 Westgate Apartments: compra de la
ciudad de 513 unidades para alquilar
a hogares de ingresos medios
Programas de vivienda actuales: una muestra
Servicios para
personas sin hogares
 Estrategia de 10 años para acabar
con la falta de vivienda
 Vivienda de apoyo (ejemplos:

Salvation Army, BRIDGE)
 Vales / asistencia de renta
 Programas específicos para jóvenes
 Formación professional
 Servicios de salud mental
Construcción de
viviendas nuevas
 Desarrollo de ussos mixto y orientado al
tránsito
 Reutilización adaptativa (limitada)
 Unidades de vivienda accesorias (ADU)
 Ordenanza de vivienda inclusive
 Bonificaciones de densidad
 Asociaciones ciudad / desarrollador
(ejemplo: Habitat for Humanity)
Programas de vivienda actuales: una muestra
Preservación de vivienda
 El cumplimiento del Código
 Asistencia de mantenimiento para
propietarios de viviendas (MASH)
 Asistencia de la ciudad con
rehabilitación (viviendas para
personas mayores en La Villa Lake)
Promoción de la equidad
 Programas específicos en el
noroeste de Pasadena
 Contrato con el Centro de
Derechos a la Vivienda
 Ordenanza de protección de
inquilinos
Ideas nuevas para
satisfacer las
necesidades de vivienda -
Discusión de grupo

Nuevas ideas: ejemplos
Mejorando los procesos
de la ciudad
 Agilizar la revisión para aplicaciones
de desarrollo de viviendas
asequibles
 Reducir las tarifas de las ADU
alquiladas como viviendas
asequibles
 Simplifique el proceso de revisión
del diseño
Facilitar las regulaciones
de desarrollo
 Revisar los requisitos de
estacionamiento
 Permitir ADUs sobre los garajes
 Reducir los tamaños mínimos de
lote en las zonas R‐S
Nuevas ideas: ejemplos
 Covivienda ("dormitorios para adultos")
 Conversión de edificios de oficinas,
comerciales e industriales (reutilización
adaptativa)
 Más alojamiento en el campus de Caltech
and Art Center
 Fideicomisos de tierras comunitarias
Soluciones de vivienda
creativas
 Conversión continua de moteles
para viviendas de apoyo / de
transición
 Bonificaciones de densidad para
apartamentos con más de 3
recamarás
Abordar las necesidades
especiales de vivienda
Nuevas ideas: ejemplos
 Aumento de subsidios y
financiación de préstamos para
mejoras de hogares en hogares
de bajo ingreso
 Mayor financiamiento para
proyectos de adquisición /
rehabilitación
Mejorando el parque de
viviendas existente
 Mayor educación para propietarios
e inquilinos, en varios idiomas
 Protecciones más sólidas para los
inquilinos cuando se venden
edificios
 Vivienda asequible distribuida
entre todos los barrios de Pasadena
Promoción de la equidad
y el acceso a la vivienda
Discusión

Formato de discusión
• Los comentarios se documentarán en tiempo real
• Cubre las seis áreas temáticas
• Por favor levante la mano o ponga sus
comentarios en el chat.
• 45 minutos de discusión
Temas de discusión

1. Mejorando los procesos
de la Ciudad

2. Facilitando regulaciones
del desarrollo

3. Soluciones de vivienda
creativos

4. Abordar las necesidades
especiales de vivienda

5. Mejorando el parque de
viviendas existente

6. Promoviendo la igualdad y
el acceso de vivienda
Próximos pasos

Actualización del elemento de vivienda 2021-2029
Programas de divulgación públicas
Junio 2021
•S e r i e de
talleres
comunitarios
# 2 (EN/ESP)
• Encuesta en
línea
(ENG/ESP)
Junio 2021
• Reunión del
Grupo de
Trabajo de
Vivienda # 3
•S e s i ó n de
estudio CC ‐
Programas
preliminares
Julio 2021
•S e s i ó n de
estudio de
PC‐ Borrador
HE
•S e s i ó n de
estudio CC ‐
Borrador HE
Septiembre
2021
• Audiencias
públicas de
la Comisión
de
Planificación
Octubre 2021
• Audiencias
públicas del
Concejo
Municipal
• Adopción del
elemento de
viviendaEnvíe el
borrador
HE al HCD
Próximos pasos
¡Manténgase involucrado!
• Encuesta hasta el 30 de junio de 2021
• Visite la página web de ‘Housing Element’ para
obtener información y actualizaciones:
https://www.cityofpasadena.net/planning/planning-
division/community-planning/general-plan/housing-
element-update/#about
• Comparta comentarios e ideas adicionales:
[email protected]
Taller comunitario
Elemento de vivienda #2
June 2, 2021

CITY OF PASADENA | HOUSING ELEMENT F - 1
Appendix F: Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing

A. Introduction and Overview of AB 686
AB 686, passed by the California legislature in 2017, requires the inclusion in the Housing Element an analysis of barriers that restrict access to opportunity and a commitment to specific meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing.

AB 686 added an assessment of fair housing to the Housing Ele ment, which includes the following components: a summary of fair housing issues and assessment of the City’s fair housing enforcement and outreach capacity , analysis of segregation patterns and disparities in access to opportunities, assessment of contributing factors, and identification of fair housing goals and actions.

The City conducted an Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing Choice in 2020 pursuant to federal law requirements . As appropriate, data and discussions from the 2020 AI are incorporated here.

B. Assessment of Fair Housing Issues

1. Fair Housing Enforcement and Outreach
As outlined in Pasadena’s 2020 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (2020 AI), the City has committed to complying with applicable federal and State fair housin g laws including the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and the Fair Housing Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

The Housing Rights Center (HRC), under contract with Pasadena, provides fair housing services to City residents. HRC is a non -profit agency whose mission is to actively support and promote fair housing through education and advocacy.

The services provided by HRC include the investigation and resolution of housing discrimination complaints, discrimination auditing a nd testing, and education and outreach, including the dissemination of fair housing information such as written material, workshops, and seminars. The materials are made available free to the public in several different languages , including English, Spanis h, Korean, Mandarin, Armenian, Cantonese and Russian. Depending on the audience, the presentations can be translated by staff into Armenian, Mandarin, Spanish, or Russian. Landlord/tenant counseling is another fair housing service that involves informing landlords and tenants of their rights and responsibilities under fair housing law and other consumer protection legislations , as well as mediating disputes between tenants and landlords.

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
F - 2 CITY OF PASADENA | HOUSING ELEMENT
Between fiscal years (FY) 2014 and 2018, HRC served 6,804 clients, including 992 clients in FY 2018. Approximately 40.4 percent of clients were Black/African American. A majority of clients were in the extremely low-income category (73.3 percent).

Table F-1: Characteristics of Clients Served by HRC (FY 2014-2018) Pasadena 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 Total Percent Total Clients Served 1,487 1,594 1,490 1,241 992 6,804 100.0% Ethnicity
Hispanic 439 446 480 377 320 2,062 30.3%
Non- Hispanic 1,048 1,148 1,010 864 672 4,742 69.7%
Race
White 327 298 299 222 190 1336 19.6%
Black/African American 615 728 575 497 334 2749 40.4%
Asian 54 50 58 38 36 236 3.5%
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 7 9 8 4 2 30 0.4%
American Indian/ Alaska Native 16 78 15 34 4 147 2.2%
Other/Multi-Racial 460 409 521 438 416 2244 33.0%
Income Level
Extremely Low Income (<30% AMI) 1,080 1,172 1,058 945 729 4,984 73.3% Very Low Income (<50% AMI) 194 230 217 160 60 861 12.7% Low Income (<80% AMI) 87 91 98 69 48 393 5.8%
Moderate Income (>80% AMI) 126 101 117 67 155 566 8.3%
Source: 2020 Pasadena Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

Discrimination complaints from both in -place and prospective tenants that are filed with HRC (or screened from regular calls) are first referred to the HRC Counseling Department. The complaining party is asked to describe the events and issues that prompted the complaint. Complaints are then passed to the HRC Investigations Department and reviewed to see if the facts provided warrant an investigation.

Between FY 2014 and FY 2018, 398 complaints of housing discrimination were reported by Pasadena residents. Most allegations were related to physical disability (55 percent), but a significant number of complaints involved mental disability (18 percent), familial status (7 percent), and race (5 percent). Of the 398 complaints of discrimination received betw een FY 2014 and FY 2018, 113 (28 percent) were deemed significant and turned into fair housing cases, and 60 percent of the cases opened had evidence to sustain the allegation of discrimination (Table F-2).

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
CITY OF PASADENA | HOUSING ELEMENT F - 3
Table F-2: Discrimination Complaints by Protected
Classification (FY 2014-2018)

2014-
15 2015-
16 2016-
17 2017-
18 2018-
19 Total Percent
Physical Disability 35 35 43 53 51 217 54.5%
Mental Disability 9 13 16 12 22 72 18.1%
Discrim. General
Information 2 10 12 4 1 29 7.3%
Familial Status 3 5 5 8 6 27 6.8%
Race 4 2 10 2 0 18 4.5%
National Origin 3 3 3 3 1 13 3.3%
Gender 2 0 5 2 2 11 2.8%
Age 0 2 0 0 2 4 1.0%
Sexual Orientation 1 0 1 0 1 3 0.8%
Arbitrary 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.5%
Religion 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.3%
Source of Income 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.3%
Total 59 71 96 86 86 398 100.0%
Source: 2020 Pasadena Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

The 2020 AI also found that a large portion of listings for for -rent and for -sale ads contain ed discriminatory language, primarily expressing preference for families, no -pet policy, and explicitly requiring minimum income levels or rejecting Section 8 assistance.

During the 2020 AI outreach process, r esidents commented that they had trouble finding assistance on fair housing issue and many feared retaliation from reporting acts of discrimination. Despite extensive fair housing activities and programs by the City through Housing Rights Center, participation is limited in them. Also, while fair housing testing is included in the scope of activities for the Fair Housing provider, no results of testing were provided in the 2020 AI nor could they be found on the City website.

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2. Integration and Segregation
Race/Ethnicity
Ethnic and racial composition of a region is useful in analyzing housing demand and any related fair housing concerns, as it tends to demonstrate a relationship with other characteristics such as household size, locational preferences and mobility.

Pasadena’s population is mostly White and Hispanic/Latino. As shown in Figure , White population has decreased, proportionally, since 2010, while the Asian and Hispanic/Latino populations have grown. Pasadena has a White population similar to the neighboring city of San Marino, larger than Alhambra, Arcadia, and the County, and smaller than Glendale and La Cañada Fli ntridge ( Table ).

Pasadena has a substantially larger Hispanic/Latino population than Arcadia, Glendale, La Cañada Flintridge, and San Marino. The City also has a larger Black/African American population compared to most nearby cities.

Figure F-1: Race/Ethnicity Composition Changes
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Table F-3: Racial Composition in Neighboring Cities and Region Jurisdiction White
Alone Black
American
Indian/
Alaskan
Asian Hawaiian/
Pac. Isldr. Other Two or
More
Hispanic/
Latino
Alhambra 10.9% 1.2% 0.2% 52.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.8% 34.1%
Arcadia 27.7% 0.9% 0.2% 57.4% 0.1% 0.0% 1.6% 12.1%
Glendale 63.5% 1.7% 0.1% 16.2% 0.1% 0.2% 1.4% 16.8%
La Cañada Flintridge 67.1% 0.2% 0.4% 26.0% 0.0% 0.1% 2.0% 4.2% Pasadena 35.9% 8.3% 0.1% 16.9% 0.2% 0.4% 3.4% 34.9%
San Marino 38.3% 0.0% 0.1% 50.9% 0.0% 0.2% 2.7% 7.8%
Los Angeles County 28.4% 8.5% 0.2% 13.6% 0.2% 0.3% 1.7% 47.1% Source: American Community Survey (2015-2019 Estimates).

Dissimilarity indices can be used to measure the extent to which a distribution of any two groups differs across block groups. Racial and ethnic dissimilarity trends for Pasadena and Los Angeles County are shown in Tabl e F-4. The following shows how HUD views various levels of the index:
• <40: Low Segregation
• 40-54: Moderate Segregation
• >55: High Segregation
From 1990 to 2020, the White and non-White communities in Pasadena have become less segregated. Segregation between White and non-White residents, White and Black residents, and White and Hispanic is considered moderate, while segregation between White and Asian/Pacific Islander communities is low.

While segregation between White and non- White groups in Pasadena has lessened over the past 30 years, since 2010 they have become increasingly segregated. Overall, Pasadena shows a lower degree of segregation compared to the County as a whole.

Table F-4: Dissimilarity Indices
1990 Trend 2000 Trend 2010 Trend Current
Pasadena
Non-White/White 48.17 46.20 37.91 40.11
Black/White 61.79 57.25 49.47 52.87
Hispanic/White 50.86 53.93 49.62 50.66
Asian or Pacific Islander/White 15.98 20.03 21.61 25.65 Los Angeles County
Non-White/White 56.66 56.72 56.55 58.53
Black/White 73.04 67.4 64.99 68.24
Hispanic/White 60.88 63.03 63.35 64.33
Asian or Pacific Islander/White 46.13 48.19 47.62 51.59 Source: HUD Dissimilarity Index, 2020.

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Block groups in Pasadena have racial/ethnic minority concentrations ranging from 28.4 to 96.8 percent. There is a higher concentration of minority groups in the northwest section of the City. Block groups along the southwestern City boundary and in the northeastern corner of the City have the lowest concentration of racial/ethnic minorities.

Distribution of RHNA Units by Percentage Minority Concentration Most sites used to meet the City’s 2021 -2029 RHNA are in block groups where the racial/ethnic minority population makes up 41 to 60 percent of the population. Approximately 56 percent of lower-income unit s, 78 percent of moderate-income units, and 59 percent of above moderate-income units are in block groups with 41 to 60 percent racial/ethnic minorities. Proportionally, fewer lower-income units (2.6 percent) are in block groups where the racial/ethnic minority concentration between 61 to 80 percent, compared to moderat e- income units (6.7 percent) and above moderate-income units (15.3 percent).

Table F-5: RHNA Unit Distribution by Percent Minority
Concentration
% Minority
Concentration
Lower
Income
RHNA
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Above
Moderate
Income RHNA
Total
RHNA
Units
11 - 20% 0.0% 1.0% 0.2% 0.3%
21 - 40% 41.9% 14.0% 25.8% 29.7%
41 - 60% 55.5% 78.3% 58.7% 61.3%
61 - 80% 2.6% 6.7% 15.3% 8.7%
Total 3,997 2,045 4,286 10,328
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Figure F-2: Racial/Ethnic Minority Concentration and Sites Inventory

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Persons with Disabilities
In Los Angeles County, about 9.9 percent of the population has a disability.

Pasadena has a population of persons with disabilities (9.4 percent) comparable to the County and the neighboring cities of Alhambra (9.5 percent) and Arcadia (8.1 percent). Pasadena has a smaller disabled population than Glendale (13.8 percent) but larger than La Cañada Flintridge (5.5 percent), and San Marino (5.5 percent).

Figure F-3 shows that persons with disabilities are concentrated in census tracts in the center of Pasadena and along the northern City boundary. In most tracts, persons with disabilities make up less than 10 percent of the total population.

One tract located in the center of the City has a disabled population between 20 and 30 percent.

Distribution of RHNA Units by Percent Population with Disabilities Most RHNA units (61.0 percent) are in tracts where the population of persons with disabil ities is lower than 10 percent. A larger proportion of above moderate income RHNA units (6.8 percent) are in the tract with a higher concentration of disabled persons, compared to moderate income units (1.0 percent) and above lower-income units (0.0 percent). Lower-income RHNA sites are placed near public transit and along the City’s transportation corridors — convenient locations for persons with disabilities.

Table F-6: RHNA Units by % Population with Disabilities % Persons
with
Disabilities
Lower
Income
RHNA
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Above
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Total RHNA Units
< 10% 72.2% 77.3% 42.9% 61.0%
10% - 20% 27.8% 21.7% 50.3% 35.9%
20% - 30% 0.0% 1.0% 6.8% 3.0%
Total Units 3,997 2,045 4,286 10,328

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Figure F-3: Distribution of Population with Disabilities and Sites Inventory

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Familial Status
Familial status refers to the presence of children under the age of 18, whether the child is biologically related to the head of household, and the marital status of the head of household. Families with children may face housing discrimination by landlords who fear that children will cause property damage. Some landlords may have cultural biases against children of the opposite sex sharing a bedroom.

Differential treatments such as limiting the number of children in an apartment complex or confining childre n to a specific location are also fair housing concerns.

Single parent households are also protected by fair housing law. Approximately

21.5 percent of households in Pasadena have children of the householder, fewer than the surrounding jurisdictions of Alhambra (24.1 percent), Arcadia (33.3 percent), Glendale (24.9 percent), La Cañada Flintridge (38.8 percent), San Marino (36.1 percent), and the County (28.3 percent). According to the HCD AFFH map in Figure F-4, children in married households are most concentrated along the western and southern City boundaries and on the eastern side of the City. The percent of children living in married households in these tract s is over 80 percent, while tracts in the central areas of Pasadena have fewer children in married couple households.

Female-headed households with children require special consideration and assistance because of their greater need for affordable housing and accessible day care, health care, and other supportive services. Approximately 3.9 percent of Pasadena households are single female-headed households with children compared to 6.4 percent countywide. Children in single female -headed households are concentrated in the south central and northwestern tracts of the City. Most tracts have less than 20 percent of children living in female -headed households.

Distribution of RHNA Units by Familial Status
Most RHNA units are located in tracts where the percent of children in married couple families is between 60 and 100 percent. Fewer lower-income RHNA units (40.3 percent) are in tracts where more than 80 percent of children live in married couple households compared to moderate-income units (48.4 percent) and above moderate-income units (436.7 percent).

The majority of lower -income RHNA units (75.4 percent), moderate -income units (67.9 percent), and above moderate- income units ( 67.0 percent) are in tracts where fewer than 20 percent of children live in female -headed households.

Most lower-income RHNA sites are higher density sites in mixed use areas where the existing units may be primarily smaller units and there fore may be proportionally occupied by fewer families with children.

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Table F-7: RHNA Units by Percent Children in Married-Couple Households
% Children in
Married-
Couple HH
Lower
Income
RHNA
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Above
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Total RHNA Units
20% - 40% 1.7% 7.0% 0.7% 2.4%
40% - 60% 14.2% 5.7% 17.5% 13.9%
60% - 80% 43.8% 38.9% 45.1% 43.3%
> 80% 40.3% 48.4% 36.7% 40.4%
Total Units 3,997 2,045 4,286 10,328

Table F-8: RHNA Distribution by Percent Children in Female- Headed Households (FHH)
% Children in
FHH
Lower
Income
RHNA
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Above
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Total RHNA Units
< 20% 75.4% 67.9% 67.0% 70.4%
20% - 40% 15.2% 28.8% 16.4% 18.4%
40% - 60% 9.4% 3.3% 16.6% 11.2%
Total Units 3,997 2,045 4,286 10,328

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Figure F-4: Children in Married Households and Single Female-Headed Households and Sites Inventory

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Income Level
Identifying low or moderate income (LMI) geographies and individuals is important to overcome patterns of segregation. Figure F-5: Low- and Moderate- Income Household Distribution shows the Lower and Moderate Income (LMI) areas in the County by Census block group. HUD defines a LMI area as a Census tract or block group where over 51 percent of the population is LMI (based on HUD income definition of up to 80 percent of the AMI). LMI areas are concentrated in census tracts in the center of Pasadena, along the northern City boundary, and southeast corner. A higher concentration of LMI households is located in the City of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas south of Pasadena.

Distribution of RHNA Units by Percent Low- and Moderate-Income Population About 46.1 percent of RHNA units are located in census tracts where LMI households make up 25 to 50 percent of the population. Approximately 7.3 percent of lower-income RHNA units, 12.6 percent of moderate-income units, and 10.8 percent of above moderate- income units are in tracts with a high concentration of LMI households, making up between 75 and 100 percent of the total population.

Table F-9: RHNA Unit Distribution by Percent LMI Households in Census Tract
% LMI HH
Lower Income
RHNA
Moderate
Income RHNA
Above
Moderate
Income
RHNA
Total RHNA
Units
< 25% 19.8% 4.2% 0.7% 8.8%
25% - 50% 46.8% 40.0% 48.4% 46.1%
50% - 75% 26.1% 43.2% 40.1% 35.3%
75% - 100% 7.3% 12.6% 10.8% 9.8%
Total Units 3,997 2,045 4,286 10,328

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Figure F-5: Low- and Moderate-Income Household Distribution

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3. Racially and Ethnically Concentrated Areas
Racially and Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP) To identify racially/ethnically concentrated areas of poverty (R/ECAPs), HUD has identified census tracts with a majority non- White population (greater than 50 percent) and a poverty rate that exceeds 40 percent or is three times the average tract poverty rate for the metro/micro area, whichever threshold is lower. There are no R/ECAPs identified in Pasadena. The R/ECAPs closest are located in the City of Los Angeles southwest of Pasadena. Because of this, zero percent of RHNA units are located in R/ECAP sites.

However, as shown in the next section (Access to Opportunities), some tracts in the City are classified as areas of High Poverty and Segregation according to the California Fair Housing Task Force Opportunity Maps. A specific analysis of these areas is included in the next section.

Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence (RCAAs)
While racially concentrated areas of poverty and segregation (R /ECAPs) have long been the focus of fair housing policies, racially concentrated areas of affluence (RCAAs) must also be analyzed to ensure housing is integrated, a key to fair housing choice. According to a policy paper published by HUD, RCAAs are defined as affluent, White communities. According to HUD's policy paper, Whites are the most racially segregated group in the United States and in the same way, neighborhood disadvantage is associated with concentrated poverty and high concentrations of people of color, conversely, distinct advantages are associated with residence in affluent, White communities.

While HCD has created its own metric for RCAAs, at the time of this writing the map on the AFFH tool is not available. Thus, the definition of RCAAs used in this analysis is the definition used by the scholars at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs cited in HCD’s memo: “RCAAs are defined as census tracts where: 1) 80 percent or more of the population is white, and 2) the median household income is $125,000 or greater (slightly more than double the national the median household income in 2016). As discussed previously, there are no block groups in Pasadena with a racial/ethnic minority population below 20%. Therefore, none of Pasadena is considered an RCAA. Block groups with median incomes exceeding $125,000 are most concentrated along the western City boundary and in the northeast corner of Pasadena. Most of the block groups in the center of the City have median incomes below $55,000.

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Figure F-6: Racially and Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAPs)

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Figure F-7: Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence (RCAAs)

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Although there are no RCAAs in the City, it is important to consider median income gaps within the City and regionally. As Figure F- 4 shows, median household incomes range from less than $55,00 in the downtown ($13,434 in the tract with the lowest median income) to more than $125,000 in the edges of the City ($215,227 in the northwesternmost tract of the City). As housing prices increase in the City and across the State, residents with lower incomes are more likely to be affected and displaced. The areas with lower incomes are also the more “affordable” areas in the City, which correspond with the concentration of HCV renters in the central tracts. Despite being more affordable, these central tracts with lower incomes also tend to have higher concentrations of cost- burdened renter and owner households, as shown in Figures F-16 and F-17.

Regionally, Pasadena has among the highest median incomes and housing prices in the County. In 1990, the median household income in Pasadena was equal to the median household income of Los Angeles County as a whole; 20 years later it grew to 125 percent of the County’s median. In 2018, that trend persisted, with the Pasadena median income 123 percent that of the Count y. With respect to lower-income residents, they make up 40 percent of all households , which is comparable to the share over the last two decades. It is important to note that

15.7 percent of residents in Pasadena live in poverty (per federal criteria) and are concentrated in the downtown and Northwest areas of the City. These latter two data points illustrate the critical need for more affordable housing citywide.

4. Access to Opportunities
“Significant disparities in access to opportunity” are defined by the AFFH Final Rule as “substantial and measurable differences in access to educational, transportation, economic, and other opportunities in a community based on protected class related to housing.”
TCAC Opportunity Maps
The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) convened the California Fair Housing Task force to “provide research, evidence- based policy recommendations, and other strategic recommendations to HCD and other related state agencies/ departments to further the fair housing goals (as defined by HCD).” The Task Force has created Opportunity Maps to identify resource levels across the state “to accompany new policies aimed at increasing access to high opportunity areas for families with children in housing financed with nine percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs)”. These opportunity maps are made from composite scores of three different domains made up of a set of indicators. Table F-10 shows the full list of indicators. The opportunity maps include a measure or “filter” to identify areas with poverty and racial segregation. To identify these areas, census tracts were first filtered by poverty and then by a measure of racial segregation. The criteria for these filters were:
• Poverty: Tracts with at least 30 percent of population under federal poverty line
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• Racial Segregation: Tracts with lo cation quotient higher than 1.25 for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or all people of color in comparison to the County
Table F-10: Domains and List of Indicators for Opportunity Maps
Domain Indicator
Economic
Poverty
Adult education
Employment
Job proximity
Median home value
Environmental CalEnviroScreen 3.0 pollution Indicators and values Education
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
High School graduation rates
Student poverty rates
Source: California Fair Housing Task Force, Methodology for the 2021 TCAC/HCD Opportunity Maps, December 2020

According to the 2021 TCAC/HCD opportunity area map, two census tracts or areas of high racial segregation and poverty exist in Pasadena (Figure F-8). These tracts are located south of the intersection of the I- 210 and SR-134 freeways.

The regional map in Figure F -8 identifies most areas with high segregation and poverty in the downtown Los Angeles area and south of the downtown. The closest tracts to Pasadena with high segregation and poverty are in Glendale.

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Figure F-8: TCAC Opportunity Areas in the Region

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According to the HCD/TCAC opportunity map, Pasadena is made up of Census tracts with varying degrees of resources. Categorization is based on percentile rankings for census tracts within the Los Angeles Region. Locally, Northwest census tracts scored lowe r (as low and high concentration of poverty and segregation), indicating lower resources than other tracts within the City. Tracts adjacent to the low resources tracts in the Northwest region are moderate, and the tracts with the highest resources are located on the edges of the City.

Areas of High Segregation and Poverty
Tracts with high poverty and segregation are located in the Central District and bounded by I -210 freeway to the north, South Lake Avenue to the east, East Colorado Boulevard to the s outh, and South Saint John Avenue to the west.

These tracts are part of the Central District Specific Plan vision that “the Central District will function as the City of Pasadena’s vibrant urban core, providing a diversity of economic, residential, and cultural opportunities. Downtown will be a place to work, shop, live, and play, with convenient access by foot, bicycle, and transit, as well as by car.” In this role, much of the City’s future growth has been directed at this area. The challenge is to direct this growth to achieve a high quality of life for the entire community.

Historically, Downtown’s streets and urban land patterns began developing as far back as the 1880s , with Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue as Pasadena’s main commercial corrido rs, with a commercial district surrounding the intersection of these two streets. Like most cities, however, the character of Downtown began to change at a more rapid pace following World War II. Large- scale, single use projects often built on an auto-oriented, suburban model were introduced with increasing frequency, interrupting the urban fabric.

Numerous historically significant structures are still found within the Central District, specifically within the tracts having a high concentration and poverty , including City Hall and the Public Library. Tracts with high poverty and segregation also extend through the northern parts of three National Register Historic Districts in the City: Old Pasadena, Pasadena Civic Center, and Pasadena Playhouse. Old Pasadena is the historic core of the City that has developed into a vibrant retail and entertainment destination . T he Civic Center is the governmental center of the City, distinguished by the landmark City Hall , and Pasadena Playhouse is developing as an arts-or iented area, anchored by the Pasadena Playhouse.

As shown in Figure F-8, the tracts with high poverty and segregation are mostly commercial areas along with outer boundary streets, with a mix of land uses and residential in the middle. Figure F -9 shows that Colorado Boulevard and Lake Avenue are Downtown’s most intensely developed streets, although building intensities along these streets are far from consistent. This is apparent in the periodic presence of multi-story office buildings and towers. On the other hand, properties in the northern areas of the district, along I- 210, are developed at much lower intensities. Because of the proximity to anticipated rail stations, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
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these areas are identified as ripe for infill and higher- density transit -oriented development.

Figure F-9: District Land Use Patterns (1999)

Source: Central District Specific Plan (2004)
Figure F-10: District Development Intensity

Source: Central District Specific Plan (2004)

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Between 2000 and 2017, Pasadena’s housing stock increased by over 11 percent to 60,286 units. However, the growth mostly occurred between 2000 and 2010 (10 percent, compared to 1.2 percent between 2010 and 2020). Between 2000 and 2010, developers concentrated on building apartments and condominiums (which includes single -family attached and multi -family housing) in Pasadena, particularly along transportation corridors. Of the total housing growth from 2000 through 2010, the vast majority of units were built within the Central District Specific Plan area. Based on the housing type and price points, developers appeared to be building multi -family housing for two broad demographic groups: seniors and single professional adults or recently married couples.

HCD’s AFFH mapping tool shows that in the past 10 years, the percent of residents living under the federal poverty line has increased significantly in these tracts. In 2010, about one -fourth of the population in these census tracts was living under the poverty line. By 2019, 42 percent of people were living under the poverty line in the western tract and 31 percent in the eastern tract that make up the area with high poverty and concentration.

The tracts with high poverty and segregation are also directly sout h of the historically African American business district on North Lincoln and the mixed- income, racially diverse neighborhoods of Northwest Pasadena that were displaced by the construction of I-210 in the 1970s. Much of the Lincoln Avenue corridor and surr ounding residential neighborhoods are located within one of Pasadena’s historically “redlined” communities, meaning residents were systematically blocked from mortgage or home improvement loans between 1939 and 1968 due to the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) investment risk-grading documents ( Figure F -11). The explicitly racist and discriminatory HOLC documents, which referred to the Lincoln neighborhood as a “blighted” area with “subversive racial elements,” are now infamous for their long -term influence on housing policy and access to services including banking, insurance, and healthcare within racially and economically marginalized communities throughout the United States. While the tracts now classified as high poverty and segregation were classified as commercial and not given a HOLC grade, the small areas that did receive a grade classified as “declining ,” or areas where the residents were often working -class and/or first - or second -generation immigrants from Europe. These areas often lacked utilities and were characterized by older building stock.

This history of disinvestment, combined with the new focus on growth in these areas since the 2000s, has created conditions that make residents susceptive to displacement.

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Figure F-11: Homeowner’s Loan Corporation Redlining Grade

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Distribution of RHNA Units by TCAC Opportunity Area
Figure F-12 shows the distribution of RHNA sites across the TCAC opportunity areas. About 65 percent of all RHNA units are located in high or highest resource areas (F-10). Of the 3,997 lower-income RHNA units, 60 percent are in the high and highest resource tracts.

Table F-11: RHNA Units by TCAC Opportunity Areas
Opportunity Area Very Low Low Mod Above Mod All Units
Highest 31.1% 22.3% 9.2% 18.7% 21.1%
High 35.9% 72.6% 61.1% 38.6% 44.2%
Moderate 7.2% 0.0% 10.1% 12.4% 9.5%
Moderate (Rapid Change) 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
Low 4.2% 1.3% 4.9% 6.6% 5.2%
High Segregation & Poverty 21.6% 3.8% 14.1% 23.4% 19.8% Total 3,373 624 2,045 4,286 10,328

Opportunity Indicators
While the Federal Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule has been repealed, the data and mapping developed by HUD for the purpose of preparing the Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) can still be useful in informing communities about segregation in their jurisdiction and region, as well as disparities in access to opportunity. This section presents the HUD- developed index scores based on nationally available data sources to assess Pasadena residents’ access to key opportunity assets in comparison t o the County. Table F-12 provides index scores or values (the values range from 0 to 100) for the following opportunity indicator indices:
• Low Poverty Index: The low poverty index captures poverty in a given neighborhood. The poverty rate is determined at the census tract level.

The higher the score, the less exposure to poverty in a neighborhood. • School Proficiency Index: The school proficiency index uses school-level data on the performance of 4th grade students on state exams to describe which neighborhoods have high- performing elementary schools nearby and which are near lower performing elementary schools. The higher the score, the higher the school system quality is in a neighborhood.
• Labor Market Engagement Index: The labor market engagement index provides a summary description of the relative intensity of labor market engagement and human capital in a neighborhood. This is based upon the level of employment, labor force participation, and educational attainment in a census tract. The higher the score, the higher the labor force participation and human capital in a neighborhood.

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Figure F-12: TCAC Opportunity Areas in Pasadena

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• Transit Trips Index: This index is based on estimates of transit trips taken by a family that meets the following description: a three -person single-parent family with income at 50 percent of the median income for renters for the region (i.e., the Core-Based Statistical Area, or CBSA).

The higher the transit trips index, the more likely residents in that neighborhood utilize public transit.
• Low Transportation Cost Index: This index is based on estimates of transportation costs for a family that meets the following description: a three-person single -parent family with income at 50 percent of the median income for renters for the region/CBSA. The higher the index, the lower the cost of transportation in that neighborhood. • Jobs Proximity Index: The jobs proximity index quantifies the accessibility of a given residential neighborhood as a function of its distance to all job location s within a region/CBSA, with larger employment centers weighted more heavily. The higher the index value, the better the access to employment opportunities for residents in a neighborhood.
• Environmental Health Index: The environmental health index summarizes potential exposure to harmful toxins at a neighborhood level. The higher the index value, the less exposure to toxins harmful to human health. Therefore, the higher the value, the better the environmental quality of a neighborhood, where a neighborhood is a census block-group.

In Los Angeles County, Black and Hispanic residents were more likely (compared to other racial/ethnic groups) to be impacted by poverty, limited access to proficient schools, lower labor participation, lower jobs proximity, and lower environmental health scores. For population living below the federal poverty line, scores decreased for among all races, though Blacks and Hispanics continued to score the lowers.

Within Pasadena, Blacks and Hispanics were more likely (scored lowest) to be impacted by poverty, limited access to proficient schools, lower job participation, and lower jobs proximity. Unlike the County trends, Pasadena Hispanics and Blacks did not score lowest among the race/ethnic g roups in the environmental health index. Like the County, the Pasadena population living below the poverty line scored lower than the population at large across most indices, except for the transit index and the job proximity index.

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Table F-12: Opportunity Indicators by Race/Ethnicity
City of Pasadena Low Poverty
Index
School
Proficiency
Index
Labor Market
Index
Transit
Index
Low
Transportation
Cost Index
Jobs
Proximity
Index
Environmental
Health Index
Total Population
White, Non-Hispanic 62.03 60.77 80.84 88.69 78.00 74.98 17.67 Black, Non-Hispanic 39.76 50.89 58.97 88.77 78.76 69.34 20.58 Hispanic 40.41 49.66 58.06 89.37 79.59 72.04 19.09
Asian or Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic 59.40 60.23 79.73 89.92 81.80 79.45 17.04 Native American, Non-Hispanic 47.95 55.90 67.34 89.57 80.15 75.03 17.95 Population below federal poverty line
White, Non-Hispanic 52.64 55.06 73.14 89.90 82.11 76.06 17.17 Black, Non-Hispanic 31.63 43.03 54.60 90.54 81.60 73.81 18.83 Hispanic 33.34 45.00 50.17 89.95 81.45 75.01 18.20
Asian or Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic 50.90 52.90 70.94 91.67 85.09 82.37 16.72 Native American, Non-Hispanic 25.21 39.13 38.27 93.88 81.88 78.25 17.02 Los Angeles County
Total Population
White, Non-Hispanic 62.59 65.09 65.41 82.63 74.09 55.80 18.99 Black, Non-Hispanic 34.95 32.37 34.00 87.70 79.18 40.13 11.66 Hispanic 33.91 38.38 33.18 87.19 77.74 41.53 11.91
Asian or Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic 53.57 59.34 55.94 86.52 76.45 51.82 12.16 Native American, Non-Hispanic 45.04 46.90 44.50 83.17 75.65 44.24 16.74 Population below federal poverty line
White, Non-Hispanic 50.68 58.06 57.49 86.42 79.48 57.52 16.66 Black, Non-Hispanic 23.45 27.16 25.52 88.65 81.18 36.59 11.62 Hispanic 23.66 32.87 27.66 89.45 81.02 42.84 10.30
Asian or Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic 42.97 54.52 50.06 89.62 81.49 54.19 9.84 Native American, Non-Hispanic 29.85 35.12 32.02 85.23 78.70 46.35 16.01 Note: American Community Survey Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. See narrative for index score meanings. Table is comparing the total Pasadena and County population, by race/ethnicity, to the Pasadena and County population living below the federal poverty line, also by race/ethnicity.

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Education
School proficiency scores are indicators of school system quality. In Pasadena, school proficiency indices ranged from 50 to 61 across all races and from 39 to 55 across all races living below the federal poverty line ( Table F -12). The differences in scores among the races indicate a dissimilar access to schools, where Blacks and Hispanics scored the lowest. However, Black and Hispanic residents at-large and those living below the poverty level had access to higher quality schools in Pasadena compared to the County overall, where school proficiency scores were in the 30s. The higher the score, the higher the quality of schools.

Greatschools.org is a non-profit organization that rates schools across the States.

The Great Schools Summary Rating calculation is based on four ratings: the Student Progress Rating or Academic Progress Rating, College Readiness Rating, Equity Rating, and Test Score Rating. Ratings at the lower end of the scale (1 -4) signal that the school is “below average ,” 5 -6 indicate s “average,” and 7 -10 means “above average.” Figure F-13 shows that Pasadena elementary, middle, and high schools mostly rate as below average and averag e, with the exception of a few schools on the northwestern edges of the City. Lower educational opportunities across the City is shown in TCAC’s Education Score 2 map. Census tracts in the Northwest region had the lowest education scores, while Census tracts in the edges have greater scores (meaning more positive education outcomes).

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Figure F-13: GreatSchools Ratings

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Figure F-14: TCAC Education Score Map

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Transportation
HUD’s opportunity indicators have two categories to describe transportation - transit index and low transportation cost. Transit index scores did not differ significantly between races or between the total population and the population living in poverty. Transit index scores fell in the between 89 and 94 across all races. Low transportation cost scores were lower but had similar range (78 to 81) between all races in the entire population and were slightly higher for the population living below the poverty line (81 to 85). Considering that a higher transit index score indicates a higher likelihood to use public transit and a higher “low transportation cost” indicates a lower cost of transportation, Pasadena’s lower income population has better access to transit compared to the entire population.

All Transit explores metrics that reveal the social and economic impact of transit, specifically looking at connectivity, access to jobs, and frequency of service.

According to the most recent data posted (2019), Pasadena has an AllTransit Performance Score of 8.3 ( Figure F-15). This is a relatively high score and the shows that most of the City has similarly high scores, with scores in the eastern part of the City being slightly lower. Figure F-16 shows that the number of transit stops within one-half mile is greatest in the Census tracts along I-210 but does not differ across the greatly across most of the City.

Figure F-15: AllTransit Performance Score

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Figure F-16: Number of Transit Stops within One-half Mile of Households

Economic Development
HUD’s opportunity indicators provide scores for labor market and jobs proximity.

The labor market score is based the level of employment, labor force participation, and educational attainment in a census tract. Pasadena had higher labor market index scores (58 to 80) than the County overall (33 to 65), indicating a higher labor force participation and human capital in a neig hborhood.

However, within the large range of labor market index scores in the City, Whites and Asians scored the highest, and Blacks and Hispanics scored the lowest.

The jobs proximity score quantifies the accessibility of a neighborhood to jobs in the region. Pasadena scored higher (64 to 79) than the County overall (40- 56).

Within the City, higher job proximity scores are located near downtown, mostly south of I-210 along the I -710 freeway stub. Some tracts north of I- 210 also scored among the highest in jobs proximity within the City.

TCAC Economic Scores are based on a composite of the following area characteristics: poverty, adult education, employment, job proximity, median home value. The areas surrounding Pasadena and in the southern census tracts of Pasadena have the highest economic scores among the northeastern L os Angeles region. The census tracts with the lowest scores within the City and the surrounding region are located within Pasadena in the Northwestern census tracts.

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Figure F-17: Jobs Proximity Index

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Figure F-18: TCAC Economic Score

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Environment
The TCAC Environmental Score is based on CalEnviroScreen 3.0 scores. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) compiles these scores to help identify California communities disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. In addition to environmental factors (pollutant exposure, groundwater threats, toxic sites, and hazardous materials exposure) and sensitive receptors (seniors, children, persons with asthma, and low birth weight infants), CalEnviroScreen also takes into consideration socioeconomic factors. These factors include educational attainment, linguistic isolation, poverty, and unemployment. Similar to economic scores, the TCAC’s environmental scores were highest near and within part of Pasadena when compared to the immediate surrounding region and downtown Los Angeles. However, within the City, the lowest environmental scores were concentrated along I-210 and south of it. The westernmost and easternmost census tracts along that transect scored the lowest (0.25 to 0.50).

Distribution of RHNA Units by CalEnviroScreen Scores
The February 2021 update to the CalEnviroScreen (CalEnviroScreen 4.0) shows even more differentiation in CalEnviroScreen scores and shows that the Northwestern census tracts of the City have the highest (worst) scores (Table F-13). These census tracts fall between the 60 and 80 percentile of scores relative to other census tracts. Only 18 percent of lower-income RHNA units are located in the lowest scoring tracts (61 -80 percentile). Overall, only 15 percent of all RHNA units are located in these tracts.

Table F-13: RHNA Units by CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Scores
CalEnviroScreen Score
(Percentile)
Very Low
Income
RHNA
Low Income
RHNA
Moderate Income
RHNA
Above Moderate
Income RHNA
Total
RHNA Units
1 - 10% (Lowest Score) 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
11 - 20% 0.9% 22.7% 17.6% 0.2% 6.1%
21 - 30% 24.8% 0.0% 5.1% 36.0% 21.3%
31 - 40% 31.1% 0.0% 30.2% 14.2% 26.4%
41 - 50% 14.7% 0.0% 16.2% 22.6% 17.1%
51 - 60% 10.6% 9.1% 21.9% 10.9% 14.2%
61 - 70% 17.4% 68.2% 7.8% 11.5% 13.1%
71 - 80% 0.5% 0.0% 1.1% 4.4% 1.7%
81 - 90% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
91 - 100% (Highest Score) 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Total Units 3,946 44 2,849 2,295 9,134

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Figure F-19: TCAC- Environmental Score

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Figure F-20: RHNA Unit Distribution by CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Score3

3 The results for each indicator range from 0-100 and represent the percentile ranking of census tract relative to other census tracts

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5. Disproportionate Housing Needs
The AFFH Rule Guidebook defines disproportionate housing needs as a condition in which there are significant disparities in the proportion of members of a protected class experiencing a category of housing needs when compared to the proportion of a member of any other relevant groups or the total population experiencing the category of housing need in the applicable geographic area (24 C.F.R. § 5.152). The analysis is completed by assessing cost burden, severe cost burden, overcrowding, and substandard housing.

Cost Burden
The Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) developed by the Census for HUD provides detailed information on housing needs by income level for different types of households in Pasadena. Housing problems considered by CHAS include:
• Housing cost burden, including utilities, exceeding 30 percent of gross income;
• Severe housing cost burden, including utilities, exceeding 50 percent of gross income;
• Overcrowded conditions (housing units with more than one person per room); and
• Units with physical defects (lacking complete kitchen or bathroom) Pasadena households experience housing problems (46 percent) and cost burdens (42 percent) at lower rates than the County overall (52 percent and 46 percent) (Table F-14). As shown in Table F-14, households of all Black, American Indian, and Hispanics race experience housing problems at a higher rate than White and Asian households and all households in the City (46 percent). Renter- households, independent of race, experience housing problems at higher rates than owner-occupied households in Pasadena. Renters are also cost burdened at higher rates than owners, independent of race. Similar trends are seen in Los Angeles County, where Black and Hispanic households experience cost burdens and housing problems at higher rates than other races and the Co unty overall, and renters experience problems at a higher rate than owners.

Elderly and large households may also be subject to disproportionate housing problems. Table F-14 shows that renter-elderly and large households experience housing problems and cost burden at greater rates than all renter -households and all households in the City. More than two thirds of elderly renter-households experience housin g problems and cost burdens. Large renter households experience housing problems and cost burden at the highest rates (80 percent).

Among owner households, large households also have the highest rates of housing problems and cost burdens (45 percent and 37 percent, respectively).

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household types of the same tenure. However, elderly households are more likely to experience cost burdens and renter elde rly households are most affected (66 percent).

Table F-14: Housing Problems by Race, Pasadena vs. Los Angeles County (2017)
Pasadena White Black Asian Am.

Ind. Pac Isl. Hisp. Other All
With Housing Problem
Owner-Occupied 29.3% 40.8% 33.5% 50.0% 0.0% 45.4% 28.9% 33.9% Renter-Occupied 49.2% 66.3% 42.5% 66.7% 33.3% 64.6% 50.9% 54.5% All Households 39.0% 58.1% 38.3% 55.0% 22.2% 58.2% 43.8% 45.5% With Cost Burden >30%
Owner-Occupied 28.8% 38.3% 32.4% 14.3% 0.0% 41.1% 27.7% 32.4% Renter-Occupied 45.9% 64.7% 37.9% 83.3% 33.3% 57.2% 49.1% 50.1% All Households 37.1% 56.2% 35.4% 35.0% 22.2% 51.8% 42.2% 42.4% Los Angeles
County White Black Asian Am.

Ind. Pac Isl. Hisp. Other All
With Housing Problem
Owner-Occupied 32.1% 41.5% 38.3% 39.7% 39.7% 48.2% 36.5% 39.0% Renter-Occupied 52.6% 63.7% 56.3% 56.4% 55.5% 71.1% 55.7% 62.3% All Households 41.4% 56.3% 46.8% 49.4% 50.2% 62.3% 48.4% 51.6% With Cost Burden >30%
Owner-Occupied 31.1% 40.0% 34.4% 36.9% 33.3% 39.5% 34.9% 35.0% Renter-Occupied 49.4% 59.6% 47.6% 48.8% 47.9% 58.3% 50.9% 54.2% All Households 39.4% 53.0% 40.6% 43.7% 43.0% 51.1% 44.8% 45.4% Note: Data presented in this table are based on special tabulations from sample Census data. The number of households in each category usually deviates slightly from the 100% total due to the need to extrapolate sample data out to total households. Interpretations of these data should focus on the proportion of households in need of assistance rather than on precise numbers.

Source: HUD CHAS, (2013-2017).

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Table F-15: Housing Problems, Elderly and Large Households, Pasadena vs Los Angeles County Pasadena
Renter-Occupied Owner-Occupied
All HHs
Elderly Large HH All Renter Elderly Large HH All
Owners
Any Housing Problem 69.0% 80.9% 54.5% 35.5% 45.0% 33.9% 45.5% Cost Burden > 30% 66.6% 59.1% 50.1% 35.1% 36.7% 32.3% 42.4% Los Angeles County
Any Housing Problem 66.1% 84.8% 62.3% 36.8% 54.6% 39.0% 51.6% Cost Burden > 30% 63.0% 55.9% 54.2% 36.2% 33.5% 35.0% 45.4% Note: Data presented in this table are based on special tabulations from sample Census data. The number of households in each category usually deviates slightly from the 100% total due to the need to extrapolate sample data out to total households. Interpretations of these data should focus on the proportion of households in need of assistance rather than on precise numbers.

Source: HUD CHAS, (2013-2017).

Between 2014 and 2017, the share of cost burdened households in the City has increased by less than one percent (42.0 percent in 2014). However, only renter households had an increase in cost burden rates (from 47 percent to 50 percent).

Owner cost burden rates decreased from 35 percent in 2010 to 32 percent in 2017. While cost burdens have increased slightly between 2010 and 2017 for renters, the distribution of cost- burdened households has not changed significantly across the City. Figure F-21 shows the concentration of renter cost- burdened households remaining concentrated in the Northwester n neighborhoods. However, some of the westernmost census tracts increased in their concentration of cost-burdened households from 60 to 80 percent to over 80 percent in the five-year time period mapped. By contrast, many tracts in the southwestern part of the City decreased their concentration of cost- burdened owner households ( Figure F -22). Cost-burdened owner households remain present in the central tracts north to south and east to west in the City.

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Figure F-21: Change in Cost-Burdened Renter Households, 2014 to 2019

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Figure F-22: Change in Cost-Burdened Owner Households, 2014 to 2019

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Overcrowding

Overcrowding is defined as housing units with more than one person per room (including dining and living rooms but excluding bathrooms and kitchen).

According to the 2019 five -year ACS estimates, a lower percentag e of households in Pasadena (5.8 percent) are living in overcrowded conditions than the County (11.3 percent) (Table F -16). Renter households are also more likely to live in overcrowded condition in both Pasadena and Los Angeles County. Table F-16 shows that overcrowding is more prevalent in downtown Los Angeles and its surrounding areas but low in the cities adjacent to Pasadena. Pasadena has the highest concentration of overcrowded households among its neighboring cities. Within the City, overcrowded households are concentrated in the north central part of the City, north of I-210.

Table F-16: Overcrowded Households, Pasadena vs. Los Angeles County Overcrowded
Pasadena Los Angeles County
Owner-Occupied Renter-Occupied Owner-Occupied Renter-Occupied Overcrowded
(>1 person per room) 1.9% 8.6% 5.5% 16.2%
Severely Overcrowded
(>1.5 persons per room) 0.6% 3.7% 1.5% 7.5%
Total Overcrowded Households (>1
person per room) 5.8% 11.3%
Source: 2015-2019 ACS (5-Year Estimates).

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Figure F-23: Overcrowded Households

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Substandard Conditions
Housing that is 30 years or older is assumed to require some rehabilitation. Such features as electrical capacity, kitchen features, and roofs, usually need updating if no prior replacement work has occurred. Pasadena’s housing stock is similarly aged to the County’s; 85 percent of the City’s housing stock was constructed prior to 1990 (and thus over 30 years old), compared to 86 percent of the County’s housing stock.

Nearly 91 percent of the City’s existing housing stock will exceed 30 years of age by the end of this Housing Element planning period (built before 2000). As shown in Figure F-24, the median year of housing built varies across the City. Housing in the central census tracts has been built more recently (after 1971, 50 years ago) while the housing by the City edges tends to be older.

Source: 2015-2019 ACS (5-Year Estimates).

Figure F-24: Median Year Housing Built
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Displacement Risk
UCLA’s displacement project defines residential displacement as “the process by which a household is forced to move from its residence - or is prevented from moving into a neighborhood that was previously accessible to them because of conditions beyond their control.” As part of this project, the UCLA team has identified populations vulnerable to displacement (named “sensitive communities”) in the event of increased redevelopment and drastic shifts in housing cost. They defined vulnerability based on the share of low -income residents per tract and other criteria , including: share of rente rs is above 40 percent, share of people of color is more than 50 percent, share of low -income households severely rent burdened, and proximity to displacement pressures.

Displacement pressures were defined based on median rent increases and rent gaps. Usin g this methodology, sensitive communities are concentrated in downtown Los Angeles and adjacent to major freeways, with the highest concentrations south and west of downtown ( Figure F-24). East of Downtown and in the Pasadena area, only Pasadena had census tracts identified as sensitive communities (Figure F-25). These census tracts were concentrated in the n orth central area of the City, north and west of I-210.

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Figure F-25: Sensitive Communities Map, Regional

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Figure F-26: Sensitive Communities, City of Pasadena

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6. Other Relevant Factors
Lending Patterns
A key aspect of fair housing choice is equal access to credit for the purchase or improvement of a home, particularly in light of the recent lending/credit crisis.

In the past, credit market distortions and other activities such as “redlining” were prevalent and prevented some groups from having equal access to credit. The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in 1977 and the subsequent Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) were designed to improve access to credit for all members of the community and hold the lender industry responsible for community lending. Under HMDA, lenders are required to disclose information on the disposition of home loan applications and on the race or national origin, gender, and annual income of loan applicants. Table F -17 examines detailed 2017 HMDA data for Pasadena and the County.

The 2020 Pasadena Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice identified access to financing as an impediment to Fair Housing choice. All racial/ethnic groups had lower approval rates for home mortgage financing than non-Hispanic Whites and Asian (Table F -17). Approval rates ranged between 40 percent (American Indian and Alaska Natives) to 64 percent (Whites and Asian). The Citywide approval rating was 58 percent. The AI further broke down approval rates by race and income level. Approval rates for loans tend to increase as household income increases; however, lending outcomes should not vary significantly by race/ethnicity among applicants of the same income level. The AI found that while approval rates were lower for lower income applicants, White applicants had the highest approval ratings at all income levels and Hispanics and Blacks had the lowest4.

Hispanics were the most under- represented in the applicant pool, making up only 11 percent of the City’s applicant pool but 34 percent of the City’s population in 2017. Other minority groups (Blacks, Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islanders, American Indian and Alaska Native) were also underrepresented.

In the County, approval rates were also lowest for Black, Hispanics, and American Indian/Alaska Natives. These groups were approved at lower rates than Whites, Asians, and the County overall. Like in Pasadena, Hispanics were the most underrepresented in the applicant pool, making up 11 percent of the County applicant pool but 26 percent of the County’s population.

4 The AI analysis only showed the approval ratings by race and income for Whites, Hispanics, Blacks, and Asian applicants.

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Table F-17: Loan Applications and Approval by Race (2017)

Pasadena Los Angeles County
%
Applicant
Pool
% Pop Approval
%
Applicant
Pool
% Pop Approval
Non-Hispanic White 39% 37% 64% 33% 26% 63%
Black 5% 10% 54% 7% 8% 53%
Hispanic 11% 34% 56% 25% 48% 59%
Asian 15% 16% 64% 13% 14% 67%
Hawaiian / P.I. 1% 0.1% 49% 1% 0.2% 57%
Am. Ind./Alaska Native 0% 16% 40% 1% 0.2% 47%
Other 3% 1% 64% 2% 2% 65%
Total 5,970 58% 303,275 62%
Source: www.lendingpatterns.com, 2019. 2013-2017 ACS 5-Year Estimates.

Housing Choice Voucher Use
Trends related to housing choice vouchers (HCV) can show patterns of concentration and integration. As of March 2021, 1,202 low -income Pasadena families are recipients of Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) for rental assistance The map in Figure F-27 shows that HCV use is concentrated in the Northwest downtown census tracts of the City. In these tracts, between five and 15 percent of the renter households are HCV users. HCV use is also highly concentrated in the Central D istrict tract at the southeastern intersection of I - 210 and SR- 134. This pattern may be because these areas have the lowest “affordability index” or median gross rents ( Figure F-28 ). Despite low rents, between 40 and 80 percent of renter households in these areas are considered cost burdened.

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Figure F-27: Housing Choice Voucher Use

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Figure F-28: Median Gross Rent

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Displacement and Gentrification
Urban Renewal and Redevelopment
Northwest Pasadena has history of discriminatory real estate practices and planning, followed by decades of underinvestment, that created neighborhoods in need of focused attention. In the 1950s, central and Northwest Pasadena was a racially diverse community of working -class Whites, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Japanese Americans living in both single -family and multi-family homes of varying sizes. However, federal officials and the local Chamber of Commerce classified the area as “blighted” in the late 1950s , allowing City officials to use federal funds to redevelop the area through the 1949 US Housing Act. While 20 percent of the redevelopment funds were supposed to be allocated to affordable housing, Pasadena passed a law to use instead the funds for Police and Fire pensions. During this time, redlining and racially restrictive covenants were also allowed and in place. Northwest Pasadena residents were unable to obtain loans to rehabilitate their homes or purchase new homes. In the end, thoug h redevelopment funds were able to rebuild and revive Old Pasadena and other neighborhoods, many residents were displaced by these investment practices. According to A Voice Within 5, “by the
late 1960s, an estimated 299 families had been displaced by urban renewal projects in Pasadena, 91 percent of which were families of color .” In 1968, the Fair Housing Act allowed B lacks to move to other areas outside of Northwest Pasadena, which opened a disinvestment vacuum that led to gentrification in the Northwest area.

Gentrification
As the areas surrounding Northwest Pasadena improved and experienced increased investment, Northwest Pasadena was largely disinvested and became a neighborhood for low -income families. However, with the improvements in the surrounding areas that connected Pasadena to major work hubs and transit networks, many people have begun moving back into Northwest Pasadena. This has led to further displacement as homes are remodeled and sold, apartments are converted to condos, or landlords incre ase their rents and displace existing residents.

I-210 Freeway Construction
Construction of the I-210 freeway in 1970s also displaced communities of color, especially Black communities. During freeway construction, southeast Pasadena residents (a majority White community) were able to keep freeway construction from affecting their neighborhoods. However, this meant diverting the freeway through the African American business district on North Lincoln and the mixed- income, racially diverse neighborhoods of Northwest Pasadena. Displaced individuals were offered $75,000 for their homes despite no homes in Pasadena costing less than $85,000 at the time, worsening the displacement.

5 A Voice Within, “Black History in Pasadena.” https://www.anoisewithin.org/black -hi story-in- pasadena/
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Zoning Laws
Published sources 6 point to zoning laws as a tool to prevent mixed -income communities in the City. In the 1970s, local no -growth and slow- growth movements led to downzoning and large lots only zoned for single-family homes.

Also, for many years the City’s ADU ordinances made it impossible to build ADUs, having requirements for two-car garages, a minimum 15,000-square-foot lot size requirement, and other restrictions. Between, 2001 and 2017 only one ADU was built.

Community Knowledge
The City received many useful comments regarding AFFH comments throughout the outreach process, especially from Our Future LA Coalition and Abundant Housing LA. Our Future LA Coalition commented on the disproportionate housing needs of Black and Latino residents . Black residents are more likely to experience homelessn ess and evictions due to effects of decades of racist policies like restrictive covenants, exclusionary zoning, and redlining made it impossible for Black families to build wealth through home ownership and result in lower homeownership and higher rents today. Latino and Black communities in Los Angeles County were also disproportionately affected by COVID 19.

According to Our Future LA, “essential workers living in overcrowded housing were exposed to COVID at work and had no choice but to expose their fami lies at home, leading to disproportionate deaths among Black and Latino people.” The Coalition recommended making every neighborhood resource- rich and avoiding displacement while also achieve equitable land use and zoning so that new areas can have higher densities and increase their values. At the same time, areas already zoned for density need to be protected from environmental and spatial racism.

The Abundant Housing LA group also provided more comment on the history of housing policy and land use regul ation use to segregate Latino and Black residents. “From its incorporation in 1886, Pasadena’s Latino and Black residents were essentially confined to segregated neighborhoods in the southwest and northwest parts of the City. In response to efforts by such residents to seek to move outside those areas, a drive was launched in the 1930s to enlist white homeowners to sign real estate covenants to forbid occupancy by anyone “whose blood is not entirely that of the Caucasian race.” This effort was supported by the Pasadena Board of Realtors, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and members of the City Council. By 1940, 60 percent of the homes in Pasadena were covered by such covenants, which were enforced by the California courts until the United States Supreme Court ba nned them in 1947. Pasadena continued to pursue policies rigidly reinforcing racial segregation and discrimination in housing, education and public employment well into the 1960s.

The U.S. Justice Department introduced compelling testimony in the 1970 case of Spangler v. Pasadena of the long-standing and pernicious practices of realtors in continuing to keep Blacks and Latinos from buying in white neighborhoods.

6 Jill Shook, “Pasadena’s Racialized History”
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Moreover, with the overt aim of “urban renewal,” known nationally as “Negro removal,” the Pasadena Redevelopment Agency during the 1960s and 1970s deliberately demolished the homes and businesses of hundreds of established Black and Latino residents in northwest and southwest Pasadena (including the childhood home of Jackie Robinson).

During the same period, Caltrans (with City concurrence ) removed the homes and businesses of thousands more for the I-210 and I-710 freeway projects. The pattern of locating “affordable housing” projects in majority Black and Brown neighborhoods and keeping them out of w hite majority neighborhoods is apparent today. The demographic map of Pasadena reflects the result of decades of deliberate public policies to deny Black and Latino households the opportunity to live in Pasadena’s choicest neighborhoods. The Abundant Housing LA group recommended that lower -income housing opportunities be located in high -resource areas and near jobs and transit. More housing opportunities would be created by allowing higher -density development near transit, thus promoting goals to affirmatively further fair housing and prices out a more diverse community of potential Pasadena residents.

Existing Ordinances and Programs to Combat
Displacement and Gentrification
The City has taken great steps to address previous discriminatory practices and affirmatively further fair housing.

Northwest Pasadena
The City of Pasadena has long directed enhanced efforts at improving conditions in Northwest Pasadena. Through community building efforts and enhanced community participation, the City continues to make substantial investments in this area. Prior to the dissolution of redevelopment in California, funds were available for significant investment in housing. Without that resource, th e City has had to use federal and State funding sources more creatively to improve the existing housing stock and bring new homes to the Northwest community. • Community Building. Pasadena supports for -profit, nonprofit, and faith- based organizations that are committed to implementing community-building efforts in Northwest Pasadena. These include, but are not limited to, Flintridge Center, Community Bible Church through its work at the Kings Village and Community Arms Apartment projects, and numerous other nonprofit and for- profit organizations. Other efforts include Neighbors Acting Together Helping All (NATHA), which has received three- year grants from the California Community Foundation.
• Northwest Commission and Programs. Working in conjunction with the Northwest Commission, the City’s Northwest Program office works specifically to maintain a healthy business environment and facilitate housing maintenance and production. These i nclude updating the Fair Oaks/Orange Grove and Lincoln Avenue Specific Plans, monitoring of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
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capital improvement projects, improvements to Robinson Park, police department activities to address neighborhood safety, and ongoing liaison activities with neighborhoods associations.

Local Priority Preference
The Local Preference and Priority System Guidelines ("Local Preference Guidelines") were adopted by City Council in 2006 to determine the order in which eligible applicants receive priority to rent or purchase available affordable housing units, including units developed with City subsidy and units created under the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance. Under the 2006 Ordinance, applicants who live and work in the City currently received the highest priority, followed by applicants who live in the City, those who work in the City, and those who were involuntarily displaced from Pasadena by government action, improper termination of tenancy, domestic violence, participation in the Witness Protection program, hate crimes, inaccessibility issues or substandard housing, and homelessness. all other applicants are considered after those who meet the priority category criteria.

However, there has been a recognition among policy makers, stakeholders, and housing advocates tha t the 2006 local preference policies, while perhaps successful in achieving their stated purposes, did not address the impacts of housing displacement created by high housing costs and gentrification. In 2021, the City adopted changes to the Local Preference Ordinance which created a new priority category (Over-Housed Priority) and a new set-aside.

Over-House Priority , which is a n uncapped priority category that gives preference to residents of deed restricted affordable housing units in Pasadena who are c urrently considered over -housed (e.g., a single -person household residing in a three -bedroom unit). This new "Over -Housed" priority is intended to address inefficiencies in the match between household size and unit size (which occur over time as dependents in larger households move out) and will allow such households the opportunity to move to smaller units and pay a lower rent, while freeing up larger units for larger eligible households.

Former Resident Set-Aside (20 percent) creates an additional set-aside of up to 20 percent of the units to be available to former Pasadena residents ("Former Resident Set -Aside"). This modification is meant to provide households who were unable to remain in Pasadena, whether due to rising housing costs or gentrification, with the opportunity to return to the City. This set- aside applies to developments with five or more affordable housing units. Under the set-aside, up to 20 percent of the units would be available to households who can demonstrate that they had maintained a primary residence in Pasadena sometime in the five years prior to their application for available housing. In addition, to be eligible for this set -aside, a household must have maintained a primary residence in Pasadena for at least two years. Within thi s set -aside, households will receive priority based on length of tenure in Pasadena. This means, for example, that a household who had lived in Pasadena for five years prior to application would receive priority over a household who had lived in Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
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Pasadena for two years during the same time period. Table F-18 summarizes the new local preference categories.

Table F-18: Local Preference Categories (2021)
Set-Aside
First Former Resident Set-Aside (capped at 20 percent)
Priority
First Over-Housed Priority
Second Resides and works in Pasadena
Third Resides (but does not work) in Pasadena
Fourth Works (but does not reside) in Pasadena
Fifth Involuntarily displaced from Pasadena
Sixth All other applicants

While some may argue that local preference ordinances can perpetuate patterns of segregation and inequality in areas already wealthy and predominantly white, Pasadena’s Local Preference ordinance has been implemented successfully, providing affordable housing opportunities to income -eligible households who live and/or work in Pasadena. For example, the 69- unit Heritage Square senior apartments, completed in 2016, achieved about 94 percent local preference upon initial occupancy. The Theo apartments project was placed in service in April 2020 with all nine of the inclusionary units leased to applicants who resided and/or worked in Pasadena. Most recently, the 17 -unit Decker/Gill affordable homeownership project achieved approximately 75 percent local preference. In addition, by adding a former resident set- aside, the City provides opportunities to those that have already been displaced.

While local preference ordinances can benefit existing residents by allowing them to remain in their City, local preference ordinances can affect regional housing mobility by limiting the opportunities for low-income residents in other cities to procure affordable housing in neighborhoods or cities with higher resources and opportunities. In Pasadena, m any of the City’s tracts are considered areas of high and moderate resources, so it is like ly that many nonresidents would look for housing in the City. However, the City has prioritized the needs of its existing residents and former residents that have been displaced in response to public comments.

Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO)
The ordinance, adopted in 2004 and amended in 2017, requires landlords to provide relocation benefits to tenants who are displaced under specific circumstances. In 2019, the City amended the Ordinance to strengthen tenant protections. The modified TPO now covers situations in which a change in property ownership has occurred within 18 months prior to the tenant being issued a notice of eviction, tenancy termination, or rent increase which exceeds five percent plus the percentage annual change in the Consumer Price Index.

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displaced tenants are: demolition, conversion to condominium, or permanent removal of the unit from the rental market; occupan cy by the landlord or landlord’s family member; government order to vacate; or the displacement of tenants from housing owned by educational institutions under certain situations.

Multi-family rental properties with two or more units on a single parcel are subject to TPO. Single -family homes and condominium units are exempt from TPO. In late 2020, the City provided funding to the Housing Rights Center to enhance tenant protection and legal services. In early 2022, the City began drafting updates to the administrative regulations of the TPO to close loopholes associated with landlord evictions of tenants for improvements to units (“renovictions”).

ADU Units
The City has gone above the State- mandated efforts to promote ADU construction and rental to low- and moderate-income residents through:

Second Unit Pilot Program: The Housing Department launched the Second Unit Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Pilot Program to provide easy financing to construct an ADU in exchange for leasing the unit to a “Section 8” housing choice voucher holder for seven years. Other options include bringing an unpermitted ADU (e.g., garage conversions) up to code for low - to moderate -income households.

Pre-Approved Plans: City has initiated a program to produce pre-approved ADU building plans to help reduce the cost to property owners of processing building permits and getting a project more quickly to construction.

Reduced Residential Impact Fees: The City offers reduced impact fees for units 750 square or larger if the unit is rented to a lower income household, to a City’s rental assistance client, or a family member.

The City has a dedicated page with ADU information on its City website:
https://www.cityofpasadena.net/planning/planning-div
ision/community-
planning/accessory-dwelling-units/
Sites Inventory Analysis
AB 686 requires a jurisdiction’s site inventory “…be used to identify sites throughout the community, consistent with…” its duty to affirmatively further fair housing. The number of units, location , and assumed affordability of identified sites throughout the community (i.e., lower, moderate, and above moderate income RHNA) relative to components of the assessment of fair housing was integrated throughout the discussion in the fair housing assessment section. The overall strategy for the Sites Inventory was to remain consistent with established land use policy in the 2015 General Plan. The foundational General Plan land use principle is to locate housing near transit and services , largely within the eight specific plan areas. This practice also encourages private investment in areas Like North Lake Avenue and East Colorado Boulevard with more need since housing tends to attract services. The City identified sites based Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
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on existing land use policy, current trends, and development feasibility within the planning period, with income levels based on the 30 unit per acre default density allowed under State law.

Since adoption of the General Plan in 2015, the City has been working to update eight Specific Plans that implement General Plan land use policy, which calls for substantially more housing in areas where the plans do not currently allow housing, such as within the South Fair Oaks and East Colorado Specific Plan areas.

However, since only two of those amended specific plans have yet been adopted—with the sixth others to be completed by 2023—the sites inventory does not include many potential sites for new high- density residential development. However, as shown in the Housing Resources section of this element, the RHNA can be achieved using current zoning/specific plan designations. The City’s ability to accommodate even more units in areas in high- resource areas will expand with S pecific Plan adoption , resulting in a more extensive distribution of affordable housing.

As demonstrated throughout the assessment and in Table F-19, the City made its best effort to distribute RHNA units in vacant and underutilized areas outside of Specific Plan areas as well as within Specific Plan areas. For areas outside specific plan zones, most units were classified as moderate-income or above- moderate income. For example, virtually all of these sites in the Northwestern Pasadena (about 282 units) have been included in the above moderate -income RHNA category since densities fall below the default density of 30 units per acre.

Given that this area been identified as having a high concentrati on of lower - income households, locating above -moderate income housing in this area is expected to ameliorate conditions by attracting investment and the services that follow.

Specific Plans have been developed for the purpose of creating regulatory provisions that encourage focused residential development in the Central District and Transit-Oriented Villages areas and along major travel corridors. By locating the majority of RHNA units within these specific plan areas (4,709 of the 6,504), the City intends to focus investment in these areas in an environmentally sustainable manner. While a majority of these RHNA units are lower- income in Specific Plan areas , private investment through housing is expected to ameliorate conditions in these areas, specifically the Central District. The sites inventory includes properties within Specific Plan areas that, similar to properties that have been redeveloped over the past eight or so years, are characterized by: 1) single-story commercial or industrial buildings that have not had significant investment in many years, 2) parking lots not needed to support demand of associated uses, and 3) retail commercial and office buildings for which property owners have inquired with City Planning staff regarding reuse potential. As such, these properties do not currently offer benefits to the residents of the area as they could with housing.

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expand the available sites that can accommodate housing beyond RHNA obligations, especially lower-income housing (Program 6).

Table F-19: Sites Inventory by Area
Areas
Affordability Level
Total
Lower
Incomes
(0-80%
AMI)
Moderate
Income
(80-120%
AMI)
Above
Moderate
Income
(120%+
AMI)
Outside of Specific Plan Areas
Vacant -- 18 18 36
Underutilized 291 644 824 1,759
Subtotal 291 662 842 1,795
Within Specific Plan Areas
Central District 1,421 517 470 2,408
East Colorado 572 151 - 723
East Pasadena 777 - 13 790
Fair Oaks/
Orange Grove
102 53 20 175
Lamanda Park 133 102 - 235
Lincoln - 21 55 76
North Lake 171 27 2 200
South Fair Oaks 97 5 - 102
Subtotal 3,273 876 560 4,709
Total 3,564 1,538 1,402 6,504

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Summary of Fair Housing Issues, Contributing
Factors, and Meaningful Actions
The following text and table summarize fair housing issues and contributing factors and indicate the meaningful actions the City will take to address each issue. Contributing factors were evaluated and prioritized. Contributing factors were prioritized based on their impact on fair housing issues, as well as the City’s ability to address the contributing factors.

Fair Housing Outreach and Enforcement
Issue #1: Limited public participation in fair housing activities and limited enforcement.

Housing discrimination activities persist in Pasadena, with discrimination against persons with disabilities (physical and mental) as the leading basis for discrimination, followed by familial status. According to the 2020 AI, fair housing discrimination may also go unreported, as many residents fear retaliation or are unclear where to look for assistance with fair housing issues. In addition, a large portion of listings for for-rent and for-sale ads contain discriminatory language, primarily expressing preference for families, no -pet policy, and explicitly requiring minimum income levels or rejecting Section 8 assistance. Overall, participation in fair housing activities and programs has been mostly limited despite extensive outreach efforts.

Also, while fair housing testing is included in the scope of activities for the Fair Housing provider, no results of testing were provided in the 2020 AI nor could they be found in the City website.

Contributing Factors
• Lack of education in fair housing laws
1 • Limited participation in outreach events and fear of retaliation1 • Lack of a variety of media to publicize fair housing resources1 • Lack of testing1
Evaluation and Prioritization
The analysis found that while there are fair housing services available to residents, one of the biggest factors that limit its fair housing goals is low participation, which in turn means low awareness of fair housing rights and laws.

Given the limited funds available to the City, the City will focus on expanding awareness of the resources available citywide, as well as specifically to residents in Northwest Pasadena.

Since fair housing services are provided by the Housing R ights Center, the City will work the organization to provide targeted outreach not only of fair housing services but monitor consistent testing and enforce federal, State, and local laws.

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Segregation and Integration
Issue #2: Segregated living patterns with a concentration of minorities, persons with disabilities, and low- and moderate -income households in Northwest Pasadena and Central District tracts south of I-210. There is also a concentration of HCV users in these areas.

Contributing Factors
• Location and type of affordable housing 1
• Historical discriminatory practices1
• Disinvestment in the 1970s2
• Lack of private investments 2
• Lack of public investments in specific neighborhoods, including services or amenities2
Evaluation and Prioritization
Patterns of concentration and segregation need to be addressed by providing opportunities for lower-income residents to live in areas with higher resources.

The City’s strategy is to create housing opportunities, especially l ower income housing, across all neighborhoods of the City, to explore alternative housing options, and to improve housing accessibility.

Access to Opportunities
Issue
#3: Lower access to opportunities in Northwest Pasadena.

Northwest Pasadena and the Central District directly south of I -210 were classified as lower resource and areas of high poverty and segregation (respectively) and had lower TCAC education, economic, and environmental scores.

Contributing Factors
• Location of lower quality schools in Northwest areas 2 • Lack of access to local jobs2
• Location near environmental pollutants (freeways) 2
• Lack of private investments1
• Lack of public investments in specific neighborhoods, including services or amenities1
Evaluation and Prioritization
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lack of private and public investment. The City’s strategy is to continue to invest public funds for the improvement of areas with low resources.

Displacement
Issue #4: Communities with disproportionate housing needs (renter cost burdens, overcrowding, and vulnerability to displacement) are concentrated in Northwest Pasadena.

Northwest Pasadena neighborhoods have home values that have stayed lower than the local median prices due to underinvestment in community infrastructure, historic real estate practices that prevented people of color from buying or renting homes in particular districts, and poorly performing local public schools, among other factors. These lower-income areas contain houses with historic character and local shopping districts that peop le can walk to. With home prices so high in most of the City, homebuyers and institutional investors see value in historically undervalued areas and are buying houses at seemingly bargain prices. They may be purchasing properties currently rented at affordable rates, rehabilitating the home, and “flipping” them to be bought or rented at higher prices. This practice often forces long-term residents to move.

Evaluation and Prioritization
All three contributing factors work in combination to create a community that is at risk of displacement. As explained earlier, the areas with the disproportionate needs and concentration of poverty and segregation have older housing with lower home value s but high historic values and transit. The City’s anti- displacement strategies include actions that directly address displacement as well as providing affordable housing options and rental assistance.

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AFFH Meaningful Actions Matrix
HE Programs or Other
Activities Specific Commitment Timeline Geographic
Targeting
2021-2029
Metrics
Fair Housing Outreach and Education – Moderate Priority Program 2: Northwest
Pasadena
The City will conduct increased outreach in
Northwest Pasadena to increase awareness of
housing resources, fair housing workshops, and
the City’s Tenant Protection Ordinance.

Annually Northwest
Pasadena
Conduct at least
one fair housing
workshop each year
for community-
based
organizations that
serve residents and
housing providers
in Northwest
Pasadena. At least
one workshop
annually will be
conducted in
Spanish.

Program 20: Fair Housing
Continue to provide fair housing services, tenant-
landlord mediation, enforcement, and outreach
and education services. Ongoing, publicize fair
Annually Citywide
Assist 70 persons
annually with fair
housing services
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Metrics
housing events and program information more
prominently on City website and at public
locations. Expand methods of outreach and
education, especially through social media and
community-based organizations.
• At least annually make public
announcements, via different media (e.g.,
social media, newspaper ads, and public
service announcements at local radio and
television channels) related to fair
housing programs and opportunities.
• In 2023, work with KPAS to create an
informational video on fair housing,
including the new source of income
protection.

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Metrics
• Annually, participate in diversity
awareness events and programs at a
variety of locations throughout the City.

Annually publicize outcomes of fair housing
lawsuits and complaints to promote the positive
outcomes and resolutions.

Annually Citywide
Publish at least
once a year
outcomes of fair
housing lawsuits
Engage a consultant to establish a method of
measuring the progress of fair housing practices
which can include the index of dissimilarity, the
Regional Opportunity Index, displacement risk,
and percentage of residents experiencing
extreme housing cost burdens. Report the
findings of these metrics as part of the city’s
Housing Element Annual Progress Report each
April. Use information collected to adjust and
target community outreach.
2023 Citywide
Reduce
Dissimilarity Index,
improve
Opportunity Index,
reduce
displacement risk,
and reduce severe
cost burden and
overcrowding rates
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Metrics
Contracting with the Housing Rights Center, the
City will continue fair housing testing every two
years starting in 2022. Specifically, upon release
of 2020 Census data, random testing will be
conducted that reflects the City’s changing
demographics and emerging fair housing trends.

Ensure fair housing testing is conducted in
Northwest Pasadena with disproportionate
housing needs and displacement risks.
2022-2028
Citywide and
Northwest
Pasadena
Testing at least
every two years
Expand outreach and education of the State’s
Source of Income Protection laws (SB 329 and SB
222) defining public assistance, including
housing choice vouchers as legitimate source of
income for housing. Also, the City will develop
materials regarding source of income protection
for distribution to property owners with ADUs
and property owners seeking building permits for
2023 Citywide
Increase fair
housing inquiries
by 20 percent
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Metrics
small rental complexes such as duplex and triplex
developments.

Target dissemination of Fair Housing Outreach
information and notices of available services and
workshops in Northwest neighborhoods
identified with disproportionate housing needs
and displacement risks.

Annually Northwest
Pasadena
Increase fair
housing inquiries
by 10 percent
Increase visibility of the
http://pasadenahousingsearch.com website by
publishing an article for the website annually in
the City’s Pasadena-in-Focus newsletter, which is
sent to all Pasadena residents.

Annually Citywide
Increase fair
housing inquiries
by 10 percent
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Metrics
Program 21: Education and
Monitoring
Monitor annually the progress in meeting the
objectives set forth in the Housing Element and
prepare Annual Report to HCD as required by
law.

Annually Citywide
Report of progress
toward AFFH
metrics
Housing Mobility – Low Priority
Program 8: Inclusionary
Housing
Investigate ways to incentivize creation of three-
bedroom units and implement those strategies. 2027 Citywide 5% inclusionary
units as three-
bedroom or larger
units
Program 14: Rental Housing
Assistance
Housing Choice Vouchers:
• Assist 1,200 households annually or the
number of vouchers allocated under the
housing choice voucher program,
including project-based vouchers.

Annually Citywide
Assist 1,200
households
annually
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Metrics
• Continue to allocate available vouchers to
special needs groups under the HOPWA,
NED, and CoC programs.
• Increase the availability of rental vouchers
by applying for special needs or other
vouchers when available.
• Expand outreach and education on the
State’s new Source of Income protection
(SB 329 and SB 222), prohibiting housing
discrimination against those utilizing
public assistance for housing payments
(including housing choice vouchers).

Include a fair housing factsheet with ADU
and SB 9 application packets.
• Work with local property owners and
landlords on an ongoing basis to
encourage their willingness to accept
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Metrics
vouchers and thus increase the supply of
units citywide where vouchers can be
used. The City will expedite the
registration and inspection processes and
provide technical assistance to new
landlords.

Program 16: Housing for
People with Disabilities
Amend the Municipal Code to remove the Minor
Variance requirement for a request for a
reasonable accommodation and replace the
process with a staff-level ministerial action.
2023 Citywide Reduced
processing time
Program 17: Senior Housing
Explore the creation of a City-sponsored shared
housing program. 2023 Citywide Establish program
by 2025
Program 20: Fair Housing
In 2021, as part of its Missing Middle policy to
address the growing need for “missing middle”
housing—rental units affordable to the moderate-
income workforce—the City entered a of a Public
Benefit Agreement with the California Statewide
2021-2029 Citywide
Acquire 900 total
units for
moderate/middle
income housing
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Targeting
2021-2029
Metrics
Communities Development Authority for the
acquisition of existing apartment projects
Westgate Apartments Phase II and Ill (340 units)
and The Hudson, with 173 units. The City will
consider additional projects if opportunities arise
during the planning period, with the goals of
acquiring 900 total units.

Beginning in 2022, promote the City’s reduced
residential impact fee from $20,000 to $3,000 if
the developer builds workforce units. Currently,
this reduction is not being widely utilized.

Promote this incentive during pre-application and
initial project reviews.
2022 -2029 Citywide
Achieve five
workforce units
annually, or 40 units
over eight years.

Update the City’s Analysis of Impediments to Fair
Housing Choice every five years and implement
recommendations contained in it.
2025 Citywide Not applicable
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Metrics
Continue to require affirmative marketing of
available affordable housing, especially for
inclusionary housing units and affordable
housing projects that received City funding or
incentives. Annually monitor to verify that each
builder follows procedures and requirements for
tenant or homebuyer selection.

Annually Citywide Not applicable
New Opportunities in High Resource Areas – High Priority Program 6: Housing Sites
Continue to target housing construction of
affordable units within high opportunity areas.

Ongoing
East Pasadena
and portions of
the Central
District
At least 20 percent
of the moderate-
and lower-income
RHNA units in these
high resource areas
Program 8: Inclusionary
Housing
Continue to implement the inclusionary housing
ordinance Ongoing Citywide
Ensure inclusionary
units are provided
consistent with
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ordinance
requirements.

Program 10: Regulatory
Incentives
Create a Menu of Affordable Housing
Concessions where developers can select during
administrative review of the project.
2025 Citywide
Create 100 lower-
income units during
the eight-year
housing cycle.

Program 11: Alternative
Housing Opportunities
Adopt an ordinance that allows for affordable
housing development on properties owned by
and zoned for religious institutions and/or other
institutions.
2022 Citywide
Achieve one
affordable housing
projects on an
institutional
property, as
permitted by an
adopted ordinance
Continue the pilot program to fund ADU
construction for properties owners committed to
covenanting the units as affordable housing for a
time period specified in the program.
2023 Citywide Achieve 20
affordable ADUs
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Activities Specific Commitment Timeline Geographic
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2021-2029
Metrics
Monitor and review all ADU programs in 2024 for
effectiveness to ensure ADU production and
affordability goals are being achieved. As
necessary, adjust the incentives in 2025 to
facilitate production.
2024-2025 Citywide
Achieve 706 ADUs
during the planning
cycle
Explore the purchase of Caltrans I-710 properties
for creative housing types for lower-income and
special needs households.

Ongoing
Along
Pasadena and
St. John’
Avenues and
adjacent
properties
owned by
Caltrans
Purchase four I-710
properties for
affordable housing,
subject to funding
availability.

Place-Based Strategies for Neighborhood Improvements – High Priority Program 1: Code Enforcement
and Housing Inspection
Continue to educate the community about health
and safety hazards with increased outreach,
especially to Northwest Pasadena, to connect
Ongoing Northwest
Pasadena
Target assistance to
5 households
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lower-income households with available
resources for housing repairs and rehabilitation.

Owners cited for code violations are also
provided pamphlets of the City’s available
resources for housing rehabilitation.
annually in NW
Pasadena

Post materials at
community facilities
in Northwest
Pasadena annually.

Program 2: Northwest
Pasadena
Community Building:
• Support community building efforts
through funding and dedicating staff
resources. Annually, through the CDBG
funding process, allocate available
resources to support community-building
efforts, with the goal of assisting other
City departments to address public
facility and infrastructure improvements
in the community.

Ongoing Northwest
Pasadena
Target 20 percent
of public
improvement funds
under CDBG to
implement
improvement
projects.

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Coordination with Northwest Commission:
• Work with the Northwest Commission to
address community concerns and
support the long-term revitalization of this
area.

Annually Northwest
Pasadena
Meet with the
Northwest
Commission at least
once per year.

Public Improvements: In accordance with the
City’s CIP, implement the following
improvements in Northwest Pasadena:
• Jackie Robinson and Pintoresca Park
improvements: 2022 (completion of
ongoing program)
• Sidewalk repairs and ADA improvements:

Through 2026 and beyond
2022-2026 Northwest
Pasadena
Target 20 percent
of public
improvement funds
under CDBG to
implement
improvement
projects.

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• Raymond Avenue electrical system
undergrounding: Through 2026 and
beyond
• Various pedestrian and traffic system
enhancements: Through 2026 and
beyond
• Various water system enhancements:

Through 2026 and beyond
• Various electric power system upgrades:

Through 2026 and beyond
ADU Production:
• Apply for and use funding from PHLA,
CalHome and CalFHA sources to
incentivize and facilitate construction of
ADUs in Northwest Pasadena.

Annually Northwest
Pasadena
One ADU per year
for eight ADUs over
eight years
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Community Building Efforts:
• Support community-building efforts by
funding organizations and dedicating
staff resources to support efforts, subject
to funding availability.
2023 Northwest
Pasadena
Increase staff hours
dedicated to this
activity by 10%
Program 3: Housing
Rehabilitation
Single-Family Rehabilitation Loan:
• Work with Neighborhood Housing Services
of Los Angeles County (NHS) to provide
services. This program includes a single-
family rehabilitation loan program,
homebuyer and homeownership education,
foreclosure counseling, and other
neighborhood services formerly provided by
the Pasadena NHS.

Ongoing Northwest
Pasadena
Assist 12
households
annually for 96
households over
eight years

Conduct at least
one outreach
activity in
Northwest
Pasadena each year
to promote
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available resources
to address issues
related to
substandard
housing conditions.

Program 7: Mixed Use/TOD
Strategy
Continue to promote Transit Oriented
Development. Ongoing
Within one-half
mile of L Line
stations
Increase housing
stock by 2,500 or
units near L Line
stations
Program 10: Regulatory
Incentives
By 2023, establish reduced processing time for
both entitlement and plan checking for
affordable housing projects (with 50 percent or
more for lower income households).
2023
Prioritize
processing of
projects in
Northwest
Pasadena
Reduce the plan
check time from the
current 30 days to
15 days.

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Tenant Protection and Anti-Displacement – Moderate Priority Program 3: Housing
Rehabilitation
Generate a list of small older multi-family rental
properties for potential acquisition/rehabilitation
and deed restriction.
2023 and
annually
thereafter
Northwest
Pasadena
Acquire/rehabilitate
two small rental
properties through
the Inclusionary
Ordinance or
undertaken by the
City
Program 6: Housing Sites
Continue to implement the current housing
replacement program for non-vacant sites
redeveloped with new housing, whereby any
project that involves the demolition of existing,
vacated, or demolished residential uses that are
occupied by, or subject to an affordability
requirement for lower-income households within
the last five years (relative to demolition) must be
Ongoing Citywide
Achieve no net loss
of lower-income
affordable units
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replaced by units affordable to lower-income
households.

Program 8: Inclusionary
Housing
At the predevelopment review stage, inform
builders of the option to fulfill inclusionary
requirements with acquisition/rehabilitation.

Ongoing Northwest
Pasadena
Acquire/rehabilitate
two small rental
properties through
the Inclusionary
Ordinance,
dependent upon
developer selection
of this option.

Continue to implement the 2021 modifications to
the Local Preference Ordinance for affordable
housing (rental or ownership) developed with
City subsidy or under the Inclusionary
Housing/Density Bonus Ordinances. The
modifications created a new priority category and
a new set-aside designed to address
Ongoing Citywide 20 percent of
inclusionary units
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displacement (Over Housed Priority and Former
Resident Set-Aside (20 percent of available units).

Annually monitor to verify that each builder
follows procedures and requirements for tenant
or homebuyer selection.

Annually Citywide
Achieve a diversity
of tenants/owners
in inclusionary units
Program 14: Rental Housing
Assistance
Rent Stabilization:
• In the event that the rent control initiative
on the November 2022, ballot fails to
pass, investigate the feasibility of
enacting local rent stabilization controls
or other tenant protection strategies that
reflect conditions unique to Pasadena.
2022-2023 Citywide Reduced economic
displacement
Program 15: Affordable
Housing Preservation
Preserve all possible deed-restricted housing at
risk of conversion. Annually Citywide Preserve all 3,000 affordable units
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• Monitor the status of these projects and
reaches out to owners to determine ways
to preserve the units as affordable.
• Proactively monitor the list of at-risk
properties.
• Explore funding sources to keep the
affordable units as affordable.
• Present options for developers building
new projects to preserve at-risk units.
• Ensure tenants are properly notified of
impending conversions as required by
State law.

Program 20: Fair Housing
Tenant Protection Ordinance: With additional
City funding, the Housing Rights Center will
continue to provide tenant protections
counseling and legal services. City will continue
Beginning
2022 and
annually
there after
Citywide Provide services to
at least 80 persons
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implementing the Housing Mediation Ordinance,
which oversees landlord-tenant disputes.
“Renoviction” Protections: Adopt and begin
implementation of new renoviction protections
by July 2022. Currently, residents can be evicted
due to renovation of the properties.
2022 Citywide Reduce complaints
of unlawful eviction
Program 22: Neighborhood
and Community Preservation
Annually monitor building and home sales
activities in historically under-market
neighborhoods to identify any adverse trends. If
trends indicate substantial displacement and
changes in community character, investigate
effective means that can supplement existing City
efforts.

Annually Citywide Reduce
displacement
Investigate whether imposition of a vacancy tax
would result in keeping properties in the rental
and for-sale markets and not held vacant by
owners waiting for the market to shift upwards.

By 2023 Citywide Reduce
displacement
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See also Program 20 under Fair Housing
Outreach and Education.

Pasadena City CouncilJuly 18, 2022

Pasadena City Council
July 18, 2022