Housing and Land Use Committee
November 28, 2023
Final 2023-2031 Housing
Element Adoption
(General Plan Amendment
2023-002)
The Housing Element . . .
Establishes City Housing goals and policies
Eight year update
Due to HCD by December 2023
Required to apply for various HCD funding
opportunities
Community Engagement
• Housing Element Workshops (3)
• Participants (60+)
• Mixteco interpretation
GPU Ambassadors:
• House Meetings (101)
• Farmworkers reached
(340+)
• Meetings conducted in
Mixteco (19)
Recurring Themes
• Need for more housing
• Affordability
• Need to maintain existing
housing/neighborhoods
• Housing for disadvantaged
populations
• Renter resources
• Housing for farmworkers
• Be innovative
Housing Goal 1
Increase Housing Supply and Opportunities for All
• Incentivize/support
production
• Encourage/facilitate
ADUs
• Encourage diverse
housing types
Housing Goal 2
Provide Tenant Protections
• Policies/programs to
prevent displacement
• Develop tenants' rights
programs
• Provide education and
connect tenants to legal
services
Housing Goal 3
Access to Safe and Healthy Housing for all Residents
• Improve the quality and
condition of rental
housing
• Promote rehabilitation
of housing
• Promote sustainable and
healthy housing
Housing Goal 4
Advance Housing Affordability and Opportunity at all Income Levels • Advance rent stabilization
• Facilitate production of affordable
housing
• Connect residents to financial
resources
• Provide assistance tospecial
populations
Housing Goal 5
Stabilize and Support Neighborhoods
• Collaborate with residents to
improve neighborhoods
• Leverage code enforcement
strategies
• Encourage preservation and
restoration of historic
neighborhood resources
• Work to reverse patterns of
discrimination
Housing Goal 6
Homeless Programs and Services
• Lead Me Home Plan implementation
• Enhanced focus on Street Outreach and
Navigation Services
• Facilitate the development of housing
focused shelter operations and
permanent housing through new
construction and innovative conversion
General Plan Amendment and CEQA
Needed because the Housing Element is part of the
General Plan
Housing Element is found to be consistent with the
General Plan and the update necessary to comply with
State law.
CEQA Exemption
Timeline
July August-
September
October November December HCD
Review
Certification
Draft sent to
HCD - 90
days to review
Initial HCD
comments
received.
Second Draft
Housing
Element
issued.
Official HCD
Comments
received.
Final Housing
Element
prepared.
Public review:
Steering
Committee,
Planning
Commission
and Housing
and Land Use
Committee
Review.
City Council
Adoption –
December 5.
Submission to
HCD for
review no
later than
December 15.
60-Day
HCD review
and non-
policy
related
revisions.
Deadline for
Certification is
120 days after
adoption
deadline –
April 15, 2024
Questions & Comments