Community & Economic Development Committee (ced)
February 28, 2022

Community and Economic
Development Committee
February 28, 2022
Item (d) 3
Assessment of Fair
Housing Report and
Housing Element
Strategies Report
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
Director, Housing
Kristen Clements
Division Manager, Housing
Michael Brilliot
Deputy Director,
Planning, Building & Code
Enforcement
2 Federal California
Race, ethnicity, color, national
origin All federally protected classes
Religion Gender, gender identity and gender
expression
Sex Sexual orientation
Familial status Marital status
Disability Medical conditions
Military and veteran status
Age (for people over 40)
Genetic information
Ancestry
Source of income
Fair housing protects people in ‘protected
classes’ & with ‘protected characteristics’
2/25/2022
3 AFH and strategies to overcome barriers must be
integrated into Housing Element per SB 686 (2018)
AFH evaluates
• Enforcement of fair housing laws
• Patterns of integration and segregation
▪ At neighborhood, regional levels
• Racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty
• Disparities in access to opportunity
• Disproportionate housing needs
An Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) is a
required part of City’s Housing Element
2/25/2022
4 Housing Needs Assessment – demographic, employment, and housing trends and conditions that affect housing needs Evaluation of Past Performance – under the prior Housing Element Housing Sites Inventory – to meet City’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goal, help dismantle segregation
Community Outreach and Engagement – robust, focus on
traditionally underrepresented groups
Constraints Analysis – governmental and nongovernmental barriers to housing development, recommended remedies
Policies and Programs – to fulfill the identified housing needs, affirmatively further fair housing
Housing Element’s other required components
2/25/2022
5 AB 215 (2021) took effect January 1, 2022
Creates new steps to process, reduced time by 70 days
• Post draft Housing Element to public for at least 30 days • Staff responds to comments / adjusts draft
• Submit draft to State HCD for initial review of 90 days • Then resume production and formal hearings of final draft Difficult to implement and meet State’s deadline
Limits time for meaningful early public input on draft
strategies
New State law has shortened outreach timeline
2/25/2022
6 Drive a “both/and” approach to equity
• Removing barriers for individuals and families in protected classes that limit their housing choices, and
• Increasing investments in underserved neighborhoods
Tied to identified needs for protected class residents
Supported by public input
Represent all “3Ps” – production, preservation, protection Possible to achieve during Housing Element timeframe (8+ years)
Possible to achieve with City staff capacity
Context for strategy ideas
2/25/2022
7 A. Improving access to rental housing
B. Increasing homeownership opportunities for protected classes that have been historically marginalized and redlined from housing opportunities
C. Improving access to Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence D. Coordinating and increasing investments to improve quality of life in lower-income neighborhoods that are racially or ethnically concentrated
Four likely categories for housing strategies
2/25/2022
8 Impact of redlining and other past actions
6 Census Tracts
in this area are
R/ECAPs (of 8
in County)
2/25/2022
9 San José has 75% of County’s Racially/Ethnically
Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAPs)
2/25/2022
10 Next steps
2/25/2022
Milestone Timing
Focus groups, working groups & developer interviews Jan – Apr 2022 Present to two Commissions, NSE, CED Jan – Apr 2022
Survey & broad community meeting(s) on priorities spring 2022 City Council overview of key content Jun 2022
Public review period and responses Jul – Aug 2022
First submission to State (90% draft) Sep 2022
Additional commission hearing(s), completion of reports Aug – Dec 2022 Second submission to State Jan / Feb 2023
Airport Land Use Commission hearing spring 2023
Planning Commission hearing May 2023
Council approvals: final draft Housing Element, AFH Plan Jun 2023 Submit Housing Element to State Jun 2023
Community and Economic
Development Committee
February 28, 2022
Item (d) 3
Assessment of Fair
Housing Report and
Housing Element
Strategies Report
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
Director, Housing
Kristen Clements
Division Manager, Housing
Michael Brilliot
Deputy Director,
Planning, Building & Code
Enforcement