GPT21-001 & ER21-032:
2023-2031 Housing Element
City Council
Item 10.2
June 20, 2023
Presenters:
Ruth Cueto, Principal Planner, PBCE
Kristen Clements, Acting Deputy Director, Housing
Staff Recommendation
2 1. Certify the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report to the Envision San José 2040 General Plan Final Program
Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), adopted through
Resolution No. 76041, and Supplemental EIR Resolution No. 77617, adopted on December 15, 2015, and Addenda thereto, in accordance with CEQA; and
2. Adopt a resolution approving the General Plan Text
Amendment to amend the Envision San José 2040 General Plan to include the 2023-2031 Housing Element, revise Chapter 7 (“Housing Element”) of the General Plan, and repeal the 2014- 2022 Housing Element.
What is the Housing Element?
3 • The City’s official housing policy document
• Required by State law - part of City's General Plan
• Plan on how to accommodate housing needs
• An opportunity to have a conversation with
residents and stakeholders about San José’s
housing future
• Both highly technical planning document and
publicly-focused policy and program workplan
• Updated in 8-year planning cycles
• 5th cycle: 2014 to 2023
• 6th cycle: 2023 to 2031
San José’s timeline
4 2023 2022 Public
reviews of Housing
Element drafts
Community meetings
PC study session
HCDC study sessions
Kick-off and Fair
Housing community
meetings
Public hearing process -
Planning and Housing
Commissions
City Council adoption
Final submission to State
(Due Jan 31, 2023)
Phase 2:
fall 2021
Phase 5:
Spring 2023
Phase 4:
summer/fall 2022
Development of
draft Goals,
Strategies, and
Policies
Community
meetings
Phase 3:
winter/spring 2022
Phase 1:
fall 2019 – summer 2021
Part 1 of the
Assessment
of Fair
Housing –
focus groups
Housing Element Highlights:
Community Engagement
9 community meetings
11 strategy working group meetings
21 focus groups
51 small stakeholder meetings
3 advisory group meetings
6 intergovernmental agency meetings
14 formal public meetings
6 tabling events
3 special events on fair housing
1 podcast
3 public surveys
5 4,200+
total
duplicated
participants
San José’s 6th Cycle RHNA Targets
6 55%
INCOME CATEGORY NUMBER OF
UNITS
PERCENT OF
TOTALRHNA
INCREASE IN UNITS
VS. LAST CYCLE
Very Low-Income
(≤ 50% AMI; includes Extremely
Low-Income)
15,088 24% 5,855 (↑65%)
Low-Income
(51-80% AMI) 8,687 14% 3,259 (↑60%)
Moderate-Income
(81-120% AMI) 10,711 17% 4,523 (↑73%)
Above Moderate-Income 27,714 45% 13,483 (↑94%)(Market-rate) Total 62,200 100% 27,120 (↑77%)
Housing Element Highlights:
Findings of Fair Housing Analysis
7 Contributing factors to segregation:
• Exclusion from "High Resource" and growth areas
• Inequitable patterns of investment and disinvestment
• Displacement
• Racial disparities in homelessness
• Lack of access for persons with disabilities
• Discrimination in the housing market
Housing Element Highlights: Housing needs
8 Need 5: Support
Persons Living
with Disabilities
In the City’s
community
engagement
process for our
Assessment of Fair
Housing, persons
with disabilities
consistently
identified problems
of housing
discrimination,
difficulty finding
accessible
housing, and
problems fulfilling
requests for
reasonable
accommodations.
Need 1: Address
Affordability and
Displacement
San José is one
of the most
expensive
places to live in
the U.S. Housing
prices continue
to climb. Many
people have left
in recent years,
and there is
widespread fear
of getting
pushed out of
the City due to
the cost of
living.
Need 2: Address
Homelessness
As housing costs
have increased,
so has
homelessness.
Homelessness is
much more
obvious in the
City than in the
past, and it will
continue to get
worse without
intervention.
Need 3: Address
Racial/Ethnic
Segregation
Housing has been,
and continues to
be, a major area
of discrimination
in American
society, and San
José is no
exception.
Because of past
and present
discrimination,
there are large
differences by
race and income
as to who owns a
home. This widens
the differences in
wealth between
races.
Need 4: Address
Disparities in
Opportunity
Historic
discrimination,
City service
disparities, and
different income
levels have
resulted in
different
neighborhoods
having different
access to
resources and
opportunity.
Without change,
all residents in San
José will not have
the same chance
to succeed in
their lives.
8 8
Housing Element Highlights:
Constraints to Housing
9 • Non-Governmental Constraints
• Construction costs
• Availability of financing
• Resident opposition
• Governmental Constraints
• Fees and exactions
• Urban Village strategy
Housing Element Highlights: Goals
10 Focus
• Production
• Preservation
• Processes
Focus
• Housing options
for unhoused
persons
• Services provision
• Systems of care
Goal 3:
Housing stability
and
opportunities to
build wealth for
all residents
Focus
• Code Enforcement
• Renter protections
• Legal services &
education
• Access to housing
• Homeownership
• Economic
opportunity
Goal 4:
Healthy, thriving
neighborhoods
with access to
good jobs,
schools,
transportation,
and other
resources
Focus
• Equity-focused
investing in
neighborhoods
• Affordable TOD
• Preventing
displacement
• Building CBOs’
capacity
Goal 5:
Racially and
socially inclusive
neighborhoods
that overcome
past and present
discrimination
Focus
• Better accessibility for
persons w/disabilities
• Equitable community
engagement
• More participation in
decision-making by
those w/lived
experience
• Plans & metrics
Goal 1:
An abundant
and
affordable
housing stock
Goal 2:
Sufficient
housing for
people
experiencing
homelessness
10 Housing Element Highlights:
Programs & Policies
11 • 132 programs and policies
• Linked to 5 goals
• Include support for all "3Ps“
• Production, Protection, and Preservation
• Reduce barriers to housing production
• Increase housing choices
• Remedy underinvestment in lower-resource areas
• Listen to voices of protected class residents
Housing Element Highlights:
Sites Inventory
12 Summary of Residential Capacity to Accommodate 2023-2031 RHNA
UNIT CATEGORY LOWER MODERATE ABOVE
MODERATE
TOTAL
Pipeline/Approved
Units
5,083 178 14,830 20,091
ADUs 1,733 866 289 2,888
Opportunity Sites 20,811 10,545 20,874 52,230
Total 27,627 11,589 35,993 75,209
Buffer on
Opportunity Sites
23% 20% 66% 33%
Housing Element Highlights:
Sites Inventory
13 • Methodology for Opportunity Sites
•Sites consistent with Envision San José General Plan 2040 •General Plan and Zoning allow for residential uses
•Realistic capacity based on historic trends and site characteristics Housing Element Highlights:
Sites Inventory
14 • Fair Housing Analysis
• Avoid concentrating lower-income sites in low-resource areas, per HCD requirements
• 89% of lower-income sites are in Moderate/High/Highest Resources areas
• 5.5% of lower-income sites are in racially/ethnically concentrated areas of poverty (R/ECAPs)
• Approximately 70% of lower-income units are in areas where the median household income is over $110,000 and above
Changes to Draft since May PC Hearing
15 • Chapter 3: Updated description of programs and policies, metrics, and timelines; Consolidated overlapping policies/programs • Chapter 4: Added Section 4.2.3 and parts of Section 4.3.1 inadvertently omitted when posted for the Planning Commission • Chapter 5: Updated total unit count for Pipeline projects (also found in App. G) included new table, Table 5-12, to Section 5.6 • Appendix F: Provided additional information on existing uses of sites in the inventory and identified sites classified as consolidated Next Steps
16 • Submittal of Council-approved Housing Element to HCD • HCD has 60 days to review the adopted Housing Element and report its findings back to the City
Item 10.2
2023-2031 Housing Element
17 Presenters:
Ruth Cueto, Principal Planner, PBCE
Kristen Clements, Acting Deputy Director, Housing