Housing Catalyst Team Work Plan and
Housing Element Annual Progress Report
City Council
March 18, 2025
Items 8.3 and 8.4
Erik L. Soliván, Director, Housing Department
Jerad Ferguson, Principal Planner, PBCE
1 Background
2 2018
Housing Catalyst
Team Established
November 2022
Final Update on
Housing Crisis
Work Plan
Creation of
Housing Catalyst
Team Work Plan
June 2023
Council Adopts
Housing Element
Housing Catalyst
Work Plan at CED
Committee
August 2023
Housing Catalyst
Work Plan at
City Council
January 2024
HCD certified
Housing Element
Prevention
Unhoused
Outreach
Encampment
Resolution
Lived in
Cars and RV
PSH Units
Rent Subsidized
and Restricted
Rent Stabilized
Market
Rate
Units
Subsidized
Homeownership
Home
Ownership
Board and Care Beds
[County]
Safe Sleeping and Parking
[City]
Congregate
Shelter Beds [County]
Interim
Housing Units
Permanent
Unit
Preservation
Interim
Housing Units
Temporary
ED
NSE
Unit
Preservation
Prevention
Hoteling and
Congregate [City]
Housing Continuum
3 Color Key:
Blue: Neighborhood Services and Education City Service Area Orange: Community & Economic Development City Service Area San José’s Housing Needs (RHNA)
2024 HCD Income Limits 2023-2031
RHNA (Units)
Annual Goal
(Units)Income Category
1-person 4-person
Extremely Low
Up to 30% AMI ≤ $38,750 ≤ $55,300 7,544 943
Very Low
31%-50% AMI $64,550 $92,150 7,544 943
Low
51%-80% AMI $103,300 $146,100 8,687 1,086
Moderate
81%-120% AMI $154,800 $221,150 10,711 1,339
Above Moderate $154,801+ $221,151+ 27,714 3,464
Totals 62,200 7,775
55%
of
RHNA
Goal
4 Housing Production
5 Housing Production
6 Impact and Level of Effort
7 • High Impact
• Moderate Impact
• Low Impact
• Legally Required
• To Be Determined
Impact Effort
• Low Effort
• Moderate Effort
• High Effort
Completed Items
8 • Housing in Business Corridors (P-14)
• Housing on Public/Quasi-Public Lands (P-24)
• Mobilehome Park General Plan Designation for Remaining 56 Mobilehome Parks (R-6)
• Regional Homeless Response Coordination and Planning (H-13) • Emergency Shelters Zoning Ordinance Update (H-14)
• Lived Experience with Homelessness Seat on Commission (I-10) HCD Emphasis on Specific Programs
• City Infill Housing Ministerial Approval Ordinance (P-7) • Affordable Housing Tools for North San José (P-4)
• Diridon Affordable Housing Production Goal (P-9)
• Review and Revise Planning Permit Conditions(P-41)
• Housing Balance Report (I-4)
• Small Multifamily Housing (P-35)
• Evaluation of Urban Village Planning Process (P-40)
9 Anti-Displacement Work Items
10 • Preservation and Community Development Capacity Building (N-4) • Soft Story Program (R-13)
• Eviction Prevention – Eviction Prevention Court Clinic (S-12) • Tenant Preferences that Help Fight Displacement (S-20) • Local Enforcement of State Tenant Protections (S-32)
• Preservation Notice of Funding Availability (R-2)
Newly-Added Items
11 • Development Incentives for Residential Construction (PZ-1):
• Incentives to help entitled developments meet 2025 and 2026 timelines in growth areas and Downtown.
• Technology (Automation/Software) Needs to Address
Recommendations from the Tenant Protection Ordinance
Audit Report (SZ-2):
• Procurement of software that will help the Housing Department coordinate with Code Enforcement to enforce the City’s Tenant Protection Ordinance.
Recommendations
12 Item 8.3: As recommended by the Community and Economic Development Committee on February 24, 2025, accept the
status report on the work to implement the Housing Catalyst Team Work Plan.
Item 8.4: 1) Accept the Calendar Year 2024 Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the San José 2023-2031 Housing Element; and
2) Accept the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Housing Successor to the Redevelopment Agency Annual Report.
12 Housing Catalyst Team Work Plan and
Housing Element Annual Progress Report
City Council
March 18, 2025
Items 8.3 and 8.4
Erik L. Soliván, Director, Housing Department
Jerad Ferguson, Principal Planner, PBCE
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