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City Council
September 23, 2025
Item #2 RTC 25-461
1852 Study Session: Update on City's
Anti-Displacement Work Plan
THE MISSION CIT
Afshan Hamid
Director of Community Development
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Santa Clara
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Introductions
Community Development Department
• Afshan Hamid, Community Development Director
• Lesley Xavier, Planning Manager
• Adam Marcus, Housing & Community Services Manager
• John Baty, Planning Staff
Community Planning Collaborative
• David Driskell, Principal and Project Lead
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Santa Clara
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Agenda:
• Purpose of Study Session
• Housing Element Recap
• What is Displacement?
• Impacts of Displacement
• Santa Clara's Displacement Work Plan
• Update on Countywide Community Planning Collaborative • Next Steps
• City Council Discussion & Feedback
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Purpose:
• Provide an overview of residential displacement, its forms, drivers, and potential impacts
• Highlight existing State laws and actions the City is already implementing to reduce displacement
• Identify potential new/expanded anti-displacement programs for evaluation • Obtain early input and feedback from the City Council 4 4
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Homelessness
(Shelter, Supportive
Housing) Homelessness
Prevention
Temporary Housing
(Rapid Rehousing, Interim Housing)
Stages of Housing Instability Displacement
(Notice and Relocation Support)
Eviction Risk
Tenant Protections: Tenant Lega
Services, Just Cause)
Anti-Displacement
Cost Burden
(Rental Assistance, Deposit Limits)
Stable Housing
(Affordable Housing Production and Preservation)
City of
Santa Clara
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Homelessness Point in Time Count 2019-2025
City of Santa Clara PIT Count Trend
(Number of Individuals Counted)
900
800
700
300
481
500 130
400
325
300
200
100
2019 2022 2023 2025
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Homelessness Point in Time Count (2025)
Primary Cause of Homelessness
Family Dissolution 27.9%
Lost Job I 18.6%
Health Related 14.0%
Eviction/Rent Increase 11.6%
Incarceration 7.0%
Other 7.0%
Alcohol or drug use 4.7%
Financial/Cost of living 4.7%
Aging out of foster care 2.35:
DV Related 2.3%
Source: County of Santa Clara Point in Time Count for City of Santa Clara (January 2025) City of
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Housing Element Recap
Ciry of Santa Clara
• State mandated Element of the General Plan, with an 2023-2031 eight-year cycle (6'h Cycle: 2023-2031) Housing Element • Regional Housing Needs Allocation is 11,632 units Amended me 7,201 • Policies and goals tied to actions, deliverables, and timelines with oversight by State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
• Not meeting commitments risks loss of local land use
control and eligibility for housing and infrastructure
grants
• Key Goal: Address displacement supported by all 21
Housing Element Actions
• Required Anti-Displacement Work Plan-implementation
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Housing Element Recap
Anti-Displacement Goal
Goal E: Affirmatively further fair housing by increasing access to opportunity, reducing displacement impacts, reducing cost burden, targeting outreach to lower-income residents, and rehabilitating substandard living conditions.
Policy E-2: Work to reduce displacement of lower income residents from Santa Clara and to reduce the impact of relocation on low-income households.
Action 13: Residential Displacement... the City will evaluate potential displacement of residents, and develop and adopt measures, as appropriate, to address the risk of direct or indirect displacement of those existing residents.
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Santa Clara
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Housing Element and
Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) Policies
One Bay Area Grant (OBAG)
• Compliance with TOC Policies = Eligibility for funding • Santa Clara has received $9.9M from OBAG 1-3.
• Future funding (OBAG 4) is dependent upon continued compliance with TOC policies
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What is
Displacement
displacement?
Work Plan
3 Next Steps
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What is displacement?
When residents must relocate from their homes or
neighborhoods due to factors beyond their control
Rising rents | Hazardous building
+ Inability to pay Demolition
Lease termination
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Forms of Displacement
Direct Indirect Cultural
Displacement Displacement Displacement
• Evictions • Rising Rents and • Change in
• Lease Non-Renewal Housing Costs Community
• Hazardous Building • Land Use Changes Character
• Redevelopment • Voucher • Loss of Local
Buyouts Discrimination Businesses
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Santa Clara
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Displacement Factors
Incomes not keeping Regional population
up with the rising and job growth Loss of existing
cost of housing without enough new affordable housing
housing
Public investments Segregation,
Lack of tenant
that attract redlining and
protections
redevelopment income inequality
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Impacts of Displacement
Families and
Individuals Environment and
• Loss of Stability
• Mental Health Strain Economy
• Increased Commuting
and Emissions
Neighborhoods • Loss of Sustainable
Housing Stock
• Erosion of Community • Loss of Workforce
Bonds • Strain on Public Services
• Loss of Culture
• Re-segregation
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The 3 Ps for Addressing Displacement
Protection 10 Preservation Production
Example strategies to help Example strategies to help Example strategies to people stay in their homes homes stay affordable: reduce barriers to and communities: • Rent Stabilization building homes and • Tenant Legal Assistance • Rental Registry support more affordable • Relocation Assistance • Opportunity to Purchase housing:
• Rental Assistance Act (OPA) • Inclusionary Zoning
• Proactive Code • Condo Conversion • Affordable Housing Enforcement Restrictions Funding
• Landlord & Tenant • Streamlined Approval for
Education Affordable Housing
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State Law
• 2020: Tenant Protection Act
- In certain cases, limits rent increases, eliminates "no cause" evictions, requires relocation assistance
• 2020: Housing Crisis Act
- Requires: up to 3 years notice for units at-risk of losing deed restriction; demolished units be replaced with similarly affordable units; existing tenants of affordable units be given priority for new units.
• 2024: Security Deposit Limit
- Security deposits limited to 1 month's rent
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Santa Clara's
Anti-Displacement Work Plan
A. Actions Underway
B. Actions Committed to Doing
C. Actions Committed to Evaluating
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Work Plan: Actions Underway
• Funding at least one tenant/landlord resource and dispute resolution service contract annually
• Funding the regional Homelessness Prevention System
• Assisting property owners of income restricted housing to make periodic capital improvements
• Monitoring inventory of income restricted units that may be at-risk of losing affordability controls
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Work Plan: Actions Committed to Doing
• Assist Housing Authority w/ promotion/incentives for landlords to accept Housing Choice Vouchers
• Propose a new ordinance requiring property owners to provide a City brochure explaining tenant rights and conversion procedures • Create database of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) units
• Work with owners of at-risk income restricted homes to restructure City loans to extend affordability
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Work Plan: Actions Committed to Doing
• Update citywide affordable housing ordinance to comply with MTC TOC Policy with deeper affordability requirements for inclusionary rental and ownership projects
• Assess feasibility of updating definition of "moderate income" units from 120% AMI to 100% AM
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Work Plan: New Measures to Evaluate
• Setting a rent deposit limit (superseded by State law) • Requiring no net loss of income-restricted units
• Requiring replacement of existing affordable units at same or lower income level
• Requiring landlords to notify tenants and City at least 1-year in advance of redevelopment and/or conversion
• Requiring relocation benefits beyond required by State • Enhancing code enforcement activities re: substandard housing • Establishing a Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) program
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Work Plan: Collaborate
Anti-Displacement Policy / Program | Continue Existing Update Existing Evaluate New No Net Loss and Right to Return Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy Los Gatos, Santa Clara City Campbell, Los Gatos, Santa
Right to Return for Substantial Rehabs Cupertino, Gilroy, Morgan Hill Clara City Tenant Relocation Assistance Mipitas, Sunnyvale Cupertino, Morgan Hill Los Gatos, Santa Clara City Substandard Conditions/Code Enforcement Cupertino, Los Gatos Gilroy Campbell, Santa Clara City Campbell, Los Altos, Santa
Proactive Enhanced Code Enforcement Cupertino, Gilroy
Clara City
COPA/TOPA Campbell, Los Gatos, Santa
Clara City
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Santa Clara County
Planning Collaborative
• Supporting shared learning and providing technical assistance on housing elements and housing element implementation across all 16 jurisdictions in Santa Clara County
• Financially supported through ABAG/MTC and contributions from member jurisdictions
• Organized by the Cities Association of SCC
• Regular meetings plus focused technical assistance based on jurisdiction priorities
• Key focus in 2025: supporting anti-displacement education, engagement and policy/program development
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Countywide Education and Engagement
GIVE NI
COMMUNITY PAGES
• Let's Talk Housing website What is Oisplacement Why This Matters Home
santaclara.letstalkhousing.org Let's Talk Housing
• Community Survey
420+ responses from
City of Santa Clara
residents!
• Focus Groups
Santa Clara County Community Survey on
Displacement and Its Impacts
•1 Terfus about your relationshep to Santa Clara County. (Chock ad that apply! Live
Work Building communities where
Go to school people can stay and thrive
Plaza County for all of us
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Countywide Technical Assistance
• Staff website with resources and tools
• Data resources
Let's Talk Housing
- Housing Precarity Risk Model Quick Guide to Creating an Anti-Displacement Strategy
- BAHFA Evictions Report RESOURCES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFF - Data guide Dorians we stic
- Home
• Policy toolkit
Anti-Displacement Legal Landscape
- Policy/program guidance
- Case examples
- Resource library Major State and Federal Laws
California: Local anti-displacement policies shoula bulld upon these to ensure comprehensive, effective and wit Several key pieces of state and federal legistation orovide the foundatien for ant-aisplacement protecions in motections for tenants, as described belon
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Next Steps
1. Community/Stakeholder Outreach
August - January 2026
We Want Your
2. Collaboration and Analysis
November - April 2026
3. Study Session #2
Spring 2026
4. Public Hearing
May 2026
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City Council
September 23, 2025
CITY OF Item #2 RTC 25-461
1852 Study Session: Update on City's
Anti-Displacement Work Plan
THE MISSION CITY
Afshan Hamid
Director of Community Development
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