California Cities Struggle to Meet New Housing Planning Guidelines

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Every eight years, the state goes through a process to determine how much and what kind of housing should be built in every California city. The allotment, known as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, is up for renewal this year and has called for cities to plan for more housing than in the past. Historically, most cities don’t build the housing the state recommends, and dozens have already filed lawsuits fighting the numbers. RHNA only tells cities how much housing they should plan for, but doesn’t require them to approve housing projects or ensure that the housing is actually. We’ll talk about this year’s assessment process and why the vast majority of cities fall short of the state’s goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.1	Here's the conundrum we face here in the Bay Area.
1:20.1	Our housing needs are regional.
1:23.7	They're about all the units that exist in these nine Bay Area counties, but housing is approved at the more granular local level of cities.
1:28.8	And since this isn't New York City, we have dozens of jurisdictions each pursuing their own
1:33.1	goals.
1:34.1	It's just about the worst way to build housing you could imagine, and our crisis reflects that.
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1:42.9	It's called the regional housing needs assessment,
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