The densities of sites identified in the inventory must be sufficient to encourage and facilitate the development of housing affordable to lower-income households (Section 65583.2(c)(3)(A) &(B).
As part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s SAFE initiative to address homelessness, an unsafe encampment was cleared in San Diego and unhoused people were connected with interim housing and services. Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Secretary Tomiquia Moss toured PATH Villas, an affordable housing community three miles from the encampment site. Funded by HCD’s Homekey and No Place Like Home programs, PATH Villas provides permanent housing and on-site supportive services to help our most vulnerable residents remain housed and off the streets and build a foundation for a better future.
The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) enforces state housing and homelessness laws to meaningfully and positively impact the provision of housing in all communities across the state.
The inventory sites that have potential for residential developed can include non-vacant and underutilized sites (Section 65583.2(b)(3)). The element must include an explanation of the methodology for determining the realistic build-out potential of these sites within the planning period (Section 65583.2(g)).
Government Code Section 65583.2(c) requires, as part of the analysis of available sites, a local government to demonstrate the projected residential development capacity of the sites identified in the housing element can realistically be achieved. Based on the information provided in subdivision (b), a city or county shall determine whether each site in the inventory can accommodate some portion of its share of the regional housing need by income level during the planning period, as determined pursuant to Section 65584.
This page has been updated to reflect changes pursuant to AB 1397 (Statutes of 2017). While the following outlines the statutory requirements and factors that are included in the site inventory and analysis, each jurisdiction may have its own unique strategy for addressing its housing need. In addition, while samples and suggestions are included to illustrate how housing element requirements could be met, unless specified in the statute, HCD does not prescribe any one specific methodology in addressing those requirements.
HCD works to reduce and prevent homelessness through strategic investments and local accountability that result in the faster production and preservation of safe, stable affordable housing.
An ADU is a secondary dwelling unit with complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and generally takes three forms:
Avalon Commons is a new affordable housing community in northeast Fresno, providing 60 homes for low-income families. A project of Fresno Housing, Avalon Commons was supported by $1.3 million from HCD’s No Place Like Home program.
A new affordable housing community has opened in northeast Fresno, providing 60 homes for low-income families in the desirable neighborhood. Located in the Clovis Unified School District, Avalon Commons offers families access to some of the area’s top-rated schools—access that many families did not have previously.
“In the school districts in Clovis, it’s not if I’m gonna go to college; it’s what college are you going to. I see that in my kid’s future,” said Briana who lives at Avalon Commons with her teenage daughter.
A project of Fresno Housing, Avalon Commons was supported by $1.3 million from HCD’s No Place Like Home program. Fifteen of the units include integrated on-site supportive services from the county’s Department of Behavioral Health. Funding for similar permanent supportive housing is now available through HCD’s new Homekey+ program, made possible by voter approval of Proposition 1.
In addition to onsite services, residents have access to a community room, dog park, basketball court, playground, and laundry facilities. The grand opening marks the completion of Phase I of the Avalon Commons project. Phase II will bring an additional 45 affordable homes to the community.
Resident Iva said moving to Avalon Commons changed her life.
“For five years I slept on the couch with a broken neck and a broke back,” said Iva. “I have absolute peace now.”
