Health and Safety Code Section 50515.05 directed HCD, in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and after engaging in stakeholder participation, to develop recommendations to improve the RHNA process and methodology that promotes and streamlines housing development and substantially addresses California’s housing shortage. The California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next RHNA Report (PDF) fulfills HCD’s obligation to submit a report to the Legislature with HCD’s findings and recommendations and outlines the changes HCD believes are necessary to ensure that the RHNA process appropriately plans for the homes that will be needed across the state by the year 2040.
California's Housing Future 2040: The Next Regional Housing Needs Allocation
California's Housing Future 2040: The Next RHNA Report (PDF)From March to July 2023, HCD solicited ideas and feedback from stakeholders for ways to improve the RHNA methodology and process. To ensure HCD received feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, the California’s Housing Future 2040 stakeholder engagement initiative employed a variety of engagement strategies. These engagement strategies included a webinar, a public survey, a Sounding Board of 30 technical experts, one-on-one listening sessions with key partner organizations and subject matter experts, and a public email inbox. The feedback received from stakeholders directly informed the recommendations and administrative changes found within the California’s Housing Future 2040 report. For more information on the California’s Housing Future 2040 stakeholder engagement initiative and the feedback that was shared with HCD, please see the Stakeholder Engagement Summary in the Appendix of the California’s Housing Future 2040 Report (PDF).
The California’s Housing Future 2040 report identifies a mix of recommendations that would require statutory changes, as well as planned adjustments to HCD’s processes under existing administrative authority, to lay the groundwork for creating future homes. Collectively, these RHNA modifications will more accurately account for the housing needs of existing and future residents, promote and streamline housing development, affirmatively further fair housing, advance the state’s climate goals, and substantially address California’s housing shortage. The California’s Housing Future 2040 report offers a pathway for the state to improve addressing our housing need—for current and future generations of Californians.
- California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next RHNA Full Report (PDF)
- California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next RHNA Executive Summary (PDF)
California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next RHNA – Past Stakeholder Engagement Resources
For more information on the California’s Housing Future 2040 stakeholder engagement initiative and findings, please see the Stakeholder Engagement Summary in the Appendix of the California’s Housing Future 2040 Report (PDF).
- California’s Housing Future 2040 Kick-Off Webinar (March 9, 2023)
- Sounding Board Agendas