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City staff: state gave Arcadia a much larger RHNA target; council warned of funding and vacants limits
Summary
Deputy director Jennifer Dart briefed council on the regional housing needs allocation process and said Arcadia’s seventh‑cycle target rose sharply — driven by growth in low‑income categories — while funding for deeply subsidized units lags.
Jennifer Dart, Arcadia’s deputy director of community development, presented the city’s current position in the state’s seventh‑cycle regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) process and warned the council the allocation represents a steep increase the city must plan for.
“Between cycles this is a very large increase — a 71% increase in our RHNA goal,” Dart told the council, saying the new allocation is roughly 2,000 units greater than the previous countywide allocation the state released in July. She described recent changes to the RHNA framework that add two very low income categories — “acutely low” and “extremely low” — which create new challenges for jurisdictions with limited funding for deeply subsidized housing.
Why it matters: Dart said the state determines a regional number via the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), then the…
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