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Planning Commission hears housing‑balance report showing citywide balance at about 15% affordable
Summary
Planning Department staff told the commission the city’s new Housing Balance Report finds roughly 4,900 net affordable units over the most recent 10‑year window — about 15% of net new units — far short of Proposition K and RHNA targets. Commissioners debated counting pipeline mega‑projects and preserving existing units lost by demolition or owner move‑ins.
Teresa Ojeda, senior planner for the Department of Citywide Policy Planning, presented the Planning Department’s second biannual Housing Balance Report, which covers the period through the second quarter of 2015. The report calculates the city’s “net affordable housing stock” at 4,900 units and the 10‑year cumulative housing balance at about 15% affordable, short of the city goals cited in Proposition K (32% or 33% target in local debate) and far below state RHNA allocations, Ojeda said.
The report defines the housing balance as affordable units (from new construction, acquisitions and rehabs, RAD replacements) divided by net new units over a 10‑year period. It also…
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