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Supervisors hear housing balance data and urge Sacramento to consider Costa Hawkins repeal; committee advances report and a repeal resolution
Summary
Planning staff presented the biannual Housing Balance Report showing a long‑term affordable housing shortfall and projected balance at roughly 16%; public commenters detailed eviction and harassment cases, called out large landlords and urged repeal of the Costa Hawkins Act. The committee filed the hearings, advanced the report, and forwarded a resolution urging support for AB 1506 to the full Board.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee heard the Planning Department’s fifth Housing Balance Report on Nov. 29, which staff and presenters said is intended to track the city’s production of affordable housing relative to net new housing, and to inform Board and planning decisions.
Teresa Ojeda, principal planner, summarized the report’s scope and calculation: the housing balance measures net affordable housing (entitled and permitted affordable units plus acquisitions/rehabs minus units removed from protected status) as a proportion of net new housing over a 10‑year reporting period. Ojeda reported that affordable housing constituted about 23% of net new housing in the most recent 10‑year period and that the report’s projected housing balance for entitled projects currently in the pipeline is about 16%.
Committee members asked for detail on the components driving losses from protected status. Josh…
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