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San Diego issued nearly 9,700 home permits in 2023 but affordable units lag in high‑resource areas
Summary
City Planning reported 9,693 new home permits in 2023 — including roughly 1,909 ADUs and about 27% deed‑restricted affordable homes — while councilmembers and the IBA pressed for better tracking of inclusionary compliance and more affordable units in high‑resource neighborhoods.
City planners told the San Diego City Council on Tuesday that the city permitted 9,693 new homes in 2023 and outperformed peer cities per capita, but councilmembers and the Independent Budget Analyst said more work is needed to ensure affordable units reach higher‑resource neighborhoods.
"In total, 9,693 new homes were permitted in 2023," Grant Roddy, senior planner in the City Planning Department, told councilmembers as he presented the 2024 Annual Report on Homes, which summarizes 2023 permitting and program use. Roddy said about 27 percent of those units were deed‑restricted as…
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