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Vallejo adopts 2025 General Plan progress report; residents criticize slow pace on housing and homelessness
Summary
The City Council accepted the 2025 Annual Progress Report, showing roughly 530 housing units permitted toward a RHNA of 2,900 with 2,370 remaining. Public speakers and several council members urged faster action on renter protections, low-income production and a coordinated approach to homelessness and encampments including White Slough.
The Vallejo City Council voted to accept the city’s 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report (APR), a state-required update summarizing implementation and progress toward the city’s regional housing needs allocation (RHNA).
Hector Roxas, long-range planning manager, said the city issued 193 housing permits in 2025, bringing the permit total to roughly 530 units to date; the APR shows about 2,370 remaining to meet the current RHNA through 2031. Roxas described implementation steps including a consultant-led renter-protection feasibility study funded through a One Bay Area grant and planned draft ordinances on inclusionary housing and a commercial linkage fee.
Public commenters pressed the council on the pace of production and the shortage of deeply affordable units. Eli Smith and other speakers warned that delays in renter-protection ordinances and slow progress on low-income housing risk further displacement and homelessness. Melvin Cowan and other residents urged governance changes to accelerate deeply affordable housing, saying the city has completed too small a share of RHNA to date.
Council discussion focused on near-term milestones and implementation. Staff said draft ordinances for renter protections and inclusionary housing are expected to be available for public review in mid-2026 and that the city plans to structure engagement and milestones as part of consultant contracts. The council voted to accept the APR and direct submittal to state agencies; staff will return with contract and engagement timelines for the renter-protection work.
