For one, cities that haven't built a lot historically get to have lower projections, commitments than cities that have built a lot. There's little accountability to see whether stuff that is permitted actually gets built. Prison beds & student housing count as low-income housing.
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@elpaavo, Michael Manville and Spike Friedman at@uclaluskin had a bunch of critiques and recommended fixes a few months ago:https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2019/05/10/rhna-flawed-law/ …Show this thread -
"RHNA numbers are not true “housing needs” — they are the result of a political process in which affluent cities lobby to keep their numbers low." Like *cough*
@RafaelMandelman's District 8, where 2 bedrooms are around $1.8M. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0HXLsm-O0uQNG01_Lyvn4x-EEWzVM39/view?agent_id=5b647f2e32e833402fbf8223 …pic.twitter.com/3DmR5pkc6I
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"RHNA bases 'housing needs' on projections of population, rather than prices. As a result, it steers housing production away from places where housing is most expensive, and new development most necessary."
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"RHNA needlessly pits market-rate and affordable housing against one another, when both are necessary to advance affordability."
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Anyway, they like the Northeastern model, where "a city is out of compliance if less than 10 percent of their housing stock is income-restricted. And if a city is out of compliance developers can bypass many local reviews when building low-income housing."https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/2019/05/10/rhna-flawed-law/ …
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Once again, Mandelman is touting the community upzonings of lower-income Eastern and Southeastern neighborhoods while treating the Castro, Noe Valley and Avenues sensitive communities to be protected from local or statewide upzonings.
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Not to mention his complete disinterest in building housing to meet SF’s jobs-housing imbalance—shifting displacement pressure to Oakland. This despite him being a deputy city attorney in Oakland for years.
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And while everyone would love to keep Sf as it was and not a tourist trap/ luxurious bedroom community. It jumped the shark 20 years ago. Those who can’t afford it are forced to move to Antioch or another state.
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