Housing in San Diego County

The City of Lemon Grove met its housing allocation for all the income categories identified by SANDAG in the Fifth RHNA Cycle.

The County of San Diego failed to meet their housing allocation for all income levels. 50 https://yigby.org/about-yigby/#top 51 San Diego Union-Tribune, Michael Smolens Column: “Effort to ease housing construction on church land gets a new life,” December 21, 2022 52 https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/legislation 53 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB4 54 https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/faith-based-housing-development. 55https://www.cityofsolanabeach.org/sites/default/files/Solana%20Beach/Community%20Development/Housing% 20Element%20Update/Solana%20Beach%20Housing%20Element%20Update_February2023_Clean.pdf 11

The following cities did not meet their housing allocations for all income categories: Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Imperial Beach, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside, Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach and Vista.

The San Diego region failed to meet its housing allocations for each of the income categories identified by SANDAG in the Fifth RHNA Cycle. Fact: In 2018, the City of El Cajon implemented its Transit District Specific Plan to transform the area around the El Cajon Transit Center and increase the housing stock in that area. Fact: In 2013, the City of Chula Vista initiated its Palomar Gateway Specific Plan with the goal of providing housing and mixed-use development near the Palomar Street trolley station.

Specific plans are useful tools in spurring development, including housing development, and have been used by El Cajon and Chula Vista among others. Fact: In November 2016, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure A – the $950 million affordable housing bond measure. Fact: As of June 2022, Santa Clara County’s Measure A funding has been used to create new apartments and housing developments, pay to renovate housing, and allocate money to a first- time homebuyer program. Fact: In 2019 the Bay Area Financing Housing Authority was authorized for the San Francisco Bay Area with the express intention of raising money to finance development of additional housing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Fact: In 2022 the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions agency was formed with ability to raise money to finance development of additional housing throughout Los Angeles. Fact: The City of Seattle recently implemented a payroll tax on select companies. This year companies with sales of more than $7,386,494 per year are taxed on the number of employees making more than $158,282 per year. Over 500 companies paid the tax. Fact: Currently, the City of San Diego levies a Housing Impact Fee on commercial development and the funds levied are deposited into the City’s Affordable Housing Fund. Monies in that fund are used by the San Diego Housing Commission to develop its programs for affordable housing development, housing vouchers, etc. Fact: In California, Santa Clara County and the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas are using or are planning to use the financing authority given to them to fund the current and future development of affordable housing. Fact: Housing impact fees are used to generate funds for affordable housing by the City of San Diego. Fact: In Seattle, the City is using its authority to levy taxes to fund the current and future development of affordable housing. Fact: cityLAB identified school districts as government entities that have land available for construction of affordable housing, particularly for employees of the district. Fact: SFUSD identified underutilized land it owned and is developing it, in conjunction with the City of San Francisco, into a residential community with housing set aside for district employees. Fact: The Santa Clara School District constructed workforce housing for its personnel more than a decade ago. Fact: The University of California at Irvine developed housing on the campus for full-time university employees and their families. Fact: North County Transit District is making surplus land available for development at several locations under its ownership or control. Fact: North County Transit District recently agreed to develop land it controls, in conjunction with a developer, for a mixed-use development at the Oceanside Transit Center. The development is to include affordable housing. Fact: The Metropolitan Transit System has identified surplus land available for development at several locations under its ownership or control. Fact: The Metropolitan Transit System is working with a housing developer to construct affordable housing at its Beyer Boulevard Trolley Station. Fact: YIGBY San Diego, a local group, is working with religious institutions in the San Diego region to develop affordable housing on land owned or controlled by those institutions. Fact: YIGBY San Diego is working with Bethel AME church, to build an affordable housing development for veterans in the City of San Diego. Fact: The Terner Center of Housing Innovation identified religious institutions as potentially having land available for construction of affordable housing.

Both transit agencies in San Diego County (NCTD and MTS) have made land available for development and are actively developing projects that include housing, among other uses. 13