Public Comment
How Were the Regional Housing Needs Allocations Developed?
Berkeley Slated to Add 9,000 housing units in 10 years
Kate Harrison, Councilmember, Berkeley City Council
Sunday June 13, 2021 - 06:13:00 PM
Please join me next Monday, June 14 at 5pm for a virtual town hall to learn more about the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) that will require Berkeley to plan for nearly 9,000 new housing units this decade. RHNA is a complicated process where the state decides how much housing is needed and how to carve up the responsibility for that new housing among the parts of California. Then, regional agencies (such as ABAG) distribute the numbers between cities.
Are you curious about how the state decides how much housing we need? About how the state counts the housing we already have? Or how we ensure that new housing in Berkeley is affordable?
These are important questions to ask when discussing how RHNA will shape the future of the Bay Area and how it will impact us here in Berkeley. Joining me that evening will be Dr. Gab Layton of the Embarcadero Institute, whose work on the RHNA process and its possible double counting has started an important conversation about the state's process.
Join on a computer or phone here: https://us04web.zoom.us/
