Title
Motion to Accept the 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR)
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
• Housing and Homelessness
SUMMARY
Pursuant to Government Code Section 65400, local governments must provide, each year, an Annual Progress Report (APR) on the status and progress in implementing its Housing Element to the legislative body, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), and the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). HCD prepares the form template that cities must submit to comply with these statutory requirements. The City submitted the 2024 APR to OPR and HCD in advance of the April 1, 2025 deadline.
STATUS OF KEY HOUSING ELEMENT PROGRAMS
As discussed in more detail in Table D of the APR, work was completed on several notable Housing Element programs in 2024:
• Received Prohousing Designation from State HCD.
• Utilized $9.3 million from the State Project Homekey Program to acquire, renovate, and operate the Nimitz Motel as interim housing and a navigation center.
• Adopted a Soft Story Ordinance to incentivize property owners to upgrade potential seismic hazards in a timely manner.
• Completed an online Housing Development Toolkit that serves as a one-stop resource for the public to access information and resources regarding developing new housing in San Leandro.
• Developed a Below Market Rate (BMR) Manual to guide administrative and operational needs of the City’s BMR Program.
The status of several notable in-progress or pending Housing Element programs is provided below, including reasons for delay in meeting the initial Housing Element deadlines.
• Impact Fee Update. Potential modifications to the City’s development impact fees, including analysis of market feasibility, were presented to the Finance Committee in May. Recommended amendments will be presented to the City Council in July 2025 (APR target: January 2025).
• Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Update. A scope of work has been prepared for an update to the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance. Work will build off of the completion of the Impact Fee Update and related market-feasibility analysis work (APR target: January 2025).
• Parking Code Amendments. The City has contracted with a transportation consultant to analyze the City’s minimum parking standards and recommend code amendments to ensure that minimum parking is not a barrier to housing production. Analysis is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2025 and proposed code amendments are anticipated to be adopted in early 2026 in conjunction with amendments to comply with the parking standards in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s new Transit Oriented Communities Policy. (APR target: January 2025).
• Facilitate TOD Development in the Bay Fair TOD. Work is progressing on a Development Plan for the Bay Fair TOD area and updates to the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan to catalyze development and attract investment to the Bay Fair TOD area.
• Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance (MHRSO). Staff anticipates a 7-9 month process to develop an updated MHRSO which will trail work on non-mobile home park rent stabilization (APR Target: January 2026).
• Rent Review Board Ordinance revisions. Work on ordinance revisions will trail work on housing protections. (APR Target: January 2025).
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council accept, by motion, the 2025 HCD APR.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A: 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
PREPARED BY: Wayland Li, Planning Manager
Kerri Heusler, Housing Manager