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income categories over a seven year period. Once the number of housing units is identified, the number is divided between the State's 31 Council of Governments (COGs) (which in our case is ABAG) that have the responsibility to work cooperatively with cities and counties within their region to allocate the units to each individual agency. Based on State law, the RHNA process has four objectives: 1) Increase the housing supply and the mix of housing types, tenure, and affordability in all cities and counties within the region in an equitable manner, which shall result in each jurisdiction receiving an allocation of units for low and very low income households. 2) Promote infill development and socioeconomic equity, the protection of environmental and agricultural resources, and the encouragement of efficient development patterns. 3) Promote an improved intraregional relationship between jobs and housing. 4) Allocate a lower proportion of housing need to an income category when a jurisdiction already has a disproportionately high share of households in that income category, as compared to the countywide distribution of households in that category from the most recent decennial United States census. To develop the formula for allocating housing units throughout the ABAG region for the 2007 2014 RHNA (the 4th RHNA period) ABAG established a Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) comprised of elected officials and staff members from cities in the region. As an outcome of this process, the HMC developed an allocation methodology that incorporates the following factors with the following weight of each factor: Household growth (45 Existing employment (22.5 Employment growth (22.5 Household growth near existing and planned transit (5 Employment growth near existing and planned transit (5 As mentioned above, the RHNA methodology specifies that these allocations must be divided into specific household income categories including: Very Low Income defined as households with income up to 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) which is currently $44,650 for a family of four; Low Income defined as households with income between 50% AMI and 80% of the AMI which is currently at $71,450 for a family of four Moderate Income- defined as households with income between 80% AMI and 120% of the AMI which is currently at $107,150 for a family of four Above- Moderate which is defined as households with income above 120% AMI Page 5 of 11