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<br />Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing City of Pleasanton | F-47 <br />F.4.7 Summary of Fair Housing Issues <br />As described in the analysis above, Pleasanton is a high resource community with high <br />employment rates, low poverty rates, proximity to jobs, high educational proficiency, and limited <br />exposure to environmental health hazards. Pleasanton also has a higher share of above-moderate <br />income residents when compared to other Alameda County cities. Even still, a citywide fair housing <br />issue is high rates of overpayment by renters and homeowners, but the issue is somewhat more <br />acute for renters. Pleasanton also has a higher share of White and Asian or Pacific Islander <br />residents, though a lower share of Latinx and Black or African American residents compared to <br />Alameda County. Throughout the outreach, the City heard that the cost and availability of housing <br />is the top concern of the community, particularly for Pleasanton’s lower-wage earning workforce, <br />disabled residents, and seniors. <br />There are certain areas of the city, including the downtown tract (Tract 450607), that have a higher <br />concentration of LMI households and a higher percentage of households with disabilities. Tract <br />450607 is also considered a vulnerable community that may be at a greater risk of displacement. <br />This tract also contains a relative high proportion of Black or African American (4%) and Latinx <br />residents (17.0%) compared to the rest of the City (1.7% and 9.9%, respectively). Throughout the <br />outreach, staff heard from several people that they used to live in Pleasanton but could not afford <br />increasing rent levels so had to move elsewhere. This highlights the need for place-based <br />strategies for certain neighborhoods, specifically Tract 450607, as well as anti-displacement <br />programs, alongside broader strategies that can improve the overall availability of housing to serve <br />all sectors of the population, but particularly affordable housing for lower- and middle-income <br />households, and those with special needs. <br />As evidenced in the community outreach, certain segments of Pleasanton’s population who are in <br />need of fair housing resources may be unaware of available options to them. This includes the <br />City’s seniors, disabled community, English as a second language (ESL) residents, and low- <br />income households. As part of this Housing Element outreach, a survey was distributed in several <br />languages and media formats. The City received a total of 293 responses, including 60 hard copies <br />of the completed survey, highlighting the need for several media formats. The City also heard from <br />ESL residents that the City appears unapproachable as it is not integrated in their community and <br />does not have outreach materials regularly available in languages other than English. <br />Section F.5 Site Inventory <br />AB 686 requires a jurisdiction’s site inventory to be consistent with its duty to affirmatively further <br />fair housing. This section evaluates the City’s site inventory locations against various measures in <br />the Assessment of Fair Housing that includes income level, racially and ethnically concentrated <br />areas of poverty, access to opportunity, and environmental risk to determine any socio-economic <br />patterns or implications.