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2023-2031 Housing Element City of Pleasanton | 16 Section 2 Projected Housing Need 2.A Introduction/Overview of ABAG Methodology State Housing Element law (Government Code §65580 et. seq.) requires regional councils of governments to identify for each member jurisdiction its "fair share allocation" of the Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND) provided by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). In turn, each city and county must demonstrate the capacity to accommodate their local share of regional housing needs in the community’s Housing Element. Each jurisdiction’s responsibility for meeting the overall regional housing need is established as a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), the council of governments for the San Francisco Bay Area, adopted its final 6th Cycle RHNA allocation methodology in December 2021, and the Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan was approved on January 12, 2022. ABAG considered several factors in preparing the methodology, which weighed both projected and existing need. The RHND was projected by the State based on a number of factors including demographic projections, and other inputs driving housing demand such as a target housing vacancy rate, the rate of overcrowding, and the share of cost-burdened households household growth, future vacancy need, and replacement need. The RHNA also considered projected regional growth, as well as adjustments to distribution of new housing need based on transit accessibility and job accessibility2. The distribution of the RHNA across the four income categories also factored in a “social equity adjustment”, which allocated a lower proportion of lower-income RHNA to jurisdictions that already had a high concentration of such households in comparison to the County, as well as the goal to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH); this adjusted the distribution of RHNA in jurisdictions considered either very low or very high resource areas. According to Appendix 6 of ABAG’s Draft RHNA Plan, Pleasanton had a net zero change in RHNA on account of the equity adjustment. The technical methodology used to develop both the RHND, and the RHNA, is described in more detail in the ABAG Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan. 2.B Alameda County Income Limits The projected housing needs are broken down by income category based on definitions in the California Health and Safety Code (§50079.5). HCD calculates “acutely low”, “extremely low”, “very low”, “low”, “median”, “moderate”, and “above moderate” income limits, and publishes these 2 For more information, please see ABAG’s Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Plan: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031 at https://abag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021- 12/Final_RHNA_Allocation_Report_2023-2031-approved_0.pdf.