Albert Lopez
Planning Director
Planning

Alameda County Housing Element Update 2023-2031

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On December 12, 2024, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors adopted the resolution adopting the 6th Cycle Housing Element and associated general plan changes, specific plan changes, and environmental analysis. On December 17, 2024, the Board of Supervisors passed the ordinance adopting the necessary zoning changes to enact the Housing Element, including the Housing Element Overlay Combining District.

On December 31, 2024, the state Department of Housing and Community Development (state HCD) certified that the Alameda County Housing Element is compliant with state. (archive item)

You can read the Housing Element and implementing documents below.


The 2023-2031 Housing Element Sites Inventory contains 523 different parcels of land. A full description of these parcels is located in Appendix B. You can download an excel spreadsheet describing the Sites Inventory here (archive item).

El Inventario de Sitos del Elemento Vivienda 2023-2031 contiene 523 parcelas diferentes. Una descripción completa de estas parcelas se encuentra en el Apéndice B. Puede descargar una hoja de cálculo Excel que describe el Inventario de Sitiosaquí.


What is a Housing Element?

The Housing Element is one important part of a city or county's General Plan, which serves as the blueprint for how a city or county will grow and address changing needs for development. Every eight years, every city, town, and county must update their Housing Element and have it certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

A Housing Element is a local plan, adopted by a city, town or county that includes the goals, policies and programs that direct decision-making around housing. State law does not require that jurisdictions build or finance new housing, but they must plan for it.

All jurisdictions in the Bay Area updated their Housing Elements for the 2023-2031 planning period. Local jurisdictions looked at housing trends, zoning and market constraints, and evaluate various approaches to meeting housing needs across income levels.

Every city in California received a target number of homes to plan for. This is called the Regional Housing Needs Allocation or RHNA. The State of California determines the number of new homes the Bay Area needs to plan for - and how affordable those homes need to be - in order to meet the housing needs of people at all income levels.

The Association of Bay Area Governments convened diverse stakeholders in a Housing Methodology Committee to distribute the region's housing allocation to each jurisdiction in the Bay Area.

The Inventory of Available Sites, or "Sites Inventory," is a key component of a Housing Element where jurisdictions identify if they have enough land zoned for housing to meet the future need.

Housing Elements must be updated every eight years and must be certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development