New construction for the Ridge Walk housing project on UC San Diego campus located near the corner of Hopkins Drive and Voight Drive. Thursday, July 11, 2024 in San Diego, CA. California’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment process is decades old, but for all the conflict it generates, there is little evidence that it has balanced housing supply and demand or made housing affordable for the majority of Californians.
But the state’s approach was both ineffective and unpopular. California home prices continued to skyrocket, becoming detached from prices across most of the country. In a 1993 stateLong Beach’s then-Director of Planning and Building Robert Paternoster told the committee that “the housing element is the most despised General Plan element by local officials.
SCAG’s RHNA housing quota is not only based on stale and overstated population estimates but makes other aggressive assumptions. According to anQ&A with San Diego candidate for mayor Larry Turner