The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) develops a state-wide housing needs determination (RHND) number, based on projected housing needs in various income categories as outlined in the table below:
Regional Housing Needs Determination from HCD for the San Francisco Bay Area:
Income Category
| Percent
| Housing Unit Need
|
---|
Very Low | 25.9% | 114,442 |
Low | 14.9% | 65,892 |
Moderate | 16.5% | 72,712 |
Above Moderate | 42.6% | 181,130 |
Total | 100% | 441,176 |
HCD further breaks the RHND into regional assignments, and then allocates a lump number of units to each area’s regional coalition of governments (COG). The Bay Area’s COG is the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG).
This number is then assigned by the COG to the various jurisdictions within the region. This known as the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA; pronounced ree-nuh) process. The State is currently in the sixth cycle of this allocation process, known as "RHNA 6."