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General Plan Housing Element Update

2007-2014 Housing Element - NOW ADOPTED AND APPROVED

On December 21, 2010, the Oakland City Council adopted the 2007-2014 Housing Element and the California Department of Housing and Community Development certified the City's Housing Element as being in compliance with the requirements of State law. Copies are available in hard copy for a nominal fee at the offices of the Strategic Planning Division, 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 3315 (3rd Floor), or by free download from this website (see below).

Under State law, the City is required to prepare updates to the Housing Element of the General Plan. The Housing Element must include:

A review and assessment of the City's performance in implementing the previous Housing Element (adopted in 2004)
An assessment of current and future housing needs
An inventory of sites suitable for development of housing for all economic levels, sufficient to provide 14,629 units (based on the Regional Housing Needs Allocation for the Bay Area)
An inventory of financial and programmatic resources
Analysis of governmental and non-governmental constraints to meeting those needs
A statement of the City's goals, policies and quantified objectives for meeting its housing needs for the period 2009-2014

2014 Housing Element Annual Progress Report