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In this, the second in a series of webinars on the affordable housing crisis in our County, existing public and private agencies address this well-known problem. How do planning and financing programs that target affordable housing development work? Are they sufficient?

This webinar will also:

• Describe the most important financial programs that support the development of affordable housing and explain what they mean by “affordable” How are they working in SLO County?  
• Show how city and county planning facilitates the development of affordable housing. Every California jurisdiction has a Housing Element in its General Plan that incorporates a Regional Housing Needs Allocation to plan for housing development affordable at all income levels. Are jurisdictions meeting their housing allocation goals?
• Show how the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process determines how many units of housing goals — including housing affordable to low income households — is allocated to communities. 
• Learn how the state mandated Housing Element incorporates RHNA housing development goals and how that is implemented.  
• Private developers are asked to include housing affordable to low and moderate income households all the time. State laws even incentivize it. But it’s still hard to do: the fact of the housing market is that lower income units are very difficult to build without subsidy.