Before I post any more Alameda specific Housing Element/RHNA videos and transcripts I thought it might be worth a post to explaining how ABAG allocation process works. I know some people may want to assume that it’s some arbitrary number but there’s actually quite a bit of straightforward math that spits out the numbers. And since I know precious few of you are actually going to read though the methodology report, I’m going to pull out the relevant info here.
First, ABAG get a set of numbers from the State of California for the entire region made up of 101 109 jurisdictions. That number is 441,176 units. Here’s the breakdown:
Very Low | 114,442 |
Low | 65,892 |
Moderate | 72,712 |
Above Moderate | 188,130 |
Using that number ABAG’s Methodology Committee decided to break the allocation into three percentages per income designation: (1) Access to High Opportunity Areas, (2) Job Proximity-Auto, (3) Job Proximity – Transit. Very Low and Low units have a different proportion than Moderate and Above Moderate units. Here’s the breakdown:
