Keep Calm and Certify On: Tips from Early Adopters

This presentation and roundtable conversation covered the new state requirements for 6th cycle housing elements and perspectives from HCD and jurisdictions who have successfully submitted their housing elements. 

Speakers included: 

  • Sohab Mehmood, Senior Housing Specialist at the California Department of Housing and Community Development.  
  • Paul McDougall, Planning Grants and Incentives unit chief  for the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
  • Chelsey Payne,  Director of Urban Design and Planning with Ascent.
  • Shawna Purvines, Deputy Director of the Placer County’s Community Development Resource Agency. 
  • Veronica Tam, Principal with Veronica Tam and Associates