Housing

The State of California regulates the manufacturing of factory-built housing and/or housing components. The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)'s Factory-Built Housing Handbook (PDF)

This Planning Innovations forum from October 29, 2020 previews the first set of regional data tools developed as part of ABAG’s Housing Technical Assistance Program. The Housing Technical Assistance

The Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) played a key role in the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)'s approach to creating the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) allocation methodology

As part of their series on racial segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley examined the relationship between restrictive zoning — and single

The Santa Rosa Downtown Station Area Specific Plan (DSASP) is an example of a Priority Development Area (PDA) plan. DSASP seeks to guide the intensification of an energetic commercial enterprise and

The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) works to advance meaningful, critical policy solutions and strengthen affordable housing for Bay Area communities. NPH’s focus is on

This letter from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) provides ABAG its final Regional Housing Need Determination

This letter from the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) includes the full suite of data requested by HCD, including

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) identifies the total number of homes that each region in California must plan for to meet the housing needs of people at all income

In this three-part video series from AARP, Opticos Design’s Daniel Parolek introduces the concept of “missing middle housing” — a range of housing types from duplexes to triplexes to cottage courts to