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2023-2031 Draft Housing Element
The Housing Element is the City’s blueprint to meet the community’s housing needs over the next eight years. It is comprised of the Housing Plan, which sets forth goals, policies and actions to support retention and development of housing and appendices that provide background and analysis into housing-related outreach, needs, resources, constraints, past accomplishments over the last eight years cycle, and a fair housing assessment. The Draft Housing Element was submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) on August 31, 2022, and the City received comments from HCD on November 28, 2022. The draft Housing Element was revised based on HCD’s comments and revisions are shown in strikethrough/underline. The revised draft of the Housing Element is available for public review through January 2, 2023.
Full Document:
HCD Comment Letter:
Appendices:
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Attend our Gallery Event!
Do you want to learn more about housing and climate goals for Hayward? Our interactive gallery event presents educational posters about the Climate Action Plan and General Plan, including housing, safety, and environmental justice.
We can bring the gallery walk posters to you! Just email housingelementupdate@hayward-ca.gov.
If you cannot attend our event, you can view our posters here!
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Tell your Housing Story!
The City of Hayward partnered with Chabot College students to survey almost 200 Hayward residents of all ages, races, and income levels about their experiences, feelings, hopes, and issues around housing and their environment. The first question was “What three words would you use to describe your living situation?” Check out some of the responses and leave your three words in the Housing Story box below!