Issues: Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing:
San Diego Association of Governments

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Homes for all San Diegans:
The State of the Housing Affordability in the Region
SANDAG Report (pdf),
June 2006
For many residents in San Diego and throughout California, the price of housing has reached a breaking point. Though shelter is a basic need, renting or buying a home becomes more difficult every day.

Fact Sheet - Solving the Region's Housing Crisis
Download PDF, Feb. 2003, Length: 2 pages
A comprehensive effort is underway to increase the supply of housing in the San Diego region. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of this effort.

Self-Certification Workbook/Affordable Housing Record
Download PDF, Feb. 2003, Length: 32 pages
This workbook helps jurisdictions implement the methodology for housing element self-certification in 2004. It focuses on the mechanics of self-certification and includes information and forms to assist in calculating the 1999-2004 affordable housing goals and determining whether the goals were met. This report is an appendix to the Housing Element Self-Certification Report to the Legislature.

Housing Performance Workbook
Download Excel Doc., Feb.2003,

Solving the San Diego Region's Housing Crisis
Download PDF, July 2001, Length: 24 pages
A comprehensive effort is underway to increase the supply of housing in the San Diego region. A broad coalition of business leaders, bankers, housing advocates, developers, realtors, environmentalists, elected officials, and others are pursuing strategies to promote the construction of apartments, condominiums, and single family homes, and to expand opportunities for residents to own or rent these homes.