The California Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD) is soliciting ideas and input from the public for ways to
continue to improve the 7th cycle RHNA process and address
California’s housing shortage. This survey is a component of
HCD’s broader stakeholder engagement for the California’s Housing
Future 2040: The Next RHNA initiative.
AB 101 (2019) directs HCD to engage stakeholders and collaborate
with the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop
recommendations related to the regional housing needs allocation
(RHNA) process and methodology. Upon completion of this
stakeholder engagement process, HCD will compile its findings and
recommendations, and will submit a report to the Legislature by
December 31, 2023.
HCD is conducting this California’s Housing Future 2040
stakeholder engagement process from March – early June 2023,
which will consist of several venues for stakeholder input,
including the
public survey. More information about the California’s
Housing Future 2040 stakeholder engagement and opportunities for
public input is available on the RHNA webpage. The
survey is organized by five topic areas identified as
priorities and should take approximately 10-15 minutes to
complete. After the survey closes, HCD will summarize and analyze
the responses gathered by the survey. HCD will utilize the
survey responses to inform HCD’s recommendations for
improving the RHNA process and methodology but will not respond
to each survey response.
