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LINKING YOUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO YOUR COMMUNITY’S HOUSING NEEDS In your housing element, you will identify your community’s existing and projected housing needs. In your implementation plan you will describe the tools you will use to address those needs. The clearer the tools are linked to your needs, the more effective and transparent your comprehensive plan will be. To support the outcome of a clear and transparent housing element, we recommend that you conclude your existing and projected housing need sections with a summary of your community’s housing needs. The summary should provide the foundation upon which to develop your housing implementation program. Consider this example of the final paragraph of an existing housing needs section: Summary of Existing Housing Needs Based on the data and analysis above, we have identified the following housing needs as priorities for our community through 2040. In the implementation section of this plan, you will find a discussion of the tools and strategies we will employ to address those needs. 1.Maintenance assistance for low-income homeowners at or below 60% AMI; 2.Rental units for large families at all affordability levels; 3.Senior housing affordable at 30-50% AMI; 4.Preservation of naturally-occurring affordable housing within all bands of affordability, especially near future transit station(s). All communities must address their forecasted growth and discuss how future residential land use guidance will accommodate that growth in their local comprehensive plans. For communities with an allocation of affordable housing need, we recommend you summarize your projected affordable housing needs by describing how you are guiding minimum densities that will support affordable housing development. This is also a good opportunity to connect to the map showing your future land uses within your plan. For example: Summary of Projected Housing Needs To simplify our land use guidance and acknowledge the strong, diverse homeownership options that already exist in our community, we are focusing on guiding land that would support multi-family affordable housing. Therefore our future land use map (see page 38) reflects minimum densities of 8 units per acre sufficient to address our total allocation of affordable housing need of 1,020 units. Some parts of the city, specifically near downtown, are guided at higher density residential uses of 20 units an acre or above, with density bonuses available for the inclusion of affordable housing units. Now you are able to clearly link your stated needs to the widely accepted tools used to meet housing needs. An implementation program for the hypothetical community of Lake Valley Heights addressing the examples above might include a table such as the one below. A few notes about this sample table: 1.You do not have to replicate this table’s format, though you certainly may! There are many ways to clearly link stated needs and strategic use of tools. 2.If a particular tool is not applicable or appropriate for a particular need, it is not necessary to identify it in the table only to say it will not be used. However, if a tool could be used for a particular need, but likely would not be, the tool should be included in the table and identified as an unlikely source of meeting that particular need. 3.Some tools—such as adopting a Fair Housing Policy or participating in Housing organizations—can support your community’s housing needs more broadly by expanding your community’s overall housing strategy. Furthermore, the adoption of a Fair Housing Policy will ensure that your community will continue to be eligible to participate in the Livable Communities Act funding programs. 4.Please remember, the list of widely used tools is NOT exhaustive. We strongly encourage you to add any and every tool at your disposal to address your community’s housing needs. HOUSING: LINKING TOOLS TO NEEDS LOCAL PLANNING HANDBOOK Continue to next page Attachment G