The Huntington Beach City Council considered plans in their Jan. 17 meeting to fight the state’s housing mandate, in an effort, some councilors said, to ease the public’s concern of high-density development.
The state is requiring 13,368 units to be built in the city by 2029, of which 60 percent would need to be low-income housing.
The mandate is known as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, otherwise known as RHNA, a state housing law that requires a set amount of housing units to be built by each city in the state.
Mobile homes in Huntington Beach Calif., on June 10, 2022. (Julianne Foster/The Epoch Times)
Additionally, the city also needs to provide an additional 7,000 buffer sites to support any projects that fall through….