Newark Affordable Housing Plan

Newark, CA is a growing Bay Area city experiencing many of the same affordable housing and community development challenges faced by communities across Silicon Valley. Since 2020, Community Planning Collaborative has provided support to the City of Newark, helping to develop its affordable housing workplan through on-call technical assistance that complements their limited in-house capacity. CPC has supported the City in implementing more of its ambitious pro-housing policies and programs, providing support for planning entitlement projects, and generally supporting the City’s affordable housing program efforts, policy development, and regional planning efforts.

Key elements of the affordable housing work plan and housing element implementation include:

• Developing and managing Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) to identify affordable housing development partners and a BMR program administrator

• Conducting an inclusionary housing policy feasibility analysis and associated outreach to support the adoption of an updated inclusionary housing ordinance

• Developing a feasible and fair-housing-compliant local preference policy for Newark residents and workers to receive priority in new affordable housing

• Identifying and developing tenant protection policies to support Newark’s anti-displacement goals

• Exploring affordable housing sites acquisition strategies

• Providing development negotiation and transaction support

• Designing and developing the city’s housing website