Housing Blueprint

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This opportunity has concluded. In May 2025, the Housing Blueprint implementation plan was submitted to the Board in a memo that outlines how staff are prioritizing these actions as well as additional County efforts that align with Blueprint goals. The implementation plan can be found here.



In August 2024, the County developed a roadmap to help guide our ongoing response to the housing affordability crisis. The Housing Blueprint (Blueprint) establishes goals, objectives, and strategies the County will follow to maximize our resources, balance priorities, and ensure the steps we take to meet San Diego’s housing needs align with our core values of integrity, belonging, excellence, access, sustainability, and equity.

Community input is vital to our efforts to address the crisis. We will provide highlights of our new policies and the implementation of the Blueprint on this page so that you have an opportunity to provide feedback in the box below.

Background

San Diego desperately needs affordable housing. Home building in the region has not kept pace with population growth and demand at nearly all income levels. This situation puts particular strain on households with extremely low to moderate income levels. The high cost of housing contributes to homelessness and can perpetuate cycles of poverty.

To address this, the County has worked to curb the housing affordability crisis. Since 2019, the Board has established multiple initiatives (2019 - 22 Summary of Board Directives) to help stimulate affordable housing production and improve access to homes for the most vulnerable, including new land use policies for the county’s unincorporated area and new housing development and resource programs throughout the region.

Community input has been integral to ensuring the development of those initiatives, many of which have been completed.

As we continue this work, we need a guiding tool to help maximize our resources and prioritize our efforts. As a first step, the Board approved a draft Blueprint in December 2022 with an initial set of goals and objectives (see documents to the right). It reflects prior community input, specific regional priorities, direction from the Board, as well as state mandates. Your feedback was important as we continued to finalize the Blueprint to ensure that any new factors in the changing housing landscape were considered.

In developing the Blueprint, many factors were considered including:

  • State mandates
  • Regional policy priorities
  • County values
  • Board directives and priorities
  • Available resources (funding, expertise)
  • Community input

How your community participated in the Blueprint development process:

  • Stayed informed by reviewing the information on this site
  • Shared the information with others
  • Participated in the engagement tools on this site
  • Contributed to conversations at meetings and other engagement opportunities
  • Spoke up and asked questions!

This opportunity has concluded. In May 2025, the Housing Blueprint implementation plan was submitted to the Board in a memo that outlines how staff are prioritizing these actions as well as additional County efforts that align with Blueprint goals. The implementation plan can be found here.



In August 2024, the County developed a roadmap to help guide our ongoing response to the housing affordability crisis. The Housing Blueprint (Blueprint) establishes goals, objectives, and strategies the County will follow to maximize our resources, balance priorities, and ensure the steps we take to meet San Diego’s housing needs align with our core values of integrity, belonging, excellence, access, sustainability, and equity.

Community input is vital to our efforts to address the crisis. We will provide highlights of our new policies and the implementation of the Blueprint on this page so that you have an opportunity to provide feedback in the box below.

Background

San Diego desperately needs affordable housing. Home building in the region has not kept pace with population growth and demand at nearly all income levels. This situation puts particular strain on households with extremely low to moderate income levels. The high cost of housing contributes to homelessness and can perpetuate cycles of poverty.

To address this, the County has worked to curb the housing affordability crisis. Since 2019, the Board has established multiple initiatives (2019 - 22 Summary of Board Directives) to help stimulate affordable housing production and improve access to homes for the most vulnerable, including new land use policies for the county’s unincorporated area and new housing development and resource programs throughout the region.

Community input has been integral to ensuring the development of those initiatives, many of which have been completed.

As we continue this work, we need a guiding tool to help maximize our resources and prioritize our efforts. As a first step, the Board approved a draft Blueprint in December 2022 with an initial set of goals and objectives (see documents to the right). It reflects prior community input, specific regional priorities, direction from the Board, as well as state mandates. Your feedback was important as we continued to finalize the Blueprint to ensure that any new factors in the changing housing landscape were considered.

In developing the Blueprint, many factors were considered including:

  • State mandates
  • Regional policy priorities
  • County values
  • Board directives and priorities
  • Available resources (funding, expertise)
  • Community input

How your community participated in the Blueprint development process:

  • Stayed informed by reviewing the information on this site
  • Shared the information with others
  • Participated in the engagement tools on this site
  • Contributed to conversations at meetings and other engagement opportunities
  • Spoke up and asked questions!