The Housing Element is one of seven elements required to be included in the County of Monterey General Plan.  State law identifies the subjects that must be addressed in a Housing Element.  These guidelines are identified in Article 10.6 of the State of California Government Code (Sections 65580 et.seq.)

State law specifies that the Housing Element must assess housing needs and evaluate the current housing market in the County and then identify programs that will meet housing needs.  The housing market evaluation includes a review of housing stock characteristics as well as housing costs, household incomes, special needs households, availability of land and infrastructure and various other factors.  Also included is the community's "Regional Housing Needs Allocation" which provides an estimate of the number of housing units that should be provided in the community to meet its share of new households in the region.  In addition to this information, the Housing Element document must review and evaluate its past housing programs and consider this review in planning future housing strategies.  The County's current Housing Element was adopted in 2016. 

The County is currently in the process of updating the 6th Cycle Housing Element for 2023 – 2031. If you would like to stay informed, Click here to be taken to the project page. 

• 2023 Housing Element Annual Progress Report - This Excel workbook was developed by the State of California Department of Housing & Community Development. The workbook contains macros. The data cells in the workbook are not security protected and may be modified by third parties.
• 2021 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2020 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2019 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2018 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2017 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2016 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2015 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
• 2015 - 2023 Housing Element Adopted and Certified
• 2015 - 2023 Board Order Housing Element 2016.01.26 

• The California Department of Housing & Community Development has created a variety of dashboards that allow users to access data reported during the 5th HE Cycle for all jurisdictions in the state. These dashboards can be accessed at:

  https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard

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