INCLUSIONARY ZONING part 5

INCLUSIONARY ZONING

Inland in Sacramento, where California’s capital city saw the percentage of affordable homes fall from 70 percent to less than 10, Inclusionary Zoning is applauded. Desmond Parrington, a planner with the City of Sacramento, said nearly 2,000 affordable houses and rental units have been created.

The city’s Mixed Income Ordinance, created in 2000, seeks to “prevent segregated communities through economic integration.” It also “aims to provide affordable housing that fits the character of market rate neighborhoods.”

“(The program) has been successful at creating new mixed income communities that might not otherwise be created when new housing is built, due to the high price of land and construction costs in California,” Parrington reported.
“It ensures that there are lower-income units that are part of market rate developments and that those units are built concurrently with the rest of the project.”