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ABAG Frequently Asked Questions about RHNA (July 2020) 9 <br />Lastly, a local jurisdiction’s Housing Element must also affirmatively further fair housing and <br />include a program that establishes goals and actions to do so. HCD has developed guidance for <br />jurisdictions about how to address affirmatively furthering fair housing in Housing Elements. <br />Does RHNA dictate how local governments meet their communities’ housing needs or <br />where new housing goes within a given city or town? <br />It is important to note the primary role of the RHNA methodology is to encourage a pattern of <br />housing growth for the Bay Area. The final result of the RHNA process is the allocation of <br />housing units by income category to each jurisdiction. It is in the local Housing Element that <br />decisions about where future housing units could be located and the policies and strategies for <br />addressing a community’s specific housing needs are made. Local governments will include <br />strategies related to issues such as addressing homelessness, meeting the needs of specific <br />populations, affirmatively furthering fair housing, or minimizing displacement when they <br />develop their Housing Elements. Although the RHNA methodology may include factors that <br />conceptually assign housing to a particular geography, such as near a transit stop or in <br />proximity to jobs, the resulting allocation from ABAG goes to the jurisdiction as a whole. It is up <br />to local governments to use their Housing Elements to select the specific sites that will be zoned <br />for housing. <br />816