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City of San Leandro 2023-2031 Housing Element Update 4-2 place of residence), quarters in institutions, general hospitals, and military installations (except those occupied by staff members or resident employees who have separate living quarters).2 The RHNA methodology used weighting of indicators such as opportunity access and job proximity to allocate housing units by different income categories to meet the State mandate to reduce over- concentration of lower income households in historically lower-income communities in the region. The RHNA for each jurisdiction is distributed into four income categories based on the Area Median Income (AMI)3:  Very low-income (less than 50 percent of AMI)  Low-income (50-80 percent of AMI)  Moderate-income (80-120 percent of AMI)  Above-moderate income (more than 120 percent of the AMI) The RHNA does not project the need for extremely low-income units, but State law (AB 2634, 2006- Lieber) requires that the City project its extremely low-income housing needs based on Census income distribution data or assume 50 percent of the very low-income units required by the RHNA as extremely low-income units. The City’s very low-income requirement is 862 units. Therefore, the City’s RHNA allocation of 862 very low-income units was distributed as 431 extremely low (50 percent of the 862 very low-income units required by the RHNA) and 431 very low-income units. However, for purposes of identifying adequate sites for the RHNA allocation, State law does not mandate the separate accounting for the extremely low-income category. As shown below in Table 4.1, 46.7 percent of San Leandro’s RHNA is allocated to housing units affordable to above-moderate income households, 18.1 percent for moderate-income households, 12.8 percent for low-income households, and 22.4 percent for very low-income households (including 11.2% for extremely low-income). Table 4.1 San Leandro Regional Housing Needs Requirement Allocation Income Category (Percent of Alameda County Area Median Income [AMI]) Number of Units Percent of Total Units Extremely Low Income (15-30% AMI) 431 11.2% Very Low-Income (30-50% AMI) 431 11.2% Low Income (50-80% AMI) 495 12.8% Moderate Income (80-120% AMI) 696 18.1% Above Moderate Income (>120% AMI) 1,802 46.7% Total 3,855 100.0% 4.2 Meeting the RHNA Jurisdictions can use planned and approved projects, estimated accessory dwelling unit (ADU) production, and vacant and underutilized sites to accommodate the RHNA. Each of these topics are addressed below. 2 HCD. Housing Element Site Inventory Guidebook Government Code Section 65583.2. June 2020. https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community- development/housing-element/docs/sites_inventory_memo_final06102020.pdf 3 The Area Median Income of Alameda County is $125,600 for a household of four people.