town business: oakland isnt meeting its affordable housing goals; is the city discriminating in contracting? /

Affordable Housing: Like other cities,Oakland is required each year to report on whether it's assembly regionally-determined housing construction goals. This year's update, summarizing building permits issued in 2016, and shows that while market-rate apartments and homes are filling up the city's construction pipeline,current affordable housing projects occupy virtually disappeared.[br]
To keep up with the bare minimum goals set under the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, Oakland needs to build 870 affordable housing units every year.…

Source: eastbayexpress.com