OUR AGENDA
Fair housing progress in San Diego requires action on multiple fronts simultaneously. Some fights are open right now. Others require years of building. Here is where we are working and why.
HORIZON 1 · 2026 OPEN WINDOWS
Right now
These are decisions being made in 2026. Regulations being drafted, ordinances up for reversal, bills in committee, measures on the November ballot. A position taken after these close is a position taken too late.
Neighborhood Homes Phase 2
Active fight
The City is writing regulations right now, summer through winter 2026, to legalize townhomes, rowhomes, and cottages in single-family neighborhoods. The AFFH outcome depends on what those regulations say about high-resource areas.
Neighborhood Homes Phase 2
Active fight
The City is writing regulations right now, summer through winter 2026, to legalize townhomes, rowhomes, and cottages in single-family neighborhoods. The AFFH outcome depends on what those regulations say about high-resource areas.
Neighborhood Homes Phase 2
Active fight
The City is writing regulations right now, summer through winter 2026, to legalize townhomes, rowhomes, and cottages in single-family neighborhoods. The AFFH outcome depends on what those regulations say about high-resource areas.
AB 1903: condo defect liability reform
In Senate
Condo construction has fallen 90% since 2005. AB 1903 gives builders a right to repair before suit and passed the Assembly 70-0. The Senate is the fight. Condos are the only at-scale first-time ownership product in high-cost coastal markets.
Proposition 1: $11.25B housing bond
Active fight
The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act is on the November 2026 ballot. Includes $1B for homeownership via CalHome and CalHFA down payment assistance, the most relevant piece for closing the racial ownership gap in high-resource areas.
HORIZON 2 · 2027–2028 PUSHES
Near-term
These require a coalition that does not exist yet, a ballot cycle that has not arrived, or a bill that has not been introduced. The work now is building the case and the relationships.
CLT acquisition fund
Window open
Community land trusts lock in affordability permanently and build household equity across resales. San Diego’s Neighborhood Homes initiative explicitly names CLT support as a goal. A dedicated municipal acquisition fund gets CLTs into high-resource areas before land appreciates further.
CLT acquisition fund
Window open
Community land trusts lock in affordability permanently and build household equity across resales. San Diego’s Neighborhood Homes initiative explicitly names CLT support as a goal. A dedicated municipal acquisition fund gets CLTs into high-resource areas before land appreciates further.
HORIZON 3 · LONG-ARC ACCOUNTABILITY
Structural
These do not resolve. They are the standing obligations that make every item above enforceable, and the measurement infrastructure that makes progress visible. This is where the Fair Housing Data Project and the advocacy agenda meet.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
AB 686 enforcement: hold the City accountable
Status
California’s AFFH duty is in state law, independent of federal rules. Every City housing decision, including SB 79 phasing, ADU rollback, and inclusionary siting, is testable against AB 686. This is the legal foothold for everything else on this page.
This agenda will change. Fights close, new ones open, and some of what is listed here will turn out to be the wrong priority.
If you work on any of these and think we have something wrong, we want to hear it.
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