The Housing Accountability Act provides for voluntary and selected approval processes for local government housing elements and related development regulations.
The selected review process provides that Commerce may select up to 10 cities or counties each year for review, based on a set of criteria in the HAA.
Commerce has developed Draft Selected Review Criteria and Procedures (PDF) for public review. Please provide feedback on this document by Nov. 14, by emailing Laura Hodgson.
Commerce will also be holding a public comment feedback session at 1p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4.
If a housing element and regulations are found to be inconsistent with state law, the jurisdiction must work with Commerce to make changes, may not deny affordable or moderate-income housing development and would be ineligible for certain state infrastructure grants and loans.
