If this SF Chronicle map of housing developments in 2024 is accurate, it raises the question of what the majority-"progressive" government of Richmond is doing. You too, El Cerrito.
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I know that Richmond is building "nice trails" so that people can camp on them.
aug 13, 2025, 8:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Yikes
aug 13, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it possible Richmond is so low income developers aren't interested / private development isn't penciling? This is where social housing would be good as a backstop!
aug 13, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The RPA promised to bring social housing to Richmond decades ago, but the facts are that Richmond was actually outbuilding everyone under a laissez faire regime, until an abrupt reversal in 2007. Richmond out-built Berkeley every year until 2007, and never since.
aug 13, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
If you want to advance theories of builders refusing to build in less wealthy cities you'll need a different example because Richmond proves the opposite.
aug 13, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
more like Can'tra Constructa county am I right
aug 14, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Albany progress seems dismal Very Low Income 0 of 308 Low Income 0 of 178 Moderate Income 10 of 175 Above Moderate 0 of 453 www.housingreadinessreport.org/albany/repor...
aug 14, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
Shocked.
aug 14, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
I mean... isn't Richmond made up entirely of industrial and low/middle income housing? It's meeting all the quotas (I assume).
aug 13, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Nothing about their progress reports suggests that they are attaining quotas, especially not at low price points. But as we've seen their annual reports may be messed up.
aug 14, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
at least El Cerrito has a project at the BART station coming soon I think?
aug 13, 2025, 8:21 pm • 5 0 • view
This map seems to omit some but not all agency-sponsored project, e.g. NB BART housing is on here (even though it is a mirage) while EC BART housing is not, nor are some major UC developments.
aug 13, 2025, 9:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, that should definitely be on the map and it's not. I have a hard time believing that no one in Richmond is even building an ADU?
aug 13, 2025, 8:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Possibly this is rolling up the data submitted for RHNA which often has city level gaps?
aug 13, 2025, 8:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Given the stark boundaries in development on the map right where Richmond transitions in to San Pablo and unincorporated CoCo County, I suspect this is a data issue. Like, there's just no way that: A. No ADUs pencil in Richmond, or B. The Richmond planning dept is denying every ADU permit
aug 13, 2025, 8:55 pm • 9 0 • view
Also think its a data issue- I'm pretty confident there is a housing complex going up right next to San Pablo City Hall that doesn't show up on this map.
aug 13, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah it appears that the Richmond Annual Progress Report is itself full of errors. For one thing they've coded all of their multifamily development proposals as "MH" = Mobile Home, when they should have coded them "5+". Garbage in, garbage out, I guess.
aug 13, 2025, 9:47 pm • 6 1 • view
Well, that's disappointing on one front, but I guess it means they are approving some multi-family housing, which is good. If one thing has to be wrong, this is the direction I would prefer!
aug 13, 2025, 10:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Does not give me great confidence in their planning dept though!
aug 13, 2025, 10:23 pm • 2 0 • view
yeah I was gonna say, I wonder if this goes on someone's performance review 😬
aug 13, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Let's hope
aug 14, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
The SF Chronicle data is from HCD APRs. HCD's dashboard says that Richmond reports 55 ADUs and 75 mobile homes??? in 2024.
aug 13, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
With a place like Richmond, I'm always worried about a geocoding error
aug 13, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Richmond approved 55 ADUs last year, and 47 were completed, according to their APR, so I'm guessing it's a data issue. As someone else noticed, they coded all their multifamily as MH (mobile home) instead of 5+ (five or more multifamily units).
aug 13, 2025, 9:58 pm • 5 0 • view