It must be a slow session of the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury if they have time to commiserate about how cities cannot track the incomes of people who occupy ADUs jammed into neighborhoods by the state housing requirement numbers. No kidding. Here are some of the specifics from the DJ piece titled "Civil grand jury targets cities' focus on ADUs".
Hillsborough, Woodside, Portola Valley and Atherton are leaning heavily on accessory dwelling units to address the state’s affordable housing requirements and has no way of verifying tenants' income, according to a report by the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury issued Monday. “For every accessory dwelling unit that gets a permit and is counted as an affordable unit, equals one fewer deed restricted affordable unit,” civil grand juror Spector said.
Of course, neither does any other city or town without a heavy investment in tenant-snooping snitches. Even with a snitch army, how do you do it? Here's the source of the issue:
Each jurisdiction is assigned a number of units for varied incomes: very low, low, moderate and above moderate. Most cities follow a 30-30-30-10 format, meaning 30% each for the very low to moderate income categories and 10% for above moderate. The categories are based on the county’s average median income, around $116,000 for a one-person household, according to the county.
Seldom does one see an instance of social engineering spelled out with such engineer-like specificity. One wonders if the snoopers will want the full income $xx,xxx.yy details down to the penny? So instead of crying time-out on the whole principle and sending the CA Department of Housing and Community Development a message to cease-and-desist, the grand jury doubles down
HCD instructed the county jurisdictions to monitor and verify ADU production and affordability at least every two years but never specified what the process should look like, according to the report. In the report, the grand jury suggests jurisdictions stop using ADUs unless it has an effective monitoring system that verifies how they will be used.
Click through to read more of this ridiculous social engineering fiasco. As I said, it must be a slow session at the grand jury to get this far out of their lane.
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