Senate Bill 979 Regional Housing Needs Allocation Judicial Review to allow impacted cities and counties to appeal to the courts if they believe their Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA)—the allotment of housing units by household income level that they are legally obligated to plan for via rezoning, regulatory reform, housing subsidies, and so forth—is arbitrary, inequitable, unsupported by data, or otherwise inconsistent with state law. In doing so, it allows local governments to obtain a truly independent review free of the conflicts of interest inherent in the existing process that limits them to appealing before the same body that made the initial RHNA determination.
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