Fresno planning staff present 2025 housing element progress report; city at 12.5% of RHNA
March 20, 2026 | Fresno City, Fresno County, California
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City planning staff presented Fresno'9s 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR) on March 19, describing zoning and production gains and next steps to meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA).
Sophia Pagalotus of the Planning and Development Department told the council the city'9s RHNA for the 8-year cycle through 2031 is 36,866 units and that, as of the end of 2025, the city had realized 4,621 units (about 12.5 percent of the RHNA). Staff reported a 23 percent increase in housing unit completions over 2024, more than 2,000 building permits issued in 2025 and nearly 400 deed-restricted affordable units completed. Examples cited included the Clinton Avenue Apartments (78 affordable units), HomeKey-funded acquisitions and supportive-housing projects.
The department also highlighted zoning changes enacted in 2025 that created capacity in high-resource areas, and described programs to support homeownership, mobile-home preservation and accessory dwelling units. Staff noted the creation of pre-approved ADU plans and said 41 ADUs were completed in 2025 with 179 in the pipeline.
Planning staff said the APR would be submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by the April 1 deadline and asked the council to hold a public hearing and accept the report for submission. Four community workshops and multilingual outreach accompanied the report; public commenters told the council they wanted deeper attention to supportive services and to ensure new units are paired with social supports where appropriate.
What residents asked for: speakers at the hearing stressed wraparound services, security and programmatic supports for some projects (particularly projects serving people with behavioral-health or substance-use needs) and said the city should include more geographic detail about where units are produced.
What happens next: staff will submit the APR to HCD by April 1 and continue to implement the housing element programs (funding applications, streamlined approvals and zoning capacity measures) to increase production toward the RHNA target.
Sophia Pagalotus of the Planning and Development Department told the council the city'9s RHNA for the 8-year cycle through 2031 is 36,866 units and that, as of the end of 2025, the city had realized 4,621 units (about 12.5 percent of the RHNA). Staff reported a 23 percent increase in housing unit completions over 2024, more than 2,000 building permits issued in 2025 and nearly 400 deed-restricted affordable units completed. Examples cited included the Clinton Avenue Apartments (78 affordable units), HomeKey-funded acquisitions and supportive-housing projects.
The department also highlighted zoning changes enacted in 2025 that created capacity in high-resource areas, and described programs to support homeownership, mobile-home preservation and accessory dwelling units. Staff noted the creation of pre-approved ADU plans and said 41 ADUs were completed in 2025 with 179 in the pipeline.
Planning staff said the APR would be submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by the April 1 deadline and asked the council to hold a public hearing and accept the report for submission. Four community workshops and multilingual outreach accompanied the report; public commenters told the council they wanted deeper attention to supportive services and to ensure new units are paired with social supports where appropriate.
What residents asked for: speakers at the hearing stressed wraparound services, security and programmatic supports for some projects (particularly projects serving people with behavioral-health or substance-use needs) and said the city should include more geographic detail about where units are produced.
What happens next: staff will submit the APR to HCD by April 1 and continue to implement the housing element programs (funding applications, streamlined approvals and zoning capacity measures) to increase production toward the RHNA target.
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