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ABAG's Final Low Income Housing Alocation is Here

The actual document from the ABAG website appears in a link at the bottom of this post.

In general, if each unit were occupied by four to six persons as happened in the Plan Bay Area building in Dubllin, we would realize five new people per unit.

So, multiply each alocation by five to arrive at the total number of new residents that ABAG would be requiring.

Overall, ABAG is mandating 187,990 low income units be built in the Bay Area over just this nine year period - more next period - not giving credit for renovations of dilapidated buildings. Where their "Plan" took effect in Dublin, four to seven people, who were often recent immigrants imported from elsewhere, moved into such units, causing significant disruption to public schools. Assuming the number of arrivals we realize is five persons, our nine counties will take on 939,950 new residents - this does not include existing real estate projects already underway that will triple this figure.

http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/data.html

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