The County of San Diego’s Housing and Community Development Services presented its Fiscal Year 2027–28 Annual Plan Strategy to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the county said. This account is the county’s summary of the first phase of its annual planning process and the community engagement that informed it.

The plan prioritizes building and preserving affordable housing; expanding access to housing through rental assistance and move‑in support; and increasing housing with supportive services such as permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing. Those priorities are the planning criteria the county will use when it develops funding recommendations.

The county said its outreach reached more than 33,000 residents and stakeholders and that 207 community members provided input. Surveys were offered in 10 threshold languages; the county held in-person sessions in Spring Valley, Del Mar, Ramona, Fallbrook and Imperial Beach, and it ran two virtual sessions to increase accessibility.

Residents identified high rent, limited affordable options and insufficient rental assistance as the region’s top housing problems; they called out needs among families with children, extremely low-income households, seniors, people experiencing homelessness and people with disabilities. The county published articles in community newspapers that focus on its threshold languages and communities at higher risk of housing instability.

The plan will guide how the county prioritizes federal funding from four U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development programs: Community Development Block Grant; HOME Investment Partnerships; Emergency Solutions Grant; and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS. Those programs, the county said, support affordable housing, neighborhood improvements and services for vulnerable people across the region.

This is the first phase of the county’s annual process; HCDS will return to the Board in Spring 2027 with recommended projects and budget allocations. Practically, that will be when specific proposals for where HUD money goes are expected to appear.

Since 2017, the county said it has invested more than $343 million in affordable housing infrastructure; that work has helped create more than 3,900 new homes and the county says nearly 2,200 additional homes are now in development. The county framed the plan as advancing its Housing for All initiative and the regional Live Well San Diego vision.

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