Purpose and Intent
San Diego Municipal Code § 98.0501
in effect§98.0501 Purpose and Intent
(a) It is the intent of the City Council to create an Affordable Housing Fund as a permanent and annually renewable source of revenue to meet, in part, the housing needs of the City’s very low, low, and median income households. There are households which are income eligible and also possess one or more of the following characteristics; (1) they are burdened by paying more than thirty percent (30%) of their gross income for housing costs; (2) they live in overcrowded conditions; (3) they live in substandard housing units; (4) they are homeless individuals and families; or (5) they consist of individuals and families with special housing needs such as the elderly, the developmentally disabled, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, single parent households and large families.
(b) The Affordable Housing Fund will serve as a vehicle for addressing very low, low, and median income housing needs through a combination of funds as provided for in these regulations.
(c) It is the intent of the City Council to address a significant portion of the City’s current and projected very low, low, and median income housing need by leveraging every one dollar of City funds allocated to the Fund with two dollars of non–City subsidy capital funds.
(d) It is further the intent of the Council to foster a mix of family incomes in projects assisted by the Fund and to disperse affordable housing projects throughout the City, in accordance with its Balanced Communities Policy and its intent to achieve a balance of incomes in all neighborhoods and communities so that no single neighborhood experiences a disproportionate concentration of housing units affordable to very low, low, and median income households.
(e) It is the purpose and intent of this part to preserve and maintain renter and ownership housing units which are affordable to low, very low, and moderate income households and are located within the City, including federally assisted units and units located in mobile home parks.
(f) It is the further intent of the City Council to foster and encourage the private sector to join with the public sector and the nonprofit sector to further the goals of this ordinance.
(Amended 6–3–2003 by O–19190 N.S.)
Source: City of San Diego Office of the City Clerk, San Diego Municipal Code and City Charter (docs.sandiego.gov PDFs)URL: https://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter09/Ch09Art08Division05.pdf#page=1Fetched: 10/28/2026