Land use: housing element: regional housing need assessment.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan, and requires the general plan to include certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law also requires the housing element, in turn, to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of those needs. That law further requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for specified revisions of the housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law sets forth manners for determining the regional housing…