Adopted 2014-2021 Housing Element - Garden Grove

Housing Element Needs Assessmentneeds in the City in a manner that supports the countywide CoC system. ESG funds for the City areused to fund Women’s Transitional Living Center, Thomas House Temporary Shelter, and IntervalHouse. The City’s Housing Authority also has Memorandums of Understanding with Thomas Houseand Interval House that give preference to homeless families referred by the shelters to assist intheir transition from emergency/transitional shelter to permanent, stable housing.The City of Garden Grove's Neighborhood Improvement Committee is working on developingstrategies to address the homelessness issue. Some of the tasks the committee has been workingon include; assisting with the Point in Time Survey, creating an inventory of local communityresources, meeting with local Homeless Committee activists, exploring day center options,providing storage space for homeless belongings and addressing potential crime concerns withinthe homeless population.To provide opportunities for establishment of emergency homeless shelters, in 2010 the Cityamended the Land Use Code to provide for emergency homeless shelters as a permitted use in theEmergency Shelter Overlay zone of the M-1 zone. The ordinance also included objective standardsto regulate emergency shelters and added supportive housing and transitional housing to the matrixof permitted uses, consistent with State law. In practice, transitional and supportive housing aretreated the same as any other residential use of property in the zones in which they are located,with no restrictions on tenancy other than what is imposed by building codes.Housing ProfileThis section addresses characteristics of the housing supply in Garden Grove, including type, age,condition, costs, and availability.Housing StockGarden Grove is a built-out city and as expected has seen only a modest growth in its housingstock. The 2010 Census reported 47,755 housing units in Garden Grove, representing an increaseof approximately 2% since 2000 and 4% since 1990 (Table 14). Housing growth in the City hasbeen significantly less than Orange County figures.Table 14: Housing Unit Growth 1990-2010% Change2000-2010% Change1990-20101990 2000 2010JurisdictionGarden Grove 45,984 46,703 47,755 2% 4%Cypress 14,715 16,028 16,068 0.2% 9%Fountain Valley 18,019 18,477 19,164 4% 6%Los Alamitos 4,279 4,329 4,355 1% 2%Orange 38,018 41,904 45,111 8% 19%Santa Ana 74,973 74,475 76,896 3% 3%Seal Beach 14,407 14,267 14,558 2% 1%Stanton 10,755 11,011 11,283 2% 5%Westminster 25,852 26,940 27,650 3% 7%Orange County 875,072 969,484 1,046,118 8% 20%Source: U.S. Census 1990, 2000 and 20102014-2021 Housing Element 20 City of Garden Grove