4% of the Way to a Mandatory Goal
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Foster City is in a housing production emergency. Two years into the 2023–2031 RHNA cycle, Foster City has completed just 73 of the 1,896 homes it is required to plan for and has approved only 38 new units — roughly 3 to 4 percent of its state target — prompting blunt talk at a recent City Council meeting. Only five certificates of occupancy were issued in all of 2025. The mandate breaks down as 520 very-low, 299 low, 300 moderate, and 777 above-moderate units — a sharp jump from prior cycles. High interest rates, rising construction costs, and tighter lending have dragged on new housing production across the Bay Area, but Foster City's numbers are among the worst on the Peninsula. The city's adopted Housing Element identifies sites primarily along the Triton Drive and Pilgrim Drive corridors — the same areas where the prior Pilgrim-Triton development delivered 805 housing units including 163 below-market-rate units — but new projects have been slow to follow.
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