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Housing Element Certified
Very Low Income Housing Permitted
0.2%
permits issued
Low Income Housing Permitted
0.3%
permits issued
AFFH Programs
17
programs
Rent Burden
45%
rent burdened
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Community Conditions

The indicators below show how the housing crisis impacts different communities, and how conditions like rent burden, displacement risk, and unequal access to opportunity shape this jurisdiction’s housing needs and priorities.

Rent Burden

45%
rent burdened

Rent burden measures the share of household income spent on housing. Households that spend more than 30% of their gross income on rent are considered “rent burdened,” and those spending more than 50% are considered “severely rent burdened,” according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Rent Burden By Race and Ethnicity

This shows burdened renters in Pleasanton by race and ethnicity during 2019
Rent burden data by race and ethnicity is not available at the city level for this jurisdiction. Sub-county data is shown instead, which includes this jurisdiction along with one or more neighboring cities.

Rent Burden Levels 2000-2019

This shows burdened and severely burdened renters in Pleasanton over the last 20 years

Gentrification Risk

0%
residents with low income in gentrifying tracts

Gentrification risk measures the likelihood that low-income residents—particularly people of color—will be displaced as neighborhoods experience rising rents, investment, and demographic change.. Each community is classified into one of four categories: gentrifying community, at risk of gentrification, stable community or exclusive community.

Gentrification Risk data for Pleasanton is not available.

Neighborhood Opportunity

42%
highest resource

Neighborhood opportunity reflects access to key resources like good schools, jobs, transportation, and safe environments. Each neighborhood is classified into one of five opportunity levels—from “high segregation and poverty” to “highest resource”—based on factors that influence long-term well-being and upward mobility.

Neighborhood Opportunity 2019

Percent of population by race and ethnicity living in neighborhoods at each resource level
What's the impact?

For decades, discriminatory policies like redlining, restrictive covenants, and exclusionary zoning barred people of color from accessing housing in high-opportunity neighborhoods. At the same time, government-led urban renewal projects demolished homes and businesses in communities of color, especially Black neighborhoods, destroying intergenerational wealth. These patterns entrenched racial segregation and continue to shape today’s unequal access to schools, jobs, transit, and other neighborhood resources.

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