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June 5, 2025

June 2025 News Conference

NEWS CONFERENCE >>> Housing Coalition to Unveil New Reports Showing How City Can Lower Housing Costs 42% AND Generate Hundreds of Millions in New Revenue for City Services and Schools

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June 4, 2025

About HO4SD, and Working Group

About HO4SD: Co-chaired by LISC San Diego’s Ricardo Flores and economist Gary London, Homeownership Opportunities for SD (HO4SD) is a coalition of housing leaders and advocates with a plan that would generate more housing San Diegans can afford while creating millions in new tax revenue for parks, libraries, schools and other neighborhood services.

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May 30, 2025

REPORT: San Diego Community Lot Size Reduction: Market and Feasibility Analysis

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ("LISC") has recently formed a coalition of local housing experts and advocates called Homeownership Opportunities for San Diego ("HO4SD"). That coalition, led by LISC, introduced the concept of eliminating the City of San Diego's minimum lot size requirement in residential zones to allow for the development of residential housing suitable for middle income families. This report summarizes the analysis London Moeder Advisors ("LMA") undertook to test the extent to which the HO4SD proposal would achieve its objective of lowering these price points.

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Gary London, Nathan Moeder, Robert Martinez, Bailey Stubbs

May 5, 2025

REPORT: City of San Diego Property Tax: Impact of High-Density Family Housing Development

London Moeder Advisors ("LMA") has completed an analysis of the property tax revenue potential derived from eliminating minimum lot size requirements for single-family zones within the City of San Diego. This analysis is an outgrowth from LMA's prior study which determined that by eliminating the City's 100-year-old minimum single-family lot size requirement of 5,000 square feet, it would open the door to High Density Family Housing (HDF) at an average 42% cost reduction in the price of replacement homes.

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Gary London, Nathan Moeder, Robert Martinez

January 13, 2025

Opinion: Homes on Smaller Lots Would Offer a Solution to San Diego’s Budget, Housing Woes

If you can build a home on a smaller lot, it will be cheaper. And San Diego needs more homes. A lot of them.

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Ricardo Flores

August 19, 2024

Opinion: Lawmakers can revitalize the California dream by removing the chokehold of single-family zoning

For decades, people have moved to California in pursuit of the “California dream” – the idea of owning a home in the most beautiful state in the country, with beaches, mountains, deserts, and forests, blessed with abundant opportunity and the freedom to live the life you want to live.

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Ricardo Flores and Konstantin Hatcher

April 16, 2024

Opinion: Want to add housing in San Diego? Allow building on smaller lots.

San Diego is at a crossroads, but fortunately we have options.

Author(s):

Gary Lodon and Ricardo Flores