Annual Report - #HaywardForward

#HaywardForward is a new public information project of the City Hayward. It is the place, channel and social media hashtag at and through which we report on and share news and progress we are making as a City and Community.
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City Manager's Message:

Dustin Claussen Hayward Interim City ManagerDear Hayward Residents, 

One of our Strategic Priorities at the City of Hayward is to Preserve, Protect and Produce Housing for All—and there’s good reason for it.  

Population growth has been outpacing available housing stock in Hayward and across the Bay Area.  From the year 2000 to 2019, the number of housing units built in our City grew by nine percent while total population grew by nearly 18 percent.  

As a result, more people are competing for relatively fewer homes. The consequences are rising rents and home prices, overcrowding of older apartment buildings, more people falling into the category of being housing-cost burdened—spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent or their mortgage—and a corresponding rise in homelessness here in Hayward and across the region.

We are working on multiple levels and in multiple ways to respond and deliver—to keep people in their homes while preserving and growing our housing stock to meet the needs of a population that is not only increasing in size but changing in its composition.

We wanted to use the 2024 edition of our Annual Report mailer to highlight our strategies and progress. To learn more, visit www.hayward-ca.gov/forward on the City of Hayward website. If you have questions or comments, you can contact me at Dustin.Claussen@hayward-ca.gov or Hayward Public Information Officer Chuck Finnie at Chuck.Finnie@hayward-ca.gov

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Dustin Claussen
Interim City Manager
Mark Salinas, MAYOR
Francisco Zermeño, MAYOR PRO TEM
Angela Andrews, COUNCILMEMBER
Ray Bonilla Jr., COUNCILMEMBER
Dan Goldstein, COUNCILMEMBER
Julie Roche, COUNCILMEMBER
George Syrop, COUNCILMEMBER
 
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