The purpose of the City's Housing Allocation Plan (HAP) is to enhance the public welfare and assure the compatibility between future housing development and the Housing Element of the Santa Rosa General Plan of the City through increasing the production of housing units affordable to households of lower income.

It is the purpose of the HAP to meet the Santa Rosa General Plan goals to expand the supply of housing available to lower income households.

The HAP was enacted in 1992 and last amended by Ordinance 3998 on December 4, 2012. The HAP can be found as Chapter 21-02 in the Santa Rosa City Code.