City of Carlsbad Housing & Neighborhood Services

Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
The City of Carlsbad has several programs which have been designed to increase affordable housing opportunities for lower income households. The signature program is Carlsbad's mandatory inclusionary housing program. This program requires housing developers to provide 15 percent of their total units as affordable to low income households. Since this requirement was set forth by ordinance in 1993, the city has experienced the successful construction of over 2000 units of housing affordable to low, very low and extremely low income households.