California’s 400-plus Redevelopment Agencies (RDAs) played a critical role in the development of affordable housing across the state for over 60 years. Created to address the state’s community needs after World War II, redevelopment agencies allowed cities and counties across California to recapture growth in property taxes as tax-increment financing for affordable housing and community infrastructure projects, to improve conditions in designated areas within their jurisdictions
that faced blight and disinvestment.