RHTA Evaluation - Interview and Focus Group Feedback by

Relationships (from Jane)

informingchange — 2024-02-15 18:28:56 UTC

some may not be comfortable with words like "deepening" or "closer" relationships

Housing Element cycle (form Jane)

informingchange — 2024-02-15 18:30:04 UTC

Potential new question (from Jillian)

2024-02-15 18:49:04 UTC

What would you change about the process knowing the biggest challenges, issues, etc.? Maybe another question just needs a follow up or can be reworded.

2024-02-15 18:49:39 UTC

Question #2 I think would benefit from being broken out out a little further.

RHTA (from Jeff)

2024-02-15 18:49:49 UTC

I'm not sure every local planner knows what RHTA stands for. I also don't expect that they will know off the top of their heads what the RHTA objectives are

Q3 Historic housing element process (Jeff)

2024-02-15 18:50:54 UTC

Some of us have been around a while, but for many local planners, this element has been their first

Edit to Question #5

2024-02-15 18:52:07 UTC

Clarify what close means?

HCD (from Jeff)

2024-02-15 18:52:58 UTC

While I understand HCD is not the topic of this evaluation, I don't think you can talk about TA without talking about the intense opinions many of us have as a result of our interactions with HCD

County vs region (Jeff)

2024-02-15 18:54:44 UTC

I'm not sure what kind of distinction you are looking for when asking first about our county and then the region.

Agree with Jeff's HCD comment

2024-02-15 19:05:09 UTC

Need to include a question regarding how this process helped with the Housing Element success or other TA success.

People might not even know what RHTA is. Be sure to introduce it.

2024-02-15 19:08:52 UTC

Bodies of TA

informingchange — 2024-02-15 19:13:46 UTC

Body of TA for housing element update process AND other for new laws/everything else.

Q4 in TA Implementer

2024-02-15 19:15:58 UTC

This question isn't marked as a priority, but I think it is really important for ABAG to know.

informingchange — 2024-02-15 19:16:09 UTC

Housing element certified more quickly, build relationships with colleagues. - wouldn't ask that about new housing law webinars, for instance.

informingchange — 2024-02-15 19:21:31 UTC

recipients - maybe as about perception of ABAG. Admin will care about this.

Overall framework of questions

2024-02-15 19:42:42 UTC

I notice that the questions are posed in a positive way (e.g., "how did TA help ..."). I think it also would be good to ask, in a nice way, what was a waste of time. Alternatively, perhaps it is worth asking how much did TA help?

Consultants (Jeff)

2024-02-15 19:45:14 UTC

Most of us relied greatly on consultants. I passed on some of the TA materials to our consultant, but not all of it. I'm not really sure how much of what I passed on was used by our consultant.

TA Implementer Protocol

2024-02-16 02:58:46 UTC

It might be good to include a question about how TA Implementers experienced working with ABAG and what they would like to see change.

Admin Interview Protocol

2024-02-16 03:00:03 UTC

Depending on who ends up on our final internal Admin list, we may want to develop a question or two specific to that person's role with the RHTA program. ABAG can provide further specifics here.

Implementer and Recipient Q#2 "biggest issues"

2024-02-16 19:41:42 UTC

I might suggest asking about the "goals" you perceive RHTA trying to accomplish rather than the "issues or situations"

Implementer questions

2024-02-16 19:45:55 UTC

Can we ask about relationships in these interviews? I think some of these interviewees will have some of the birds-eye to see changes regionally