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Anaheim approves hotelier plan to fund affordable housing for workers
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Posted on: December 9, 2025
Anaheim approves hotelier plan to fund affordable housing for workers
ANAHEIM, Calif. (Dec. 9, 2025) - Hotels around Anaheim's theme parks and convention center will fund affordable housing for hospitality workers with final action Tuesday at Anaheim's City Council meeting.
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution and ordinance enacting changes to the Anaheim Tourism and Improvement District, known as ATID, as part of a procedural second Council vote after initial approval on Nov. 18.
Changes take effect in 30 days in early January with funding going toward affordable housing starting on Feb. 1.
ATID is a district of hotels that funds tourism and improvements in The Anaheim Resort through an assessment, or 2 percent additional charge, on hotel stays.
The changes:
- Broaden ATID's governing rules to include workforce housing as an area of funding along with tourism marketing and transportation and other improvements.
- Direct 9 percent of ATID assessments to fund affordable housing for hospitality workers through the Anaheim Local Housing Trust Fund, the city's recently launched fund for affordable housing communities, emergency rent assistance and first-time homebuyer support.
- Create an ATID Housing Committee to make recommendations on workforce housing.
- Update ATID boundaries to include the Viv Hotel, Anaheim, and any future hotels along a stretch of Anaheim Boulevard, taking the current number of ATID hotels from 93 to 94.
Workforce housing funding
About $3 million in yearly funding will go to workforce housing, starting in February.
ATID hotels and motels in The Anaheim Resort and Platinum Triangle around Angel Stadium of Anaheim and Honda Center assess themselves 2 percent of hotel stays, on top of the city of Anaheim's 15 percent city hotel-stay tax.
The 2 percent assessment rate on ATID hotels does not change under the new plan.
ATID revenue for 2025 is projected at $32 million, with 75 percent, or about $22 million, going toward tourism marketing. The remainder, 25 percent, or $7 million, goes to transit and transportation improvements. About $320,000 goes to the city to cover ATID administration costs.
Nine percent of ATID funding this year would be $2.9 million and would grow as ATID's overall revenue grows.
The percentages for tourism marketing and improvements won't change, though they will see an adjustment in actual funding balances as some ATID funding goes toward workforce housing.
Housing trust fund
ATID workforce housing funding will go into the city's Anaheim Local Housing Trust Fund, with an ATID Area Worker Housing Program subaccount created for the money.
Anaheim's housing trust fund was created in 2024 and formalized in May.
The fund today is at $16 million - $15 million in funding received in May from Walt Disney Co. for affordable housing and $1 million from existing federal funding.
The housing trust fund was created to help finance affordable communities, provide down payments for first-time homebuyers and help those at risk of eviction.
Nearly $10 million in current funding is set to go toward the building of affordable housing communities in Anaheim, which already is home to nearly 40 affordable communities with more than 4,000 apartments.
Affordable communities look like typical apartment communities with all homes set aside for those at various income levels near and below Orange County's current median income of $136,600 for a family of four.
Low-income residents at affordable communities pay rents based on what they can afford, typically about a third of their income.
The housing trust is also set to fund a citywide homebuyer assistance program, providing a $50,000 loan toward down payments for first-time homebuyers making $200,000 or less.
In addition, the housing trust is set to provide $1 million in rent assistance to an estimated 200 households facing the risk of eviction.
Grants of up to $5,000 would be provided as emergency assistance in cases where eviction is pending.
ATID funding breakdown
ATID workforce housing funding will go to all three trust fund areas - the building of affordable housing, emergency rent assistance and first-time homebuying - based on recommendations from a five-member ATID Housing Committee.
ATID funding will be for those who work at Anaheim hotels and motels and overseen by an ATID Housing Committee.
Other changes
The approval includes other changes, including incorporating timeshares, which are not currently part of ATID assessments.
The change applies to timeshares built after approval of the changes and stands to expand revenue coming into ATID.
Other changes include funding for special events, development studies, directional signs and other improvements to better the look of The Anaheim Resort, a 1,000-acre district including Disneyland Resort theme parks, Anaheim Convention Center, hotels, restaurants, shops, offices and other uses.
Transportation, which has always been part of ATID funding, will be updated to include any potential transit system linking ARTIC, Anaheim's train and bus hub near Angel Stadium of Anaheim, to the theme parks, convention center and hotels of The Anaheim Resort.
Anaheim is in early stages of looking at types of emerging transit technology that could potentially link the city's two main visitor areas. There are no projects imminent with ongoing initial study underway.
About ATID
ATID, an independent district with a governing board and overseen by the city, was formed by the Anaheim City Council in 2010 to take over tourism promotion and improvements previously overseen and funded by the city.
Prior to 2010, Anaheim spent $6 million yearly to fund the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor and Convention Bureau, which was renamed Visit Anaheim in 2015.
ATID replaced city funding of Visit Anaheim with hotelier funding via self-assessment, freeing city spending for community services.
Visit Anaheim, which markets Anaheim to conventions, events and visitors, serves as ATID operations manager.
ATID assessments are considered public money for a specific, restricted use and collected by Anaheim but are not available to the city for spending.
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