Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The City of Manteca is working on its housing element as part of the General Plan amendment that will occur later this fiscal year. The housing element is a blue print for the City’s policies addressing housing programs for the maintenance, improvement and development of housing for all of its citizens. Besides pointing out the obvious that Manteca has become a bedroom community for those working outside of town, the housing element prepared by the consultant Mintier Harnish also mentioned that 46% of all households in Manteca has cost burdens greater than 30% of their income.