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 | SB 225 (Caballero): 2 YEAR BILL Community Anti-Displacement and
Preservation Program (CAPP) This bill provides state funding and technical assistance to support the acquisition and preservation of unsubsidized affordable housing and its stewardship as permanently affordable. Assemblymember Matt Haney is co-authoring/championing this effort in the Assembly. The legislation is tied to a $500 million budget request. 2-year bill introduced in 2023. |
| AB 312 (Reyes) State Partnership for Affordable Housing Registries
in California (SPAHRC) Grant Program Coauthored with Assemblymember Ward, this bill would have enabled the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement a pilot program creating a streamlined, standard model for listing available and forthcoming affordable housing units, and for Californians to search for and apply to those units. The legislation was tied to a $25 million budget request. SPAHRC aligns with Policy Solution E10 in the Roadmap Home 2030 |
| AB 919 (Kalra) Stable Homes Act This bill will to establish a statewide policy giving tenants, local public agencies, and mission-driven nonprofits the first opportunity to purchase rental housing properties when owners put those properties up for sale, and a right to match an offer on those properties made by a third party, helping to keep families in their homes and preserve at-risk rental housing on the market as permanently affordable. |
| AB 919 aligns with Policy Solution A14 in the Roadmap Home 2030 |
| AB 1307 (Wicks): Signed by the Governor
No CEQA on Unamplified Voices AB 1307 would directly and narrowly address the Court’s ruling in the case of “Make UC A Good Neighbor et al. v. Regents of the University of California.” Specifically, it would say that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents in a residential project cannot be considered a significant effect on the environment under CEQA. By making this change, AB 1307 would remove the potential for litigants to challenge residential development based on the speculation that the new residents will create unwanted noises. It would also reestablish existing precedent that minor and intermittent noise nuisances, such as from unamplified human voices, be addressed through local nuisance ordinances and not via CEQA. As such, no longer could CEQA consider “people as pollution.” |
| AB 1449 (Alvarez): On the Floor
CEQA Exemption for Affordable Housing This bill would exempt affordable housing funded through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It was ordered for a third reading and is now on the floor. |
| AB 799 (L. Rivas): Do pass but held on floor
Homelessness Accountability and Results Act This bill will strengthen local and state collaboration and accountability for reductions in homelessness. The bill seeks to strengthen the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Program to enhance oversight and transparency on State spending, tie funding to achievement of specific outcomes, ensure taxpayer dollars fund solutions promoting reductions to homelessness and improve other specific outcomes for Californians experiencing homelessness, strengthen regional collaboration and homeless services workforce capacity, and advance racial equity in California’s homeless response systems. This bill also commits to securing ongoing funding to achieve reductions in the number of Californians experiencing homelessness. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. This bill will be held on the floor. |
| AB 920 (Bryan) Housing Status Anti-Discrimination Protection |
This bill adds “housing status” to the list of protected categories under California discrimination law, barring discrimination against people on the basis of their housing status from unequal treatment under programs administered, funded, or overseen by the state
| AB 653 (Reyes): 2-Year Bill Housing Voucher Utilization
Program |
| AB 653 creates a program that would provide resources to increase voucher
utilizations, including housing navigation, landlord incentives, and security
deposits. The program is building off of several successful programs locally and will help utilize many of California’s tens of thousands of unused federal housing choice vouchers. This legislation is aligned with a $200 million budget request to be used over 2 years. 2-year bill introduced in 2023. |
| AB 1386 (Gabriel): ON THE SENATE FLOOR Veteran-specific Supportive Housing This bill would increase the flexibility of California’s efforts on veteran homelessness to ensure veteran-specific supportive housing quickly and expeditiously rehouses our most vulnerable veterans experiencing homelessness. |
| AB 1657 (Wicks): 2-Year Bill New Housing Bond This bill would place an affordable housing bond on the 2024 ballot. 2-year bill introduced in 2023. |
| SB 18 (McGuire): ON THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR Tribal Housing Grant Program This bill would provide equitable access to financing so federally recognized tribes can provide decent, affordable, and sustainable homes for low- and moderate-income community members in a manner that respects Tribal sovereignty and cultural heritage. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. |
| ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry): IN SENATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
Lower Voter Threshold This constitutional amendment would place on the November 2024 ballot an initiative to reduce the local vote threshold from two-thirds to 55% for approval of bond and special tax measures to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of infrastructure, including homes affordable to households earning up to 150% of the area median income. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. |
| SB 567 (Durazo): ON THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR Homelessness
Prevention Act This bill closes loopholes in the no fault cause provisions of the Tenant Protection Act (AB 1482) and strengthens enforcement of the law. |
| AB 1085 (Maienschein): ON THE SENATE FLOOR Medi-Cal
Benefit for Housing Services This bill would require the California Department of Health Care Services to seek federal approval of a Medi-Cal housing support services benefit. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. |
| SB 469 (Allen & Weiner) Removing Barriers to State-Funded
Affordable Housing This bill exempts LIHTC and HCD-funded developments from Article 34. |
| SB 482 (Blakespear): ON THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR Capitalized
Operating Subsidy Reserves This bill requires HCD to offer capitalized operating subsidy reserves for supportive units under the Multifamily Housing Program. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. |
| AB 84 (Ward): ON THE SENATE FLOOR Property Tax: Welfare
Exemption: Affordable Housing This bill allows the welfare property tax exemption for affordable housing to take effect upon recordation of deed-restrictions. A motion was made in committee to approve the bill for passage. The recommendation is then placed on second reading. |
| AB 257 (Hoover) Encampments This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library. |
| SB 31 (Jones) Encampments This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined. |
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Changes to affordable income categories, streamline housing development processes, and enhance protections for tenants and homeowners.
| AB 3093: Creates two new income categories, Acutely Low Income (ALI) and Extremely Low Income (ELI), in the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process and throughout housing element law. | ||||||
| AB 799: Makes various changes to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal-ICH), including adding the Governor’s Tribal Advisor to the member list, developing and maintaining a strategic funding guide and calendar, and new data sharing and publishing requirements. | ||||||
| SB 7: Makes a number of technical changes to the regional housing needs determination process conducted by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the RHNA process conducted by HCD or Councils of Governments (COGs). | ||||||
| SB 1395: Extends and expands existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for projects related to homeless shelters, extends the sunset date for the Shelter Crisis Act (SCA) by ten years, and permanently extends the streamlined, ministerial (by-right) approval process for Low-Barrier Navigation Centers (LBNCs), among other changes. | ||||||
| AB 1886: Clarifies that a housing element or amendment is not considered substantially compliant with housing element law until the local agency has adopted a housing element that the HCD has determined is in substantial compliance with housing element law, as specified. | ||||||
| AB 1893: Amends the Housing Accountability Act (HAA)
to revise the standards a housing development project must meet in
order to qualify for the “Builder’s Remedy,” which authorizes projects to
bypass local development standards in
jurisdictions that fail to adopt a substantially compliant housing element.
This bill also expands the scope of actions that constitute disapproval of a housing development project by a local government for the purposes of the HAA. | ||||||
| AB 2023: Creates a rebuttable presumption of invalidity in any legal action challenging a local government’s action or failure to act if the HCD finds that the action or failure to act does not substantially comply with the local government’s adopted housing element or housing element obligations, among other changes. | ||||||
| SB 1037: Creates new legal remedies that can be used by the Attorney General (AG) to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions or to enforce any state law that requires a local government to ministerially approve any planning or permitting application related to a housing development project. | ||||||
| AB 1413: Establishes timeframes in the HAA for local agencies to consider objections, comments, and evidence related to determining whether an HAA-protected housing development project is exempt from CEQA. | ||||||
| AB 2667: Makes changes to the housing element law and Annual Progress Report (APR) process related to the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). | ||||||
| SB 393: Shifts the burden of demonstrating that posting a bond would place an undue economic hardship on the plaintiff in actions challenging certain low- or moderate-income housing projects. | ||||||
| SB 450: Amends the process established by SB 9 (Atkins), Chapter 162, Statutes of 2021, for the ministerial approval by a local agency of a duplex in a single-family zone and the lot split of a parcel zoned for residential use into two parcels. | ||||||
| AB 2243: Revises the scope of the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, enacted by AB 2011 (Wicks, Chapter 647, Statutes of 2022), and the Middle-Class Housing Act of 2022, enacted by SB 6 (Caballero, Chapter 659, Statutes of 2022). | ||||||
| AB 2488: Allows the City and County of San Francisco to create a Downtown Revitalization and Economic Recovery Financing District to finance commercial-to-residential conversion projects using incremental property tax revenues. | ||||||
| AB 2199: Extends, until January 1, 2032, the sunset on an existing CEQA exemption for multi-family residential and mixed-use housing projects on infill sites in unincorporated areas and makes alterations to the exemption. | ||||||
| AB 2694: Clarifies that Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs) qualify as senior citizen housing developments under Density Bonus Law (DBL). | ||||||
| SB 312: Relaxes several conditions attached to the CEQA exemption for public university housing projects, established by SB 886 (Wiener) in 2022. | ||||||
| SB 1123: Requires local agencies to ministerially approve the subdivision of vacant, single-family lots to allow for up to ten units, as specified, and makes other changes to SB 684 (Caballero), Chapter 783, Statutes of 2023. | ||||||
| SB 1211: Increases the allowable detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on a lot with an existing multifamily dwelling from no more than two detached ADUs to no more than eight detached ADUs, as specified. | ||||||
| AB 1053: Allows a borrower to request funding from the HCD as a construction loan, a traditional permanent financing option, or a combination of both. | ||||||
| AB 2117: Delays expiration of a development approval for the duration of any litigation over the project. | ||||||
| AB 2430: Prohibits a city or county from charging a monitoring fee on a 100% affordable housing development under the state’s Density Bonus Law (DBL) if the development is subject to a regulatory monitoring agreement with California HCD, the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA), or the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC). | ||||||
| AB 2553: Requires cities and counties to set lower traffic impact mitigation fees for transit-oriented housing developments near major transit stops instead of just at transit stations and changes the definition of a major transit stop. | ||||||
| AB 2663: Requires local agencies that collect inclusionary housing in-lieu fees and have a website to post specified information about the amount of fees collected and how they were spent. | ||||||
| AB 2926: Changes to the Preservation Notice Law (PNL) include
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| SB 937: Makes various changes to the process for local agencies to collect development impact fees. | ||||||
| AB 2801: Prohibits a landlord of residential property from deducting costs
for
from a tenant’s security deposit unless reasonably necessary to restore the premises to original condition before the tenancy, less ordinary wear and tear, and requires landlords to take photographs of the premises, as specified. | ||||||
| AB 2747: Requires, on or after April 1, 2025, a landlord of residential real property with more than 15 dwelling units to offer tenants the option of having their full, on-time rent payments reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency. | ||||||
| SB 611: Prohibits certain fees from being charged by landlords and provides some protections to service members in connection with security charges. | ||||||
| SB 900: Makes a number of changes to the responsibility of homeowners associations (HOAs) relating to utility service repairs and replacements in common areas. | ||||||
| AB 1878: Creates the Tribal Housing Grant Program Fund Advisory Committee (Committee) within the HCD upon appropriation and changes tribal liaison and technical assistance requirements that apply to HCD. | ||||||
| SB 1187: Creates a new tribal housing program, the Tribal Housing Grant Program (THGP), in the HCD for the construction and rehabilitation of rental and for-sale housing. |
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