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Housing Page 4
2022 California Legislative Session Housing Bills
AB 889
(Gipson) — a corporation or limited liability company that owns real property for rent or lease would be required to report it to the state
AB 916
(Salas & Quirk-Silva) — would restrict public hearings for certain projects in existing residential units and increases the ADU height limit to 18 ft if located near an existing multifamily and multistory building
AB 1001
(Garcia) — would require mitigation for environmental impact on air and water quality issues identified in an environmental impact report to be addressed directly in affected disadvantaged communities
AB 1056
(Grayson) — California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank would invest in the building of housing through off-site industrialized construction methods housing to quickly address homelessness, wildfires, COVID-19, or other emergency housing situations
AB 1206
(Bennett) — would offer a tax break for low-income units included in limited equity housing cooperatives
AB 1288
(Quirk-Silva) — would allow state Low-Income Housing Tax Credits to be used with 4 percent or 9 percent credits
AB 1445
(Levine) — starting in 2025, the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process would be required to take climate change into consideration, particularly evacuation routes from climate disasters for new homes built
AB 1602
(McCarty, Cervantes, Medina, Ting) — Also known as the California Student Housing Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2022; would invest $5 billion of the state’s budget to develop student housing on or near public institutions of higher education through agreements with participating nonprofit entities
AB 1719
(Ward) — would expand the Teacher Housing Act of 2016 to include housing for community college faculty, district employees, and current/former foster youth
AB 1748
(Seyarto) — would add to the definition of “exempt surplus land,” surplus land that is zoned for a density of up to 30 residential units and is owned by a city or county that is reaching or surpassing RHNA numbers
AB 1816
(Bryan) — would create a Reentry Housing & Workforce Development Program to house and support formerly incarcerated people by providing housing assistance, supportive services, and workforce development programming
AB 1910
(Garcia) — would provide grants to local agencies that convert publicly-owned golf courses into affordable housing and publicly accessible open space
AB 1911
(Gabriel) — would create a new Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Credit to preserve existing affordable apartment properties and mobile home parks, providing a credit against state and federal capital gains when a property owner sells to a nonprofit entity that will operate the property as affordable housing
AB 1933
(Friedman) — would provide a full property tax exemption for land owned by a nonprofit organization that will be used to build homes for low- to moderate-income, first-time homebuyers
AB 2006
(Berman) — would streamline the state’s compliance monitoring system to eliminate duplication and reduce costs by directing one entity to manage this activity
AB 2013
(Quirk-Silva) — would establish the Legislative Task Force on the California Master Plan on Homeownership which would submit a report to the legislature no later than March 31, 2023 offering recommendations and evaluating the barriers to increase homeownership rates across the state
AB 2049
(Villapudua) — would establish the State Land Affordable Housing Infrastructure, Demolition, Abatement, and Remediation Fund to provide grants for affordable housing development on state land upon appropriation
AB 2063
(Berman) — would prohibit affordable housing impact fees—including inclusionary zoning fees, public benefit fees, and in-lieu fees—from being imposed on a housing development’s density bonus units
AB 2094
(Robert Rivas & Quirk-Silva) — would require a city or county Annual Progress Report to include progress in meeting the housing needs of Extremely Low-Income households
AB 2166
(Mayes) — HCD would prioritize 30 percent of the federal funding provided under the Community Development Block Grant Program to promote low or moderate income homeownership. At least 10 percent of program funds would go towards down payment assistance
AB 2170
(Grayson) — would give owner-occupants and public entities a “First Look” at purchasing bank-owned properties and would prohibit “bulk sales” of foreclosed homes
AB 2203
(Luz Rivas) — would prohibit landlords from requiring a credit report if a prospective tenant receives a government rental subsidy
AB 2211
(Ting) — would make amendments to the “shelter crisis” declaration, applicable to jurisdictions if its number of unsheltered persons exceeds the national average;would streamline shelter construction on private land with alternative building codes
AB 2233
(Quirk-Silva) — would establish the Public Housing Loan Fund which would make loans to localities to build public housing on public land
AB 2305
(Grayson) — would establish the Coordinated Affordable Housing Finance Committee and require HCD, California’s Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA), and California’s Tax Allocation Committee (TCAC) to allocate funding through a single process
AB 2325
(Luz Rivas) — would require a state working group to accomplish specific goals related to ending homelessness by 2023
AB 2357
(Ting) — would require HCD to maintain a website listing of all entities, including housing sponsors, that have notified the department of their interest in surplus land for the purpose of developing low- and moderate-income housing
AB 2383
(Jones-Sawyer) — would make it a discriminatory practice to ask prospective tenants for a criminal record at the initial application phase for a rental unit
AB 2386
(Bloom) — would specify that any multifamily property held under tenancy in common is subject to an exclusive occupancy agreement
AB 2439
(Bloom) — would allow the DMV to lease lands owned by the entity to develop affordable housing
AB 2445
(Gallagher) — would require a person filing a CEQA lawsuit against an affordable housing project to post a $500k bond to cover the damages in case they lose the case;the judge can adjust or waive the bond requirement upon good cause
AB 2446
(Holden) — would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to produce a framework to reduce the carbon intensity in new building construction with a goal of 80 percent reduction by 2045
AB 2483
(Maienschein) — would award points through the Multifamily Housing Program to project applicants that agree to set aside at least 25 units for individuals that are either experiencing homelessness or in need of all-inclusive elderly care
AB 2513
(Grayson) — would task the Department of Insurance with the creation of a state program to reduce the cost of construction defect liability insurance
AB 2527
(Quirk-Silva) — would prohibit credit report requirements for prospective renters
AB 2531
(Grayson) — would require local jurisdictions to create a website landing page that lists the fees, exactions, affordability requirements, etc. related to a development
AB 2547
(Nazarian) — would offer competitive grants to nonprofit community-based organizations, continuums of care, and public housing authorities to administer a housing subsidy program for older adults and persons with a disability that are experiencing / at-risk of homelessness
AB 2559
(Ward) — would allow tenants to provide one reusable screening report for multiple properties to save on application fees
AB 2569
(Nguyen & Valladares) — would convene a working group to oversee funding to services related to individuals experiencing homelessnessand to provide findings/recommendations to Legislature on January 1, 2024
AB 2619
(Patterson) — would lift the six-person capacity limit for elderly residential care facilities if there is sufficient square footage on the property
AB 2630
(O’Donnell) — would require each city and county that has used funds from any source to address homelessness to submit a report to the state
AB 2713
(Wicks, Bloom, and Grayson) — would strengthen just cause eviction protections by revising the requirements for evictions in cases where the owner plans to move into the unit, perform substantial renovations, or take the housing unit out of the rental market
SB 490
(Caballero) — would establish the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Program to provide technical assistance for acquisition-rehabilitation projects
SB 513
(Hertzberg) — would develop and administer a program to award grants to homeless shelters for the provision of shelter, food, and basic veterinary services for pets owned by people experiencing homelessness
SB 649
(Cortese) — would allow jurisdictions to create local preference policies for affordable housing developments to local residents at risk of displacement
SB 843
(Glazer) — would raise the state’s existing renters’ tax credit from $60 to $1000
SB 847
(Hurtado) — would create a grant program for landlord COVID-19 relief paired with the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act
SB 914
(Rubio) — would require cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to collect data on homeless domestic violence survivors and their children; would require California’s Interagency Council on Homelessness to set and work toward a goal of no unhoused domestic violence survivors and children by 2025
SB 948
(Becker) — would prohibit HCD from requiring a project-specific transition reserve for affordable housing and creates a state Pooled Transition Reserve Fund that would continuously appropriate funds to mitigate the impacts on tenant rents from the loss or exhaustion of rental or operating subsidies
SB 1067
(Portantino) — would eliminate parking minimums near public transit if 75 percent of the units are occupied by low- and very low-income households, older adults, or people with disabilities if the developer shows the development will not negatively impact traffic
SB 1083
(Skinner) — would expand CalWORKs to provide immediate assistance to families who have received any notice that would lead to an eviction; would require CalWORKSto provide temporary shelter to a pregnant person during and after pregnancy
SB 1105
(Hueso) — would establish a San Diego Housing Finance Authority
SB 1176
(Limon) — would establish a California Community Reinvestment Act and expands regulations to nonbanks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders to lend in low- to moderate-income communities
SB 1292
(Stern) — would remove state-mandated 4 foot setbacks for ADUs and allows local discretion on approval
SB 1335
(Eggman) — would prohibit landlords from requiring a credit report if a prospective tenant receives a government rental subsidy
SCA 2
(Allen & Wiener) — would place a 2024 ballot measure to repeal Article 34—which requires voter approval for increasing affordable housing production at the local level—of the California Constitution