SACRAMENTO -- Legislation aimed to help speed up development of affordable housing across California was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, in an effort to address the state's housing crisis. Senate Bill 406, authored by Senator Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, was signed nearly a month a...
California has ramped up enforcement of state housing laws the last few years. It sued at least two cities last year for rejecting affordable housing projects and homes for homeless people. At the bill signing ceremony at an affordable housing site in San Francisco, Newsom also blasted the...
Assembly Bill 12 limits the amount landlords can charge for a security deposit to just one month’s rent. Senate Bill 4 removes certain barriers to allow churches, religious organizations and colleges to build “affordable housing” on land they own. Senate Bill 567 will require property owners ...
The bill will require cities to approve up to four housing units on what was a single-family lot. They would also have to approve splitting single-family lots so they could be sold separately. The second bill will ease the way for local governments to rezone neighborhoods near mass trans...
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a Democrat who authored the affordable housing bill, said the two bills would create "millions" of units of new housing. "I think these two bills, taken together, represent transformative housing policy in California," Wicks said. ...
A bill sitting on Governor Newsom's desk would allow California school districts to turn unused school district property and buildings into housing for teachers.
California would impose a 15% occupancy tax on short-term rentals to fund construction of affordable housing under a bill the Senate passed Wednesday. S.B. 584by Sen. Monique Limón (D) would raise about $150 million a year from renters using Airbnb Inc. and other platforms, to...
The bills “at least try to address some of the problems that we’re seeing” with energy affordability, Borgeson said. However, she too was concerned by AB 3121, the bill that would cut solar and HVAC programs to provide one-time savings. ...
This version of the bill — introduced after 10 p.m. Wednesday night, when many Californians were asleep — also cuts funding forsolar on affordable housingandclean energy generation and storage. The legislators may well have introduced their plan at the last minute because they know it’s wil...
Status:“Held under submission” meaning it’s a two-year bill and may be considered at a later time, but not before September 10. AB 500: Affordable Housing in Coastal California AB500aims to streamline affordable housing in coastal communities that are highly desirable and unaffordable places ...