administer or allocate funding for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation or new affordable housing production are exempt from CEQA. The bill passed two Assembly policy committees and the Assembly
Among the legislation signed by Newsom Thursday includedAssembly Bill 1893by Assembly member Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) andSenate Bill 1037by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which are aimed at boosting homebuilding and penalizing jurisdictions that violate state housing...
(San Diego Housing Commission), Bryan Dove (Mutual Housing), Bill Falik (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Berkeley Law School, and Westpark Community Builders), Jonathan Fishpaw (Republic Urban Partners), Megan Folland ...
The bill goes into effect immediately due to its emergency status. Boosting resources to address homelessness, expand housing Newsom signed a number of bills into law that will take steps towards boosting homebuilding and providing more resources to those experie...
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 ...
At the bill signing ceremony at an affordable housing site in San Francisco, Newsom also blasted the Southern California city of Norwalk for extending its temporary ban on new homeless shelters and affordable housing. “They didn’t even want to zone...
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. ...
bill that was adopted to address housing in the coastal zone this year. Several other bills that intended to streamline housing approvals within the coastal zone (e.g., to allow density bonus, exempt ADUs and shorten the statute of limitations for challenges to housing in the coastal) all...
legislative session. SB 50, kicked to the 2020 session, would have preempted some local land use regulations that block new housing construction, and AB 1482 is an anti-rent-gouging bill that’s been watered down from its original form. These efforts have fallen short ofhousing ac...
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...