AB 1886 (Assembly Member David Alvarez) – Clarifying that Either HCD or a Court Must Confirm that a City Substantially Complies with Housing Element Law.One of two bills directed to the Builder's Remedy, AB 1886 resolves two issues frequently raised by local governments pushing back against ...
— Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration used a new law for the first time Friday to try to force a wealthy Southern California coastal city to end its years of opposition to meeting low-income housing goals. Article content The administration sued the Orange County city of Huntington Beach ...
LOW-INCOME HOUSING ON CHURCH LAND Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California can now turn their parking lots and other properties into affordable housing. The new law, which helps these institutions bypass most local permitting and environmental review rules, was among several ...
Do the GSEs Matter to Low-Income Housing Markets? An Assessment of the E¤ects of the GSE Loan Purchase Goals on California Housing Outcomes. Journal of Urban Economics 59, 458-75.Bostic, Raphael W. and Stuart A. Gabriel. "Do the GSEs Matter to Low-Income Housing Markets? An Assessment...
Cities and counties will be required to plan for housing for very low-income people, streamline permitting processes and expand some renters' protection. The attorney general will be allowed to pursue civil penalties upward of $50,000 a month against c...
Housing Element Law provides more stringent requirements for low-income housing that should have been accommodated during the previous cycle, but has instead been rolled over to a new planning cycle. Specifically, when identifying certain sites to accommodate low-income units, jurisdictions mus...
Cities and counties are required by law to approve a certain number of low income housing units as part of their development plans. If they don't meet those goals, they will face hefty fines. California also plans to give out $6.5 billion this year for housing development....
Low-income people, who earnmuchless than the population of gentrifiers, can’t afford market-rate rents, so when they’re displaced, they have nowhere to go. Pro-housing bills that spur housing development of all types and don’t keep low-income tenants housed are complicit in their ...
Since 1969, California’s Housing Element Law has required that municipalities address housing equity and housing production. In California, housing equity means that a municipality has planned for the future production of low-income housing that is priced from 0 to 120% of the U.S. Department ...
California cities will soon face more state scrutiny and new penalties for pushing back on housing and homeless shelter construction. Gov.