Bill Text: CA AB2031 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local government: affordable housing: financing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2016. [AB2031 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2031-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2031	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Bonta and Atkins
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Low and Mullin)

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to relating to local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2031, as introduced, Bonta. Local government: affordable
housing: financing.
   Existing law establishes various programs providing assistance
for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing,
farmworker housing, veteran housing, home ownership for very low and
low-income households, and downpayments for first-time homebuyers.
Additionally, the Housing Authorities Law establishes public
corporations known as housing authorities within each city and county
in this state, and authorizes these housing authorities to undertake
various actions for the purpose of increasing the availability of
housing.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would allow local governments to provide additional
funding for affordable housing.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would allow local governments to provide additional
funding for affordable housing.