Bill Text: CA AB309 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: The Social Housing Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-30 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB309 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB309-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
September 01, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
July 13, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 01, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 03, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Lee, Wendy Carrillo, and Kalra (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bennett, Haney, Jackson, McCarty, Ting, Ward, and Rendon) (Coauthors: Senators Allen, Menjivar, Smallwood-Cuevas, and Wiener) |
January 26, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Title 6.91 (commencing with Section 64900) is added to the Government Code, to read:TITLE 6.91. THE SOCIAL HOUSING ACT
PART 1. General Provisions
CHAPTER 1. Title
64900.
This title shall be known, and may be cited, as the Social Housing Act.CHAPTER 2. Definitions
64901.
Unless the context demands otherwise, the definitions provided by this chapter shall apply to this title.64902.
“Cost rent” means a system in which the rent of a dwelling is calculated on the cost of providing for and maintaining the dwelling, only allowing for limited or no proceeds.64903.
“Revenue neutrality” means a system in which all monetary expenditures that result from the development and operation of social housing owned are returned through rents, payments on leasehold mortgages, or other subsidies, to further the maintenance and development of more social housing units.64904.
“Social housing” means housing with the following characteristics:PART 2. Social Housing Program
CHAPTER 1. Definitions
64910.
Unless the context demands otherwise, the definitions provided by this chapter shall apply to this part.64911.
“Social Housing Program” or “program” means the program under the Department of General Services that facilitates the creation of social housing pursuant to this part.64912.
“Cost rent” means a system in which the rent of a dwelling is calculated on the cost of providing for and maintaining the dwelling, only allowing for limited or no proceeds.“Revenue neutrality” means a system in which all monetary expenditures that result from the development and operation of social housing owned by program are returned to the program through rents, payments on leasehold mortgages, or other subsidies, to further the maintenance and development of more social housing units.
Notwithstanding Section 64904, “social
64913.
“Qualified social housing” means social housing with the following characteristics:(2)For the purposes of this part, all social housing
(b)The development contains housing units that accommodate a mix of household income ranges.
(c)Residents of housing units are afforded, at a minimum, all protections granted to tenants with tenancies in private property under Section 1946.2 of the Civil Code, including protection against termination without just cause or for any discriminatory, retaliatory, or other arbitrary reason, and shall be afforded due process prior to being subject to eviction procedures.
(d)The land on which the housing units are built shall be protected for the
duration of their useful life from being sold or transferred to a private for-profit entity to prevent the privatization of social housing.
(e)Residents of the housing units have the right to participate directly and meaningfully in decisionmaking affecting the operation and management of their housing units.