(1) Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services, with the consent of the state agency concerned and the approval of the governing body of any concerned local agency, to lease state-owned real property when the Director of General Services deems that leasing serves a beneficial public purpose limited to the development of housing, including emergency shelters or park and recreation facilities. Existing law requires that at least 25% of the housing units developed on state property leased pursuant to these provisions be available for the term of the lease to persons and families of very low, low, and moderate income, as provided.
This bill would remove the above-described requirement that the leasing receive
the approval of the governing body of any concerned local agency. The bill would expand the list of beneficial public purposes for which property may be leased to include permanent supportive housing and traditional housing.
The bill would instead require that a minimum of 20% of housing units developed pursuant to these provisions be made available for the term of the lease to, and occupied by, lower income households and very low income households, as provided. The bill would authorize the Director of Housing and Community Development to prescribe alternative minimum percentages in each income category in specified instances.
This bill would authorize the Director of General Services to permit commercial development on property leased pursuant to these provisions if the Director of Housing and Community Development deems the commercial development necessary for the successful
delivery of housing to lower income households and deems the commercial development to provide community benefits. The bill would, upon a written formal recommendation from the Director of Housing and Community Development that it is in the best interest of the state and reasonably necessary to facilitate the development of affordable housing, authorize the Director of General Services to permit phased development, subject to specified terms and conditions, or to sell property or portions of a property that have been leased pursuant to these provisions for housing to a lessee for the purposes of affordable homeownership, consistent with specified affordability provisions.
(2) Existing law establishes the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019, which requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to establish and administer a grant program to allocate those
funds to capital improvement projects that are an integral part of, or necessary to facilitate the development of, a qualifying infill project or qualifying infill area, as those terms are defined, pursuant to specified requirements. Existing law requires the department to administer a competitive application process for grants for selected capital improvement projects for large jurisdictions and requires the department to administer an over-the-counter application process for grants for capital improvement projects for small jurisdictions.
This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, authorize the department to expend $250,000,000 for the Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019. In this regard, the bill would allocate $160,000,000 of those funds for selected capital improvement projects for large jurisdictions under the program and $90,000,000 for over-the-counter grants for capital improvement projects for small jurisdictions
under the program. The bill would authorize up to 5% of these funds to be set aside for program administration, including state operations expenditures and technical assistance.
(3) This bill would appropriate $750,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Housing and Community Development, to be allocated to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento and used for the Mandolin Estates housing development in South Sacramento. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the public purpose served by these provisions.
(4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.