Please note the Legislature passed ACA 22 in exchange for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association removing their initiative from the ballot. Read more about this here. Help Save Housing Production – No “New Prop 13” Several jurisdictions in California have passed poorly-designed tax measures…
Budget Asks
Infill Budget Ask One of the main barriers identified by local governments to building more homes near jobs, schools, and transit, is a lack of adequate infrastructure to support additional infill development. We are asking the state to invest $5…
AB 2053
Establishing the California Housing Authority to Build Social Housing This bill would establish the California Housing Authority, an independent state body, and authorize this authority to construct housing and lease it to a mix of household income ranges through an…
AB 2011
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act AB 2011 allows for ministerial, by-right approval for affordable housing on commercially-zoned lands, and also allows such approvals for mixed-income housing along commercial corridors, as long as the projects meet specified affordability,…
SB 827
Transit Rich Housing Senate Bill 827 would have established an incentive for building housing near high-quality transit by exempting these developments from certain restrictive and low-density zoning standards. Zoning in places like San Francisco have radically restricted the natural growth…
AB 1397
Planning for New Housing AB 1397, passed in 2017, holds cities accountable to their regional housing needs assessment goals by tightening the standards for what qualifies as an “adequate site” under housing element law. Every eight years, local governments are…