Most academic housing researchers and experts agree that our housing shortage and affordability crisis is the result of severely restrictive local government regulations that make it illegal to build new homes in most neighborhoods. State laws on housing help solve…
AB 946
Saving enough money for a down payment is the largest obstacle to first-time homeownership in California, especially because rentals generally cost more than 30% of a household’s income. Only 30% of Californians can afford to buy a median-priced home, and…
AB 889
AB 889 seeks to increase transparency in housing by requiring corporate and institutional landlords to report the owners of the corporation or limited liability company that rents out a property. Low- and middle-income households face historic rent burdens in California,…
AB 2531
AB 2531 will require local governments to keep track of the data needed to evaluate the impact of state laws on local housing availability and affordability. Reports filed by local planning agencies with the Department of Housing and Community Development…
AB 2053
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 ownership and rental model. The Authority would adjust the…
AB 1075
AB 1075 would make it legal for cities to allow up to 10 homes on lots that currently ban multi-family housing. Multi-family homes are currently banned on over 70 percent of the urban land in California; these bans are the…
AB 1401
AB 1401 will eliminate parking mandates for homes and commercial buildings near transit, or in neighborhoods with low rates of car use in counties with more than 600,000 residents. Parking mandates, which are common in cities throughout California, increase the…
SB 294
SB 294 will stop the misuse by cities of floor area ratios and minimum lot size requirements to prevent the construction of multifamily buildings of more than 10 homes in areas already zoned to allow them. The bill expands on…
SB 827
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 of cities and…