CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 932Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 16, 2017 An act relating to housing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 932, as introduced, Ting. Housing: affordable housing.Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine existing and projected needs for housing for each region and requires each council of governments or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county and is consistent with specified objectives. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California is facing the most severe shortage of affordable housing for low-income households in modern history. While some cities have enough market-rate housing, they frequently lack housing affordable for low- and moderate-income residents. This imbalance has led cities and towns to price out their residents, causing unprecedented displacement and homelessness.(b) The shortage in the housing supply has caused a spike in the cost of housing and in rental markets, especially in coastal California where the absence of home construction reduces the ability of Californians to find housing that both meets their needs and is affordable. The Legislative Analysts Office has concluded that lackluster home building in coastal California undermines worker access to high-paying job markets because these workers are unable to find housing. These workers are pushed to other parts of California, where wages tend to be lower.(c) The decreased flow of workers into high-wage, high productivity areas of California due to limited home building has contributed to growing income differences across regions, as well as widening income inequality overall.(d) In 2015, the median monthly rent in California reached a historic high of $1,300. In at least eight major metropolitan areas, renters paid more than one-third of their income in rent last year. While some cities, such as San Francisco, have rent control, this has not stopped landlords from evicting tenants to take advantage of increased housing prices.(e) Home prices in California are rising faster than in the rest of the county, yet residential home building permits are below the historical norm. From 2015 to 2016, housing prices in the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas have increased by 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. While the national average for building permits in major urban areas is 3.9 building permits per 1,000 residents, the average for the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas is only 2.8 building permits per 1,000 residents.(f) The regional housing needs assessment provides a projection of the minimum amount of additional housing units necessary to accommodate household growth across all income levels, based on population projections by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts. This process has not ensured accountability, and sites that are feasible for affordable housing development have not been zoned and reserved for affordable housing development.(g) California has no permanent source of funding to finance incentives for affordable housing development.SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 932Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 16, 2017 An act relating to housing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 932, as introduced, Ting. Housing: affordable housing.Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine existing and projected needs for housing for each region and requires each council of governments or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county and is consistent with specified objectives. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 932
Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 16, 2017
Introduced by Assembly Member Ting
February 16, 2017
An act relating to housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 932, as introduced, Ting. Housing: affordable housing.
Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine existing and projected needs for housing for each region and requires each council of governments or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county and is consistent with specified objectives. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine existing and projected needs for housing for each region and requires each council of governments or, for cities and counties without a council of governments, the department to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county and is consistent with specified objectives.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
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## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California is facing the most severe shortage of affordable housing for low-income households in modern history. While some cities have enough market-rate housing, they frequently lack housing affordable for low- and moderate-income residents. This imbalance has led cities and towns to price out their residents, causing unprecedented displacement and homelessness.(b) The shortage in the housing supply has caused a spike in the cost of housing and in rental markets, especially in coastal California where the absence of home construction reduces the ability of Californians to find housing that both meets their needs and is affordable. The Legislative Analysts Office has concluded that lackluster home building in coastal California undermines worker access to high-paying job markets because these workers are unable to find housing. These workers are pushed to other parts of California, where wages tend to be lower.(c) The decreased flow of workers into high-wage, high productivity areas of California due to limited home building has contributed to growing income differences across regions, as well as widening income inequality overall.(d) In 2015, the median monthly rent in California reached a historic high of $1,300. In at least eight major metropolitan areas, renters paid more than one-third of their income in rent last year. While some cities, such as San Francisco, have rent control, this has not stopped landlords from evicting tenants to take advantage of increased housing prices.(e) Home prices in California are rising faster than in the rest of the county, yet residential home building permits are below the historical norm. From 2015 to 2016, housing prices in the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas have increased by 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. While the national average for building permits in major urban areas is 3.9 building permits per 1,000 residents, the average for the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas is only 2.8 building permits per 1,000 residents.(f) The regional housing needs assessment provides a projection of the minimum amount of additional housing units necessary to accommodate household growth across all income levels, based on population projections by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts. This process has not ensured accountability, and sites that are feasible for affordable housing development have not been zoned and reserved for affordable housing development.(g) California has no permanent source of funding to finance incentives for affordable housing development.SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California is facing the most severe shortage of affordable housing for low-income households in modern history. While some cities have enough market-rate housing, they frequently lack housing affordable for low- and moderate-income residents. This imbalance has led cities and towns to price out their residents, causing unprecedented displacement and homelessness.(b) The shortage in the housing supply has caused a spike in the cost of housing and in rental markets, especially in coastal California where the absence of home construction reduces the ability of Californians to find housing that both meets their needs and is affordable. The Legislative Analysts Office has concluded that lackluster home building in coastal California undermines worker access to high-paying job markets because these workers are unable to find housing. These workers are pushed to other parts of California, where wages tend to be lower.(c) The decreased flow of workers into high-wage, high productivity areas of California due to limited home building has contributed to growing income differences across regions, as well as widening income inequality overall.(d) In 2015, the median monthly rent in California reached a historic high of $1,300. In at least eight major metropolitan areas, renters paid more than one-third of their income in rent last year. While some cities, such as San Francisco, have rent control, this has not stopped landlords from evicting tenants to take advantage of increased housing prices.(e) Home prices in California are rising faster than in the rest of the county, yet residential home building permits are below the historical norm. From 2015 to 2016, housing prices in the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas have increased by 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. While the national average for building permits in major urban areas is 3.9 building permits per 1,000 residents, the average for the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas is only 2.8 building permits per 1,000 residents.(f) The regional housing needs assessment provides a projection of the minimum amount of additional housing units necessary to accommodate household growth across all income levels, based on population projections by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts. This process has not ensured accountability, and sites that are feasible for affordable housing development have not been zoned and reserved for affordable housing development.(g) California has no permanent source of funding to finance incentives for affordable housing development.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) California is facing the most severe shortage of affordable housing for low-income households in modern history. While some cities have enough market-rate housing, they frequently lack housing affordable for low- and moderate-income residents. This imbalance has led cities and towns to price out their residents, causing unprecedented displacement and homelessness.(b) The shortage in the housing supply has caused a spike in the cost of housing and in rental markets, especially in coastal California where the absence of home construction reduces the ability of Californians to find housing that both meets their needs and is affordable. The Legislative Analysts Office has concluded that lackluster home building in coastal California undermines worker access to high-paying job markets because these workers are unable to find housing. These workers are pushed to other parts of California, where wages tend to be lower.(c) The decreased flow of workers into high-wage, high productivity areas of California due to limited home building has contributed to growing income differences across regions, as well as widening income inequality overall.(d) In 2015, the median monthly rent in California reached a historic high of $1,300. In at least eight major metropolitan areas, renters paid more than one-third of their income in rent last year. While some cities, such as San Francisco, have rent control, this has not stopped landlords from evicting tenants to take advantage of increased housing prices.(e) Home prices in California are rising faster than in the rest of the county, yet residential home building permits are below the historical norm. From 2015 to 2016, housing prices in the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas have increased by 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. While the national average for building permits in major urban areas is 3.9 building permits per 1,000 residents, the average for the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas is only 2.8 building permits per 1,000 residents.(f) The regional housing needs assessment provides a projection of the minimum amount of additional housing units necessary to accommodate household growth across all income levels, based on population projections by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts. This process has not ensured accountability, and sites that are feasible for affordable housing development have not been zoned and reserved for affordable housing development.(g) California has no permanent source of funding to finance incentives for affordable housing development.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(a) California is facing the most severe shortage of affordable housing for low-income households in modern history. While some cities have enough market-rate housing, they frequently lack housing affordable for low- and moderate-income residents. This imbalance has led cities and towns to price out their residents, causing unprecedented displacement and homelessness.
(b) The shortage in the housing supply has caused a spike in the cost of housing and in rental markets, especially in coastal California where the absence of home construction reduces the ability of Californians to find housing that both meets their needs and is affordable. The Legislative Analysts Office has concluded that lackluster home building in coastal California undermines worker access to high-paying job markets because these workers are unable to find housing. These workers are pushed to other parts of California, where wages tend to be lower.
(c) The decreased flow of workers into high-wage, high productivity areas of California due to limited home building has contributed to growing income differences across regions, as well as widening income inequality overall.
(d) In 2015, the median monthly rent in California reached a historic high of $1,300. In at least eight major metropolitan areas, renters paid more than one-third of their income in rent last year. While some cities, such as San Francisco, have rent control, this has not stopped landlords from evicting tenants to take advantage of increased housing prices.
(e) Home prices in California are rising faster than in the rest of the county, yet residential home building permits are below the historical norm. From 2015 to 2016, housing prices in the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas have increased by 5.7 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. While the national average for building permits in major urban areas is 3.9 building permits per 1,000 residents, the average for the San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas is only 2.8 building permits per 1,000 residents.
(f) The regional housing needs assessment provides a projection of the minimum amount of additional housing units necessary to accommodate household growth across all income levels, based on population projections by the Department of Finance and regional population forecasts. This process has not ensured accountability, and sites that are feasible for affordable housing development have not been zoned and reserved for affordable housing development.
(g) California has no permanent source of funding to finance incentives for affordable housing development.
SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase the supply of affordable housing by changing existing laws to address key issues that have prevented the growth of housing, to ensure that fewer people are displaced or end up homeless.
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