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ACA 1 / ACA 10 (Aguiar Curry)
Passed!
ACA 1 / ACA 10 will lower the necessary voter threshold from a two-thirds supermajority to 55 percent to approve local general obligation (GO) bonds for affordable housing and public infrastructure projects.
SB 1123 (Caballero)
passed and signed into law!
SB 1123 (Caballero) updates SB 684 (2023) to make it legal to build up to 10 homes on vacant lots in single-family zones near jobs, schools, transit, and other amenities, by streamlining the approval process for these projects.
AB 2243 (Wicks)
passed and signed into law!
AB 2243 amends existing law (AB 2011) so that it can be used more successfully.
AB 2667 (Santiago)
passed and signed by the Governor!
AB 2667 would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a standardized reporting format for how local governments are affirmatively furthering fair housing.
SB 1077 (Blakespear)
passed and signed by the Governor!
SB 1077 allows ADUs to be built in the coastal zone, on lots with existing residential structures, without a coastal development permit.
AB 2560 (Alvarez)
died in committee
AB 2560 removes the Coastal Zones exemption from the state’s Density Bonus Law.
SB 1462 (Glazer)
died in committee
SB 1462 will reduce financing costs and risks for new condominium projects by allowing developers to use deposits made by buyers during the pre-sale process to cover construction costs.
SB 1470 (Glazer)
died in committee
SB 1470 will increase homeownership opportunities, particularly for middle-income families and communities of color, by reducing barriers to condo development, while upholding protections to ensure home buyers receive safe, code-compliant home repairs when needed.
AB 2140 (Carrillo)
died in committee
AB 2140 would direct California to study the creation of a large-scale homeownership financing program designed to ease California’s critical homeownership gap.
AB 1335 (Zbur)
died in committee
AB 1335 will require local governments to report annually on housing proposed, approved, and constructed within priority areas identified by the applicable Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS). The bill would also require that housing targets for both short- and long-term planning in the SCS be directly aligned with the applicable Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND).
AB 3057 (Wilson)
passed and signed by the Governor!
Will grant local Junior ADU ordinances the same exemption to environmental review that is already granted to standard ADU ordinances.