AB 2243 (Wicks)
Supporting HWG member: Inner City Law Center
AB 2243 amends existing law (AB 2011) so that it can be used more successfully.
Existing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project.
This bill would make various changes to the objective standards and affordability and site criteria applicable to an affordable housing development or mixed-income housing development subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process under the act. Among other changes to those objective standards, the bill would prohibit an affordable housing development subject to the act from demolishing a historic structure that was placed on a national, state, or local historic register.
Reach out to Mahdi Manji, Inner City law Center, with questions or to support the bill.