Bill Text: CA AB1637 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: City of San Diego: County of Santa Clara: housing authority: middle-income housing projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 801, Statutes of 2017. [AB1637 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1637-Amended.html
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May 15, 2017 |
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May 03, 2017 |
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March 28, 2017 |
| Assembly Bill | No. 1637 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gloria |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would authorize a housing authority to also develop, operate, and provide financing for mixed-income housing projects, as defined, and to exercise any or all powers granted to the authority relating to, among other things, the issuance of bonds for these purposes.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 34340) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:Article 4.5. Middle-Income Housing Projects
34340.
(a) An authority may develop and finance a middle-income housing project as follows:The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:
(a)Housing authorities are vitally important public agencies dedicated to preserving and increasing affordable housing throughout California.
(b)It is in the public interest that housing authorities maintain their focus on providing affordable housing options for extremely low, very low and low income Californians.
(c)It is also in the public interest
that a continuum of housing be provided for a broad spectrum of persons, but specifically including those of low income and also including those earning middle incomes.
(d)It is in the public interest that mixed income projects be developed by housing authorities so that persons of divergent income levels may live in the same project, with each “mixed income housing project” including persons of low and very low incomes.
(e)By allowing housing authorities to develop and finance mixed income projects, additional low income housing will be built, much of which would not otherwise have been constructed because of insufficient financing options.
(f)Currently, there are inadequate sources of financing available to encourage developers to develop, construct and operate a sufficient number of mixed income projects to
provide for a continuum of housing at various income levels.
(g)The lack of an adequate supply of housing at all levels drives up the rents and costs of ownership of all levels of housing, which has a detrimental effect upon the residents of the State of California. The absence of an adequate supply of housing for those households earning very low, low, moderate, and workforce incomes causes a disproportionate hardship on those households.
(h)The creation of additional middle income housing would allow for the development of housing for persons who are school teachers, nurses, police, first responders, and firefighters, among others.
(a)An authority may do both of the following:
(1)Develop, operate, and provide financing for mixed-income housing projects.
(2)Exercise any or all powers granted to the authority pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 34350) for purposes of this section.
(b)For purposes of this section, all of the following shall apply:
(1)“Persons of workforce income” means persons and households whose income is 150 percent or less of area median income.
(2)“Persons of low income” means persons and households whose income is 80 percent or less of area median income.
(3)“Mixed-income housing project” means a project to which both of the following apply:
(A)At least 20 percent of the units, except for manager’s units, are affordable to, and occupied by, persons of low income.
(B)The project includes workforce housing.
(4)“Workforce housing” means units affordable to, and occupied by, persons of workforce income.
