Bill Text: CA AB3300 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Homelessness: California Access to Housing and Services Act.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-08-04 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. [AB3300 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3300-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Homelessness: California Access to Housing and Services Act.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-08-04 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. [AB3300 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3300-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3300
| Introduced by Assembly Members Santiago, Bloom, Bonta, Gipson, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Carrillo, Gloria, Kalra, and Nazarian) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Friedman, Jones-Sawyer, and Waldron) |
February 21, 2020 |
An act relating to homelessness, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3300, as introduced, Santiago.
Homelessness: grant funds.
Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Upon appropriation, existing law requires the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to distribute $650,000,000 among continuums of care, cities, and counties pursuant to the program.
This bill would appropriate, commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, without regard to fiscal year, $2,000,000,000 from the
General Fund to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of providing local jurisdictions and other specified entities with ongoing grant funds to sustain or expand efforts to address their immediate and long-term homelessness challenges. The bill would require $1,100,000,000 to be distributed to counties and continuums of care, $800,000,000 to be distributed to cities with a population of at least 300,000, and $100,000,000 to nonprofit housing developers for specified purposes relating to the provision of housing. The bill would require the method of allocation to be based on a formula that considers specified data. The bill would require recipients to comply with funding accountability standards set by the state.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) Commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, the sum of two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) is hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, from the General Fund to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of providing ongoing grant funds to local jurisdictions and other specified entities to sustain or expand efforts to address their immediate and long-term homelessness challenges.(b) The amount appropriated in subdivision (a) shall be distributed as follows:
(1) One billion one hundred million dollars ($1,100,000,000) shall be distributed to counties and
continuums of care for purposes of promoting local flexible pools for housing and services. Counties and continuums of care that receive funds pursuant to this paragraph shall use the grant funds to provide rental and housing assistance, landlord incentives, temporary housing assistance, including, but not limited to, emergency shelters, motel vouchers, and navigation centers, and subsidies and leasing activities for permanent supportive housing.
(2) Eight hundred million dollars ($800,000,000) shall be distributed to cities with a population of at least 300,000. Cities that receive funds pursuant to this paragraph shall use the funds to subsidize housing opportunities and expand emergency shelters, interim housing, permanent supportive housing, affordable housing, and motel conversions.
(3) One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be distributed to nonprofit housing
developers for purposes of capital development of affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, and motel conversions for affordable or supportive housing, and for purposes of operating subsidies in existing or new affordable or supportive housing projects, in cities and counties not eligible for funding pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2).
(c) The method of allocation of these funds shall be based on a formula that considers the 2019 point-in-time count of the jurisdiction the recipient shall serve with the funding and the severe housing cost burden among households in that jurisdiction, as reported in the most recent United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
(d) Recipients shall be required to comply with funding accountability standards set by the state.
(e) For purposes of this section, all of
the following definitions apply:
(1) “Continuum of care” has the same meaning as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(2) “Recipient” means a city, county, continuum of care, or nonprofit housing developer that receives funding pursuant to this section.
