Bill Text: CA AB498 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles: special interest license plates and decals:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2010. [AB498 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB498-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 498	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2009

   An act relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 498, as introduced, Hayashi. Affordable housing: veterans.
   Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program under the
administration of the Department of Housing and Community
Development to provide a standardized set of program rules and
features applicable to all housing types based on the department's
California Housing Rehabilitation Program. Existing law authorizes a
sponsor, as defined, of a supportive housing development funded by
the Multifamily Housing Program, to restrict occupancy of a project
to persons with veteran status under specified circumstances.
   This bill would make several legislative findings and declarations
relating to veteran renter households. The bill would also express
the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to
affordable housing for veteran renter households.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan could
increase demand for affordable rental housing.
   (b) Because rental assistance is not an entitlement, not all
veterans who are eligible receive assistance.
   (c) In 2005, an estimated 2.3 million veteran renter households
had low incomes. Further, an estimated 1.3 million, or about 56
percent of these low-income veteran households, have housing
affordability problems where rental costs exceed 30 percent of
household income.
   (d) California has significantly more low-income veteran renter
households than any other state, more than 236,000, or about 10
percent of all such households nationwide.
   (e) More than one-third of low-income veteran renter households
include a veteran who is elderly or has a disability.
  SEC. 2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
relating to affordable housing for veteran renter households.