The SV@Home Action Fund supported the following bills which were signed into law in 2022:
AB 1288 (Quirk-Silva) — Authorizes TCAC to redirect new credits to the 9% tax credit program in years when tax-exempt bonds are oversubscribed.
AB 1695 (Santiago) — Requires that any NOFA issued by the HCD for an affordable multi-family housing loan and grant program to state that adaptive reuse of a property for an affordable housing purpose is an eligible activity.
AB 2006 (Berman) — Requires that State housing agencies enter into an MOU to streamline the monitoring of projects that have funding from more than one agency.
AB 2011 (Wicks) — Allows for the by-right development of affordable homes on underutilized commercially-zoned property while creating strong labor protections that ensure that construction workers earn high wages.
AB 2094 (Rivas/ Quirk-Silva) — Requires local governments to report on their progress in meeting their ELI housing needs when they submit annual plans to HCD.
AB 2097 (Friedman) — Prohibits a local government from imposing minimum parking requirements on residential sites if the development is located within 1/2 mile of public transit.
AB 2217 (Reyes) — Requires HCD to consider setting higher per-unit and total project allocations for CalHome funding recipients based on local development costs when appropriate. This bill also requires HCD to consider increasing the maximum unit and project allocations for each new round of funding.
AB 2234 (Rivas/ Grayson) — Requires local agencies to post information related to post-entitlement phase permits for housing development projects, process those permits in a specified time period depending on the size of the housing development and establish a digital permitting system if the local agency meets a specific population threshold.
AB 2244 (Wicks) — Clarifies that the definition of “religious-use parking spaces” applies to both existing parking spaces and new parking spaces for a proposed development for a new place of worship and makes amendments relating to the elimination of parking as a part of the development.
AB 2295 (Bloom) — Allows for affordable housing development on “local educational agency” land if it is a minimum of 10 units, the rents are affordable to lower-income families for 55 years, and the homes are available to teachers and employees. The statute sunsets on January 1, 2033.
AB 2334 (Wicks) — Allows a housing development project to receive added height and unlimited density if the project is located in a very low vehicle travel area and meets specified affordability requirements.
AB 2668 (Grayson) — An SB 35 clean-up bill prohibiting a local agency from denying a development based on restrictive requirements.
AB 2873 (Jones-Sawyer) — Requires certain housing sponsors who receive a TCAC allocation on or after January 1, 2024 to annually report to TCAC the diversity of the suppliers and contractors and short- and long-term diversity goals and timetables.
SB 490 (Caballero) — Establishes the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Program within HCD to provide TA to communities seeking to acquire and rehabilitate affordable housing.
SB 649 (Cortese) — Allows local jurisdictions and developers to restrict occupancy by creating local tenant preferences for lower income households that are subject to displacement under various HCD and Tax Credit funded programs.
SB 886 (Wiener) — Exempts student housing and faculty/staff housing from CEQA when a public university is proposing to use its land.
SB 897 (Wieckowski) — Would, among other clean-up actions, increase the height limitation for ADUs from 16 to 25 feet, prohibit the requirement for fire sprinklers and prohibit the imposition of an owner-occupied requirement.
SB 948 (Becker) — Creates a new Pooled Transition Reserve Fund and with continuous appropriations to mitigate the impacts on tenant rents from the loss or exhaustion of rental or operating subsidies.
SCA 2 (Allen/ Wiener) — Repeals Article 34 of the California Constitution which requires that jurisdictions receive approval from the voters to approve new affordable housing development.