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The final productive end of California’s legislative year is a month after the Legislature sends their final bills to the governor’s desk. During that month, the governor has until the end of that month to sign or veto any remaining bills on their desk. This year, that month ended on Sunday, October 12th. Before that deadline, the governor signed a slew of housing production, affordable housing preservation, and tenant protection bills. Among the bills signed in the last few weeks were several of the SV@Home Action Fund’s top priorities.
- AB-1207 and SB-840 together preserve Cap-and-Trade funding for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC), California’s largest program to fund affordable housing.
- AB-670 incentivizes local jurisdictions to stabilize at-risk affordable housing. This law allows jurisdictions to earn credit toward their Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) requirements when homes in existing multifamily buildings become preserved as low, very low, or acutely low income affordable housing for a minimum of 55 years.
- SB-79 was the biggest production bill of the year, and one of the biggest production bills in the last decade. In short, it makes it easier to build dense housing where we most need it: near transit. See the governor’s signing message here.
- SB-634 prohibits local jurisdictions from criminalizing the act of providing survival and support services to people who are homeless. In the wake of last year’s Supreme Court case that legalized criminalizing homelessness, this bill is a positive step.
During the recess, we are meeting with members of our broad coalition and our legislative offices to prepare for the 2026 legislative year.