1. State Legislative Update
21 Elements: January 26, 2017
Michael Lane, Policy Director
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)

2. State Legislative Update
Housing bills introduced in the current session of the California State Legislature

3. SB 2 (Atkins) The Building Homes and Jobs Act
Establishes a permanent funding source for affordable housing through a $75 fee on real estate transaction documents.
The fee is capped at $225 on a per parcel, per transaction basis, and exempts commercial and residential sales.
Part of State Senate’s “California Rebuild” infrastructure package

4. SB 3 (Beall) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018
Provides $3 billion through a statewide housing bond to fund existing critical and successful affordable housing programs in California.
Part of State Senate’s “California Rebuild” infrastructure package

5. SB 35 (Wiener) Housing Accountability and Affordability Act
Streamlines approval process for certain housing in jurisdictions not meeting their Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA).
Applies only to housing at income levels for which RHNA is not met (i.e., only applies to low-income housing if a jurisdiction has built its market-rate RHNA).
All jurisdictions, including charter cities, must prepare annual housing element progress reports to HCD.

6. SB 136 (Leyva)
Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership Program Fund
Authorizes HCD to contract directly with nonprofits with statewide or regional capacity to deliver technical assistance to other nonprofits or mobilehome park resident associations in order to assist them in acquiring, financing, operating, and improving mobilehome parks occupied by low- and moderate-income households.

7. AB 30 (Caballero) Planning and Zoning Specific Plan: Housing
By-right development of housing in certain under-performing areas identified by a specific-plan

8. AB 45 (Thurmond) School Employee Housing Assistance Grant Program
Requires CalHFA to create and administer a $100 million program to provide financing assistance to school districts and to developers for the creation of affordable rental housing for school employees. This would be a general fund allocation.

9. AB 71 (Chiu) Bring California Home Act
Provides an additional $300 million worth of state LIHTC credits to be funded through eliminating the mortgage interest deduction on second homes.

10. AB 72 (Santiago, Chiu)
Increased Enforcement of Existing State Housing Laws
Appropriates funds to the Attorney General (AG) to enforce existing state housing laws (i.e. Housing Element Law, Housing Accountability Act).

11. AB 73 (Chiu, Caballero)
Spur production of high-density transit- oriented housing
Spurs production of housing on infill sites around public transportation by incentivizing local governments to complete upfront zoning and environmental review and reward them when they permit housing.

12. AB 74 (Chiu, Santiago) Housing for a Healthy California
Creates the Housing for a Healthy California program to pay for the cost of housing chronically homeless individuals on Medi-Cal who receive services through the Whole Person Care pilot program, Healthy Homes, or another county controlled funding source.

13. AB 53 (Steinorth) Homeownership Savings Accounts
Allows Californians to deduct from their pre-tax income savings for "Homeownership Savings Accounts" to incentivize savings towards the purchase of a new home in California.

14. AB 59 (Thurmond) Local Housing Trust Fund
Provides funds for affordable housing to cities, housing trusts, land trusts and Habitat for Humanity.

15. Regional Policy Update

16. Plan Bay Area 2040
Prioritizing Affordable Housing at the Regional Level
Plan Bay Area 2040 is a planning process to guide $309 billion worth of transportation investments to support compact growth in the Bay Area through 2040.
NPH successfully advocated for linking discretionary regional streets and roads funding to local compliance with the State Surplus Land Act – One Bay Area Grants (OBAG).
MTC to convene Committee for Affordable and Sustainable Accommodation (CASA Initiative).

17. We are a “self-help” county!
THANK YOU SAN MATEO COUNTY VOTERS FOR PASSING MEASURE K WITH % OF THE VOTE!
We are a “self-help” county!

18. For more information please go to: nonprofithousing.org

19. THANK YOU Michael Lane, Policy Director michael@nonprofithousing.org
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