2023 Policy Agenda

Housing California’s 2023 Policy Agenda focuses on community members most in need of an affordable place to call home.

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This includes people struggling to make ends meet and those experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. We utilize multiple strategies to meet these goals, including reforming California’s laws and regulations regarding land use and finance, as well as innovative approaches to end homelessness. Housing California leads with the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion to prioritize those who have been historically marginalized and/or neglected in decision-making processes, and we work in close collaboration with a variety of partners. These partners include non-profits, affordable housing developers, affordable housing residents and persons with lived experience, foundations, labor unions, trade associations, corporations, and supportive policymakers from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Our 2023 legislative priorities are listed below. As the legislative session progresses, please check this page for updates.

Other Priority Legislation

Support

SB 18 (McGuire)

Tribal Housing Grant Program

This bill will promote the construction and rehabilitation of homes for rent and sale, specifically for tribal communities, to direct state agencies with housing funding to create alternative criteria for tribal nations that are tailored to tribal laws and practices in order to meet newly established threshold and compliance requirements for applications, and to provide technical assistance on grant writing and applications on a need basis.

ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry)

Lower Voter Threshold

This constitutional amendment would place on the November 2024 ballot an initiative to reduce the local vote threshold from two-thirds to 55% for approval of bond and special tax measures to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of infrastructure, including homes affordable to households earning up to 150% of the area median income.

Opposed

AB 257 (Hoover)

Encampments

This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in any street, sidewalk, or other public property within 500 feet of a school, daycare center, park, or library.

SB 31 (Jones)

Encampments

This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined.