All Home supported the following state legislation in 2022
2022 Legislative Positions:
- AB 2094 (Rivas)- Sponsored by All Home and the Regional Impact Council
- Increase transparency in existing building reporting requirements by requiring local jurisdictions to clarify their progress towards building new units for extremely low-income (ELI) households.
- ACA 14 (Wicks)
- Require that 5% of the General Fund be set aside every year for the next ten years to support the creation of affordable housing, fund homelessness services, and support homeownership opportunities for extremely-low- to moderate-income households.
- SCA 2 (Allen)
- Repeal Article 34 of the California Constitution, which requires majority approval from the voters of a city or county for the development, construction, or acquisition of a publicly funded affordable housing project.
- AB 1288 (Quirk-Silva)
- Increase the effectiveness of the state’s low-income housing tax credits.
- AB 1816 (Bryan)
- Create a competitive Reentry Housing & Workforce Development Grant Program to fund evidence-based housing, support services, and workforce development programs for people who were formerly incarcerated in state prisons and who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
- AB 1850 (Ward)
- Establish minimum standards for local government acquisition of middle-income housing.
- AB 2011 (Wicks)
- AB 2011 pairs the ability to build housing by right on underutilized commercial sites with strong labor standards that ensure all construction workers earn prevailing wages and receive health benefits.
- AB 2186 (Grayson)
- Encourages cities and counties to waive or reduce impact fees for affordable rental housing developments by reimbursing them 50% of the value of waivers or reductions granted.
- AB 2211 (Ting)
- Help end California’s unsheltered homelessness crisis by reducing barriers to building new and expanding existing homeless shelters.
- AB 2244 (Wicks)
- Reduce residential parking requirements for newly constructed religious institutions to facilitate the development of critically needed affordable housing projects. The bill clarifies that an existing law applies to new construction.
- AB 2334 (Wicks)
- Increase the supply of affordable housing by allowing all location-efficient 100% affordable housing developments to qualify for the enhanced density bonus.
- AB 2483 (Maienschein)
- Improve coordination and efficacy of existing resources to create supportive housing for older adults and people living with disabilities who are experiencing homelessness and facing institutionalization.
- AB 2670 (McCarty)
- Establish the California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises (CA RISE) Program to provide funding and technical assistance to Employment Social Enterprises
- AB 2713 (Wicks)
- Close loopholes in existing law that leave tenants vulnerable to unlawful evictions.
- SB 6 (Caballero)
- Authorize residential development on existing parcels zoned for commercial office and retail, with expedited approvals and strong labor standards for construction.
- SB 234 (Wiener)
- Create a grant program to provide safe, affordable housing options for transition-aged youth who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
- SB 649 (Cortese)
- Establish a state policy of supporting local tenant preferences in affordable housing developments.
- SB 897 (Wieckowski)
- Eliminate barriers to ADU construction, including owner-occupancy requirements, parking requirements for junior ADUs, and provide grant funding for construction.
- SB 948 (Becker)
- Reduce the cost of building affordable housing through the creation of a pooled transition reserve.
- SB 951 (Durazo)
- Maintain the existing wage replacement rates for the State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave programs for an additional two years, and increase both programs’ wage replacement rates thereafter.
- SB 1083 (Skinner)
- Expand the criteria the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program uses to determine whether or not a family is homeless or at risk of homelessness, and require counties to provide a caseworker to assist families with securing permanent housing.
- SB 1336 (Wiener)
- Make it easier, faster, and cheaper for faith-based institutions and non-profit institutions to build affordable housing on their land.
- SB 1341 (Cortese)
- Establishes a statewide guaranteed income pilot program that provides cash payments to 12th grade students experiencing homelessness during their summertime transition out of high school and into employment or postsecondary education.
Policy Letters:
- January 2022: January 2022 State Budget Request
- April 2022: May 2022 State Budget Revise letter
- April 2022: All Home’s May 2022 State Budget Revise letter
- May 2022: May 2022 Contra Costa County budget request for tenant legal services
- May 2022: Federal Housing Budget ask to Congress
- May 2022: All Home’s May Revise response letter