CA AB 1184

Title: Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
Author: Joe Patterson

Summary
AB 1184, as amended, Patterson. Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Under existing law, grants under the HHAP program are allocated in 4 rounds of funding, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness, as provided. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Existing law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income level.This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits, among other things, a local agency from disapproving a housing development project or emergency shelter, or condition approval in a manner that renders the housing or emergency shelter infeasible, as specified, for a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households, or an emergency shelter, unless the local agency makes specified written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act authorizes a project applicant, a person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the housing development or emergency shelter, or a housing organization to bring a lawsuit to enforce its provisions.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes those provisions.

Status
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1184 - 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly
03/24/25 - CA AB 1184 (03/24/25 - Amended Assembly)