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AB 2772: California Rent Relief Program.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2024-03-21

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-04-01: Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and sets forth its powers and duties, including the administration of various housing programs, including the State Rental Assistance Program, which allocates federally provided funds as block grants to provide rental assistance to eligible households, as provided.

This bill would establish the California Rent Relief Program, which would be administered by the department. The bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to make block grant allocations to grantees to provide rental assistance to eligible households.

This bill would require grantees, as defined, to contract with nonprofit corporations to distribute block grant funds. The bill would require a grantee to agree to use its block grant funds consistent with the bills provisions. The bill would authorize the department to require the grantee to pay back the block grant funds that are spent in a manner inconsistent with the bills provisions, and would authorize the department to reallocate those funds for these purposes.

This bill would, for the duration of the program, require the department to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee every 6 months on the programmatic performance metrics for block grant funds. The bill would require grantees to provide information necessary for the department to comply with these reporting requirements.

Existing law, the State Housing Law, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state.Existing law, the State Housing Law, requires that a mixed-income multifamily structure provide occupants of the affordable housing units within the structure the same access to the common entrances to that structure as the occupants of the market-rate housing units. That law also requires that the occupants of the affordable housing units within the mixed-income multifamily structure have the same access to the common areas and amenities of that structure as the occupants of the market-rate housing units. Existing law also prohibits a mixed-income multifamily structure from isolating the affordable housing units within that structure to a specific floor or an area on a specific floor. Existing law defines terms for purposes of this law.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the above-described provisions relating to mixed-income multifamily structures.

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