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In a 2014 California treatise on real estate development, the authors opined that "[C]ommunities across California continue to confront the challenge posed by a scarcity of housing, particularly of affordable housing. In the last several decades, housing production in the state has lagged behind population and job growth, resulting in a housing ...
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency that develops housing policy and building codes (i.e. the California Building Standards Code), regulates manufactured homes and mobile home parks, and administers housing finance, economic development and community development programs.
The Ellis Act (California Government Code Chapter 12.75) [1] is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to "go out of the rental business" in spite of desires by local governments to compel them to continue providing rental housing.
Lawmakers have gotten the message. Voters want and expect them to fix the state's housing and homelessness crisis.
California cannot reject tenants’ applications for COVID-19 emergency rental assistance after a renter lawsuit raised questions about whether the state program meets constitutional standards.
Tenant advocates had pushed for stronger rules to protect tenants from harassment, saying existing law was ineffective. Landlords said the changes would lead to unnecessary lawsuits.
California Assembly Bill 2097 (2022) California Density Bonus Law; California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959; California HOME Act; California Housing Accountability Act; California Senate Bill 35 (2017) California Senate Bill 50 (2019) California Senate Bill 684 (2023) California Senate Bill 1534 (1982) Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act
A 2018 California housing law has helped create more than 18,000 new homes. But that's still far short of what's needed to dig the state out of a severe shortage. A California housing law led to ...