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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

97

Introduced by Assembly Member Soria

February 20, 2026

An act to add Section 50158 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: yes   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

Existing law prescribes the general responsibilities and roles of the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out state housing policies and programs. Existing law establishes various programs to promote development of affordable housing for tenants and homeowners, including the Multifamily Housing Program, low-income housing tax credits, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.

This bill would, by January 1, 2028, require the department and the agency to develop and implement strategies strategies, as specified, to promote the movement of tenants of deed-restricted affordable housing into homeownership home ownership through existing homeownership home ownership programs implemented by the department or the agency.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 50158 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

50158.

(a) By January 1, 2028, the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency shall develop and implement strategies to promote the movement of tenants of deed-restricted affordable housing into homeownership home ownership through existing homeownership home ownership programs implemented by the department or the agency.