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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

93

CHAPTER 639

Statutes of 2022

[ Approved by Governor September 28, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State September 28, 2022. ]

Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago

January 25, 2022

An act to add Section 50467 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 establishes various programs and funding sources administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to enable the development of affordable housing, including, among others, the Building Homes and Jobs Act, the Multifamily Housing Program, and the Housing for a Healthy California Program.

This bill would provide that any notice of funding availability issued by the department for an affordable multifamily housing loan program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity. The bill would define “adaptive reuse” for these purposes to mean the retrofitting and repurposing of an existing building to create new residential units, as specified.

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

SECTION 1.

Section 50467 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

50467.

(a) Any notice of funding availability issued by the department for an affordable multifamily housing loan program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an eligible activity.

(b) To the extent any affordable multifamily housing loan program also allows for home ownership, this section shall also apply.

(c) Except as provided in subdivision (d), for purposes of this section, “adaptive reuse” means the retrofitting and repurposing of an existing building to create new residential units.

(d) Subdivision (c) shall only apply to an affordable multifamily housing loan program if the program does not define adaptive reuse in statute, agency guideline, or regulation.