Current and Upcoming Sponsored and Supported Bills Housing California plans to sponsor the following policy ideas and bills. Note: Not all have authors and bill numbers yet. We'll update these in February with the authors, numbers, fact sheets, and requests for letters: AB 10 (Chiu): Tax Credit Expansion: Expanding the California Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program by $500 million a year. Source of Income Discrimination: It often takes several years for an applicant to obtain a Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8). After waiting all of those years, voucher holders often find that it is impossible to use the voucher because many landlords openly refuse to allow the voucher as a form of rent payment. This bill would prohibit discrimination against voucher holders by adding vouchers to the list of sources of income that cannot be denied. Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool: Housing California and the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) are pursuing an idea that came out of the homelessness policy summits we hosted around the state in fall 2018. This program would provide rental assistance, operating subsidies, services, systems funding, and interim housing (capped at 20%) to cities, counties, and Continuums of Care. Supportive Housing for People on Parole Experiencing Homelessness: Housing California and CSH are seeking to create a grant program for counties to provide supportive housing for people on parole similar to last year's SB 1010 (Beall) that died in committee. Health Home Program Clean-Up: In 2013, Governor Brown signed AB 361 (Mitchell), which authorized the state to take advantage of an Affordable Care Act optional Medi-Cal benefit, now referred to as the Health Home Program (HHP). This clean-up legislation would remove language around restricting state funding and also require health plans to implement benefits in ways that would make the program more meaningful. Supported Bills: SCA 1 (Allen): Repeal Article 34: The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low-rent housing development in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the jurisdiction where the housing development is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election. This bill would put a repeal of Article 34 on the statewide ballot in 2020. ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry): Affordable Housing and Public Infrastructure Voter Approval: This bill would reduce the local vote threshold for approval of bond and special tax measures to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure or affordable housing from a two-thirds vote to a 55-percent majority. Learn more and watch for updates, bill numbers, fact sheets, and support letter templates in the coming weeks and on our website. | 
