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california assembly - housing
AB-2011 (2021-2022)
Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.
District 15 Assemblymember Buffy Wicks
Purpose
Allows the increase of development of affordable housing on certain zones.
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act (AB 2011) advances all of the state’s housing goals, allowing every community to build more climate-friendly, infill affordable housing for struggling families, seniors, workers, and veterans – while also growing a thriving, high-wage, middle-class construction workforce in every community. It does so by making affordable housing by right on commercially zoned lands, and mixed-income housing by right along commercial corridors, as long as the projects meet specified affordability, labor, and environmental criteria.
Allows the increase of development of affordable housing on certain zones.
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act (AB 2011) advances all of the state’s housing goals, allowing every community to build more climate-friendly, infill affordable housing for struggling families, seniors, workers, and veterans – while also growing a thriving, high-wage, middle-class construction workforce in every community. It does so by making affordable housing by right on commercially zoned lands, and mixed-income housing by right along commercial corridors, as long as the projects meet specified affordability, labor, and environmental criteria.
Status
- History: 06/23/22 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
- Votes: 06/21/22 (PASS) - Sen Housing - Ayes: 6, Noes: 1, NVR: 2 - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance]
Position
- LASCC's Position: Oppose
- This is another housing bill designed to wastefully throw money at the problem without a plan.
- For a number of years, I have talked about the aggregate cost of the Jordan Downs Housing Development was $1.25 million per unit (likely at $1.5 million adjusted for today’s inflation).
- The state wants to increase “affordable housing,” housing that cost upwards of $1 million dollars per unit ( LA Times article: California affordable housing projects are costing over $1 million per apartment to build). This is another bad idea by legislators who have no idea how to provide affordable housing. It’s not about the money. Fix the process and the state will have lots of housing.
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