Earthquake disaster relief: housing assistance.

Existing law establishes the Disaster Relief Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of funding disbursements made for response to and recovery from earthquakes, aftershocks, and other related casualties. For the purposes of providing disaster relief in communities subject to a natural disaster, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to award funds, if funds have been made available, to be used for housing persons of low and moderate income. This bill would appropriate $900,000 to the department to award funds for housing persons of low and moderate income, for the purposes of providing disaster relief in California communities affected by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake, centered in Baja California, Mexico, on April 4, 2010. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.