Public employee housing: local agencies.

(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to sell or lease, for a term not exceeding 99 years, any real property belonging to the school district which is not or will not be needed by the district for school classroom buildings at the time of delivery of title or possession. Existing law exempts the sale or lease of school district property under these provisions from specified requirements relating to the disposal of real property by a local agency or a school district if specified conditions are met, including that the financing proceeds obtained by the school district pursuant to the transaction are expended solely for specified capital outlay purposes. Existing law specifies that the construction, reconstruction, or renovation of rental housing facilities for school district employees is a permissible capital outlay expenditure for these purposes. This bill would authorize a school district to make units in a rental housing facility that is constructed, reconstructed, or renovated with financing proceeds, as described above, available to employees of other school districts, community college districts, special districts, and cities, counties, and cities and counties, whether general law or chartered. (2) Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes a school district to establish and implement programs that address the needs of teachers and school district employees, as defined, who face challenges in securing affordable housing, as defined. Existing law requires that a program established under the Teacher Housing Act of 2016 be restricted to teachers or school district employees. This bill would expand the Teacher Housing Act of 2016 to include local agencies, as defined, as entities that can establish and implement programs to address the housing needs of teachers or school district employees or local public employees, as defined. The bill would authorize the school district or local agency to allow employees of other school districts, community college districts, and local agencies to occupy housing developed under a program established and implemented pursuant to the act.