Housing.

(1) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines and regulates common interest developments. Existing law requires an association to distribute specified annual reports to its members, to solicit members' delivery preference for notices from the association, and to record the collected preferences at least 30 days before distributing the annual budget report. This bill would require an association to record the collected preferences at least 30 days before distributing the annual budget report and the annual policy statement. (2) Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, requires a housing development project to be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when a preliminary application is submitted, except as specified. Existing law specifies the act does not prohibit a housing development project that is an affordable housing project from being subject to ordinances, policies, and standards adopted after the preliminary application was submitted if the project has not commenced construction within 3.5 years. Existing law defines "affordable housing project" for purposes of those provisions to mean a housing development in which units within the development are subject to a recorded affordability restriction for at least 55 years, among other things. This bill would instead require either that units within the development be subject to a recorded affordability restriction for at least 55 years for rental housing and 45 years for owner-occupied housing or that the first purchaser of each unit participate in an equity sharing agreement, as specified. (3) Existing law, the Community Redevelopment Law, authorized the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies for specified purposes. Existing law authorizes a city or county that created a subsequently dissolved redevelopment agency to elect to retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the agency, which entity is referred to as a housing successor. Existing law requires that if all or any portion of a redevelopment project was developed with low- or moderate-income housing units and those units were developed with any agency assistance or pursuant to specified provisions, the agency or its successor require, by contract, that the housing be made available for rent or purchase to the persons and families of low or moderate income displaced by the redevelopment project and to persons of low or moderate income who are descendants of the person displaced by the redevelopment project and who, at the time of displacement, were not living in the household or had not yet been born, as specified. This bill would additionally require that the housing be made available to those persons and families described above if they meet the income eligibility and other requirements for that housing, and would make other conforming changes. Because the bill would require local agencies to perform additional duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) For purposes of the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, existing law defines "limited equity housing cooperative" to mean a corporation organized, as specified, that is also a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit housing sponsor. This bill would update and correct cross-references contained in that definition. (5) Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish and administer the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program to provide loans for the construction or rehabilitation of rental housing and loans to assist development projects involving multiple home ownership units for lower-income agricultural employees and their families, as specified. Existing law requires the department to administer the funds provided for this purpose consistent with specified existing housing programs. This bill would specify that the loan terms for these loans are required to be consistent with those same existing housing programs, as specified. (6) Existing law establishes the Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program for the purpose of supporting local housing trust funds dedicated to the creation or preservation of affordable housing. Existing law requires that at least 30% of the total amount of funds are spent on projects, units, or shelters that are affordable to extremely low-income households and that no more than 20% of the total amount of funds are spent on projects or units that are affordable to moderate-income households, as specified. This bill would instead require that at least 30% of dwelling units or shelter beds assisted by the funds are affordable to extremely low-income households and that no more than 20% of dwelling units assisted by the funds are affordable to moderate-income households, as specified. (7) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.