Existing law establishes the Housing-Related Parks Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, which provides grants for the creation, development, or rehabilitation of park and recreation facilities to cities, counties, and cities and counties that meet certain criteria for housing starts, as defined, for newly constructed units that are affordable to very low or low-income households. This bill would instead provide that the program provide the grants to local entities based on the issuance of building permits for new housing units, or housing units substantially rehabilitated, acquired, or preserved with committed assistance from the city, county, or city and county, that are affordable to very low or low-income households. The bill would provide for substantial and additional bonus funds to specified jurisdictions and qualifying units.
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Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistance to groups and persons with various housing needs and to administer various housing loan programs. Existing law authorizes the department to extend the term of existing multifamily housing loans made under specified programs upon the request of any borrower, subject to certain conditions, as provided. This bill would authorize the department to extend the term of an existing department loan, subordinate a department loan to new debt, and authorize an investment of tax credit equity under certain rental housing finance programs, subject to specified conditions. The bill would authorize the department to charge a fee to cover its costs related to extending the term of a loan or for processing the restructuring of a loan. The bill would make changes with regard to existing rent subsidies and rents under existing department housing programs, as specified. The bill would require the department, within available resources, to post on its Internet Web site information regarding household incomes and rents for developments approved for restructuring, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines that are not subject to the Administrative Procedures Act, as specified.
(1) Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies. Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to retain the housing assets, functions, and powers previously performed by the redevelopment agency, excluding amounts on deposit in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. Existing law creates the Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to be used for these purposes, and provides that funds in that account shall be used in accordance with applicable housing-related provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law. This bill would make conforming changes to clarify that specified provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law relating to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund apply for purposes of funding administrative and planning costs associated with the implementation of the provisions described above. (2) Under existing law, the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,850,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds are used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, housing-related parks, and transit-oriented development administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would appropriate $50,000,000, and additional moneys, as specified, of bond revenues to the Department of Housing and Community Development. From that amount, the bill would allocate $25,000,000, and additional moneys, as specified, from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account for infill incentive grants, and $25,000,000, and additional moneys, as specified, from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for transit-oriented grants and loans, thereby making an appropriation.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund to qualified mobilehome park residents, resident organizations, and nonprofit housing sponsors or local public entities to finance conversion of the parks to resident ownership and to make monthly housing costs affordable. Existing law limits the interest rate on loans to a rate of 3% per annum. This bill would authorize the department to lower that interest rate if the department finds that it is necessary and will not jeopardize the financial stability of the fund. This bill would authorize the department to provide technical assistance to loan applicants, or to contract with a qualified nonprofit entity to provide that technical assistance, and to include the reasonable costs of that technical assistance as a part of the loan principal.
Existing law establishes the CalHome Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to enable low- and very low income households to become or remain homeowners. Existing law requires the department, under the program, to provide grant or loan funds to local public agencies or nonprofit corporations for specified purposes relating to the promotion of home ownership. Existing law requires that financial assistance provided to individual households be in the form of deferred payment loans, repayable upon sale or transfer of the homes, when they cease to be owner-occupied, or upon the loan maturity date. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize the department to permit the downpayment assistance loan to be subordinated to refinancing if it determines that the borrower and the proposed subordination meet certain requirements. Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income homebuyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law authorizes a borrower to refinance a mortgage under specified circumstances. Existing law authorizes the agency, in its discretion, to permit a downpayment assistance loan to be subordinated to refinancing if it determines that certain criteria have been met. Existing law authorizes the agency to permit subordination on those terms and conditions as it determines are reasonable. Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the Home Purchase Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time homebuyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law also requires the agency to administer the Extra Credit Teacher Home Purchase Program, as specified, and any other school personnel home ownership assistance program that is set forth by the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. This bill would further extend the authority of the agency to permit a downpayment assistance loan made under any of those programs to be subordinated to refinancing, subject to certain criteria and under terms and conditions as the agency determines are reasonable, unless the borrower has sufficient equity to repay the loan. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would add comprehensive, preventative dental care coverage to Medicare benefits.
This measure would recognize September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.