May 29, 2025
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Local Updates
So many great local updates! Please check out the full meeting notes for updates from each participant.
Habitat for Humanity CA is working in coalition with other affordable housing advocates and homeless advocates to call attention to lack of investment in the affordable housing in the budget, find out more at the links below, and get involved!
Sacramento Update
House of Origin deadline - June 9: all bills need to pass off the floor of the house they were introduced in (Assembly or Senate)
Governor’s May Revise was released
Legislative leadership highlighted cost of living as a priority at the beginning of the call – but the Senate and Assembly have approached how to achieve that differently
Senate affordability package: Pro Tem McGuire, Senators Launch Affordability Package: ‘Investing in Your California Dream’
Assembly fire-recovery package: Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Los Angeles Assemblymembers Announce Actions to Fast-Track Fire Recovery, Keep Displaced Californians Housed
Bicameral Fast Track Housing Package: Fast Track Housing Package
Governor has proposed housing agency re-organization plan to create a cabinet-level position for housing
Member Bill Support Requests
AB 801 (Bonta): AB 801 will create a state CRA by extending an obligation to provide equal access and reinvest in communities on state chartered banks, state chartered credit unions, state licensed independent mortgage companies, and certain fintech firms that offer bank-like services and products.
AB 413 (Fong): AB 413 will require the California Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD) to translate key state housing guidelines and handbooks into the non-English languages commonly spoken in California.
Reach out to Emily (emily@cayimby.org) with questions, to add your name to the coalition letter, or for support submitting an individual support letter.
AB 1154 (Carrillo): AB 1154 clarifies rules that cover Junior Accessory Dwelling Units – ADUs built within an existing home’s building envelope (including the garage) – to make it faster and easier to construct these popular and affordable types of housing.
Reach out to Emily (emily@cayimby.org) with questions, to add your name to the coalition letter, or for support submitting an individual support letter.
SB 79 (Wiener): SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining project review processes.
Reach out to Emily (emily@cayimby.org) with questions, to add your name to the coalition letter, or for support submitting an individual support letter.
Abundant Housing LA package: AB 920, AB 648, AB 1275, and AB 1294
Please reach out to Scott Epstein (scott@abundanthousingla.org) with questions or to get involved
Please reach out to Mahdi Manji (MManji@innercitylaw.org) with questions or to get involved
HWG Advocacy Day - Register by June 9
HWG Advocacy Day is a day of action in Sacramento on June 24, where members of the HWG come together to meet with legislative leadership, committee chairs, and caucus chairs, to ensure that the underserved, BIPOC, immigrant, low-income, and other communities they represent are seen and heard in Sacramento. This year, we will advocate for a mix of shared policy priorities, and a few specific bills for those that are able and interested.
Travel can be reimbursed, so that cost is not a barrier to participation, and lunch will be provided.
Reach out to emily@cayimby.org with questions!
Please register here by June 6: communityhousingworkgroup.org/advocacy-day-2025