Many Legislative Bills Concerning Homelessness Were Passed by the Legislature and Approved by the Governor in 2024 and Many Were Not
Governor Approved Many Legislative Bills Concerning
Homelessness During the 2024 California Legislative Session:
What’s in the Legislation?
Also
Many Legislative Bills Concerning Homelessness did not Make it
Through the 2024 California Legislative Process:
What was in the Legislation?
The last day for each house to pass bills was August 31. Final recess began upon adjournment. The last day the Governor could approve legislation was September 30. The 2025-26 Regular Session convenes for Organizational Session at noon on December 2, 2024.
Over the next few months, legislators will use their time to cultivate new legislative proposals for next year and start introducing bills to engage next year’s legislative process when the Legislature reconvenes in January 2025.
Approved legislative bills concerning homelessness in 2024 include:
- AB 2137 Homeless and foster youth
- AB 2898 Unbundled parking: exemptions: Housing Choice Vouchers
- AB 2835 Motels and hotels: publicly funded shelter programs
- AB 3057 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances
- SB 1361 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness
- AB 1782 Redevelopment: successor agencies: Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund
- AB 1948 Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams
- AB 3093 Land use: housing element
- AB 799 Interagency Council on Homelessness: funding: state programs
- AB 166 Committee on Budget. Housing
- AB 1788 Mental health multidisciplinary personnel team
- AB 1801 Supportive housing: administrative office space
- SB 1395 Shelter crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: use by right: building standards
- AB 535 Veterans’ aid and welfare: housing
Legislative bills concerning homelessness that did not make it through the 2024 legislative process include:
- AB 1738 Mobile Homeless Connect Pilot Program.
- AB 1817 Homeless youth.
- AB 1470 Medi-Cal: behavioral health services: documentation standards.
- SB 1443 California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
- AB 2570 Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
- AB 2903 Homelessness
- AB 86, as amended. Homelessness: Statewide Homelessness Coordinator.
- AB 284 Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
- AB 464 Public documents: driver’s licenses and vital records.
- AB 550 as amended. Homelessness: public hearings.point-in-time count results: meetings.
- AB 975 as introduced. Ta. Public nuisance abatement: homeless encampments: attorney’s fees.
- AB 1592 as introduced. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
- AB 1656 as introduced. Homelessness: funding.
- AB 1817 Homeless youth.
- AB 2007 as introduced. Homeless youth: transitional housing.
- AB 2056 as introduced. Homelessness spending portal.
- AB 2417 as introduced. Homelessness: California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
- AB 2479 as amended. Housing First: core components.
- AB 2520 as amended. Housing: youth-specificprocesses and coordinated entry systems.
- AB 2570 Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
- SB 31 as amended. Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties.
- SB 63 as introduced. Homeless and Mental Health Court and Transitioning Home Grant Programs.
- SB 657 Homelessness services staff training.
- SB 742 as introduced. Housing: homelessness programs: report.
- SB 1083 as introduced. Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support.
- SB 1438 as amended. Housing First: sober housing.
Legislative Bills Approved
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AB 2137, Quirk-Silva. Homeless and foster youth.
This bill instead would authorize a foster youth services coordinating program to provide tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services to a foster youth pupil, if a foster youth educational services coordinator determines, as specified, that the foster youth services coordinator is unable to secure those services provided by the foster youth pupil’s school district and if those services are established as needed and identified by the foster youth educational services coordinator.
This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 42921 of the Education Code proposed by AB 3223 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3223 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
AB 2898, Wendy Carrillo. Unbundled parking: exemptions: Housing Choice Vouchers.
Existing law requires the owner of qualifying residential property, as defined, that provides parking with the qualifying residential property to unbundle parking from the price of rent, as specified. Existing law defines “unbundled parking” as the practice of selling or leasing parking spaces separate from the lease of the residential use.
Existing federal law provides housing assistance to low-income individuals and households in the form of vouchers, commonly known as Housing Choice Vouchers.
This bill would exempt any residential unit that is leased to a tenant who receives a federal Housing Choice Voucher, including a federal Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing voucher, from the above-described requirement to unbundle parking.
AB 2835, Gabriel. Motels and hotels: publicly funded shelter programs.
Existing law prohibits a hotel or motel from adopting termination policies, imposing restrictions on property access, or levying charges and fees that are specifically for shelter program participants.
Existing law also prohibits a hotel or motel from requiring those participants to check out and reregister, move out of or between rooms, or move out from the hotel or motel while actively enrolled in a shelter program for purposes of preventing occupants from establishing rights of tenancy.
This bill would except these prohibitions from an existing law provision that, among other things, requires any operational policies negotiated prior to the commencement of the shelter program to be approved by the shelter program administrator and shared with their program participants, as specified.
Existing law repeals these and other provisions related to shelter programs on January 1, 2025.
This bill would delete the January 1, 2025, repeal date, thereby extending operation of the above-described provisions indefinitely.
AB-3057 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
CEQA exempts from its requirements the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use permit for a dwelling unit to be constructed, or which is attached to or detached from, a primary residence on a parcel zoned for a single-family residence, as provided, and the adoption of an ordinance to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use.
This bill would expand the above CEQA exemption to include the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
CEQA exempts from its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided.
This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness, as provided.
AB 1782, Ta. Redevelopment: successor agencies: Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund.
Existing law requires the housing successor to expend funds received from the successor agency to meet its enforceable obligations, and for specified administrative and monitoring costs relating to ensuring the long-term affordability of units subject to affordability restrictions. Existing law authorizes a housing successor, if it has fulfilled specified obligations regarding the replacement of dwelling units, to expend up to $250,000 per fiscal year for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services, including the provision of short-term or medium-term rental assistance, contributions toward the construction of local or regional homeless shelters, and housing relocation and stabilization services.
This bill would increase the amount that a housing successor may expend per year on those homeless prevention and rapid rehousing services to $500,000, plus any percentage change in the cost of living, as defined. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to publish on its internet website an adjustment to the amount that may be expended by a housing successor to reflect any percentage change in the cost of living.
Existing law authorizes 2 or more housing successors within a county to enter into an agreement to transfer funds among their respective Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds for the sole purpose of developing specified projects, including transit priority projects, permanent supportive housing, housing for agricultural employees, or regional homeless shelters, if certain conditions are met. Existing law prohibits a housing successor from transferring more than $1,000,000 per fiscal year under these provisions. Existing law requires transferred funds to only assist rental units affordable to, and occupied by, households earning 60% or less of the area median income.
This bill would additionally authorize a housing successor that receives a transfer of funds under these provisions to spend a maximum of $1,000,000 per fiscal year from its Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund for the specific project identified in the agreement between the jurisdictions. The bill would also authorize the use of transferred and host funds to assist a regional homeless shelter.
AB 1948, Rendon. Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams.
Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care.
Existing law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Ventura to expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to include facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of individuals at risk of homelessness, as defined, to housing and supportive services, and the expedited prevention of homelessness.
This bill would additionally authorize the County of San Mateo to expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as specified above. The bill would also delete the January 1, 2025, repeal of these provisions, thereby making the provisions operative indefinitely.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Ventura.
AB 3093, Ward. Land use: housing element.
Under existing law, a housing element is required to include specified information, including an analysis of special housing needs, such as those of the elderly, and quantification of the locality’s existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, including extremely low income households, calculated as provided.
This bill would define all income levels or all household income levels, acutely low, extremely low, very low, lower, low, moderate, and above moderate income for purposes of requirements applicable to the housing element, and would make related changes. The bill would modify the specified information required to be included in the housing element, including by removing the calculation method for extremely low income households and by specifying acutely and extremely low income households as a special housing need for the 7th and subsequent revisions of the housing element.
AB-799 Interagency Council on Homelessness: funding: state programs.
Existing law requires the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness, consisting of specified members. Among other goals, existing law requires the council to coordinate existing funding and applications for competitive funding.
The bill would remove the above-mentioned reference to competitive funding and would instead require the council to coordinate applications for funding. The bill would require council staff to develop and regularly maintain a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding opportunities. The bill would require agencies and departments administering state programs to provide the council updated information on new or existing funding opportunities on a quarterly basis. The bill would also require council staff to collect fiscal and outcome data, as defined, from state agencies and departments administering state homelessness programs with a grantee or entity that is required to enter data elements on the individuals and families it serves into its local Homeless Management Information System, as specified. The bill would require the state agencies and departments to submit the fiscal and outcome data to council staff on or before February 1, 2027, and annually thereafter. The bill would require council staff to make the data publicly available on or before June 1, 2027, and annually thereafter.
AB 166, Committee on Budget. Housing.
This bill would establish round 6 of the program, and would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, no later than January 31, 2025, to make available an application for round 6 base program allocations, as specified. Among other things, the bill would require applicants to demonstrate how the region will use available resources to sustain all existing and proposed interim housing investments within the region, as specified. To be eligible for a round 6 base program allocation, the bill would require a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and must be signatory to a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that has been approved by the department. The bill would require the department to approve a plan when it determines that the plan includes specified components, including certain performance measures for the region as well as age, racial, and ethnic disparities for specified information, and a system performance and improvement plan.
AB 1788, Quirk-Silva. Mental health multidisciplinary personnel team.
This bill would authorize counties to also establish a mental health multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of justice-involved persons diagnosed with a mental illness to supportive services within that county while incarcerated and upon release from county jail and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information, as specified, for the purpose of coordinating supportive services to ensure continuity of care. The bill would require the sharing of information permitted under these provisions to be governed by protocols developed in each county, as specified, and would require each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Health Care Services.
AB 1801, Jackson. Supportive housing: administrative office space.
The bill would authorize a supportive housing development to include administrative office space in its nonresidential floor area, provided that the total floor area dedicated to administrative office space does not exceed 25% of the total floor area. The bill would define “administrative office space” as an organizational headquarters or auxiliary office space utilized by a nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing onsite supportive services at a supportive housing development and other nonprofit operations.
SB 1395, Becker. Shelter crisis: Low Barrier Navigation Center: use by right: building standards.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires that a Low Barrier Navigation Center development be a use by right in areas zoned for mixed uses and nonresidential zones permitting multifamily uses if it meets prescribed requirements.
This bill would revise the definition of “Low Barrier Navigation Center” by specifying that a Low Barrier Navigation Center may be non-congregate and relocatable.
AB 535, Schiavo. Veterans’ aid and welfare: housing.
This bill would instead, for both purposes described above, define a “secondary tenant” to mean a veteran who is homeless and has an income of up to 60% of the area median income. The bill would prohibit a determination of whether a potential tenant is eligible for supportive, affordable, or transitional housing under the act from considering a potential tenant’s service-connected disability benefits.
Legislative Bills That Did not Make it Through the Legislative Process
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AB 1738, Wendy Carrillo. Mobile Homeless Connect Pilot Program.
Existing law requires a fee of $26 to be paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles upon an application for an identification card. Existing law waives that fee for an original or replacement identification card issued to any person who can verify their status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth, and authorizes a homeless services provider with knowledge of the person’s housing status to verify the person’s status for this purpose. Existing law requires a fee of $30 to be paid to the department upon application for an original class C or M driver’s license.
This bill, until January 1, 2031, would require the department to establish the Mobile Homeless Connect Pilot Program in specified areas to assist persons experiencing homelessness with obtaining an identification card. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, to develop guidelines for each pilot project, as specified. The bill would require the department to submit an annual report about the program to the Legislature beginning the 3rd year of the pilot program, and on or before each January 1 thereafter.
AB 1817, Alanis. Homeless youth.
Existing law requires the Interagency Council on Homelessness to set and measure progress toward goals to prevent and end homelessness among youth in California by setting specific, measurable goals aimed at preventing and ending homelessness among youth in the state, including, among others, decreasing the duration and frequency of experiences of homelessness among California’s youth.
This bill would additionally require the council to set the goals of decreasing the number of young people experiencing homelessness in the state who struggle with food insecurity and decreasing the unemployment rate among young people experiencing homelessness by increasing access to employment opportunities and economic stability.
AB 1470, Quirk-Silva. Medi-Cal: behavioral health services: documentation standards.
The bill, as part of CalAIM, and with respect to behavioral health services provided under the Medi-Cal program, would require the department to standardize data elements relating to documentation requirements, including, but not limited to, medically necessary criteria, and would require the department to develop standard forms containing information necessary to properly adjudicate claims pursuant to CalAIM Terms and Conditions. The bill would require the department to consult with representatives of specified associations and programs for purposes of implementing these provisions.
The bill would require the department to conduct, on or before July 1, 2025, regional trainings for personnel and provider networks of applicable entities, including county mental health plans, Medi-Cal managed care plans, and entities within the fee-for-service delivery system, on proper completion of the standard forms. The bill would require each applicable entity to distribute the training material and standard forms to its provider networks, and to commence, no later than July 1, 2025, using the standard forms. The bill would require providers of applicable entities to use those forms, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to restrict the imposition of additional documentation requirements beyond those included on standard forms, as specified.
The bill would require the department to conduct an analysis on the status of utilization of the standard forms by applicable entities, and on the status of the trainings and training material, in order to determine the effectiveness of implementation of the above-described provisions.
SB 1443, Jones. California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Existing law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Existing law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council.
This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Existing law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income levels.
This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.
AB 2903, Hoover. Homelessness.
This bill would require, commencing September 1, 2025, a state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs to report annually to the council cost and outcome data for each program the agency or department administers, and would require the council, in coordination with each agency or department required to report to the council, as specified, to develop data collection and reporting procedures for this purpose. The bill would require the council to compile the data reported by agencies and departments and, commencing April 1, 2026, annually make that data available to the public.
AB 86, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Homelessness: Statewide Homelessness Coordinator.
This bill would require the Governor to appoint a Statewide Homelessness Coordinator, within the Governor’s Office, to serve as the lead person for ending homelessness in California. The bill would require the coordinator to perform prescribed duties, including, among others, identifying a local leader in each relevant city, county, city and county, or other jurisdiction to serve as a liaison between the coordinator and jurisdiction, overseeing homelessness programs, services, data, and policies between federal, state, and local agencies, coordinating the timing of release of funds and applications for funding for housing and housing-based services impacting Californians experiencing homelessness, and, in collaboration with local leaders providing annual recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor, as specified. The bill would authorize the coordinator to adjust local state goals to the extent allowed by state and law.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department.
This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.
AB 464, Schiavo. Public documents: driver’s licenses and vital records.
This bill would instead exempt persons who are recipients of specified assistance programs from payment of a fee for certified copies of a birth certificate, marriage record, or marriage dissolution record. The bill would, beginning July 1, 2027, also exempt a person who can verify their status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth from payment of a fee upon the application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license. The bill would require the verification of homeless status to be subject to regulations adopted by the Department of Motor Vehicles and may be made by a homeless services provider, as defined.
AB 550, as amended, Schiavo. Homelessness: public hearings. point-in-time count results: meetings.
This bill would require a city, county, and city and county, within 60 days after the local continuum of care releases the results of a point-in-time count for a city, county, or city and county’s jurisdiction, to, among other things, agendize the point-in-time count results at a meeting of the city, county, or city and county and present the steps the city, county, or city and county is taking to prevent and end homelessness, including, but not limited to, consideration of specified actions. By imposing new duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
AB 975, as introduced, Ta. Public nuisance abatement: homeless encampments: attorney’s fees.
This bill would require a court to award attorney’s fees to a prevailing plaintiff in an action to require a governmental entity to abate a public nuisance arising from a homeless encampment.
AB 1592, as introduced, Dixon. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
This bill would require the council to report annually to the Governor, federal Cabinet members, and the Legislature, commencing June 30, 2026, on homelessness and work to reduce homelessness, and would require the report to include the cost per person and distribution of funding within United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care program by city and census-designated area.
AB 1656, as introduced, Wicks. Homelessness: funding.
Existing law establishes various programs to prevent and ameliorate homelessness, including the Homeless Youth Act of 2018 and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to establish an ongoing funding source to address the state’s homelessness crisis.
AB 1817, Alanis. Homeless youth.
This bill would additionally require the council to set the goals of decreasing the number of young people experiencing homelessness in the state who struggle with food insecurity and decreasing the unemployment rate among young people experiencing homelessness by increasing access to employment opportunities and economic stability.
AB 2007, as introduced, Boerner. Homeless youth: transitional housing.
This bill, until January 1, 2029, and upon appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish the Unicorn Homes Transitional Housing for Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth Program, to be administered by local community-based organizations that provide a majority of its services to the LGBTQ+ community. The bill would require the department to fund community-based organizations in up to 5 selected counties that provide transitional housing for LGBTQ+ youth, 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, experiencing homelessness due to family rejection, with the ultimate goal of reunification with the youth’s original family.
AB 2056, as introduced, Wallis. Homelessness spending portal.
On or before July 1, 2025, this bill would require the Department of Finance, in coordination with the council, to create a public internet website portal that tracks and reports all state spending related to homelessness, as specified.
AB 2417, as introduced, Hoover. Homelessness: California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
This bill would repeal Housing First policies and related requirements, thereby removing the requirement on those state agencies and departments to incorporate core components of Housing First.
AB 2479, as amended, Haney. Housing First: core components.
This bill would clarify, pursuant to that core component, that state departments and or agencies may allow programs to fund recovery housing, as defined, that use substance use-specific services, peer support, and physical design features supporting individuals and families on a path to recovery from addiction that emphasizes abstinence, so long as the state program meets specified requirements. The bill would require the housing related to time-limited rental or services assistance to meet the core components of Housing First.
AB 2520, as amended, Ramos. Housing: youth-specific processes and coordinated entry systems.
This bill would require a continuum of care, upon appropriation and beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year, to create and or maintain a youth-specific process with their respective coordinated entry system, as specified, implement a youth-specific assessment tool, create a body or identify an existing body composed of youth with lived experience of homelessness that the continuum of care and other Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program grantees must consult with regularly, and create an array of youth-specific housing inventory. The bill would require the continuum of care to document in their application how the housing assessment is youth-specific and their prioritization policy if the applicant continuum of care states they already maintain a youth-specific coordinated entry system.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department. Existing law requires that the report include, among other things, the number of units assisted by those programs and the number of individuals and households served and their income levels.
This bill would additionally require that this report include an evaluation of the HHAP program.
SB 31, as amended, Jones. Encampments: sensitive areas: penalties.
This bill would prohibit a person from sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property upon any street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way within 1000 feet of a sensitive area, as defined.
This bill would establish two new grant programs until January 1, 2028: the Homeless and Mental Health Court Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the Judicial Council and provide grants to counties for the purpose of establishing or expanding homeless courts and mental health courts, as specified; and the Transitioning Home Grant Program that would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, be administered by the board and provide grants to county sheriffs and jail administrators to fund programs aimed at reducing homelessness among inmates released from custody, as specified.
SB 657, Caballero. Homelessness services staff training.
This bill would require the council to coordinate with the California Department of Aging, the California continuums of care, and the area agencies on aging to convene a working group no later than March 1, 2024, to develop recommendations on best practices for assisting older adults to prevent and overcome homelessness and for training those who assist older adults to prevent and overcome homelessness.
SB 742, as introduced, Atkins. Housing: homelessness programs: report.
On or before December 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, this bill would require an agency that funds, implements, or administers a program that provides housing or housing-based services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including rental assistance programs, to provide prescribed information to specified committees of the Legislature. This bill would authorize an agency to request a city, county, or city and county to provide specified information to that agency if the city, county, or city and county has received state funds from the agency to fund, implement, or administer the program, as defined.
SB 1083, as introduced, Nguyen. Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support.
This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a working group that includes representatives from all departments and agencies that currently receive funding relating to services for homeless individuals. The bill would require the working group to determine the best approach to creating a Department of Homelessness Prevention, Outreach, and Support and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2028. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.
SB 1438, as amended, Niello. Housing First: sober housing.
Existing law specifies the core components of Housing First, including, among others, services that are informed by a harm reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives, where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use, and where tenants are offered education regarding how to avoid risky behaviors and engage in safer practices, as specified, and prohibiting the use of alcohol or drugs, in and of itself, without other lease violations, from constituting a reason for eviction.
This bill would provide an exception to the eviction prohibition described above to authorize a tenant’s eviction based upon the use of drugs or alcohol, without other lease violations, when children are housed in the same location.
2025 Legislative Session
The Legislature will reconvene in January, 2025. Over the next few months, legislators will use their time to cultivate new legislative proposals for next year, meet with their constituents in their district, and participate in select committee hearings that deal with various topics, including homelessness. Members of the Legislature will then begin submitting language to legislative counsel and start introducing bills to engage next year’s legislative process.