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          Date of Hearing:   April 30, 2003

               ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
                                Alan Lowenthal, Chair
              AB 1731 (Housing and Community Development Committee) - As  
                             Introduced:  March 5, 2003
           
          SUBJECT  :   Statewide Housing Plan.

           SUMMARY  :   Requires the Department of Housing and Community  
          Development (HCD) to prepare the Statewide Housing Plan (SHP)  
          every five years instead of every two years.  Specifically,  this  
          bill  :  

          1)Removes requirements that HCD include in the SHP a comparison  
            of the housing goals for the preceding two years with the  
            amount of building permits issued and mobilehomes sold during  
            those two years.

          2)Removes obsolete statutory requirement that the SHP provide a  
            data base but instead provide a reference guide for local  
            housing market studies and housing elements.

           EXISTING LAW  requires HCD to prepare the SHP biennially and to  
          include a revision of the overall housing needs and goals of the  
          state for future years, discussion of the housing needs of  
          specific populations and recommendations for federal, state,  
          local or private action to meet these goals.

           FISCAL EFFECT :   Unknown

           COMMENTS  :   

           Background
           
          The bill is sponsored by HCD in an attempt to bring obsolete  
          statutes up to date with the real world practicability of the  
          SHP.  In reality, HCD has never met the requirement to publish  
          the plan every two years primarily due to fiscal constraints or  
          other activities assigned priority by the Legislature or the  
          Administration.

          Also, HCD is proposing to eliminate what it feels are obsolete  
          provisions of statute that either make references to data no  
          longer available or include references to the existing two year  








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          timeframe for the Plan.  In their background HCD states that,  
          "The availability and dominance of federal housing assistance,  
          and state administration of housing assistance resources, have  
          changed significantly since the inception of the SHP . . . The  
          delivery system is much more fragmented than when the SHP  
          provisions were initially enacted."


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file.

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Barkman / H. & C.D. / (916)  
          319-2085