BILL NUMBER: AB 593	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Section 37911 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 593, as introduced, Carter. Housing: residential
rehabilitation.
   Existing law establishes the Residential Rehabilitation Act,
which, among other things, authorizes cities and counties to issue
bonds for the purpose of financing residential rehabilitation.
Existing law makes several legislative findings and declarations
relating to the necessity of providing long-term, low-interest loans
to finance residential rehabilitation in depressed residential areas.

   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the legislative
findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 37911 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   37911.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is
necessary and  essential   important  that
cities, counties, and cities and counties, and redevelopment agencies
and housing authorities within such cities, counties, and cities and
counties, be authorized to make long-term, low-interest loans to
finance residential rehabilitation in depressed residential areas in
order to encourage the upgrading of property in such areas. Unless
such local agencies intervene to provide some form of assistance to
finance residential rehabilitation, many depressed residential areas
will deteriorate at an accelerated pace because property owners are
not able to obtain rehabilitation loans from private sources.
   The Legislature further finds and declares that many depressed
residential areas contain scattered vacant parcels and residences
that are so severely deteriorated that they must be demolished. The
existence of such conditions in residential rehabilitation areas
often impedes the progress of residential rehabilitation and
improvement. It is, therefore, necessary that local agencies be
authorized to include new construction in the form of residential
infill construction as an integral part of a residential
rehabilitation financing program.
   The Legislature also finds and declares that preservation of
existing housing stock is a primary purpose of this part. Much
housing exists that can be preserved if moved from one location to
another. It is, therefore, necessary that local agencies be
authorized to include such preservation in the form of move-on
residences.