BILL ANALYSIS
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1593
Author: Burton (D), et al
Amended: 8/25/00
Vote: 21
PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 52-25, 8/28/00 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Housing Programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill implements numerous recommendations of
the Senate Task Force on Homelessness by making various
changes to the state housing assistance programs.
Assembly Amendments delete the prior version. As it left
the Senate, the bill was authored by Senator Alarcon and
established the CalHome Program to facilitate home
ownership by low- and very low-income households.
ANALYSIS : The Multifamily Housing Program provides
deferred payment loans for the construction,
rehabilitation, or acquisition of transitional or rental
housing. The Emergency Housing and Assistance Program
allocates funds to counties on a formula grant basis to
provide a variety of services, such as emergency shelter or
transitional housing, counseling, and residential rental
assistance or housing vouchers. The Supportive Housing
Program awards competitive grants to either local or
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nonprofit agencies that provide integrated housing and
support services to very low-income Californians.
This bill changes to various programs within the State
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for
the benefit of homeless persons. Specifically, this bill:
1.Requires HCD to evaluate and report on the number of
successful applications funded within the Multifamily
Housing Program for each applicant type and make
adjustments to the award process, if needed, to ensure
an equitable distribution of awards among applicant
types, including hard-to-serve special needs
populations.
2.States legislative intent to encourage coordination
among public agencies that fund or provide services to
homeless individuals and agencies that discharge people
from their institutions (i.e., child welfare agencies,
health care programs, and jails and prisons).
3.States legislative intent to increase the availability
of year-round shelter to meet the special needs of
people who are unable or unwilling to comply with
traditional housing programs, and a safe haven hat
provides supportive housing for seriously mentally ill
homeless persons.
4.Defines a "safe haven" as supportive housing for
seriously mentally ill homeless persons with substance
abuse problems that have been unwilling or unable to
participate in high demand housing programs.
5.Requires providers of emergency shelter or transitional
housing to provide adequate facilities within their
range of services so that all members of a family may be
housed together regardless of gender or age, to the
greatest extent feasible.
6.Requires Emergency Housing And Assistance Program (EHAP)
funds allocated to nonurban counties for facilities
operation that are not awarded after one fiscal year to
be allocated to an urban county in the following year.
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7.Requires EHAP funds allocated to nonurban counties for
capital development that are not awarded after two
fiscal years to be allocated to an urban county in the
following fiscal year.
8.Requires HCD to consider increasing maximum EHAP grant
limits to $300,000 for operating grants and $500,000 for
capital grants by June 30, 2001.
9.Increases the amount any eligible organization within a
region may receive in an EHAP funding round from
$500,000 to $1 million.
10.Provides that eligible designated local boards may use a
percentage of the regional award funds for
administrative costs.
11.Requires HCD to determine the percentage of regional
award funds that designated local boards may use for
administrative costs, but limits the amount to no more
than two percent.
12.Requires designated local boards to include a statement
of how the priorities in their local shelter strategy
will complement the local continuum of care planning
process.
13.Requires designated local boards to include a statement
of how grant recipients will be encouraged to develop
year-round emergency shelters and transitional housing
for various populations including families, youth,
physical and mentally disabled persons, substance
addicted persons, persons living with HIV/AIDS, the
elderly and pregnant women.
14.Requires the designated board to describe how the local
plan serves the needs of individuals and families at
risk of homelessness as a result of eviction.
15.Adds veterans to the list of low-income individuals
included in the target population for the Supportive
Housing Program.
16.Adds the Tax Credit Allocation Committee to the list or
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directors of various state agencies participating in the
Supportive Housing Program Council.
17.Provides that grants from funds transferred to HCD and
awarded for housing costs may be awarded for a period
not to exceed 15 years.
18.Provides that recipients of grants awarded from the
Supportive Housing Grants Program (SHGP) shall provide
$1.50 in matching funds for each $1 awarded in the third
and subsequent years.
19.Requires lead agencies in the SHGP to give preference to
proposals that demonstrate linkages to programs
established under the Adult and Older Adult Mental
Health System of Care Act or other integrated services
projects supported with state and local government
funds.
20.Allows up to ten percent of the funds allocated for
local assistance to the SHGP to be used for
administrative costs.
21.Requires lead agencies in the SHGP to make all grant
awards from budget funds in the Budget Act of 2000 by
June 30, 2001.
22.Requires lead agencies in the SHGP to expend all funds
allocated for grants in the Budget Act of 2000 by June
30, 2004, except for grants awarded for housing costs.
23.Requires a report to be prepared by the lead agency that
receives funding under the Supportive Housing Initiative
Act and requires the report to include:
A. The number of persons housed pursuant to the
program.
B. The extent of housing stability.
C. Demographics of the persons housed pursuant to the
program, such as veterans, persons with mental
illness, people with substance abuse histories,
single adults, and families with children.
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D. The counties in which the housing is located.
E. The changes in income levels of those housed.
F. Improvements in health status, to the extent
available.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Alquist, Aroner, Bock, Calderon, Cardenas, Cardoza,
Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cunneen, Davis, Ducheny, Dutra,
Firebaugh, Florez, Gallegos, Granlund, Havice, Honda,
Jackson, Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Longville,
Lowenthal, Machado, Maldonado, Mazzoni, Migden, Nakano,
Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes, Romero, Scott,
Shelley, Steinberg, Strom-Martin, Thomson, Torlakson,
Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington, Wayne, Wesson,
Wiggins, Wildman, Wright, Hertzberg
NOES: Aanestad, Ackerman, Ashburn, Baldwin, Bates, Battin,
Baugh, Brewer, Briggs, Campbell, Cox, Dickerson, House,
Kaloogian, Leonard, Maddox, Margett, McClintock, Olberg,
Oller, Robert Pacheco, Runner, Strickland, Thompson,
Zettel
NC:cm 8/30/00 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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