CA AB2502

Authorizes cities, counties, and city-counties to adopt ordinances requiring a percentage of residential rental units be affordable to and occupied by moderate-income, lower-income, very low-income, or extremely low-income households as defined in Health and Safety Code Sections 50079.5, 50105, and 50106

Establishes legislative intent to reaffirm local jurisdictions' authority to include affordable rental unit requirements in inclusionary housing ordinances and to supersede a 2009 appellate court decision creating uncertainty about this authority

Notes that inclusionary housing ordinances have produced over 80,000 affordable housing units for Californians, with approximately 30,000 units created in the decade prior to the bill's passage, across over 170 jurisdictions

Does not modify existing local authority to require affordable for-sale units as a condition of residential development

Requires that any adoption of new inclusionary housing ordinances comply with the Ralph M. Brown Act's open meeting and deliberation requirements