Loading chat...

CA SJR6

Joint Resolution

Status

Passed

9/10/2021

Primary Sponsor

Patricia Bates

Click for details

Origin

Senate

2021-2022 Session

AI Summary

  • Requests Congress to enact the bipartisan Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (S. 1136 and H.R. 2573) and President Joe Biden to sign it into law

  • Reduces the federal 50-percent test requirement for low-income housing tax credits to 25 percent, eliminating a major impediment to affordable housing development in California

  • Aims to enable construction of 2 million additional affordable rental homes nationally over 10 years, including 330,000 units in California

  • Addresses California's need for 1.2 million new affordable homes over the next decade while 70 percent of low-income and 90 percent of extremely low-income households are housing cost burdened

  • Directs the California Secretary of the Senate to transmit the resolution to federal officials and California's Congressional delegation

Legislative Description

Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 130, Statutes of 2021.

9/10/2021

Committee Referrals

Housing and Community Development8/19/2021
Housing6/30/2021
Rules6/23/2021

Full Bill Text

No bill text available