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State Land Use Enacted Legislation

Bill # State Year Party Topic

AB 610

 CA 2025 D "Co-Living" and Single-Room Occupancy, Affordable housing incentives and financing, Building code reform, By-right zoning, Commercial land, Deadlines, Development Fees, Environmental review, Fair distribution of housing, Impact fees, Planning Requirements, Publicly-owned, Vacant or blighted lands, Written findings, burden and standard of proof

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Summary

  • Amends California’s Housing Element Law to create more substantive disclosure requirements for local governments if they plan to change housing-related regulation.
  • Requires each housing element to include an analysis of constraints on housing developments for all income levels.
  • Housing elements must include a schedule of actions during the planning period that the local gov’t is undertaking/intending to undertake to implement policies of the housing element.
  • Establishes that the Dept. of Housing and Community Development has published regulatory guidance through publication of building blocks which provide a comprehensive housing-element guide that interprets governmental constraints analysis to require localities to do the following when preparing a housing element:
    • Catalog land-use controls and assess whether development standards prevent reaching maximum allowable density.
    • Identify/analyze process impacts such as application procedures and requirements, permit processing and planning fees, and development and impact fees.
    • Identify exactions.
    • Describe sources of public finance for projects.
    • Determine whether local regulatory standards pose a constraint.
    • Analyze cumulative effect of development standards.
    • Demonstrate local efforts to remove constraints.
  • Housing element should demonstrate that the jurisdiction can accommodate regional housing needs at a minimum but must also analyze impact of housing growth.
  • Bill requires the housing element to include an analysis of local government constraints on housing and a demonstration of local efforts to remove these constraints.

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Bill Title

An act to amend Section 65583 of the Government Code, relating to land use

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Research and analysis from the Furman Center on this and related housing policy topics.

Household Income Distribution

This indicator measures the share of households with household income in one of six brackets: less than $20,000; $20,000-39,999; $40,000-59,999; $60,000-99,999; $100,000- 249,999; and $250,000 or more. Household income is the total income of all members of a household aged 15 years or older. All figures have been adjusted to 2022 dollars. We report data from five-year American Community Survey estimates at the borough and sub-borough levels.

The U.S. Census Bureau advises against comparisons of income data between the decennial census and the American Community Survey (ACS) due to differences in question construction and sampling, and so we urge caution when comparing this indicator over time, particularly at the neighborhood level. For more information on comparisons across years and across U.S. Census Bureau products, please refer to the Methods section of this report.

Sources: American Community Survey via IPUMS-USA University of Minnesota, NYU Furman Center