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State Land Use Enacted Legislation
| Bill # | State | Year | Party | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AB 1304 |
CA | 2021 | D | Planning Requirements |
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Summary
- Strengthens requirements for local governments to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) in their housing elements:
- Clarifies that public agencies have a mandatory duty to affirmatively further fair housing in programs and activities relating to housing and community development. Specifies this is a clarification of existing law, not a change.
- Enhanced housing element analysis requirements:
- Site inventory: Requires the inventory of land suitable and available for residential development to include analysis of:
- Relationship of identified sites to the jurisdiction’s AFFH duty
- Whether the inventory of housing types (multifamily rental, factory-built, mobile homes, agricultural employee housing, supportive housing, SROs, emergency shelters, transitional housing) affirmatively furthers fair housing
- Fair housing assessment: Expands required analysis of fair housing issues to include:
- Integration and segregation patterns and trends using federal, state, and local data
- Fair housing enforcement and outreach capacity
- Local and regional historical origins of fair housing issues
- Current policies and practices contributing to fair housing factors identified
- Program actions: Requires the schedule of actions to identify sites and actions needed to affirmatively further fair housing.
Provided by lawmakers
Bill Title
Affirmatively further fair housing: housing element: inventory of land
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Research and analysis from the Furman Center on this and related housing policy topics.
