2025 Policy Priorities
Housing California’s 2025 Policy Priorities focuses on community members most in need of an affordable place to call home.
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Our 2025 legislative priorities are listed below. As the legislative session progresses, please check this page for updates.
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2025 Sponsored Bills
AB 804 (Wicks) Medi-Cal Housing Supportive Services.
Would make Medi-Cal housing supportive services a statewide benefit to allow California to take advantage of federal funding and to improve service delivery and accessibility.
AB 906 (M. González) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH).
Would strengthen AFFH requirements in the housing element process to promote integrated neighborhoods and ensure that local jurisdictions analyze key fair housing issues.
AB 1229 (Schultz) Adult Reentry Grant Program.
Would restructure the existing Adult Reentry Grant program and move it to the Housing and Community Development department to better reduce homelessness among the parole population. (RUN Priority)
AB 1244 (Wicks) Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Mitigation for Affordable Housing.
Creates a statewide mechanism to collect and disburse VMT mitigation dollars for affordable infill housing near transit.
AB 1339 (M. González) Insurance Data Transparency.
Would grant the California Department of Insurance the authority to request and analyze key data about rate increases and changes to coverage for affordable housing to inform future policymaking.
High Priority Support Bills
AB 736 (Wicks) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026
Would place a $10 billion affordable housing bond on the statewide ballot.
SB 417 (Cabaldon) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026
Would place a $10 billion affordable housing bond on the statewide ballot.
Support
AB 6 (Ward) Residential developments: building standards: review.
AB 37 (Elhawary) Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness.
AB 282 (Pellerin) Discrimination: housing: source of income.
AB 301 (Schiavo) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits: state departments.
AB 306 (Schulz) Building regulations: state building standards.
AB 348 (Krell) Full-service partnerships.
AB 380 (Gonzalez) Price gouging.
AB 449 (Jackson) Civil Rights Department: antidiscrimination campaigns.
AB 480 (Quirk-Silva) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: insurance tax law: low-income housing tax credit:
AB 543 (González) Medi-Cal: street medicine.
AB 628 (McKinnor) Hiring of real property: dwellings: untenantability.
AB 660 (Wilson) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits.
AB 670 (Quirk-Silva) Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.
AB 678 (Lee) Interagency Council on Homelessness.
AB 712 (Wicks) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.
AB 722 (Avila-Farias) Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program.
AB 726 (Avila-Farias) Planning and zoning: annual report: rehabilitated units
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless shelters: safety regulations.
AB 801 (Bonta) Financial institutions: California Community Reinvestment Act..
AB 820 (Pellerin) Homelessness: transport.
AB 874 (Avila-Farias) Mitigation Fee Act: waiver of fees: affordable rental housing.
AB 913 (C. Rodriguez) Housing programs: financing.
AB 1157 (Haney) Tenancy: just cause termination: rent increases
AB 1165 (Gipson) California Housing Justice Act of 2025.
AB 1248 (Haney) Hiring of real property: fees and charges.
AB 1276 (Carillo) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.
AB 1294 (Haney) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form.
AB 1404 (Ortega) Electrical corporations: connections: affordable housing projects.
SB 21 (Durazo) Single-room occupancy units: demolition and replacement: housing assistance programs: eligibility for homeless individuals and families.
SB 33 (Cortese) Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program.
SB 52 (Perez) Housing rental rates and occupancy levels: algorithmic devices.
SB 340 (Laird) General plans: housing element: emergency shelter.
SB 384 (Waihab) Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act: prohibition on price-fixing algorithm use.
SB 634 (Perez) Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties.
SB 685 (Cortese) California State University: financial aid for homeless students: pilot program.
SB 686 (Reyes) Housing programs: financing.
SB 733 (Wahab) Planning and zoning: annual progress report: Low Barrier Navigation Centers.
AB 841 (Rubio) Immigration enforcement
Oppose
AB 20 (DeMaio) Homelessness: People First Housing Act of 2025.
AB 76 (Alvarez) Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.
AB 538 (Berman) Public works: payroll records.
AB 897 (DeMaio) Trespassing: removal of trespassers on residential property.
AB 963 (Petrie-Norris) Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
AB 1432 (Hoover) Homelessness Accountability, Recovery, and Treatment Act.
SB 823 (Stern) Mental health: the CARE Act.
Opposed Unless Amended
Not applicable at this time.
Support Unless Amended
Not applicable at this time.
Neutral
AB 249 (Ramos) Housing: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: youth-specific processes and coordinated entry systems.
ACA-4 (Jackson) Homelessness and affordable housing.
Concerns
SB 79 (Wiener) Local government land: public transit use: housing development: transit-oriented development.
AB 255 (Haney) The Supportive-Recovery Residence Program.
SB 677 (Wiener) Housing development: streamlined approvals.