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 90 (Jackson)Public postsecondary education: overnight student parking.
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 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 670 (Quirk-Silva) Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.
AB 678 (Lee) Interagency Council on Homelessness.
AB 726 (Avila-Farias) Planning and zoning: annual report: rehabilitated units
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless shelters: safety regulations.
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 1069 (Bains) Older adults: emergency shelters.
AB 1165 (Gipson) California Housing Justice Act of 2025.
AB 1248 (Haney) Hiring of real property: fees and charges.
AB 1294 (Haney) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form.
AB 1404 (Ortega) Electrical corporations: connections: affordable housing projects.
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 634 (Perez) Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties.
SB 658 (Perez) Real property impacted by the 2025 Eaton or Palisades Fires: sale of rental properties: right of first refusal for governmental and nonprofit organizations.
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.
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 963 (Petrie-Norris) Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
AB 1432 (Hoover) Homelessness Accountability, Recovery, and Treatment Act.
SB 748 (Richardson) Encampment Resolution Funding program: recreational vehicles: reporting
SB 823 (Stern) Mental health: the CARE Act.
Opposed Unless Amended
AB 255 (Haney) The Supportive-Recovery Residence Program.
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
Not applicable at this time.