Solutions
Mapping a better future for California.
The Roadmap Home includes more than 50 policies that, when fully implemented, will address the root causes of housing insecurity and homelessness across our state.
Go Deep
Go in-depth on all 57 policy solutions in the Roadmap Home.
Our priorities for the 2022 legislative session
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AB 989
Administrative enforcement of the Housing Accountability Act: To establish an Office of Housing Appeals in order to review potential violations of the Housing Accountability Act. Roadmap Priority: C502
AB 1816
Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program: To establish the Reentry Housing & Workforce Development Grant Program funding housing, supportive services, and workforce development programs for formerly incarcerated Californians. Roadmap Priority: A8Impact
$200 million would support permanent housing and needed supportive services for
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at least 7,200individuals reentering the community after incarceration
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nearly 30,000individuals reentering the community after incarceration
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AB 1911
Capital gains acquisition tax credit: To allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer that is transferred, and allocated, credits pursuant to the sale of a specified multifamily rental housing development or mobile home park to a qualified developer that has received a credit reservation from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, in specified amounts. Roadmap Priority: A7Impact
$500 million invested over a five-year period to convert private, low-income rental properties into affordable homes.
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8,036affordable homes preserved with $100 million in credits
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23,304people served each year, over a five-year period
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AB 1945
Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program: To fund the pre-development, acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of affordable housing in declared disaster areas where lower income households have been impacted. Roadmap Priority: E3Impact
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316affordable homes rebuilt over 10 years
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918people served annually over a 10-year period
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AB 1961
Affordable housing: Department of Housing and Community Development: To create an online database of affordable housing listings, information, and applications. Roadmap Priority: E1006
AB 2050
Residential real property: withdrawal of accommodations: To prohibit property owners from using an Ellis Act eviction unless all owners of the property have been owners for 5 continuous years. Roadmap Priority: D6Impact
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12,675fewer evictions over 10 years in San Francisco and Los Angeles
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AB 2011
Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: Allow new apartment and condominium developments to be built in commercial and mixed-use zones when at least 20% of the homes are affordable to low-income households. Roadmap Priority: C2Impact
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2 Millionaffordable home units in the Bay Area and Los Angeles County.
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AB 2186
Impact fee reduction or waiver 50% reimbursement: To establish the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program in order to reimburse cities and/or counties for development impact fee waivers or reductions given to qualified rental housing developments. Roadmap Priority: C6Impact
An annual allotment of $25 million would enable
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429new affordable homes to be created each year
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1,245people served annually
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AB 2325
California Coordinated Homelessness Response Act: To build on recent efforts to enhance coordination among the agencies that fund homelessness programs by creating a funders workgroup within the CA Interagency Council on Homelessness. Roadmap Priority: E210
AB 2713
Just cause eviction modifications: To revise the intent to occupy just-cause provision to mean a good faith intent to occupy a residence by the property owner or the owner’s spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents for at least 3 consecutive years. Roadmap Priority: D111
ACA 1
55% vote threshold for local housing measures: To impose, extend, or increase a sales and use tax or transactions, and use tax imposed in accordance with specified law or a parcel tax for the purposes of funding the construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing. Roadmap Priority: A612
SCA 2
Repeal of Article XXXIV: To repeal Article 34 of the constitution which requires voter approval of the development or acquisition of publicly funded affordable housing. Roadmap Priority: D713