*Two-Year Bill, EBHO Priority Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 801 would require state-chartered financial institutions to regularly demonstrate that they are taking steps to invest in communities they profit from that have historically been exploited by and disinvested from by financial institutions and the banking industry.
• This bill has been pulled by the author and will not be moving forward this year
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 804 would require the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal approval to make housing support services a Medi-Cal benefit. This new benefit builds upon an existing program to take advantage of federal dollars to tackle California’s homelessness crisis while also avoiding costly acute care and improving health outcomes.
• This bill failed to reach an Assembly Floor vote by the deadline for Two-Year Bills and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• AB 1165 would require HCD to create a specific state financing plan to address the state housing affordability and homelessness crises.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill, EBHO Priority Bill

• SB 417 would place a $10 billion bond on the June 2026 ballot to support the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing and permanent supportive housing. You can learn more about the bond campaign and add your name to the list of supporters by clicking here.
• Fact Sheet

• SB 830 would make amendments to SB 63 (2025) which places a Regional Sales Tax to fund public Transit on the 2026 November ballot. These amendments ensure the ballot measure has a uniform name and placement on ballots across the 5 counties in which it will appear on ballots, but allows distinct “for” and “against” arguments since the impact of the measure will be distinct in different counties.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• AB 282 would clarify that prioritizing applicants for tenancy who qualify for or participate in rental assistance programs does not constitute discrimination based on source of income. Previous legislation prohibited discriminating against prospective tenants because they have Section 8. AB 282 clarifies that it is okay for property owners to prioritize tenants with Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers over tenants who don’t have vouchers.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill, EBHO Priority Bill, RUN Priority Bill

• AB 1229 would transfer the administration of the Adult Reentry Housing Grant Program (helping those with a history of incarceration achieve stability in housing) from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would make other, evidence-based changes to the administration of the program, including requiring that a higher percentage of funds be dedicated to direct rental assistance.
• Fact Sheet

• AB 2128 would prohibit a California public housing authority from implementing any rules that impose term limits or work requirements as a condition of eligibility for housing vouchers, regardless of federal government requirements.

*EBHO priority bill, RUN priority bill

• AB 2146 would eliminate some onerous verification and documentation requirements for individuals seeking placements in supportive housing and exiting homelessness.
• EBHO’s Board President William Goodwin (pictured below with other advocates and the bill’s author) testified in support of this bill, sharing journey from homelessness to affordable housing.

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 924 would require landlords to pay out a portion of a security deposit to tenants who leave a rental home due to violence, abuse, or assault by another tenant of the same home.
• This bill has been pulled by the author and will not be moving forward this year.

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 1157 would make three amendments to the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482): It would expand all protections to include Single Family Homes (currently excluded from the bill); it would lower the statewide cap on rent increases to 2% + CPI or 5%, whichever is lower (the current cap is 5% + CPI or 10%); and it would remove the current sunset date of 2030 from all provisions of the bill, making them permanent.
• This bill failed a vote in the Assembly Judiciary Committee and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

• AB 1128 would impose a cap on allowable rent increases in mobilehome parks of 5% or 3% plus the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.
• This bill failed to reach an Assembly Floor vote by the deadline and will not be moving forward this year.

• AB 1842 would create a uniform, statewide program for mortgage forbearance for residents whose homes are rendered uninhabitable by a state of emergency declared by the Governor or federal government.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• SB 52 would provide some protections against landlords using algorithmic or artificial intelligence devices to advise on rental rates or occupancy levels for residential dwelling units.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• SB 436 would extend the 3-day notice landlords are required to give tenants that they must pay owed rent or be evicted to 14 days.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• SB 522 would apply the protections from the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482) to any building built to replace a building to which those protections would have previously applied but was substantially damaged or destroyed in a disaster.
• Fact Sheet

• SB 1092 would create an opportunity to purchase for tenants of mobilehome parks in instances where owners seek to sell those parks. It would also require a one-year notice to tenants when mobilehome park owners seek to sell their property.
• Fact Sheet

*Inactive/Died

• SB 1155 would prohibit the eviction of federal employees for nonpayment of rent if the tenant’s ability to pay is impacted by a government shutdown (eviction would be prohibited for the duration of the shutdown and for 30 days thereafter).
• This bill was held on the suspense file in the Senate Appropriations Committee and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

• SB 1160 would require the California Judicial Council to collect data on evictions and make that data publicly available. Would also require courts to provide the Judicial Council with information regarding unlawful detainer (eviction) cases each month, aggregated by zip code.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 874 would waive development fees collected for public improvements or construction of public utilities for affordable housing developments.
• This bill has been pulled by the author and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• AB 913 would allow HCD to authorize the transfer of excess funds between affordable rental properties with the same owner and waive any payments normally required for such transfers.
• While AB 913 is technically still active, the author has chosen to split its provisions into two new bills (see AB 2020 and AB 2626 below) which EBHO is also supporting. It is likely that the two new bills will move forward instead of this one.

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• AB 1404 would require utility companies to complete the electrification of affordable housing developments within 60 days of completion of the project and delay utilities’ ability to increase rates if they do not complete electrification. It would also require the Public Utilities Commission to streamline any review of affordable development that is ready to be connected to the grid but is remaining vacant.
• This bill failed to reach an Assembly Floor vote by the deadline for Two-Year Bills and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

• AB 2020 would allow developers of Affordable Housing to transfer excess reserves or excess operating income from one rental housing development to another with the same owner.
• This is one of two bills (along with AB 2626) that carries similar language to AB 913 which will likely not be moving forward any longer.
• Fact Sheet

• AB 2626 would allow HCD to waive payment of residual receipts or minimum annual loan payments for affordable housing developments.
• This is one of two bills (along with AB 2020) that carries similar language to AB 913 which will likely not be moving forward any longer.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill, Inactive/Died

• SB 592 would exempt properties from being reassessed for property tax purposes after a transfer in ownership if the property has been purchased by tenants working together through a cooperative, community land trust, or nonprofit organization.
• This bill failed to reach a Senate Floor vote by the deadline for Two-Year Bills and will not be moving forward this year.
• Fact Sheet

*EBHO Priority Bill

• SB 1091 would create the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program (CAPP) to prevent displacement and homelessness by financing the acquisition and preservation of currently unsubsidized rental housing as affordable housing and stabilizing current residents in their communities. (If passed, CAPP would initially be funded with $500 million from the state housing bond)
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• AB 906l would strengthen and expand AFFH law in the 7th Housing Element cycle. It would require a specific analysis of how the jurisdiction’s zoning Affirmatively Furthers Fair Housing, and a commitment to rezone so as to allow lower-income housing in higher resource and exclusive areas with specific time frames.
• The bill further specifies that the Housing Element requirement to provide adequate sites includes meeting AFFH requirements or including a rezoning program in the Housing Element to meet AFFH. It requires the Fair Housing Analysis to be completed and published for comment 1 year before publishing the draft Housing Element.
• Fact Sheet

*Two-Year Bill

• AB 1240 would prohibit any person or corporation from owning more than 1,000 single family homes in California.

• AB 2002 would make the “Regional Early Action Planning” (REAP) program permanent to continue supporting local government agencies taking early steps to plan for their 7th Cycle Housing Element Updates (and future Housing Element Updates).
• Fact Sheet

• AB 736 would prohibit local governments from taxing the sale of real property above 1.5%. Examples of local transfer taxes that would be prohibited by AB 736 include Oakland’s Real Estate Transfer Tax, Berkeley’s Measure W, San Francisco’s Proposition I, and Los Angeles’s Measure ULA.

*You may recognize AB 736 as a bill EBHO supported earlier this year. The same bill number was originally used to move forward the Statewide Affordable Housing Bond of 2026, but when that proposition was placed on the ballot through a different bill in the State Senate, AB 736 was re-written as a bill prohibiting most local transfer taxes.

*Inactive/Died

• AB 1895 would create an exemption to the Surplus Land Act for land that is deemed “unsuitable for housing” based on various geographical conditions. EBHO opposes this bill as it creates unnecessary exemptions to the Surplus Land Act; if land is truly unsuitable for housing, affordable housing developers will simply not apply to build housing there. However, this decision should be left up to affordable housing developers and not be made before they have a chance to bid on the surplus land.
• This bill failed to reach an Assembly Floor vote by the deadline and will not be moving forward this year.

• AB 2139 would create an exemption to the Surplus Land Act for the Ontario Sports Empire property in the City of Ontario.

*Oppose Unless Amended, Inactive/Died

• AB 2525 would create an exemption to the Surplus Land Act for Mission Bay Park in San Diego. EBHO has signed on to an “Oppose Unless Amended” letter and would remove our opposition to the bill if the exemption still required 25% of housing built on the site to be affordable.
• This bill was pulled by its author and will not be moving forward this year.

*Oppose Unless Amended

• SB 1145 would provide for streamlined environmental review of the Concord Naval Weapons Station under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and would also exempt any land sold by the federal government as part of a military base closure from the Surplus Land Act. EBHO has signed on to an “Oppose Unless Amended” letter and would remove our opposition to the bill if the Surplus Land Act exemptions were removed from the bill, or potentially if the exemption was much more targeted and did not apply universally to military base property.