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Housing Related Bills Bill/Title Description City Outcome Position Investment recognized jurisdiction or entity (e.g., city) to Program apply to the Committee to participate in the program and would authorize the committee to approve or deny plans for projects meeting specific criteria. AB 1244 Limits ability of a court to block construction of Oppose 2 year bill (Fong) a housing project for which an EIR has been unless Environmental certified, unless certain findings are met. amended quality: judicial review: housing projects. AB 1279 Would facilitate denser affordable housing Oppose 2 year bill (Bloom) development in "high resource areas" to be Planning and designated by HCD. The bill identifies high- zoning: resource areas with strong indicators of Housing exclusionary patterns (both racial and development: economic) and subjects these areas to high-resource approval streamlining to encourage production areas. of both small-scale market-rate housing projects and larger scale mixed-income affordable projects. Developers would also be required to pay a fee for any units priced above rents the considered affordable to households earning 100% of Area Median Income (AM I), with fees to be deposited into a separate fund to support housing preservation/production of housing affordable to households earning less than 50% AMI. AB 1568 Would limit local jurisdictions' abilities to apply Oppose 2 year bill (McCarty) for certain state grant funding if housing Housing law element is found to be out of compliance with compliance: state law. (Note, prior provisions that would prohibition on allowed the state to withhold SB1 applying for transportation funds have been eliminated state grants. from the current draft bill.) AB 1706 Until January 1, 2035, would provide specified Oppose 2 year bill (Quirk) financial incentives that ensure financial feasibility for a residential housing 4