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DRAFT 2021 Recommended Positions on Bills <br /> Assembly Bill/ Summary Guiding Recommended City Position TVC League of <br /> Senate Bill Principle Position CA Cities <br /> Position <br /> SB 15 Current law establishes, among Housing Support. The bill provides None Watch <br /> (Portantino) other housing programs, the resources and incentives to cities <br /> Housing Workforce Housing Reward who elect to re-zone commercial <br /> development: Program, which requires the sites for affordable housing. <br /> incentives: Department of Housing and <br /> rezoning of idle Community Development to <br /> retail sites make local assistance grants to <br /> cities, counties, and cities and <br /> counties that provide land use <br /> approval to housing <br /> developments that are affordable <br /> to very low and low-income <br /> households. This bill, upon <br /> appropriation by the Legislature <br /> in the annual Budget Act or other <br /> statute, would require the <br /> department to administer a <br /> program to provide incentives in <br /> the form of grants allocated as <br /> provided to local governments <br /> that rezone idle sites used for a <br /> big box retailer or a commercial <br /> shopping center to instead allow <br /> the development of workforce <br /> housing <br /> 4 <br /> 7 <br /> February 5,2021 <br />