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 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1165 California Housing Justice Act of 2025.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 01/22/2026 09:00 PM

AB1165:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 January 22, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1165

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

February 21, 2025

An act to add Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 50570) to Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1165, as amended, Gipson.
 California Housing Justice Act of 2025.

Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program administered by the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for the purpose of providing jurisdictions, as defined, with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law also establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program.

This bill would enact the California Housing Justice Act of 2025, which would create the California Housing Justice Fund in the General Fund and
 would require the Legislature to invest an ongoing annual allocation into that fund in an amount needed to solve homelessness and housing unaffordability, as specified. The bill would require moneys in the fund to be appropriated by the Legislature annually to the department and to be expended by the agency to fund, among other things, the development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable and supportive housing that is affordable to acutely low, extremely low, very low, and lower income households, as provided. The bill would also require the department to create, by no later than January 1, 2027, 2028, and in collaboration with specified entities, including local entities, finance plans to solve
 homelessness and to solve the housing unaffordability crisis, and related statewide annual
 performance metrics. By imposing additional duties on local entities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would require the agency, on or before October 1 of each year, beginning in 2027, 1, 2028, to report to the Legislature on its progress in meeting the performance measures and benchmarks contained in the finance plans and annual performance metrics described above, and to publish goals on its internet website and update any progress toward the goals at least annually.
 goals. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Housing unaffordability impacts all Californians and is the leading driver of homelessness in our state. Over 339,000 Californians experienced homelessness in 2024, resulting from well over 1,000,000 extremely low income households paying over one-half of their incomes in rent. The crisis is expected to expand exponentially in response to the wildfires in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura, as well as rent increases from a decreased supply of housing stock during a time of
 increased demand. At the same time, California braces for cuts to federal housing programs, expected to force many more households into houselessness.

(b) The housing and homelessness crisis is a result of many decades of di