California ACA 4: A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by amending Sections 2 and 4 of Article II thereof, relating to elections.

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 ACA-4 Homelessness and affordable housing.(2025-2026)

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ACA4:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 05, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Constitutional Amendment

No. 4

Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Lee and Quirk-Silva) Lee, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks)

January 24, 2025

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 24 to Article XVI thereof, relating to homelessness.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACA 4, as amended, Jackson.
 Homelessness and affordable housing.

The California Constitution authorizes the development, construction, or acquisition of developments composed of urban or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income financed in whole or in part by the federal government or a state public body, or to which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance, if a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the housing is proposed to be located approves the project by voting in favor thereof, as specified.

This measure, the Housing Opportunities for Everyone (HOPE) Made Equal (HOME) Act, would create an account in the General
 Fund into which, beginning in the 2027–28 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter until September 30, 2036, a sum would be transferred from the General Fund equal to or greater than 5% of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, as specified. The measure would require the moneys in the account to be appropriated by the Legislature to the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and would authorize that agency to expend the moneys to fund prescribed matters related to homelessness and affordable housing, including housing and services to prevent and end homelessness.

This measure would require the agency to develop a 10-year investment strategy, with input from stakeholders, that demonstrates how moneys in the account will be used to produce affordable housing and end homelessness through specific performance measures and benchmarks. On or before October 1 of each year, and until October 1, 2036, the measure would require the
 agency to annually report to the Legislature on its progress in meeting those performance measures and benchmarks.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 2/3 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2025–26 Regular Session commencing on the second day of December 2024, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be amended as follows:

First—

 This measure shall be known, and may be cited, as the Housing Opportunities for Everyone (HOPE) Made Equal (HOME) Act.

Second—

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) As of January 2023, California has had an estimated 181,339 people experiencing homelessness on any given day.

(b) Seventy-one percent of homeless Californians were unsheltered, the highest rate in the nation, meaning that they were living in streets, parks, or other locations not meant for human habitation.

(c) As local communities work to house the unsheltered, more people are falling into homelessness. Larger urban areas with high numbers of people experiencing homelessness have reported that more people are falling into homelessness than they are
 able to house.

(d) Homelessness is a complex problem, but a source of homelessness is the high cost of housing.

(e) In many parts of the state, many lower income residents are severely cost burdened, paying over 50 percent of their income toward housing costs. One small financial setback can push these individuals and families into homelessness.

(f) In the current market, 2.2 million extremely low income and very low income renter households are competing for 664,000 affordable rental units.

(g) Of the 6 million renter households in the state, 1.7 million are paying more than 50 percent of their income toward rent