HOUSING POLICY &
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY
While building more homes is vital, so is reforming old and outdated laws that have long made it too difficult and too expensive to build enough housing for everyone who needs it.
That’s why HAC is working hard to enact new laws to make it easier, faster, and less expensive to build more housing at all affordability levels and reform antiquated laws that are only exacerbating our housing crisis.
POLICY AREAS
HAC works along the full policy cycle — from policy debates to implementation — to deliver effective policy solutions. Our policy approach focuses on four key areas:
Process Reform (Streamlining)
We work to reform the entitlement and permitting processes to significantly reduce bureaucratic delays. Our goal is to pave the way for faster and more efficient housing development that can ideally see a project entitled and permitted within one year.
Code Reform
HAC advocates for modern zoning and building requirements to enable communities to adapt to evolving housing needs with more flexible and innovative designs.
Financing & Fees
HAC is focused on increasing funding for affordable housing and refining financial tools to ensure projects are not only feasible but also serve people at every income level.
Preservation, Protection, & Homeownership
HAC strives to preserve existing homes and protect residents to foster stability, community, and a sense of belonging — after all, people are the most important parts of the equation.
Explore Our Active Policy & Legislation Efforts
These are the bills we're sponsoring and moving through Sacramento right now — each one aimed at a specific barrier to building homes. Click any bill for the full story, the fact sheet, and how to support it.
Fixes the construction-defect litigation system behind a 75% collapse in condo building.
AB 1903 (Wicks)
One statewide building code for factory-built housing — one design, buildable anywhere in California.
AB 1815 (Wicks)
Rewards cities that use tax-increment financing to fund the infrastructure that infill housing needs.
SB 1003 (Grayson)
Ends frivolous parcel-map appeals and bond-hearing delays that stall housing with no planning objection.
SB 677 (Wiener)
Caps toxic-cleanup fees so contaminated infill sites can become housing.
SB 328 (Grayson)
Still on the Table
Not every bill makes it through the Legislature on the first attempt — most meaningful housing reforms take several sessions to become law. The bills below didn't advance this session: some didn't survive their committees, others were held and remain dormant.
Each one still represents an issue we believe matters, and the ideas behind them often return in future sessions — sometimes in new bills, sometimes folded into other legislation.
AB 2252 (Lee)
Would have allowed single-stairway apartment buildings up to six stories.
AB 1623 (Davies)
Would have let cities count student housing toward their lower-income RHNA targets.
SB 1258 (Wiener)
Would have opened streamlined ministerial approval to remediated brownfield sites.