California's restructuring aims to create an integrated framework for addressing housing and homelessness. The proposed California Housing and Homelessness Authority (CHHA) will align housing programs with transportation, climate, and health policies. Key housing policy principles include reducing costs, ensuring compliance with housing laws, and integrating planning with transit and climate strategies. The budget includes $100 million for local encampment resolution, with funding tied to local government compliance and progress. Enforcement strategies include requiring compliant housing elements for funding eligibility and reallocating funds from non-compliant local governments.
The restructuring aims to create an integrated administrative framework for addressing California's housing and homelessness challenges, aligning programs with transportation, climate, and health policies.
Three core housing policy principles include lowering costs, enforcing compliance with state laws, and integrating planning with transit and climate strategies for housing production.
Future proposals will seek to give the Department of Housing and Community Development flexibility in recycling funds and streamlining the California Environmental Quality Act to support infill housing projects.
A budget includes $100 million for local encampment resolution grants, with funding contingent on local governments demonstrating progress and compliance with state planning laws.
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