Chapter 2.9 - Housing Vouchers - California Health and Safety Code

Sections (2)

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 672, Sec. 1. (AB 653) Effective January 1, 2025.

For purposes of this chapter:

(a)“Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.

(b)“Housing authority” has the same meaning as in the Housing Authorities Law (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 34200) of Part 2 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code).

(c)“Housing navigation services” means services that assist program participants with locating, applying for, and moving into permanent housing.

(d)“Inspection wait time” means the period of time between the tenancy approval by the housing authority and the completion of the housing quality

standard, or another similar, inspection.

(e)“Payment standard” means the maximum monthly assistance payment for a family assisted in the voucher program before deducting the total tenant payment by the family, as defined by Section 982.4 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(f)“Search time” means the initial period of time during which the public housing authority allows a family to find housing with a voucher.

(g)“Success rate” means the percentage of new voucher families that successfully leased a qualifying unit.

§ 50496

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 672, Sec. 1. (AB 653) Effective January 1, 2025.

(a)(1) (A) Beginning July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, all public housing authorities shall report each of the following United States Department of Housing and Urban Development reported data to the department:

(i)Its monthly success rate as of the first of each month.

(ii) Its current payment standards.

(iii) The average inspection wait times for initial lease-up.

(iv) Search times.

(B) The success rate reporting requirements described

in subparagraph (A) shall become inoperative when the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development makes the success rate data described in subparagraph (A) for all public housing authorities publicly available on the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Voucher Data Dashboard.

(2)Beginning on January 1, 2026, and each year thereafter, the department shall make the data reported pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) publicly available.

(b)Beginning on July 1, 2025, and bi-annually thereafter until June 30, 2027, the department shall convene a group of public housing authorities that are diverse with respect to geography and size to discuss the factors that impact success rates and recommendations for state and local intervention.

(c)On or before July 1, 2026, the

department, in consultation with participants in the Housing Choice Voucher program and other stakeholders, shall publish a report with recommendations for state and local interventions to improve success rates. This report shall be made publicly available.

(d)Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the department shall report to the Legislature annually an evaluation of the statewide success rate and changes made to increase efficiencies in placements. The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.