BILL NUMBER: AB 870	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooley

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 870, as introduced, Cooley. Homelessness: rapid rehousing.
   Existing federal law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009, allocated, until September 30, 2011, $1.5 billion to the
federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for the
Homelessness Prevention Fund, to be used for homelessness prevention
and rapid rehousing. Existing law, the California Work Opportunity
and Responsibility to Kids Act, provides housing supports to
individuals if the administering county determines that the
individual or his or her family is experiencing homelessness or
housing instability that would be a barrier to self-sufficiency or
child well-being and declares that it is the intent of the
Legislature that housing supports utilize evidence-based models,
including those established in the federal Department of Housing and
Urban Development's Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program.

   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would utilize the principles of rapid rehousing in
order to better care for California's homeless population.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would utilize the principles of rapid rehousing in
order to better care for California's homeless population.