AB1008

As introduced, Lowenthal. Housing grants: tenants with disabilities. This bill would create the Rental Housing Accessibility Grant Pilot Program in Dept of Housing and Community Development to make funds available as grants cities and counties through December 31, 2003, to develop programs to provide grants to tenants with disabilities including mobility impairments, in order to make necessary modifications to rental housing that will make the housing accessible to persons with disabilities. The bill would also provide the following: (1) that the maximum grant to a single recipient may not exceed $750,000, (2) that the grant may not supplant existing state, federal, and local funds allocated for this purpose, and (3) that the department may use up to 5% of grant funds for administrative costs.

The bill would also create the Rental Housing Accessibility Grant Pilot Program for low-income tenants with disabilities to which the department would award grants on a competitive basis, to communities that develop a program to provide grants to low-income tenants with disabilities for modifications to rental housing necessary to make that housing accessible to persons with disabilities for programs that operate until December 31, 2004. The bill would require that the department award grants for at least 3 pilot programs, , and would require the grantees to report to the department on the effectiveness of the program by June 30, 2005. The department would also be required to report to the Legislature by December 31, 2005, on the findings of the pilot program administrators. These provisions would be repealed as of January 1, 2006.

Status: In Assembly Housing and Community Development Comm, for hearing April 4; Two year bill.
Position: Support