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Senate proclaims May 2025 Affordable Housing Month as members press for funding and production
Summary
The California State Senate adopted Senate Resolution 46 recognizing May 2025 as Affordable Housing Month. Lawmakers used the debate to press for more funding, to tie production goals to financing solutions and to highlight the crisisincluding targets such as building 300,000 units per year and financing needs identified by authors.
The California State Senate on the floor adopted Senate Resolution 46, proclaiming May 2025 as Affordable Housing Month and urging renewed legislative attention to housing production and financing.
Senator Cabaldon, the resolutionauthor, said California remains in an "affordable housing crisis," noting only 17% of households can currently afford the average home and that many renters are "rent-burdened," spending more than 30% of income on housing. Cabaldon called for a combination of permitting, zoning and funding actions, and referenced the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 as an example of voter-approved…
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