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STATE LEGISLATION The State of California is probably better recognized for the lack of rather' than the existence of aggressive housing legislation. The state offers no supplemental or alternative source of financing for housing programs to the already noted federal funding vehicles. Two areas which have already been discussed are the permissive provisions of the California Health and Safety Code allowing cities and counties to utilize the California Redevelop- ment Act and the Housing Authorities Law. The requirements of Title 7 of the Government Code, Planning and Zoning Law which mandates consideration of local housing problems and potential solutions as previously noted accomplishes little in the way of being of assistance to local jurisdictions. Recent actions of the California Legislature at the end of the last session did not better the situation even though a number of important housing bills were introduced. Some of the bills were held over until 1975 and the change in administration may have some influence on legislative action and produce both new and reintroduced legislation concerning housing. The following summary indicates the status and content of the most recent legislation considered by the California Assembly and Senate. - Assembly Bill 2090 (Kapiloff) was unsuccessful in establishing authority for cities to adopt ordinances requiring the inclusion of low and moderate income housing constructed as part of resi- dential projects of ten units or more to implement an adopted housing element of the general plan. - Assembly Bill 2144 (Bagley) was unsuccessful Cited as the California Housing. Act of 1974, it would have abolished the Depart- ment of Housing and Community Development and established a Housing Board empowered with subsidized lending terms for low and moderate income households. The loan bond proposed could have financed sale or rehabilitation of housing and particular attention was to be granted elderly low income persons. - Assembly Bill 2966 (Chacon et. al. ) also was defeated which would have created a California Housing Finance Corporation which would receive and allocate federal assistance funds and had its own financing structure and could issue its own bonds. - Assemb'ly Bill 2967 (Chacon et. al.), Senate Bill 1634 (Zenovich) was the funding vehicle of general obligation bonds for $500 million for the Housing Finance Corporation proposed under A.B. 2966 and was also unsuccessful A. t3. 2968 and S. B. O0011b