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Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled legislation on February 12, 2025, aimed at protecting existing affordable housing units and improving the investment climate for newer multifamily housing in the District....more
A Bill first introduced by the New Jersey Assembly Housing Committee in October, and recently approved by the Committee to be considered by the full Assembly for a vote, could potentially permit single exit stairwells in...more
California law requires cities and counties to regularly plan for new housing development and to prepare and adopt housing elements that formalize these plans. For those cities and counties that fail to adopt housing elements...more
Colorado’s General Assembly passed two bills this legislative session dedicated to improving the state of affordable housing in Colorado. HB24-1316 and HB24-1434 aim to supplement the State’s oversubscribed affordable housing...more
Florida's 2023 Live Local Act provides significant land use, zoning and tax benefits. (See Holland & Knight's previous alerts, "Florida's New Live Local Act Offers Land Use and Tax Benefits," Aug. 8, 2023, and "Florida's Live...more
The 88th Regular Session (2023) of the Texas Legislature approved HB 2071 (the "Bill"), which revises the way public facility corporations ("PFCs") can be utilized to own and operate affordable housing. Affordable housing is...more
The California Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2011 (Wicks), the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, and Senate Bill (SB) 6 (Caballero), the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, on Aug. 29, 2022. Both pieces...more
A handful of important state laws related to housing have been passed by the California legislature, including the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 (SB 330), which provides a set of limited reforms to the Housing Accountability Act...more
As California's housing supply and homelessness crisis continues, the State Legislature has for the past several years passed numerous pieces of housing legislation in each legislative session. This year was no exception,...more
Several bills affecting the long-term tax exemption statute are slowly making their way through the New Jersey Legislature. While each bill addresses different provisions of the statute, the common theme among them is one of...more
SB 330, the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, is making its way through the California Legislature, and will be heard by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Introduced by Senator Nancy Skinner in...more
On June 10, Governor Abbott signed House Bill 2569 (the “Bill”), relating to condominium unit boundaries. For more than a decade, Texas builders and developers have used the condominium process to create “detached”...more
In January 2017, the Department of Housing and Community Development published statistics indicating that there is a need, on average, for approximately 180,000 housing units to be developed each year in California, while...more
Having trouble keeping up with the seemingly endless torrent of new housing laws? You are not alone. Here is our summary of the key pending State and San Francisco legislation aimed at increasing housing/affordable housing...more
Is the City another step closer to sorting out inclusionary housing requirements and implementation of Proposition C? Board of Supervisors members have introduced two competing ordinances that seek to call the question...more