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HomeGovernment CodeDiv. 4Pt. 2Ch. 1§ 62103 Low-Income Housing Replacement

§ 62103 Low-Income Housing Replacement

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§ 62103 Low-Income Housing Replacement

Key Takeaways

  • •If a project tears down cheap homes for poor or middle-class families, the city must build or fix the same number of new cheap homes within two years.
  • •The new homes must cost the same or less than what poor or middle-class families can afford.
  • •The city can't reduce the number of super cheap or low-income homes in the project area while the plan is active.
  • •The new homes must have the same number of bedrooms as the ones that were torn down.

Example

A city tears down 50 small, cheap apartments to build a new shopping mall.

The city must build or fix 50 new cheap apartments within two years. These new apartments must be as affordable as the old ones and have the same number of bedrooms. If the old apartments had 1 or 2 bedrooms, the new ones must too.

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§ 62103 Low-Income Housing Replacement

Every community revitalization plan shall contain both of the following: (a) A provision that requires, whenever dwelling units housing persons and families of low or moderate income are destroyed or removed from the low- and moderate-income housing market as part of a revitalization project, the authority to, within two years of such destruction or removal, rehabilitate, develop, or construct, or cause to be rehabilitated, developed, or constructed, for rental or sale to persons and families of low or moderate income an equal number of replacement dwelling units at affordable housing costs, as defined by Section 50052.5 of the Health and Safety Code, within the territorial jurisdiction of the authority, in accordance with all of the provisions of Sections 62120 and 62120.5. (b) A provision that prohibits the number of housing units occupied by extremely low, very low-, and low-income households, including the number of bedrooms in those units, at the time the plan is adopted, from being reduced in the plan area during the effective period of the plan. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 319, Sec. 2. (AB 2) Effective January 1, 2016.)

Last verified: January 22, 2026

Key Terms

affordable housing costshealthfinesafetyrevitalizationcommunityauthoritydestruction

Related Statutes

  • § 62100 Affordable Housing Tax Allocation
  • § 62108 Excess Housing Fund Disbursement
  • § 12087 Community Action Agency Recognition
  • § 16250 City Property Tax Allocation
  • § 33202 Health Officer Authority Requirements

References

  • Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
  • California Legislature. Government Code. Section 62103.
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