An estimated 172,000 of the state’s population - 30% - is homeless, as jurisdictions statewide fall behind in building a state-mandated total of 2.5 million homes over the next 8 years, 1 million of these being affordable. The law, which takes effect in 2024 and will sunset in 2036, comes as California’s housing crisis worsens. It passed 32-2, with support from faith groups like the Jewish Public Affairs Committee and pro-development groups like the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing.Īccording to an August 2023 study by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, half of land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious organizations are in the “highest” and “high” resource areas improving “economic, educational, and health outcomes for low-income families,” while 13% is within a half-mile of “high-quality transit.” churches, synagogues and mosques) and nonprofit colleges to build 100% affordable housing on their property “by right,” bypassing most local permitting rules and environmental reviews. It opens 171,000 acres of land across California by allowing institutions of faith (e.g. Wiener’s SB 4 is formally known as The Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act and informally known as “Yes in God’s Backyard” (YIGBY). Support for these bills from historically opposed environmental and labor groups suggests the beginning of an unprecedentedly pro-housing majority bloc in California politics. The two landmark bills in the package are sponsored by Sen.

11 expedite low-income housing, notably on church and college land.

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