Bill > AB535

This bill amends sections of the Military and Veterans Code related to veterans' housing and homelessness prevention programs in California. The key provisions are: 1) It redefines "secondary tenant" to mean a veteran who is homeless and has an income of up to 60% of the area median income, rather than specifying income levels based on service-connected disability benefits. 2) It prohibits considering a potential tenant's service-connected disability benefits when determining eligibility for supportive, affordable, or transitional housing under these programs. 3) It allows qualified entities that are unable to place extremely low-income veteran tenants in qualified units to instead place veterans with incomes up to 60% of the area median income, as long as at least 30% of the units remain occupied by extremely low-income veterans. 4) The bill declares it is an urgency statute that will take effect immediately, in order to prevent newly implemented federal regulations from excluding disability benefits from income calculations and resulting in eligible HUD-VASH recipients being turned away from state-supported veteran housing programs.

Budget and Finance, Education, Housing and Urban Affairs

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