Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes and appropriates funds to the California Access to Housing and Services Fund.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $2 billion annually from the general fund to the newly created California Access to Housing Fund (Sec. 1). 

• Appropriates the aforementioned $2 billion in the following ways (Sec. 1):

• $1.1 billion to counties and service organizations;

• $800,000 to cities with a population of 300,000 or more; and

• $100 million to nonprofit housing developers building homes in unincorporated areas.

• Establishes that at least 25 percent of a recipient’s funds go to the following services (Sec. 1):

• Survivors of domestic or sexual violence;

• Elderly people experiencing or about to experience homelessness;

• People who are chronically homeless;

• People that have chronic medical or behavioral conditions who are experiencing homelessness; and

• People leaving prison who experienced homelessness prior to incarceration.

• Establishes that at least 10 percent of a recipient’s funds go to serving homeless youth (Sec. 1).

• Requires recipients to match 25 percent of their allocated funds to an appropriate grant that combats homelessness (Sec. 1). 

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