California Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment

California Ballot Measure - Amendment

Election: Nov. 5, 2024 (General)

Outcome: Pending

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Housing and Property
Elections

Summary


Amendment to the California Constitution repealing Article XXXIV, which requires a majority of the qualified electors of a city, town or county to approve plans for low-income housing projects.

Measure Text


Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 2
CHAPTER 182

A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by repealing Article XXXIV thereof, relating to public housing projects.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCA 2, Allen. Public housing projects.
The California Constitution prohibits the development, construction, or acquisition of a low-rent housing project, as defined, in any manner by any state public body until a majority of the qualified electors of the city, town, or county in which the development, construction, or acquisition of the low-rent housing project is proposed approve the project by voting in favor at an election, as specified. This measure would repeal these provisions.

BILL TEXT
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2021–22 Regular Session commencing on the seventh day of December 2020, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be amended as follows:
That Article XXXIV thereof is repealed.

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