This part may be cited as the Teacher Housing Act of 2016.
Part 14Teacher Housing Act of 2016
Section § 53570
This law is known as the Teacher Housing Act of 2016.
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Section § 53571
This law is meant to help build and keep affordable rental housing especially for teachers, school district workers, and nonprofit employees, so they can have stable housing. While the housing focus is on these groups, school districts can also choose to let local public employees or other community members live there, following certain rules. School districts can prioritize their employees for this housing.
Teachers and district workers get the first chance to live in these homes, with nonprofit workers next in line. These rules take effect for any housing deals or available housing starting January 1, 2025.
(a)CA Health and Safety Code § 53571(a) The purpose of this part is to facilitate the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental housing for teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees to allow teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees to access and maintain housing stability.
(b)CA Health and Safety Code § 53571(b) A program established under this part shall be restricted to teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees, except that a school district may allow local public employees or other members of the public to occupy housing created through this part, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
(c)CA Health and Safety Code § 53571(c) A school district shall retain the right
to prioritize school district employees over local public employees or other members of the public to occupy housing.
(d)CA Health and Safety Code § 53571(d) A program established under this part shall provide teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees with a right of first refusal to occupy housing acquired, constructed, rehabilitated, or preserved under this part. Teachers or school district employees shall be prioritized before nonprofit organization employees.
(e)CA Health and Safety Code § 53571(e) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this subdivision shall only apply to housing made available or a contract for housing entered into, amended, or extended under this part on or after January 1, 2025.
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Section § 53572
This section defines several terms used in relation to affordable rental housing and related employment categories.
"Affordable rental housing" refers to rental housing developments where most rents are kept at levels affordable for low or moderate-income people—this applies even if the development has fewer than five units.
"Local public employees" include employees from various government entities like cities, counties, and special districts.
"Nonprofit organization employees" refers to employees of nonprofits that run certain educational or childcare programs or classrooms on school property with public funding aimed at helping low and moderate-income families.
"Teacher" and "school district employee" cover anyone working in school districts from prekindergarten through high school, including both teachers and support staff.
As used in this part:
(a)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(a) “Affordable rental housing” means a rental housing development, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 50675.2, with a majority of its rents restricted to levels that are affordable to persons and families of low or moderate income, as defined in Section 50093, but neither definition is restrictive to only projects with five or more units.
(b)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(b) “Local public employees” includes employees of any city, county, city and county, charter city, charter county, charter city and county, special district, or any combination thereof.
(c)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(c) “Nonprofit organization employee” includes employees of a nonprofit organization operating early childhood, prekindergarten, or schoolage childcare, classrooms, or programs, or expanded learning classrooms and programs, on school district property with funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start program, or other public funding targeted to children from families of low and moderate income.
(d)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(d) “Teacher” and “school district employee” mean any person employed by any of the following:
(1)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(d)(1) A unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(2)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(d)(2) An elementary school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive.
(3)CA Health and Safety Code § 53572(d)(3) A high school district maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
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Section § 53573
This law allows school districts to create programs to help teachers, school employees, and nonprofit organization employees find affordable housing. These programs can make use of a variety of public and private resources to support housing development.
The school districts are encouraged to collaborate with both public and private entities and explore creative financing solutions to make housing more accessible.
A school district may establish and implement programs that address the housing needs of teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing. To the extent feasible, the school district may establish and implement programs that, among other things, do the following:
(a)CA Health and Safety Code § 53573(a) Leverage federal, state, and local public, private, and nonprofit programs and fiscal resources available to housing developers.
(b)CA Health and Safety Code § 53573(b) Promote public and private partnerships.
(c)CA Health and Safety Code § 53573(c) Foster innovative financing opportunities.
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Section § 53574
This law supports the creation of housing specifically for teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees. It allows school districts and developers who get local or state funds or tax credits for affordable housing to limit who can live there to these groups.
Also, if the school district owns the land, they can choose to give priority to their own employees, as long as they follow all other laws.
This part specifically creates a state policy supporting housing for teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees, as described in Section 42(g)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code, and, further, permits school districts and developers in receipt of local or state funds or tax credits designated for affordable rental housing to restrict occupancy to teachers, school district employees, and nonprofit organization employees on land owned by school districts, including permitting school districts and developers in receipt of tax credits designated for affordable rental housing to retain the right to prioritize and restrict occupancy on land owned by school districts to teachers and school district employees of the school district that owns the land, and to nonprofit organization employees, so long as that housing does not violate
any other applicable laws.
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