Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records, 1969-1999

Summary

Title:

California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records

Dates:

1969-1999

Creators:

Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee

Abstract:

This record group consists of 32 cubic feet of records created by the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee and the Urban Development and Housing Committee. The records are organized into four series with dates ranging from 1968 to 1999: Bill Files, Hearing Files, Reports, and Subject Files. The majority of the records consist of bill files created between 1971 and 1996.

Extent:

32 cubic feet

Language:

Languages represented in the collection: English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records, LP [number]:[folder number], California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento, California.

Background

Scope and content:

This record group consists of 32 cubic feet of records created by the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee and the Urban Development and Housing Committee. The records are organized into four series with dates ranging from 1968 to 1999: Bill Files, Hearing Files, Reports, and Subject Files. The majority of the records consist of bill files created between 1971 and 1996.

The Bill Files document the bills directed to the committee. The files include committee analyses, letters from interested parties, and the comments of affected agencies. These files show the close involvement of the committee in such issues as mobile home park regulation, land use, redevelopment agency scope and funding, rental agreements and unlawful detainer, building code compliance, migrant farm worker housing, BRAC closures and base redevelopment measures, and common-interest developments.

These files also show the committee's close involvement with the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Golden State Manufactured Home Owners League, the Western Mobilehome Association, the Western Center for Law and Poverty, and the redevelopment agencies of the cities and counties of California.

The Hearing Files include subjects ranging from mobilehome park conversion to housing for military families, the California Housing Finance Agency's programs, and housing for the elderly.

The Reports series contains reports created by the committee as well as reports collected by the committee. Reports relate to such subjects as rent control, fair housing legislation, the 1993-1994 housing update, manufactured housing in the 1990s, and redevelopment agencies plans for blighted urban areas.

Biographical / historical:

The Housing and Community Development Committee is the most recent Assembly committee to oversee issues regarding building standards, common interest developments, eminent domain, farm worker housing, homeless programs, housing discrimination, housing finance, natural disaster assistance and preparedness, land use planning, mobile homes/manufactured housing, redevelopment, and rent control.

The first Assembly committee that had issues of housing under its purview was the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee. It was created by House Resolution 21 on January 13, 1969. Its purpose was to investigate the matter of housing in the Health and Safety Code and other matters relating to housing and urban problems. In January 1971, House Resolution 13 renamed the committee to Urban Development and Housing. On January 9, 1975, House Resolution 11 renamed the committee Housing and Community Development. The committee originally consisted of seven members, with a maximum of thirteen members in 1975, staying between seven and eleven members thereafter.

The chairs of this committee from 1969 to 2010 were:

Assembly Urban Affairs and Housing Committee, 1969-1970

Wilson, Pete (Rep.), 1969-1970

Assembly Urban Development and Housing Committee, 1971-1974

Brathwaite, Yvonne (Dem). 1971-1972

Chacon, Peter (Dem.), 1973-1974

Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, 1975-present

Chacon, Peter (Dem.), 1975-1978

Hughes, Teresa (Dem.), 1979-1980

Costa, Jim (Dem.), 1981-1982

Chacon, Peter (Dem.), 1983-1984

Davis, Gray (Dem.), 1985-1986

Houser, Dan (Dem.), 1987-1996

Torlakson, Tom (Dem.), 1997-1998

Lowenthal, Alan (Dem.), 1999-2000

Torres, Norma (Dem.), 2001-2002

Mullin, Gene (Dem.), 2003-2006

Saldana, Lori (Dem.), 2007-2008

Torres, Norma (Dem.), 2009-2010

Acquisition information:

The California State Archives received the records of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee over a number of years and archives staff arranged them at various times. While the physical arrangement of the records reflects this variety, this inventory describes all of the records according to present archival descriptive standards for legislative committee records. Therefore, the physical arrangement of these records does not necessarily follow the inventory's order.

Arrangement:

Organized into four series: (1) Bill Files, (2) Hearing Files, (3) Reports, and (4) Subject Files.

Accruals:

Further accruals are expected.

Physical location:

California State Archives

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

Dan Hauser Papers, 1981-1996

Senate Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Records, 1977-1994

Senate Housing and Land Use Committee Records, 1995-1998

Senate Housing and Land Use Committee Records, 1999-2002

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, New Arenas of Black Influence, Oral History Interview, conducted April 26, 1982 by Steven Edington, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, for the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Series, available at the California State Archives, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Oral History Research.

Bill files from this committee from 1977 through 1984 are also available on microfilm at the California State Archives.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Housing and Community Development
Discrimination in housing - California
California. Dept. of Housing and Community Development

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Tyler Cline and Archives Staff

Date Prepared:

© 2010

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid created by Tyler Cline. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: July 2010.

Restrictions:

While the majority of the records are open for research, any access restrictions are noted in the record series descriptions.

Terms of access:

For permission to reproduce or publish, please consult California State Archives staff. Permission for reproduction or publication is given on behalf of the California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento, as the owner of the physical items. The researcher assumes all responsibility for possible infringement that may arise from reproduction or publication of materials from the California State Archives' collections.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records, LP [number]:[folder number], California State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State, Sacramento, California.

Location of this collection:

California State Archives

1020 "O" Street

Sacramento, CA 95814, US

Contact:

(916) 653-2246

reference@sos.ca.gov

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