Inventory of the California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records
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Inventory of the California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records
See series descriptions for LP numbers
California State Archives
Office of the Secretary of State
Sacramento, California
- Processed by:
- Tyler Cline and Archives Staff
- Date Completed:
- July 2010
- Encoded by:
- Michelle Howard
© 2010 California Secretary of State. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Records
Dates: 1969-1999
Collection number: See series descriptions for LP numbers.
Creator:
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee
Collection Size:
32 cubic feet
Repository:
California State Archives
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.
Physical location: California State Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Administrative Information
Access
While the majority of the records are open for research, any access restrictions are noted in the record series descriptions.
Publication Rights
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.
Acquisition and Custodial History
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.
Committee History
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
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.
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
Arrangement
Organized into four series: (1) Bill Files, (2) Hearing Files, (3) Reports, and (4) Subject Files.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Housing and Community Development
Discrimination in housing - California
California. Dept. of Housing and Community Development
Related Material at the California State Archives
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
Oral Histories of Committee Chairs
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.
Microfilm
Bill files from this committee from 1977 through 1984 are also available on microfilm at the California State Archives.
See below for LP numbers
Series 1
Bill Files
1971-1996
Physical Description: 569 folders
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by legislative session, then numerically by bill number.
Scope and Content Note
Bill files created by the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and its predecessors include bill analyses,
amendments and resolutions, author's statements, testimony, press releases, editorials and newspaper clippings, correspondence,
committee statements, and other information. Of interest are bills introduced in each legislative session from 1981 to 1996,
which included acts to ban indoor decorative fireplaces in mobile homes, mobilehome park tenants right of first refusal (AB1337,
1995-1996), and modifications to the Davis-Stirling Common-Interest Development Act (AB67, 1993-1994).
Microfilm copies of bill files are available for the years 1975-1984 where indicated with MF before the LP number.
Assembly Urban Affairs and Housing Committee
Audiovisual materials have been separated to a cold-storage vault for preservation purposes. Separation sheets are placed
in the bill files to alert researchers to the existence of these audiovisual materials.
1971: AB62-AB3061 (LP52:20-26)
1971: SB466-SB1454 (LP52:27)
Assembly Urban Development and Housing Committee
1972: AB49-AB2320, ACA77-ACA91 (LP103:35A-35D)
1972: ACR55-ACR100 (LP103:35E)
1972: SB205-SB1365, SCR61 (LP103:35F)
1973-1974: AB276-AB4483, AJR2, HR105 (LP177:178-183)
1973-1974: SB148-SB2348, SCA40, SCR126 (LP177:184)
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee
1975-1976: AB116-AB4512, ACR48-ACR230, AJR61 (MF LP187:215-225)
1975-1976: AB1X-AB8X (MF LP187:225A)
1975-1976: SB33-SB2193, SCR104, SB2X-SB4X (MF LP187:226-230)
1977-1978: AB35-AB3798, ACA25-ACA47, ACR86 (MF LP202:16-26)
1977-1978: SB7-SB2064, SCA47 (MF LP202:27-31)
1979-1980: AB128-AB3473, ACA8-ACA55, ACR98 (MF LP202:32-50
1979-1980: SB22-SB2031, SCR26 (MF LP202:51-56)
1981-1982: AB38-AB3776, ACR25-ACR117, AJR29-AJR105 (MF LP222:153-169)
1981-1982: SB53-SB2011 (MF LP222:170-182)
1983-1984: AB54-AB4025, ACR9-ACR82, AJR20-AJR77 (MF LP228:40-50)
1983-1984: SB26-SB2313, SJR3-SJR14 (MF LP228:51-56)
1985-1986: AB51-AB4391, AJR30-AJR88 (LP413:1-18)
1985-1986: SB26-SB2448 (LP413:19-28)
1987-1988: AB3-AB4688, AR71, AB1X-AB7X (LP413:29-89)
1987-1988: SB94-SB2895, SCR27, SB1X-SB7X (LP413:90-113)
1989-1990: AB9-AB4359, ACR46-ACR146, AB6X-AB44X (LP413:114-184)
1989-1990: SB75-SB2908, SJR1-SJR39 (LP413:185-215)
1991-1992: AB114-AB3700, ACA19, ACR18, AB31X-AB35X (LP413:216-266)
1991-1992: SB1-SB2052, SCA17, SCR21 (LP413:267-290)
1993-1994: AB51-AB3819, ACA8, ACR73-ACR116 (LP413:291-352)
1993-1994: SB6-SB2072 (LP413:353-384)
1995-1996: AB46-AB3452, ACR7-ACR11, AJR7-AJR23, AB5X (LP413:385-424)
1995-1996: SB69-SB2112, SJR12 (LP413:425-446)
See Appendix A for LP Numbers
Series 2
Hearing Files
1969-1999
Physical Description: 69 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by hearing date.
Scope and Content Note
Hearing files created the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development and its predecessors include agendas, transcripts,
testimony, background reports, and working files for regular session hearings, interim hearings, and joint hearings. The files
contain hearings on California's housing needs, urbanization, the 1973 Federal housing moratorium and freeze on HUD funds
for California, housing for the elderly, the California Housing Finance Administration's programs and policies, mobilehome
park conversion, and military base redevelopment.
Please see Appendix A for a complete listing of hearing files.
Additional Series Information
LP177:192-193, LP202:137-139, LP413:457-463
Series 3
Reports
1982-1995
Physical Description: 10 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by report date.
Scope and Content Note
Reports created by or involving the Housing and Community Development Committee include a staff report on rent control, "Curing
California's Housing Ills," fair housing legislation from 1992. Also included are the Committee's report on the 1993-1994
housing update, the Assembly Subcommittee on Manufactured Housing's 1994 report on manufactured housing in the 1990s, and
reports on redevelopment and blight from the joint interim hearings of the Senate Committee on Housing and Land Use and the
Senate Select Committee on Redevelopment from 1994 and 1995.
LP78:15-42
Series 4
Subject Files
1968-1970
Physical Description: 28 file folders
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject title.
Scope and Content Note
Subject files may contain correspondence, memos, reports, studies, proposed legislation, bill analyses, press releases, newspaper
clippings, data and background materials. Subject include consultant services, correspondence, housing, Housing and Community
Development Commission, housing authorities, Housing and Urban Development Department, Council of State Governments Human
Resources Committee, interim schedules-hearings, Legislative Analyst, Legislative Counsel, Legislative Counsel opinions, Model
Cities-Compton; Model Cities-misc; Model Cities-report, new towns, Operation Breakthrough, redevelopment agencies, reports,
speeches, and tenant-landlord relationships.