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
Sacramento, California
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.