AB2295 - 2022 Education Workforce Housing Law

 


On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed 38 housing bills into law, including UCLA cityLAB’s “Assembly Bill No. 2295: Education Workforce Housing Development,” coauthored by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Professor Dana Cuff. The bill was formally introduced in Sacramento by Assemblymember Richard Bloom, well known for his housing advocacy.

AB2295 streamlines the development of affordable and mixed-income housing for teachers and support staff of California’s K-12 public schools on public land, opening opportunities for up to 2.3 million units of housing statewide. As Bloom observes, the bill “provides a tool for school districts to allow housing to be built on school properties for teachers and staff while reducing the timeline to build that housing by half.”

Read More

With AB2295, at least half of all the units must be affordable, and all units will prioritize teachers and other school employees as tenants. While most objective, local controls remain in place, the bill assures that schools will be able to build three stories of housing on available sites. These and other provisions become effective on January 1, 2024, giving districts time to put their project plans in order. In authoring AB2295, cityLAB synthesized six years of design research, much of which was accomplished by AUD students and cityLAB team.


Project Type:    policy
Authors:    Dana Cuff
Assemblyman Richard Bloom
cityLAB Team:    Senior Fellow, Jane Blumenfeld
Former cityLAB Assisting Director, Kenny Wong
Student Research Team of Carrie Gammell (PhD candidate),
Manos proussaloglou (MArch '23),
Akana Jayewardene (MArch '22),
Xiuwen Qi (MArch '22),
Roya Chagnon (MArch '22),
John Northrup (BA '20)
Collaborators:    Terner Center
Center for Cities + Schools
Richard Bloom and his Assembly Office, particularly Lenh Vuong
Timeline:    2021-2022
Themes:    Affordable Housing, Postsuburban city

Read the full bill