AB-670 • 2026

Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.

Housing Land

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Quirk-Silva
Last action: 2025-10-13
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 701, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on what happens if both bills are enacted but this bill is passed first.

Housing Reports: Converted Affordable Housing Units

This law requires planning agencies to include information about converted affordable housing units in their annual reports starting April 1, 2027.

What This Bill Does

Requires planning agencies to provide additional information on new and demolished housing units in their annual reports beginning April 1, 2027.
Includes a report on replacement housing units for those that have been demolished or converted starting from the same date.
Authorizes planning agencies to count affordable housing units created by converting existing buildings if they meet certain criteria.

Who It Names or Affects

Cities
Counties
City and county planning agencies

Terms To Know

Affordable Housing Units: Housing units that are available to people with low, very low, extremely low, or acutely low income at an affordable rent.
Planning Agency: The group responsible for planning and managing land use in a city or county.

Limits and Unknowns

This law only applies to reports due on April 1, 2027, and later.
It does not specify what happens if the bill and AB 726 are enacted but this bill is passed first.

Bill History

2025-10-13 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 701, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-13 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-24 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-12 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3379.).
2025-09-12 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-11 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2933.).
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-05 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-07-14 California Legislative Information
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-07-02 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-23 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2025-06-18 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2025-06-04 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1977.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-04-30 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-04-10 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-01 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2025-03-27 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 26).
2025-03-03 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
2025-02-15 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2025-02-14 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 670, Quirk-Silva.
Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to adopt a general plan that includes, among other things, a housing element. After a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires a planning agency among other things, to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to specified entities that includes prescribed information, including the number of housing development applications received in the prior year, as specified, the number of units of housing demolished, and the number of new units of housing, as specified.
This bill would, beginning with the report due by April 1, 2027, require specified information to be included in the report, including additional information regarding units of new housing, the units of housing demolished, and a report on replacement
housing units, as specified.
For purposes of the housing element portion of the report described above, existing law authorizes a planning agency to include the number of units in an existing multifamily building that were converted to deed-restricted rental housing for moderate-income households by the imposition of affordability covenants and restrictions for the unit, as specified, if the units meet certain criteria.
This bill would, beginning with the report due by April 1, 2027, for purposes of the housing element portion of the report, authorize a planning agency to include the number of units in an existing multifamily building that were converted to affordable housing by imposition of long-term affordability covenants and restrictions that require the unit to be available to persons or families of low, very low, extremely low, or acutely low income at an affordable rent or affordable housing cost for at least 55
years, if the units meet certain criteria.
This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65400 of the Government Code proposed by AB 726 to be operative only if this bill and AB 726 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

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