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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
While the majority of the records are open for research, any access restrictions are noted in the record series descriptions.
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.
[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.
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
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.
Further accruals are expected.
Organized into four series: (1) Bill Files, (2) Hearing Files, (3) Reports, and (4) Subject Files.
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.
Bill files from this committee from 1977 through 1984 are also available on microfilm at the California State Archives.