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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                        <ns0:SessionYear>2025</ns0:SessionYear>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Blakespear</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act relating to housing.</ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Transitional housing bond.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, emergency housing, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, home ownership, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to submit to the voters an act authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the development of transitional housing.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                <html:p>It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to submit to the voters an act authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the development of transitional housing.</html:p>
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