Report 2021-114 Recommendation 12 Responses
Report 2021-114: State Surplus Property: The State Should Use Its Available Property More Effectively to Help Alleviate the Affordable Housing Crisis (Release Date: March 2022)
Recommendation #12 To: Housing and Community Development, Department of
To better promote development of affordable housing on local surplus land, HCD should, by January 2023, update its guidelines related to the local surplus property law to provide information on how it will assess and support good faith negotiations to mitigate the risk that local agencies may negotiate with developers in bad faith.
1-Year Agency Response
HCD is in the process of updating the Surplus Land guidelines and has included further defining and clarifying "good faith negotiations" as an item to be addressed in the update.
The project schedule for the SLA Guidelines Revision process includes an internal review of needed changes (complete), drafting of a strike out and underline version of revisions (currently in progress), and a 30-day public comment and review period. The timeline for this project estimates a release of draft guidelines by April 2023.
- Estimated Completion Date: 05/31/2023
- Response Date: March 2023
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Partially Implemented
HCD has made progress in updating its guidelines, and expects to release draft guidelines by April 2023.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From March 2023
HCD is in the process of updating the Surplus Land guidelines and has included further defining and clarifying "good faith negotiations" as an item to be addressed in the update.
The project schedule for the SLA Guidelines Revision process includes an internal review of needed changes (complete), drafting of a strike out and underline version of revisions (currently in progress), and a 30-day public comment and review period. The timeline for this project estimates a release of draft guidelines by April 2023.
- Estimated Completion Date: 05/31/2023
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Partially Implemented
HCD has made progress in updating its guidelines and expects to issue updated draft guidelines by April 2023.
6-Month Agency Response
HCD is in the process of updating the Surplus Land guidelines and has included further defining and clarifying "good faith negotiations" as an item to be addressed in the update.
The project schedule for the SLA Guidelines Revision process includes an internal review of needed changes, an external stakeholder engagement and review process, drafting of a strike out and underline version of revisions, and a 30-day public comment and review period. The timeline for this project estimates a release of final guidelines by April 2023.
- Estimated Completion Date: 04/30/2023
- Response Date: September 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Partially Implemented
HCD is in the process of revising its guidelines and expects to complete the update by April 2023.
60-Day Agency Response
HCD has developed a draft timeline/work plan and a list of changes (including this one) to include in the update, and it is currently developing and reaching out to a list of stakeholders to engage early in the process.
- Estimated Completion Date: 01/31/2023
- Response Date: May 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending
All Recommendations in 2021-114
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.