(1) Existing law generally regulates the relationship between parties to a hiring of dwelling units. Existing law generally prohibits the owner of a residential real property from terminating a tenancy without just cause after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied the residential real property for 12 months. Existing law defines "just cause" as including no-fault just cause, which includes an intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner's spouse, among others, as the person's primary residence.
This bill would add the intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner's caregiver, as defined, as a no-fault just cause under the above-described provisions.
Existing law allows a lodger, as defined, occupying a room on a periodic basis within a dwelling unit occupied by the owner or the owner of the dwelling unit to terminate the hiring of the room by giving written notice to the other party at least as long before the expiration of the term of hiring as the term itself, as specified. Upon expiration of the notice period, the right of the lodger to remain in the dwelling unit or any part of the dwelling unit is terminated and the lodger may be removed from the premises.
This bill would repeal those provisions.
(2) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits housing discrimination based on specified characteristics. Existing law defines discrimination to include refusal to sell, rent, or lease housing accommodations. Under existing law, discrimination does not include refusal to rent or lease a portion of an owner-occupied single-family house to a person as a roomer or boarder living within the household if no more than one person is to live within the household, as specified.
This bill would specify that discrimination does not include refusal to rent or lease to a person as a tenant, instead of a roomer or a boarder, and would increase the number persons living in the household under these provisions to 2.
(3) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability.
This bill would additionally exclude from gross income any payment received by a lower income household from a tenant while participating as a landlord in a nonprofit home-sharing program. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
(4) Existing law establishes public social services, including, among others, the State Supplementary Program (SSP) for the Aged, Blind and Disabled, which requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to SSP recipients to supplement Supplemental Security Income payments made available pursuant to the federal Social Security Act.
This bill, for purposes of determining eligibility for public social services, would exclude income received by an applicant for, or a recipient of, public social services through renting bedrooms or units in a nonprofit home-sharing program, as defined.

Statutes affected:
AB 474: 1946.2 CIV, 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV
02/06/25 - Introduced: 1946.2 CIV, 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV