(1) 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 of persons living in the household under these provisions to 2.
(2) Existing law establishes various public social services programs that are administered by counties to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program.
This bill would exempt income received through renting bedrooms or units as a landlord in a nonprofit home-sharing program, as defined, from consideration as income or assets for the purposes of determining eligibility and benefit amounts for public social services, as specified. By expanding the scope of eligibility for public social services, thereby increasing duties on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Statutes affected:
AB 474: 1946.2 CIV, 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV
02/06/25 - Introduced: 1946.2 CIV, 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV
03/19/25 - Amended Assembly: 1946.2 CIV, 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV
04/01/25 - Amended Assembly: 1946.5 CIV, 12927 GOV
04/30/25 - Amended Assembly: 12927 GOV
05/23/25 - Amended Assembly: 12927 GOV