Assemblyman Mike Davis is pleased to announce that his bill, AB 2925 targeting owners of substandard properties and holding them accountable has passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

AB 2925 will require owners of substandard properties to provide their local enforcement agency with current contact information and their vision for repairing the property. This success comes after the bill passed the Assembly Housing and Community Development last week.

“Shelter is one of the basic needs for survival and yet the inability to find safe and sanitary housing is a serious problem. The situation is particularly severe for low-cost families in urban areas of our state” stated Assemblyman Davis.

Substandard properties cause blight and increased crime in the neighborhoods in which they are located. They are also a drain on municipal resources, requiring repeated inspections and extreme remedies like receivership to restore the buildings to productive use.

“We must take action to hold owners of such properties accountable and thereby keep our neighborhoods free of the negative impacts of deteriorated and blighted buildings” stated Assemblyman Davis.  “I want to stress that this bill applies to properties that are the worst of the worst. Properties that are not fit for habitation.  We owe it to the people forced to live in them to take steps to hold the persons who own them accountable” concluded Assemblyman Davis.

Assembly Bill 2925 is supported by the Western Center on Law and Poverty, Housing California, California Alliance for Retired Americans, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

For more information please contact Sawait Hezchias at (916) 319-2048.