California State 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.

AB 2925 will require an owner of a property that is uninhabitable or otherwise found to be in substandard condition, to provide their local enforcement agency with current contact information and a plan of correction.  “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.  “We owe it to the people forced to live in these homes 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.