Affordable & market-rate housing; DHCD to evaluate growing demand. (HB2053)
Introduced By
Del. Ibraheem Samirah (D-Herndon) with support from 6 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:
Those copatrons are Del. Lashrecse D. Aird (D-Petersburg), Del. Josh Cole (D-Stafford), Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Dale City), Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington), Del. Kaye Kory (D-Falls Church), Del. Ken Plum (D-Reston)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
☐ |
Passed Committee |
☐ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Department of Housing and Community Development; stakeholder advisory group; accessory dwelling units. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) to convene a stakeholder advisory group to evaluate the construction of internal, attached, and detached accessory dwelling units as a strategy to address the Commonwealth's growing demand for affordable and market-rate housing. The bill requires the stakeholder advisory group to report its findings, including any legislative recommendations, to the Director of the Department, the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, the commissioners of the Virginia Housing Development Authority, and the Virginia Housing Commission no later than November 1, 2021, and allows a possible extension but to no later than November 1, 2022. Read the Bill »
Status
07/25/2021: Awaiting a Vote in the Finance and Appropriations Committee
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/12/2021 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102679D |
| 01/12/2021 | Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns |
| 01/19/2021 | Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use |
| 01/21/2021 | Impact statement from DPB (HB2053) |
| 01/21/2021 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 3-N) |
| 01/29/2021 | House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered |
| 01/29/2021 | Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (12-Y 9-N) (see vote tally) |
| 01/29/2021 | Referred to Committee on Appropriations |
| 01/29/2021 | Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources |
| 02/02/2021 | House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered |
| 02/02/2021 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) |
| 02/03/2021 | Reported from Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 9-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/03/2021 | Committee substitute printed 21104312D-H1 |
| 02/03/2021 | Read first time |
| 02/04/2021 | Read second time |
| 02/04/2021 | Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns amendment rejected |
| 02/04/2021 | Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 21104312D-H1 |
| 02/04/2021 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2053H1 |
| 02/05/2021 | Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N) |
| 02/05/2021 | VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/05/2021 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 02/05/2021 | Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology |
| 02/05/2021 | Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/15/2021 | Impact statement from DPB (HB2053H1) |
| 02/17/2021 | Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/17/2021 | Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations |
| 02/22/2021 | Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 3-N) |
| 02/24/2021 | Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) |
| 02/25/2021 | Read third time |
| 02/25/2021 | Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) |
| 03/09/2021 | Enrolled |
| 03/09/2021 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2053ER) |
| 03/09/2021 | Signed by President |
| 03/11/2021 | Signed by Speaker |
| 03/15/2021 | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021 |
| 03/15/2021 | G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| 03/17/2021 | Impact statement from DPB (HB2053ER) |
| 03/30/2021 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 411 (effective 7/1/21) |
| 03/30/2021 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411) |
Comments
Virginia must step up and find a way to end the whites-only policies that allow the wealthy to build and buy homes in areas with transportation infrastructure, and excellent public schools. Those same areas restrict affordable home construction. The government should commit to overcoming latent racism that is expressed in the resulting local housing policies.
Instead, we must all embrace the common good and ask ourselves if we serve it in our Jim Crow Housing Practices across the Commonwealth. HB 2053 is a wonderful start toward this ideal.