California Health and Safety Code

§ 17998

HSC § 17998 Effective Jan 1, 2001Div. 13 · Part 1.5 · Ch. 8

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The Department of Housing and Community Development reports that one in every eight dwelling units in the state is substandard and that unless health and safety problems are corrected, habitability conditions generally deteriorate until the units become life threatening and uninhabitable and must be removed from the housing stock through closure or demolition.

(b)California is experiencing a housing shortage of significant proportions, particularly in the affordable housing sector. The state and many local governments are funding affordable housing from a variety of sources at substantial costs. It is ill advised to neglect timely code enforcement responsibilities and, as a result, to lose housing that could have been retained.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 664, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.