California Health and Safety Code

§ 50519

HSC § 50519 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 31 · Part 2 · Ch. 3.3

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares that the need for decent housing among individuals of very low and low income is great, and that residential hotels are often the only form of housing affordable to these individuals. Many residential hotels are in poor condition and in need of rehabilitation, and many are being demolished or converted to other uses. The state can play an important role in preserving the existence and improving the quality of this housing resource through sponsoring demonstration projects that will enable local sponsors to acquire, rehabilitate, maintain, or otherwise protect and improve residential hotels as a housing resource for persons of very low and low income. The demonstration projects should be undertaken and designed so as to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative methods of protecting and improving residential hotels and of improving their habitability while assuring their continued availability to persons of very low and low income.

(b)The following definitions govern the construction of this section:

(1)“Residential hotel” means any building containing six or more guestrooms or efficiency units, as defined by Section 17958.1, intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out, to be occupied, or which are occupied, for sleeping purposes by guests, which is also the primary residence of those guests, but does not mean any building containing six or more guestrooms or efficiency units, as defined by Section 17958.1, which is primarily used by transient guests who do not occupy that building as their primary residence.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 109. Effective January 1, 2005.