Housing: joint living and work quarters and occupied substandard buildings or units. SB-906
SB 906, as introduced, Skinner. Housing: joint living and work quarters and occupied substandard buildings or units. This bill makes it easier to legally use old industrial and commercial buildings into group housing, and creates a path for substandard buildings to be brought up to code.
Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation. Existing law permits a city or county to adopt alternative building regulations for the complete or partial conversion of commercial or industrial buildings to joint living and work quarters. Existing law defines a joint living and work quarter as residential occupancy by a family or not more than 4 unrelated persons maintaining a common household of one or more rooms or floors in a building originally designed for industrial or commercial occupancy, as specified.
This bill would redefine joint living and work quarters to mean residential occupancy by a group of persons, whether those persons are related or unrelated.
