The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Housing Accountability Unit launched an improved method to submit requests for technical assistance and/or to report potential violations of state housing law.
The new Housing Accountability Unit Portal guides users to provide key information to help the Housing Accountability Unit provide a more efficient analysis of each unique situation and improve tracking. Each request or complaint submitted will be assigned to an analyst on the team who will determine how HCD can assist. HCD has the authority to enforce the following state housing laws, among others:
- Housing Accountability Act;
- Density Bonus Law;
- Permit Streamlining Act;
- Housing Crisis Act;
- Streamlined Ministerial Approval (SB 35);
- Housing Element Law; and
- Anti-Discrimination in Land Use Law.
Anyone seeing potential violations of these laws can report them.
