AB37

Existing law creates the Housing Division in the Department of Business and Industry and charges the Division, among other duties, with responsibility for increasing the availability of decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low and moderate income in this State. (NRS 232.510; chapter 319 of NRS) Existing law creates the position of Housing Advocate within the Division and establishes the duties for the position, which include providing information and assistance to persons who reside in affordable housing and manufactured housing. (NRS 319.141) Section 1 of this bill renames the position of Housing Advocate as the Housing Liaison. Existing law requires the Division to create and maintain a statewide low-income housing database. The database is required to include certain information relating to low-income housing, including compilations and analysis of demographic, economic and housing data from a variety of sources. (NRS 319.143) Section 2 of this bill requires the inclusion of any survey conducted by the Division in the database. Section 2 also revises the data that is required to be included in the database by: (1) changing the measure for determining the number of households in various population groups experiencing high housing costs from 50 to 30 percent of household income; (2) increasing from 2 years to 3 years the length of the planning period for identifying when subsidized units are forecast to convert to market-rate units; and (3) adding information reg