Official:Amending Section 4 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 050059) approved July 8, 2005 authorizing the establishment of the Housing Trust Fund by requiring that the Housing Trust Fund Oversight Board make its funding recommendations to both City Council and the Office of Housing and Community Development and requiring Council approval by resolution the award of Housing Trust Fund Dollars.
Sponsor: Councilmember Blackwell
Introduced: June 8, 2006
: Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and The Homeless
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2004–2007 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill changes how the Housing Trust Fund Oversight Board makes recommendations for funding. The board will now send its recommendations to both City Council and the Office of Housing and Community Development, and City Council must approve funding awards by resolution.
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