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Housing on the ballot: This topic refers to ballot measures regarding housing assistance, low income housing, and rent control. Specifically, bond measures to provide funds for housing may appear in the bond issues category.


Ballot measures lists

By state

Note: The list below automatically compiles all potential and certified ballot measures being tracked by Ballotpedia. Sometimes a measure that has been abandoned by petitioners or in the legislature will still be listed until a legal deadline passes. As more deadlines pass in any given year, the list will more accurately represent which measures will actually go before voters in the current year.

Alaska

  1. Alaska Measure 2, Allow State to Issue General Obligation Bonds for Veterans’ Housing Loans Amendment (1982)
  2. Alaska Proposition 1, Fairbanks Assisted Living Pioneer Home Bond Measure (1964)

Arizona

  1. Arizona Proposition 201, New Home Warranty and Financial Arrangement Disclosure Initiative (2008)

California

  1. California Proposition 46, Housing Projects Bond Measure (2002)
  2. California Proposition 145, First-Time Homebuyer Program and Bond Measure (1990)
  3. California Proposition 142, Veterans Home Loan Bond Measure (1990)
  4. California Proposition 107, Housing Bond Measure (June 1990)
  5. California Proposition 84, Housing and Homeless Bond Measure (1988)
  6. California Proposition 90, Transfer of Assessed Valuation of Replacement Dwellings Amendment (1988)
  7. California Proposition 154, Property Tax Postponement for Low-Income Renters who Purchase the Property Amendment (June 1992)
  8. California Proposition 175, Income Tax Credit for Renters Amendment (June 1994)
  9. California Proposition 199, Prohibit Mobile Home Rent Control Laws Initiative (March 1996)
  10. California Proposition 5, State Housing Referendum (1922)
  11. California Proposition 1C, Housing Bond Measure (2006)
  12. California Proposition 4, Low-Rent Housing for Elderly and Physically Handicapped People Bond Measure (June 1962)
  13. California Proposition 32, Cal-Vet Veterans' Homes Program Bond Measure (2000)
  14. California Proposition 2, Housing Qualifications for the Veterans' Tax Exemption Amendment (1962)
  15. California Proposition 5, Mortgage Loans Bond Measure (1982)
  16. California Proposition 95, Infraction Tickets and Funds for the Hungry and Homeless Initiative (1988)
  17. California Proposition 4, Elections Regarding Low-Income Housing Amendment (June 1980)
  18. California Proposition 173, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Bond Measure (1993)
  19. California Proposition 10, Rent-Control Ordinances Initiative (June 1980)
  20. California Proposition 10, Tax Exemptions for Improvements to Residential Buildings (June 1978)
  21. California Proposition 168, Definition of Low-Rent Housing Amendment (1993)
  22. California Proposition 15, Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment (1974)
  23. California Proposition 8, Owner-Occupied Dwellings Tax Rate Amendment (June 1978)
  24. California Proposition 1, Housing and Mortgage Loans Bond Measure (1976)
  25. California Proposition 1, Veterans' Farms and Homes Bond Measure (June 1968)
  26. California Proposition 10, Ballot Measures Required for Publicly Funded Low-Rent Housing Projects Initiative (1950)
  27. California Proposition 12, Cal-Vet Veteran Home Loan Program Bond Measure (2008)
  28. California Proposition 12, Widows Using the Veterans Farms and Home Purchase Act of 1943 Amendment (1962)
  29. California Proposition 14, Housing Agency and Authorities Bond Measure (1948)
  30. California Proposition 14, Right to Decline Selling or Renting Residential Properties to Persons Initiative (1964)
  31. California Proposition 33, Prohibit State Limitations on Local Rent Control Initiative (2024)
  32. California Proposition 21, Local Rent Control Initiative (2020)
  33. California Proposition 5, Property Tax Transfer Initiative (2018)
  34. California Proposition 10, Local Rent Control Initiative (2018)
  35. California Proposition 1, Housing Programs and Veterans' Loans Bond (2018)

Florida

  1. Florida Amendment 5, Housing Bonds Amendment (1976)
  2. Florida Amendment 2, Bonds for Housing Amendment (October 1980)

Hawaii

  1. Hawaii Housing Standards, Amendment 1 (1976)

Louisiana

  1. Louisiana Homestead Tax Exemption, Amendment 5 (2010)
  2. Louisiana Amendment 4, New Orleans Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemption Amendment (October 2019)

Maine

  1. Maine University Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1959)
  2. Maine State Teachers College Student Housing, Referendum Question No. 2 (1961)
  3. Maine State Teachers Colleges Student Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1963)
  4. Maine Teachers Colleges and Vocational-Technical Schools Student Housing and Dining, Referendum Question No. 1 (1965)
  5. Maine University Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1965)
  6. Maine Colleges and Vocational-Technical Institutes Student Housing and Dining, Referendum Question No. 4 (1967)
  7. Maine Maritime Academy Dormitories, Referendum Question No. 2A (1968)
  8. Maine Farmington State College Women's Dormitories, Referendum Question No. 2B (1968)
  9. Maine Question 1, University Housing Renovation Bond Measure (1975)
  10. Maine Question 4, Housing for Individuals with Mental Illness Bond Measure (1995)
  11. Maine Affordable Housing for Low-Income Seniors Bond, Question 2 (2015)

Maryland

  1. Maryland Prohibit Housing Discrimination, Question 4 (1968)

Massachusetts

  1. Massachusetts Legislative Authority to Take Land for Housing Amendment (October 1915)

New Mexico

  1. New Mexico Affordable Housing Act, Constitutional Amendment 4 (2006)
  2. New Mexico Senior Citizen Facility Improvement Bonds, Bond Question A (2012)
  3. New Mexico Referendum: Municipal Home Rule (1970)

New Jersey

  1. New Jersey Public Question 1, Unsafe Buildings Demolition Act (1997)
  2. New Jersey Public Question No. 2 (1976)

New York

  1. New York State Debt for Low Rent Housing, Proposal 1 (1975)
  2. New York Low Rent Housing and Urban Renewal, Proposition 1 (1970)
  3. New York Local Indebtedness for Low Rent Housing, Amendment 3 (1966)
  4. New York State Bond for Low-Rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1965)
  5. New York State Subsidies for Urban Renewal, Proposition 3 (1965)
  6. New York Loans for Housing Facilities, Amendment 6 (1965)
  7. New York Legislature Aid for Housing Urban Renewal Programs, Amendment 1 (1964)
  8. New York Subsidies for Low-Rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1960)
  9. New York Debt for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 1 (1958)
  10. New York Debt for Limited-Profit Housing Companies, Proposition 2 (1958)
  11. New York Extension of Payments for Money Borrowed for Housing Purposes, Amendment 2 (1958)
  12. New York State Loan for Public or Limited-Profit Housing, Amendment 3 (1957)
  13. New York State Housing Loans, Amendment 5 (1957)
  14. New York Bond for Limited Profit Housing, Proposition 2 (1956)
  15. New York Subsidies for Low-rent Assisted Housing, Amendment 2 (1955)
  16. New York Bond for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1954)
  17. New York Limit on Amount Raised by Taxes on Real Estate, Amendment 8 (1953)
  18. New York State Debt for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 1 (1949)
  19. New York Village Indebtedness for Low-Rent Housing, Amendment 6 (1949)
  20. New York Limitation on Real Estate Taxes, Amendment 8 (1949)
  21. New York Bond Issue for Slum-Clearance and Public Housing, Proposition 1 (1947)
  22. New York Subsidies for Public Housing Projects, Proposition 2 (1947)
  23. New York Maximum Payments on Subsidies for Public Housing Projects, Proposition 3 (1947)
  24. New York State Subsidies for Public Housing, Proposition 1 (1946)
  25. New York Low-rent Housing and Slum Clearance, Amendment 4 (1938)

North Dakota

  1. North Dakota North Dakota State Housing Finance Agency Initiative, Measure 7 (1980)
  2. North Dakota Veterans' Home, Measure 8 (1996)

Oregon

  1. Oregon Measure 102, Removes Restriction that Affordable Housing Projects Funded by Municipal Bonds be Government Owned (2018)

Rhode Island

  1. Rhode Island Question 9, Affordable Housing Bonds (2006)
  2. Rhode Island Affordable House Bonds Question, Question 7 (2012)

Texas

  1. Texas Reverse Mortgage Loan Amendment, Proposition 5 (2013)
  2. Texas Proposition 4, Loans for Home Acquisition Amendment (May 1919)
  3. Texas Proposition 1, Funds for Veteran Housing Amendment (September 2003)
  4. Texas Proposition 8, Types of Homestead Liens Amendment (1997)
  5. Texas Proposition 6, Refinance Home Equity and Mortgage Loans Amendment (September 2003)
  6. Texas Proposition 16, Home Equity Lines of Credit Amendment (September 2003)
  7. Texas Proposition 2, Homestead Protection Amendment (1973)
  8. Texas Proposition 2, Home Equity Loan Amendment (2017)

By year

Note: The list below automatically compiles all potential and certified ballot measures being tracked by Ballotpedia. Sometimes a measure that has been abandoned by petitioners or in the legislature will still be listed until a legal deadline passes. As more deadlines pass in any given year, the list will more accurately represent which measures will actually go before voters in the current year.

2024

  1. California Proposition 33, Prohibit State Limitations on Local Rent Control Initiative (2024)

2020

  1. California Proposition 21, Local Rent Control Initiative (2020)

2019

  1. Louisiana Amendment 4, New Orleans Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemption Amendment (October 2019)

2018

  1. Oregon Measure 102, Removes Restriction that Affordable Housing Projects Funded by Municipal Bonds be Government Owned (2018)
  2. California Proposition 5, Property Tax Transfer Initiative (2018)
  3. California Proposition 10, Local Rent Control Initiative (2018)
  4. California Proposition 1, Housing Programs and Veterans' Loans Bond (2018)

2017

  1. Texas Proposition 2, Home Equity Loan Amendment (2017)

2015

  1. Maine Affordable Housing for Low-Income Seniors Bond, Question 2 (2015)

2013

  1. Texas Reverse Mortgage Loan Amendment, Proposition 5 (2013)

2012

  1. Rhode Island Affordable House Bonds Question, Question 7 (2012)
  2. New Mexico Senior Citizen Facility Improvement Bonds, Bond Question A (2012)

2010

  1. Louisiana Homestead Tax Exemption, Amendment 5 (2010)

2008

  1. Arizona Proposition 201, New Home Warranty and Financial Arrangement Disclosure Initiative (2008)
  2. California Proposition 12, Cal-Vet Veteran Home Loan Program Bond Measure (2008)

2006

  1. New Mexico Affordable Housing Act, Constitutional Amendment 4 (2006)
  2. California Proposition 1C, Housing Bond Measure (2006)
  3. Rhode Island Question 9, Affordable Housing Bonds (2006)

2003

  1. Texas Proposition 1, Funds for Veteran Housing Amendment (September 2003)
  2. Texas Proposition 6, Refinance Home Equity and Mortgage Loans Amendment (September 2003)
  3. Texas Proposition 16, Home Equity Lines of Credit Amendment (September 2003)

2002

  1. California Proposition 46, Housing Projects Bond Measure (2002)

2000

  1. California Proposition 32, Cal-Vet Veterans' Homes Program Bond Measure (2000)

1997

  1. New Jersey Public Question 1, Unsafe Buildings Demolition Act (1997)
  2. Texas Proposition 8, Types of Homestead Liens Amendment (1997)

1996

  1. California Proposition 199, Prohibit Mobile Home Rent Control Laws Initiative (March 1996)
  2. North Dakota Veterans' Home, Measure 8 (1996)

1995

  1. Maine Question 4, Housing for Individuals with Mental Illness Bond Measure (1995)

1994

  1. California Proposition 175, Income Tax Credit for Renters Amendment (June 1994)

1993

  1. California Proposition 173, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Bond Measure (1993)
  2. California Proposition 168, Definition of Low-Rent Housing Amendment (1993)

1992

  1. California Proposition 154, Property Tax Postponement for Low-Income Renters who Purchase the Property Amendment (June 1992)

1990

  1. California Proposition 107, Housing Bond Measure (June 1990)
  2. California Proposition 142, Veterans Home Loan Bond Measure (1990)
  3. California Proposition 145, First-Time Homebuyer Program and Bond Measure (1990)

1988

  1. California Proposition 84, Housing and Homeless Bond Measure (1988)
  2. California Proposition 90, Transfer of Assessed Valuation of Replacement Dwellings Amendment (1988)
  3. California Proposition 95, Infraction Tickets and Funds for the Hungry and Homeless Initiative (1988)

1982

  1. California Proposition 5, Mortgage Loans Bond Measure (1982)
  2. Alaska Measure 2, Allow State to Issue General Obligation Bonds for Veterans’ Housing Loans Amendment (1982)

1980

  1. Florida Amendment 2, Bonds for Housing Amendment (October 1980)
  2. North Dakota North Dakota State Housing Finance Agency Initiative, Measure 7 (1980)
  3. California Proposition 4, Elections Regarding Low-Income Housing Amendment (June 1980)
  4. California Proposition 10, Rent-Control Ordinances Initiative (June 1980)

1978

  1. California Proposition 10, Tax Exemptions for Improvements to Residential Buildings (June 1978)
  2. California Proposition 8, Owner-Occupied Dwellings Tax Rate Amendment (June 1978)

1976

  1. Florida Amendment 5, Housing Bonds Amendment (1976)
  2. New Jersey Public Question No. 2 (1976)
  3. Hawaii Housing Standards, Amendment 1 (1976)
  4. California Proposition 1, Housing and Mortgage Loans Bond Measure (1976)

1975

  1. Maine Question 1, University Housing Renovation Bond Measure (1975)
  2. New York State Debt for Low Rent Housing, Proposal 1 (1975)

1974

  1. California Proposition 15, Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment (1974)

1973

  1. Texas Proposition 2, Homestead Protection Amendment (1973)

1970

  1. New Mexico Referendum: Municipal Home Rule (1970)
  2. New York Low Rent Housing and Urban Renewal, Proposition 1 (1970)

1968

  1. Maine Maritime Academy Dormitories, Referendum Question No. 2A (1968)
  2. Maine Farmington State College Women's Dormitories, Referendum Question No. 2B (1968)
  3. Maryland Prohibit Housing Discrimination, Question 4 (1968)
  4. California Proposition 1, Veterans' Farms and Homes Bond Measure (June 1968)

1967

  1. Maine Colleges and Vocational-Technical Institutes Student Housing and Dining, Referendum Question No. 4 (1967)

1966

  1. New York Local Indebtedness for Low Rent Housing, Amendment 3 (1966)

1965

  1. Maine Teachers Colleges and Vocational-Technical Schools Student Housing and Dining, Referendum Question No. 1 (1965)
  2. Maine University Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1965)
  3. New York State Bond for Low-Rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1965)
  4. New York State Subsidies for Urban Renewal, Proposition 3 (1965)
  5. New York Loans for Housing Facilities, Amendment 6 (1965)

1964

  1. New York Legislature Aid for Housing Urban Renewal Programs, Amendment 1 (1964)
  2. California Proposition 14, Right to Decline Selling or Renting Residential Properties to Persons Initiative (1964)
  3. Alaska Proposition 1, Fairbanks Assisted Living Pioneer Home Bond Measure (1964)

1963

  1. Maine State Teachers Colleges Student Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1963)

1962

  1. California Proposition 4, Low-Rent Housing for Elderly and Physically Handicapped People Bond Measure (June 1962)
  2. California Proposition 2, Housing Qualifications for the Veterans' Tax Exemption Amendment (1962)
  3. California Proposition 12, Widows Using the Veterans Farms and Home Purchase Act of 1943 Amendment (1962)

1961

  1. Maine State Teachers College Student Housing, Referendum Question No. 2 (1961)

1960

  1. New York Subsidies for Low-Rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1960)

1959

  1. Maine University Housing, Referendum Question No. 3 (1959)

1958

  1. New York Debt for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 1 (1958)
  2. New York Debt for Limited-Profit Housing Companies, Proposition 2 (1958)
  3. New York Extension of Payments for Money Borrowed for Housing Purposes, Amendment 2 (1958)

1957

  1. New York State Loan for Public or Limited-Profit Housing, Amendment 3 (1957)
  2. New York State Housing Loans, Amendment 5 (1957)

1956

  1. New York Bond for Limited Profit Housing, Proposition 2 (1956)

1955

  1. New York Subsidies for Low-rent Assisted Housing, Amendment 2 (1955)

1954

  1. New York Bond for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 2 (1954)

1953

  1. New York Limit on Amount Raised by Taxes on Real Estate, Amendment 8 (1953)

1950

  1. California Proposition 10, Ballot Measures Required for Publicly Funded Low-Rent Housing Projects Initiative (1950)

1949

  1. New York State Debt for Slum Clearance and Low-rent Housing, Proposition 1 (1949)
  2. New York Village Indebtedness for Low-Rent Housing, Amendment 6 (1949)
  3. New York Limitation on Real Estate Taxes, Amendment 8 (1949)

1948

  1. California Proposition 14, Housing Agency and Authorities Bond Measure (1948)

1947

  1. New York Bond Issue for Slum-Clearance and Public Housing, Proposition 1 (1947)
  2. New York Subsidies for Public Housing Projects, Proposition 2 (1947)
  3. New York Maximum Payments on Subsidies for Public Housing Projects, Proposition 3 (1947)

1946

  1. New York State Subsidies for Public Housing, Proposition 1 (1946)

1938

  1. New York Low-rent Housing and Slum Clearance, Amendment 4 (1938)

1922

  1. California Proposition 5, State Housing Referendum (1922)

1919

  1. Texas Proposition 4, Loans for Home Acquisition Amendment (May 1919)

1915

  1. Massachusetts Legislative Authority to Take Land for Housing Amendment (October 1915)

Did not make ballot

Did not make ballot

  1. Massachusetts Repeal 40B (2008)
  2. Colorado Initiative 103 (2008)
  3. Colorado Initiative 86 (2008)
  4. Massachusetts Comprehensive Permits and Regional Planning Initiative (2012)
  5. California Foreclosure Modification Act (2012)
  6. Colorado Marijuana Tax Revenue to Establish Housing for Disabled Amendment (2014)
  7. New Jersey Tax Exemption for Disabled Use and Access of Homes Amendment (2014)
  8. New Jersey Homestead Rebate Amounts for Veterans Amendment (2014)
  9. New Jersey Homestead Real Property Limited Assessment Amendment, ACR 88 (2014)
  10. New Jersey Housing Rights and Opportunities Amendment (2015)
  11. Colorado Voting on Limiting Housing Growth Constitutional Amendment Initiative (2018)
  12. Colorado Voting on Limiting Housing Growth Statutory Initiative (2018)
  13. Colorado Limits on Housing Growth Initiative (2020)
  14. California Repeal Article 34 Local Referendum Requirement for Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment (2020)
  15. California Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond (2020)
  16. California Property Tax Transfers and Exemptions Initiative (2020)
  17. Hawaii Make Access to Housing a High Priority Amendment (2020)
  18. Hawaii Population Growth and Housing Production Plan Amendment (2022)
  19. California Residential Property Tax Exemption and Surcharge and Housing Development Reviews Initiative (2022)
  20. Colorado Annual Fee on Residential Properties Valued at Over $2 Million to Fund Housing Projects Initiative (2022)
  21. California Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Measure (March 2024)
  22. California $25 Billion Family Home Construction Bond Measure (2022)
  23. California Home and School Remediation Bond and Remove Status of Lead Paint as Public Nuisance Initiative (2018)
  24. California Homeowners and Renters Tax Credit Initiative (2018)
  25. California Property Tax Transfers Initiative (2020)
  26. Colorado Fee for Attainable Housing Fund Initiative (2023)
  27. Massachusetts Local Governance of Rental Properties Initiative (2024)
  28. California Changes to New Housing Construction Regulations Initiative (2024)
  29. California Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment (2024)
  30. Oregon Limit Rent Increases Initiative (2024)
  31. Washington Prohibit State Government from Interfering with Local Housing and Land Use Decisions Initiative (2024)
  32. Washington Rent and Fee Increase Limits Initiative (2024)
  33. Oregon Require Landlords to Disclose Asbestos Hazard Initiative (2024)
  34. California Housing Bond Measure (2024)
  35. California Family Home Construction and Homeownership Bond Measure (2024)
  36. California Authorize Local Land Use and Planning and Repeal Article 34 Initiative (2024)
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