Mindy, Bill is absolutely right, depending on the jurisdiction.New York State has taken action against vacant homes that owners cannot be found: NYS Zombie HousesHere is the NYS Finance Dept Link: NYS Zombie InfoIf vacant owners and banks are so easy to find, then this legislation is superfluous.

The result is a continual change in the laws due to changing legislation and regulations issued to oversee compliance with the laws.

I have found several programs that help with downpayment assistance at the state level and pending legislation at the federal level(bidens Downpayment Toward Equity Act).

I think this was legislation requiring banks to lend more to creditworthy borrowers, even in not so "prime" locations.

So is this now set in stone or subject to other legislation?

This implies that a local agency would be a local code agency/government body, not a state-owned corporation.Also, California Code in another piece of legislation does have a definition:https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?

Other than liability for not following the new tenant screening laws, I don't see a PMs revenue getting affected by this legislation.

The anti-landlord legislation is almost as bad as Seattle. 

The Healthcare legislation in Congress doesn't do a single beneficial thing to the operations of real healthcare.

The facts have been presented to me regarding the SAFE ACT and I'm in NO WAY insinuating this post was supposed to be about the circumvention of ANY legislation.