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17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 5010 — All works acquired or constructed under this chapter where the expense involved exceeds five hundred dollars, shall be done by contract which shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder as provi
• § 50100 — “Rules”, “regulations”, or “rules and regulations” mean regulations as defined in Chapter 3.
• § 50101 — “Rural area” means any open country or any place, town, village, or city which by itself and taken together with any other places, towns, villages, or cities that it is part of or associated with: (a)
• § 50102 — “Rural mortgage area” means an area outside any city, metropolitan area or urban county, as such terms are defined by Section 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.
• § 50103.5 — “Statistical area” means an area established by action of the policy committee for purposes of determining the maximum acquisition costs for an owner-occupied housing unit to be financed pursuant to P
• § 50104 — “Subsidy” means any financial assistance specifically provided by a governmental agency for the benefit of persons and families of low or moderate income, which is paid to an occupant of housing finan
• § 50104.5 — “Systematic enforcement” means the enforcement of rehabilitation standards in accordance with a systematic program of making inspections of dwelling structures in accordance with objective criteria fo
• § 50104.6 — “Targeted area”, for the purposes of Part 6 (commencing with Section 52500), means a census tract as designated by the United States Secretary of Commerce, in which 70 percent or more of the families
• § 50104.6.5 — “Tribally designated housing entity” means an entity as defined in Section 4103 of Title 25 of the United States Code.
• § 50104.7 — “Urban area” means any portion of a county or the state which is not a rural area.
• § 50105 — (a) “Very low income households” means persons and families whose incomes do not exceed the qualifying limits for very low income families as established and amended from time to time pursuant to Sect
• § 50106 — “Extremely low income households” means persons and families whose incomes do not exceed the qualifying limits for extremely low income families as established and amended from time to time by the Sec
• § 5011 — The governing body shall comply with all the conditions and requirements of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, respecting the employment of labor, and other matters in connection there
• § 5012 — Before awarding any contract for construction of works the governing body shall cause to be published a notice inviting sealed bids for doing it.
• § 5013 — All bids shall be accompanied by a certified check payable to the district for an amount that is not less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the bid.
• § 5014 — The bids shall be delivered to the clerk.
• § 5015 — The governing body may reject all bids if it deems this for the public good, and shall reject all bids other than the lowest regular responsible bidder, and may award the contract to him at the price
• § 50150 — This chapter sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Fi
• § 50151 — The Secretary of Business, Consumer Services and Housing shall be responsible for allocating financial aid and contributions made available directly to state government or to the agency by any agency
• § 50152 — The department shall be the principal state department responsible for coordinating federal-state relationships in housing and community development, except for housing finance, and for evaluating the
• § 50152.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.
• § 50152.7 — The department may promulgate regulations establishing habitability standards for dwelling units assisted by the department providing for the density, use, and physical standards of housing units shar
• § 50153 — To further the goals of this division and to enable the success of a statewide housing program, it is essential, and the Legislature intends, that the agency and the department shall closely coordinat
• § 50154 — The California Housing Finance Agency, within the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, is a primary agency in the implementation of state housing policy.
• § 50156 — The California Housing Finance Agency shall provide to the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst, in each annual report required by Section 51005, information concerning all units produced, assisted
• § 50157 — In accordance with subdivision (e) of Section 50231, responsibility for administering the following programs shall transfer from the Interagency Council on Homelessness to the Department of Housing an
• § 5016 — If the bids are rejected or if no bids are received, the governing body may readvertise for bids as in the first instance without further proceedings.
• § 5017 — If the successful bidder fails, neglects, or refuses for twenty days after written notice of the award has been mailed him to enter into the contract to perform the work, the check accompanying his bi
• § 50172 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Certificate credit rate” means the rate of the credit allowed by this chapter that is specified in the mortgage credit ce
• § 50175 — This chapter is enacted in implementation of the Mortgage Subsidy Bond Tax Act of 1980 (Title XI, Public Law 96-499) and Section 612 of the Tax Reform Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-369).
• § 5018 — Each contractor shall, at the time of entering into the contract, execute a surety bond to the satisfaction and approval of the governing body in a sum not less than twenty-five per cent of the amount
• § 5019 — The contract shall provide that the work shall be commenced within twenty days after the contractor has received written notice from the clerk that there is sufficient money or revenue bonds in the sp
• § 50197.1 — An issuer may establish a mortgage credit certificate program pursuant to this article.
• § 50197.2 — (a) An issuer shall notify the committee if the issuer elects to exchange all or part of the issuer’s authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds for authority to issue mortgage credit certificates.
• § 50197.3 — A mortgage credit certificate may be issued under a mortgage credit certificate program by a local agency pursuant to this chapter and the federal act, as defined by subdivision (g) of Section 50172.
• § 50197.5 — Any local agency may, upon the approval of the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8869.
• § 50197.7 — If an issuer elects to exchange all or part of a supplementary allocation of qualified mortgage bonds for authority to issue mortgage credit certificates, the issuance of those mortgage credit certifi
• § 50198 — The requirement that public notice be given that mortgage credit certificates will be issued, prescribed by Section 25(e)(5) of Title 25 of the United States Code, may be satisfied by the issuer or it
• § 50198.5 — An issuer shall develop and maintain a list of lenders that have entered into an agreement with the issuer who will make loans to qualified holders of mortgage credit certificates, as provided by the
• § 50199 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after a list of lenders has been completed by an issuer, after the qualified mortgage bond allocation has been approved by the committee, and after the issu
• § 50199.10 — (a) For purposes of allocating low-income housing credits, the committee is hereby designated as this state’s only housing credit agency for purposes of Section 42(h) of the federal Internal Revenue C
• § 50199.11 — The committee may also contract with other entities, including the department and the agency, to aid in the processing and review of applications.
• § 50199.12 — The committee shall adopt and supply forms for eliciting information for purposes of this chapter from housing credit applicants.
• § 50199.13 — Except as specified in the application and as approved by the committee at initial reservation, no allocation or reservation of the housing credit ceiling under this chapter may be transferred by the
• § 50199.14 — (a) The committee shall allocate the housing credit on a regular basis consisting of two or more periods in each calendar year during which applications may be filed and considered.
• § 50199.15 — (a) The committee shall annually submit to the Legislature by April 1 of each year a report specifying, with respect to its activities under this chapter during the previous calendar year, (1) the tot
• § 50199.16 — All acts and proceedings taken by the committee prior to the effective date of this chapter to allocate the housing credit ceiling for 1987 under the Governor’s proclamation dated February 27, 1987, a
• § 50199.17 — (a) The committee may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the allocation of housing credits pursuant to this chapter and Sections 12206, 17053.
• § 50199.18 — This chapter shall remain in effect as long as Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to low-income housing credits, remains in effect.
• § 50199.2 — Any issuer that establishes a mortgage credit certificate program may charge a fee which is reasonably sufficient to cover the costs of administering that program.
• § 50199.20 — (a) Not less than 20 percent of the federal ceiling on low-income housing tax credits shall be set aside for allocation to rural areas as defined in Section 50199.
• § 50199.21 — (a) “Rural area” for the purpose of this chapter and Sections 17058 and 23610.
• § 50199.22 — (a) Upon being informed that information, supplied by a housing credit applicant, or any person acting on behalf of a housing credit applicant, pursuant to this chapter or Section 12206, 17058, or 236
• § 50199.23 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Control” means exercising the power to make policy decisions and active involvement in the day-to-day management of a busine
• § 50199.24 — (a) (1) In the City and County of Los Angeles, where the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted an authority, as defined in Section 34203, a waiver effective August 17, 2024,
• § 50199.25 — (a) Under the state’s authority to issue regulations to implement Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.
• § 50199.4 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-514) and subsequent amendments to the Internal Revenue Code, including, but not li
• § 50199.5 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code has been modified by the federal Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1989 to require that the hous
• § 50199.6 — (a) This chapter is enacted to implement the low-income housing tax credit established by Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.
• § 50199.7 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Committee” means the Mortgage Bond and Tax Credit Allocation Committee, which is renamed the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.
• § 50199.8 — The committee is composed of the Governor, or in the Governor’s absence, the Director of Finance, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Housing and Community Development, and the Executive Di
• § 50199.9 — (a) The committee shall establish and charge fees which it determines are reasonably sufficient to cover all of the costs of the committee in carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter.
• § 5020 — At the time of entering into the contract the contractor shall execute, deliver, and file with the governing body a good and sufficient surety bond, in a sum not less than one-half the total amount pa
• § 50200 — The exercise of powers specified in this division will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for their well-being and prosperity, and for the improvement of their social and e
• § 50201 — Nothing in this division shall preclude the establishment of direct relationships between the federal government and local public entities or shall in any way alter the authority of local public entit
• § 50202 — Nothing in this division shall authorize the imposition of rent regulations or controls except by a regulatory contract between the agency or the department, as the case may be, and its housing sponso
• § 50203 — Nothing in this division shall be construed to authorize the creation of a debt or liability of the state within the meaning of Section 1 of Article XVI of the State Constitution.
• § 50204 — State assistance shall not be awarded to, or otherwise available to or utilized in, any housing development that is subject to a requirement as a threshold or condition to apply or be eligible for the
• § 50205 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Employer” means a person or entity who has petitioned, or will petition, to import an H-2A worker pursuant to Section 1188 of Title 8 of the United States Code to wor
• § 5021 — All provisions of the codes and general laws relating to notice and the foreclosure of such liens are applicable, but suit may only be brought on the bond within six months after the expiration of the
• § 50210 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Administrative entity” means a unit of general purpose local government or a nonprofit organization that has previously admini
• § 50211 — (a) The Homeless Emergency Aid program is hereby established for the purpose of providing localities with one-time flexible block grant funds to address their immediate homelessness challenges.
• § 50212 — (a) In order to be eligible for program funds, an administrative entity shall demonstrate the following: (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the jurisdiction or jurisdictions that the
• § 50213 — (a) (1) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) shall be distributed in accordance with this subdivision.
• § 50214 — (a) Program funds shall be expended on one-time uses that address homelessness, including, but not limited to, prevention, criminal justice diversion programs to homeless individuals with mental healt
• § 50215 — (a) (1) No later than January 1, 2020, each recipient of program funds shall submit to the agency a report, on a form provided by the agency, pertaining to contract expenditures, the number of homeles
• § 50216 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Agency” means the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
• § 50217 — (a) The Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or d
• § 50218 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, six hundred fifty million dollars ($650,000,000) of the funds administered pursuant to this chapter shall be available for implementing round 1 of the progra
• § 50218.5 — (a) (1) With respect to the moneys made available pursuant to this section, it is the intent of the Legislature that: (A) These moneys build on regional coordination developed through previous rounds
• § 50218.6 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) of the funds administered pursuant to this chapter shall be made available in the 2021–22 fiscal year for implementing r
• § 50218.7 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) of the funds administered pursuant to this chapter shall be made available in the 2022–23 fiscal year for implementing r
• § 50219 — (a) In order to apply for a round 1 program allocation, an applicant shall submit an application pursuant to the timeline specified in Section 50220 and provide the following, in the form and manner p
• § 5022 — In all respects not otherwise provided for in this chapter the bond shall be in conformity with the requirements of the general law of the State regarding contractor’s bonds for the benefit of laborer
• § 50220 — (a) Timelines for round 1 of the program shall be as follows: (1) No later than February 15, 2020, each applicant shall submit to the agency its program allocation application.
• § 50220.5 — (a) To receive a round 2 program allocation, an applicant shall submit an application according to a calendar established by the council consistent with the following requirements: (1) The council sha
• § 50220.6 — (a) Notwithstanding any law, a recipient that enters into an agreement as set forth in paragraph (10) of subdivision (a) of Section 50219, paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 50225.
• § 50220.7 — (a) (1) No later than September 15, 2021, the council shall issue a standard agreement for applicants to apply for round 3 program funds, which shall include, at minimum, a requirement for applicants
• § 50220.8 — (a) (1) The council shall make an application for round 4 program allocations available no later than September 30, 2022.
• § 50221 — (a) After receiving program funds, a recipient, by April 1 of the year following receipt of the funds and annually on that date thereafter until all funds have been expended, shall submit a report to
• § 50222 — (a) Beginning in 2021, in addition to the data required on the report under Section 50221, applicants shall provide the following information for both rounds of program allocations through a data coll
• § 50223 — (a) In addition to the data required under Sections 50221 and 50222, applicants shall provide the following information for all rounds of program allocations through a data collection, reporting, perf
• § 50230 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Agency” means the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.
• § 50231 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature for the council to administer the program with the department.
• § 50232 — (a) Round 5 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established for the purpose of creating and implementing regionally coordinated plans that organize and deploy the ful
• § 50233 — (a) To be eligible for a round 5 base program allocation, a jurisdiction that is not a tribe must apply as part of a region and must be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan t
• § 50234 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the funds administered pursuant to this chapter, less the set aside funds provided for the council’s costs of administration in subdivision (c) of Section 50
• § 50235 — (a) The council shall make an application for round 5 base program allocations available no later than September 30, 2023.
• § 50236 — (a) The intent of round 5 is to sustain existing federal, state, and local investments towards long-term sustainability of housing and supportive services.
• § 50237 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the supplemental Homekey program shall be the same as the program set forth in Section 50675.
• § 50238 — Upon appropriation of the Legislature, for 2023–24 fiscal year funding, one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) shall be made available to cities, counties, and continuums of care that are eligible
• § 50239 — (a) Round 6 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established.
• § 50240 — (a) To be eligible for a round 6 base program allocation, a jurisdiction that is not a tribe must apply as part of a region and must be signatory to a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness actio
• § 50241 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the funds administered pursuant to this article, less the set aside funds provided for the department’s costs of administration in subdivision (c) of Section
• § 50242 — (a) The department shall make an application for round 6 base program allocations available no later than January 31, 2025.
• § 50243 — (a) The intent of round 6 is to reflect the state’s priorities to prevent and expeditiously reduce unsheltered homelessness through homelessness prevention activities, sustaining existing interim hous
• § 50244 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the supplemental Homekey program shall be the same as the program set forth in Section 50675.
• § 50245 — (a) Round 7 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established.
• § 5025 — All necessary preliminary expenses incurred by the governing body in carrying out this chapter, including the making of surveys, plans, and estimates of costs and revenues, compensation of employees,
• § 50250 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Additional funding round moneys” means moneys appropriated for the program in or after fiscal year 2022–23.
• § 50251 — (a) The Encampment Resolution Funding program is hereby established to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, increase collaboration between the council, local jurisdictions, and continuums of care f
• § 50252 — (a) The council shall distribute funding round 1 moneys in accordance with this chapter.
• § 50252.1 — (a) This section only applies to additional funding round moneys and does not apply to funding round 1 moneys.
• § 50253 — (a) The council shall administer the funding round 1 moneys of the program in accordance with the following timelines: (1) The council shall make a program application available no later than October
• § 50254 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, all recipients of funds pursuant to this chapter shall provide data elements, including, but not limited to, health information, in a manner consistent with state an
• § 50254.5 — (a) (1) For funding appropriated in fiscal years 2021–22, 2022–23, and 2023–24 for purposes of this chapter, no later than April 1 of the year following the expiration of the encumbrance period of fun
• § 50255 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Applicant” means a continuum of care, city, or county.
• § 50256 — (a) The Family Homelessness Challenge Grants and Technical Assistance Program is hereby established for the purpose of providing one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions in orde
• § 50257 — (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, forty million dollars ($40,000,000) or whatever greater or lesser sum is appropriated for purposes of the program, shall be distributed in accordance with th
• § 50258 — (a) (1) The council shall make available an application for the first round of allocations no later than March 1, 2022.
• § 50259 — (a) All recipients of funds pursuant to this chapter shall provide data elements, including, but not limited to, health information, in a manner consistent with federal law, to their local Homeless Ma
• § 5026 — All compensation of employees, and all other expenses, incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be paid solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter.
• § 50260 — (a) On or before July 1, 2024, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee shall enter into a memoran
• § 5027 — After reimbursement and repayment to the district of all amounts advanced for preliminary expenses, all money, other than premiums and accrued interest, received from the sale of bonds shall be applie
• § 5028 — The money received from the collection of the rates, together with any other revenue derived from the operation of the works, shall be deposited in a bank by the treasurer in the same manner that publ
• § 5029 — In the ordinance for the issuance of bonds the governing body shall provide that the revenues derived from the operation of the works shall be used only for: (a) The payment or providing for payment,
• § 5030 — In its discretion the governing body may provide in the ordinance providing for the issuance of bonds that the management, maintenance, operation and repair costs of the works shall be paid from the r
• § 50300 — (a) The reviewing entities, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (f), shall jointly convene an Affordable Housing Finance Workgroup for the purposes of developing recommendations for state-admin
• § 5031 — All money received for premium and accrued interest shall be paid into a fund for the payment of interest on the bonds and used for the purposes for which it was created.
• § 5032 — A district issuing bonds shall install and maintain a proper system of accounts, showing the amount of revenue received and its application.
• § 5033 — The treasurer is custodian of the funds derived from income received from the works constructed or acquired under the provisions of this chapter.
• § 5034 — The treasurer shall give a proper surety bond for the faithful discharge of his duties as custodian, which bond shall be fixed and approved by the governing body.
• § 5040 — The governing body shall establish just and equitable rates for the use and maintenance of the works, to be paid by the person leasing or occupying the building or premises served thereby or that in a
• § 50400 — The Department of Housing and Community Development is hereby continued in existence in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.
• § 50400.5 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, or any other provision of law, any money contained in the Rural Predevelopment Loan Fund created pursuant to Section 50516, the Predevelopment Loa
• § 50401 — The department shall be administered by an executive officer known as the Director of Housing and Community Development.
• § 50402 — The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the department, and the director is the head of the department within the
• § 50403 — The Governor shall appoint, upon the recommendation of the director, a deputy director.
• § 50404 — The work of the department shall be divided into the following three divisions: (a) The Division of Codes and Standards.
• § 50405 — Each division shall be in the charge of a chief, under the direction of the director.
• § 50405.2 — The Division of Codes and Standards shall be divided into two sections, the Housing Standards Section and the Manufactured Housing Section.
• § 50405.5 — (a) Effective January 1, 2024, the department shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice for any employee, prospective e
• § 50406 — For the purposes of this division, the department has all of the following powers: (a) To sue and be sued in its own name.
• § 50406.1 — Pursuant to subdivision (m) of Section 50406, the department shall review all guidelines it has adopted or amended to determine whether those guidelines explain rights or services available to the pub
• § 50406.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the department may enter into long-term contracts or agreements for not more than 30 years for the purpose of servicing loans or grants or enforcing reg
• § 50406.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any funds approved, reserved, or allocated by the department after the effective date of the guidelines required pursuant to subdivision (b) and for purposes of prov
• § 50406.4 — Notwithstanding any other law, and to the extent permitted under federal law and the California Constitution, the department shall allow an owner of a property subject to a regulatory agreement with t
• § 50406.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may make advance payments to eligible borrowers and grantees under any loan or grant programs for housing established pursuant to this pa
• § 50406.6 — (a) For the purposes of this section, “coordinated entry system” means a centralized or coordinated assessment system developed pursuant to Section 578.
• § 50406.7 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall reduce the interest rate on any loan issued by the department to a rental housing development to as low as forty-two hundredths of 1 percent per
• § 50406.8 — Notwithstanding any other law, the department may expend any funds it is authorized to set aside for curing or averting potential defaults for the purposes of curing or averting defaults on any deferr
• § 50406.9 — The department may do any of the following in administering federally funded grant programs administered by the department, including, but not limited to, the Federal Housing Trust Fund (Chapter 6.
• § 50407 — The department is the principal state department responsible for coordinating federal-state relationships in housing and community development, except for housing finance.
• § 50407.5 — Notwithstanding the transfer of the department from the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency to the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the department, the Department of Transport
• § 50408 — (a) On or before December 31 of each year, the department shall submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fis
• § 50408.1 — (a) The department shall develop and publish in the annual report required by Section 50408 all of the following information regarding grant programs administered by the department during the previous
• § 50408.5 — (a) (1) On or before December 1, 2023, the department shall commission a statewide study of farmworker housing conditions, needs, and solutions to inform a comprehensive strategy for meeting the housi
• § 50408.6 — (a) On or before January 1, 2027, the department shall make available on its internet website a form that enables a local educational agency to notify the department of the agency’s interest in using
• § 50409 — Except where the department is specifically vested by this part or by any other provision of law with the authority to adopt rules and regulations, and except as provided in Section 18930, the commiss
• § 5041 — The governing body shall establish rates that, beyond all reasonable doubt, will bring in sufficient money to meet the interest and principal on all outstanding bonds as they fall due, in addition to
• § 50410 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Affordable Housing Default Reserve Account.
• § 5042 — Whenever it appears that the rates are insufficient to provide enough money to pay the principal and interest, in addition to the operating expenses, and the governing body neglects or refuses to fix
• § 50420 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.
• § 50421 — There is a California Statewide Housing Plan that was developed in cooperation with the private housing industry as well as regional and local housing and planning agencies and other agencies of the s
• § 50422 — The plan shall incorporate a statement of housing goals, policies, and objectives, as well as all of the following segments: (a) An evaluation and summary of housing conditions throughout the state, w
• § 50423 — (a) The department shall update and provide a revision of the plan to the Legislature by January 1, 2006, by January 1, 2009, and every four years thereafter, which shall be included in the annual rep
• § 50424 — The plan developed pursuant to Section 50421 shall provide a reference guide for local housing market studies and for local housing elements required by Section 65302 of the Government Code.
• § 50425 — The goals and recommendations adopted for the plan shall be published once adopted, and shall be republished as revisions are adopted.
• § 50426 — (a) Each update and revision to the plan occurring on or after January 1, 2023, shall incorporate both of the following: (1) The plan shall include an inventory of the number of affordable units neede
• § 5043 — The governing body may establish variable rates for different classes of users, or for different parts of the area, where all or any portion of the sewage works have been previously installed and fina
• § 5044 — However, the rates may only be imposed and collected from the users of all or any portion of such works as are constructed with money derived from the sale of the bonds.
• § 5045 — If the users of all or any portion of any works previously acquired and financed by other methods receive any additional benefits from the construction or operation of all or any portion of the works
• § 50455 — (a) The department shall develop a statewide farm labor housing assistance plan and related policies, goals, and objectives for inclusion in the California Statewide Housing Plan.
• § 50455.6 — The Legislature finds and declares that a severe shortage of affordable housing exists for low- and moderate-income households, including the elderly, disabled persons, and other special needs populat
• § 50456 — (a) The department shall collect, publish, and make available to the public information about federal, state, and local laws regarding housing and community development.
• § 50457 — The department shall develop specifications for the structure, functions, and organization of a housing and community development information system for this state.
• § 50458 — The department shall assist and advise the Office of Planning and Research on the performance of functions specified in Section 65040.
• § 50459 — (a) The department may adopt, and from time to time, revise, guidelines for any of the following: (1) The preparation of housing elements required by Section 65302 and Article 10.
• § 5046 — No rates shall be established until after a public hearing, at which all the users of the works and owners of property served or proposed to be served thereby and others interested have opportunity to
• § 50460 — The department shall adopt guidelines relating to relocation assistance by public entities, as defined in Section 7260 of the Government Code, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 16 (commencing with
• § 50461 — The department shall establish a tracking system for all programs established under this part and administered by the department.
• § 50462 — The department may initiate, develop, and propose regulations for adoption by the agency and review regulations proposed by the board prior to their taking effect, with respect to the following: (a) S
• § 50463 — The department may certify local housing agents, and may periodically review, recertify, and decertify such local housing agents as provided in Section 51252.
• § 50464 — The department may: (a) Make investigations of housing and community development in California.
• § 50465 — (a) On or before January 1, 2009, the Department of Water Resources shall propose for adoption and approval by the California Building Standards Commission updated requirements to the California Build
• § 50466 — (a) (1) The department shall require each housing development that is financed on or after January 1, 2018, pursuant to this division, to authorize a resident of the housing development to own or othe
• § 50466.5 — (a) On or before January 1, 2024, the department shall create an impact fee nexus study template that may be used by local jurisdictions.
• § 50466.6 — (a) On or before July 1, 2028, the department shall create both of the following: (1) A fee schedule template for proposed housing development projects that may be used by cities and counties.
• § 50467 — (a) Any notice of funding availability issued by the department for an affordable multifamily housing loan program shall state that adaptive reuse of a property for affordable housing purposes is an e
• § 50468 — (a) The department shall not require a project-specific transition reserve for any unit subject to a qualified project rental or operating subsidy.
• § 50469 — (a) The department shall not require a tribe that is an eligible recipient of state funding to waive tribal sovereign immunity in order to access state or federal funds, as long as not requiring the w
• § 5047 — After introduction of the ordinance, resolution, or order fixing the rate, and before it is finally enacted, notice of the hearing, setting forth the proposed schedule of rates shall be given by one p
• § 50470 — (a) (1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund.
• § 50470.5 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.
• § 50471 — The department and the California Housing Finance Agency shall report on the expenditure of funds pursuant to this chapter in accordance with Sections 50408 and 51005, respectively.
• § 50472 — The department shall allocate the funds described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 50470 as follows: (a) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the Bridges at Kraemer P
• § 50475 — (a) The Office of State Audits and Evaluation may conduct periodic audits to ensure that the annual allocation to individual programs is awarded by the department in a timely fashion consistent with t
• § 5048 — After the hearing the ordinance, resolution, or order establishing rates, either as originally introduced or as modified and amended, shall be passed and put into effect.
• § 5049 — A copy of the schedule of the rates shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk, and shall be open to inspection by any interested person.
• § 50490 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Administrative entity” means one of the following that has been designated by the Continuum of Care to administer California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program