Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The department may conduct programs of subsidies for occupants of existing housing pursuant to Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, or other federal programs, but may not submit any competitive application for operation of an existing housing program in a geographi…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both of the following: (1) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families because of homelessness or the lack of adequate shelter. (2) To assist in the reunification of foster children and their families…

The department may, upon request by a local public entity, provide technical assistance of staffing for the purpose of developing applications and plans for community development funding pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383) or other federal …

The department shall endeavor to obtain community development funds available under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383) or other federal programs. The department may, if federal funds are available, conduct an innovative neighborhood preserv…

The department may compile, analyze, and report upon the use in redevelopment project areas, of federal funds granted under selected federal programs, including Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-383), as amended. The department may report…

The department may provide technical assistance to any public entity or public utility undertaking construction, maintenance, operation, or financing of replacement housing designed for persons displaced because of the acquisition or clearance of real property for public purposes…

The department shall develop and, subject to specific authorization and appropriation by the Legislature or the availability of federal subsidies, implement demonstration subsidy programs to test the effectiveness of one or more housing subsidy programs for veterans, very low inc…

The department may provide technical assistance to housing sponsors who are involved in any of the following activities: (a) The development of cooperatively owned mobilehome parks for persons and families of low and moderate income. (b) The development of mobilehome parks in whi…

The department may provide potential housing sponsors and persons and families of low or moderate income such advisory consultative training and educational services as will assist them to become owners or tenants of housing financed under this division. Such training and service…

The department may provide technical assistance and aid to governmental agencies, nonprofit corporations, and housing sponsors for the purpose of providing the benefits of assisted housing to veterans, very low income households, and persons and families of low or moderate income…

(a) The department shall provide technical assistance to a local educational agency that submits a notice pursuant to Section 50408.6 and that requests the department to provide technical assistance, as described in subdivision (b), for the purpose of supporting predevelopment ac…

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the G. David Singleton California Indian Assistance Program. (b) The department shall provide comprehensive technical assistance to tribes, tribal housing authorities, designated tribal housing entities, tribal housing departm…

The department shall take appropriate measures to assure that its services and publications are available to persons and families having limited fluency in the English language, in order to assure full participation by such persons and families in programs administered by the dep…

Notwithstanding the proviso to subitem (b) of Item 190 of the Budget Act of 1976, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of the amount appropriated by subitem (b) of Item 190 of the Budget Act of 1976 shall not be allocated and expended as provided therein and shall instead be allocate…

The California Housing Finance Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Construction loan funds may be transferred to the construction lender or to the contractor as necessary to meet draws for progress payments pursuant to rules and regulations of the agency. Notwithstandin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in Section 51000.3, no officer or division of state government shall transfer any sums of money from any fund or account of the agency, except as may be ordered or authorized by either of the following: (a) The execut…

Section 51000.1 does not supersede any provision of Article 2 (commencing with Section 11270) of Chapter 3 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1115.)

Upon cessation of all agency operations and settlement of all obligations and debts, all assets of the California Housing Finance Agency, including those in all accounts and funds of the agency, whether established by statute or otherwise, shall revert to the General Fund. (Added…

Pursuant to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds pledging any particular assets, revenues, or moneys, the agency may create separate accounts in the fund to manage assets, revenues, or moneys in the manner set forth in such agreements. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 61…

Subject to any agreements with holders of particular bonds, revenue derived pursuant to this part from property improvement loans and mortgage loans shall be deposited in a special account, which shall be used exclusively for the amortization of debt and the protection of the und…

The agency shall, from time to time, direct the Treasurer to invest moneys in the fund which are not required for its current needs, including proceeds from the sale of any bonds, in any eligible securities specified in Section 16430 of the Government Code which the agency shall …

The agency may utilize moneys which may be appropriated to the fund from time to time by the Legislature for effectuating its purposes, including, but not limited to, the establishment of reserves or contingency funds to be available for payments on the principal, interest, redem…

On or before May 1 of each year, commencing in 1980, the agency shall submit to the Legislature and the Governor, an annual plan for using its revenue bonding authority for the succeeding fiscal year consistent with meeting the legislative goals and requirements for the agency, i…

(a) The agency shall, by December 31 of each year, submit an annual report of its activities under this division for the preceding year to the Governor, the Secretary of California Housing and Homelessness, the Director of Housing and Community Development, the Treasurer, the Joi…

The executive director of the agency shall immediately certify in writing to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Speaker of the Assembly, the Senate Rules Committee, and the Governor, if the agency is notified by the trustee in writi…

Subject to any agreements with holders of particular bonds, all moneys available for carrying out the purposes of this part and declared by the agency to be surplus moneys which are not required to service or retire bonds issued on behalf of the agency, pay administrative expense…

The agency shall establish priorities for the allocation of loan-insurance assistance in accordance with the purposes and general provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 50950) of Part 3 of this division and Article 6 (commencing with Section 51225) of Chapter 5 of Part …

The agency shall establish and maintain separate accounts in the insurance fund for a single-family mortgage guaranty insurance program and a multifamily residential mortgage guaranty insurance program. Each program shall be actuarially sound and shall be capitalized through sepa…

While maintaining the actuarial soundness of the fund, the agency shall make efforts to do both of the following: (a) Equitably distribute insurance based on a regionalized basis, weighted in accordance with the geographic distribution of the state’s population. (b) Focus on hous…

(a) For purposes of a home financing program authorized by this part, a city or county has the following powers and duties: (1) To acquire, contract, and enter into advance commitments to acquire home mortgages made or owned by lending institutions at the purchase prices and upon…

(a) For purposes of a home financing program authorized by this part, the City of Gardena has the following powers and duties: (1) To acquire, contract, and enter into advance commitments to acquire, home mortgages made or owned by lending institutions at the purchase prices and …

A home financing program authorized by this part shall not be implemented unless the program complies with the land use element and the housing element which is required to be included in the general plan of the city or county by Section 65302 of the Government Code. (Added by St…

Notwithstanding Section 711 of the Civil Code, any indebtedness incurred pursuant to a mortgage financed under the terms of this part shall be subject to acceleration and the balance owing declared immediately due and payable upon the sale of the home to a purchaser who does not …

In providing financing for home mortgages pursuant to this part, a lending institution shall incur no liability in any part based on any policy or procedure which has been adopted by the city or county unless it is contained in the contract between the lending institution and the…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the First-Time Home Buyers Bond Act of 1982. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 320, Sec. 12. Approved in Proposition 5 at the November 2, 1982, election.)

The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the bonds authorized to be issued by this chapter, and the provisions of that law are included in this chapter as though set out in fu…

The First-Time Home Buyers Finance Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the Governor, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Finance Agency. The Treasurer shall serve a…

The committee is hereby authorized and empowered to create a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, of the State of California, in the aggregate of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), in the manner provided in this chapter. The debt or debts, liability or liabilities, shall …

The committee, upon the request of the board stating the purposes for which the bonds are proposed to be used and the amount of the proposed issuance, shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue any bonds authorized under this chapter, and if so, the amou…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the policy committee may, whenever it deems it necessary to effectuate the provisions of this part or to conduct an effective sale, authorize the…

All bonds herein authorized, which shall have been duly sold and delivered as herein provided, shall constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual pa…

There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter such an amount as will equal the following: (a) Such sum annually as will be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds issued and sold pursuant to the pr…

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Finance may by executive order authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which the committee has by resolution authorized to b…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this bond act that include a bond coun…

Money in the First-Time Home Buyers Fund may only be expended for projects specified in this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 320, Sec. 12. Approved in Proposition 5 at the November 2, 1982, election.)

(a) A nonprofit corporation may be formed to carry out the purposes of this part. The corporation is not a state entity and the officers and employees of the corporation are not officers or employees of the state and shall not be subject to state civil service. (b) Nothing in thi…