CHAPTER 1. Organization of the Department and General Powers

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.

§§ 50400–50410 · 27 sections

§ 50400 (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development is hereby continued in existence in the California Housing and Homelessness Agency. (b) This section…
§ 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…
§ 50401 The department shall be administered by an executive officer known as the Director of Housing and Community Development. The director shall be appointed by the…
§ 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…
§ 50403 The Governor shall appoint, upon the recommendation of the director, a deputy director. The deputy director shall hold office at the pleasure of the director…
§ 50404 The work of the department shall be divided into the following three divisions: (a) The Division of Codes and Standards. (b) The Division of Housing Policy…
§ 50405 Each division shall be in the charge of a chief, under the direction of the director. The chiefs shall be appointed, upon recommendation by the director, by…
§ 50405.2 The Division of Codes and Standards shall be divided into two sections, the Housing Standards Section and the Manufactured Housing Section. Each section shall…
§ 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…
§ 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. (b) To have an official seal and to…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 50406.6 (a) For the purposes of this section, “coordinated entry system” means a centralized or coordinated assessment system developed pursuant to Section 578.7 of…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 50407 The department is the principal state department responsible for coordinating federal-state relationships in housing and community development, except for…
§ 50407.5 (a) Notwithstanding the transfer of the department from the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency to the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing… see note
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 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…
§ 50410 (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Affordable Housing Default Reserve Account. All interest or other increments resulting from the…