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TITLE 6.5. Regional Housing Finance Authorities 62500-62592›PART 1. Authority Formation 62500-62531›CHAPTER 2. Governing Structure 62505-62510

§ 62505

California Government Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) (1) Except as provided in Section 62505.1, two or more local governments may establish a regional housing authority pursuant to this title.

(2) The authority shall be governed by a board established pursuant to Section 62506.

(b) The authority shall be a separate legal entity from the local governments that establish the authority.

(c) The formation and jurisdictional boundaries of the authority are not subject to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 5).

(d) An authority’s purpose is to raise, administer, and allocate funding and provide technical assistance at a regional level for affordable housing development, including new construction and the preservation of existing housing to serve a range of incomes and housing types, including rental and owner-occupied housing. It is the intent of the Legislature that an authority help the region accommodate and meet its existing and projected housing needs for extremely low, very low, low-, and moderate-income households, and further the objectives of subdivision (d) of Section 65584.

(Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 767, Sec. 1. (SB 440) Effective January 1, 2025.)

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