CA Health & Safety Code Section 50675.6

(a)

A sponsor may apply for loans for one or more rental or transitional housing developments. A housing development may utilize any combination of federal, state, local, and private financial resources necessary to make the development affordable, for the term of the state’s regulatory agreement, to the eligible households.

(b)

(1) Loans made pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 50675.7 to sponsors by a local public entity as part of its code enforcement efforts for rental housing developments involving rehabilitation shall only be for terms of not less than 20 years. All other loans shall be for a term of not less than 55 years.

(2)

The term of a loan and the time for repayment may be extended for additional 10-year terms as long as the rental housing development is operated in a manner consistent with the regulatory agreement and the sponsor requires an extension in order to continue to operate in a manner consistent with this chapter.

(c)

Principal and accumulated interest is due and payable upon completion of the term of the loan. The loan shall bear simple interest at the rate of 3 percent per annum on the unpaid principal balance. The department may forgive that portion of that loan that is used to cover costs of developing child care facilities. The department shall require annual loan payments in the minimum amount necessary to cover the costs of project monitoring. For the first 30 years of the loan term, the amount of the required loan payments shall not exceed forty-two hundredths of 1 percent (.42%) per annum.

(d)

The department may establish maximum loan-to-value requirements for some or all of the types of projects that are eligible for funding under this chapter.

(e)

The department shall establish per-unit and per-project loan limits for all project types.