No provision of this division shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which the agency or any local public entity might otherwise have under any laws of this state, and this part is cumulative with respect to these powers. This division shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of bonds and refunding bonds under this part need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds, and in the construction or acquisition of a housing development or a residential structure pursuant to this division, the agency need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to construction or acquisition of public works, except as specifically provided in this division. The agency shall adopt regulations for review of construction contracts for the construction or rehabilitation of housing developments and residential structures financed under this division and shall require that on construction of this housing which is financed by a construction loan from the agency, other than mutual self-help housing developments, all workers employed in the construction, exclusive of maintenance work, shall be paid not less than the general prevailing rate or per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the construction is performed, and not less than the prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work. The agency shall determine or require determination of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in accordance with the standards set forth in Section 1773 of the Labor Code. Apprentices shall be employed in the construction of housing developments in accordance with the regulations of the agency, which shall impose the same requirements as contained in Section 1777.5 of the Labor Code, except as to differences necessitated by the methods of awarding construction contracts for housing developments financed under this division.