Government Code section 62505

(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.

Source: Section 62505, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=62505.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2025; accessed Jul. 21, 2025).

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