50500. The department may, upon receipt of a request of a local
public entity, provide advisory assistance or staffing for
development of new and rehabilitated housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income, the elderly, and persons displaced by
governmental action, and in the development of programs to correct or
eliminate blight and deterioration and to effect community
development or redevelopment. In providing such advisory assistance,
the department shall encourage, to the extent possible, the location
of housing developments in proximity to public transit service and,
in assisting with programs of neighborhood rehabilitation, shall
consider the availability of such services.
The department may contract with a local public entity to provide
any necessary staff services associated with, or required by, a local
public entity and which could be performed by the staff of a
redevelopment agency or housing authority.
The department may provide technical assistance in developing
housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges upon
the request of a potential housing sponsor, or at the request of the
governing board or other agency of a university or college.
50501. The department may furnish counseling and guidance services
to aid any governmental agency or any private or nonprofit
organization or persons in securing the financial aid or cooperation
of government agencies in the undertaking, construction, maintenance,
operation, or financing of housing for Indians, farm laborers and
their families, persons and families displaced by action of any state
or local public entity, workers engaged in cutting, processing,
milling, handling, or shipping lumber or lumber products, the
families of such workers, the elderly and handicapped, and persons
and families of low or moderate income. The department may contract
for or sponsor, subject to the availability of federal funds,
experimental or demonstration projects for permanently fixed or
mobile housing designed to meet the special needs of agricultural
workers, persons displaced by action of any local public entity, the
handicapped, the elderly, Indians, and persons and families of low or
moderate income. Such contracts or sponsorship agreements may be
between the department and local public entities, private enterprise,
or nonprofit organizations.
50502. The department shall encourage research and demonstration
projects to develop new and better techniques, including techniques
of rehabilitation, for increasing the quality and supply of housing
for persons and families of low or moderate income and may make
grants or loans, with or without interest, in connection therewith.
50503. The department may adopt rules and regulations establishing
a mutual self-help housing technical assistance program providing
grants to nonprofit housing sponsors for carrying out programs of
technical and supervisory assistance to aid persons and families of
low or moderate income to develop mutual self-help housing.
50504. The department may make grants to nonprofit housing sponsors
and local public entities for operating, administrative, and other
expenses of planning, constructing, rehabilitating, and operating
assisted housing and may make grants to housing sponsors for the
benefit of residents of assisted housing in order to achieve lower
rentals for some or all of the units within the assisted housing.
Such grants may not be made with moneys derived from the sale of
bonds.
50505. The department may enter into agreements to provide staffing
to assist government agencies in the conduct of federal loan and
grant programs for the provision of housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income in this state.
50506. The department may conduct programs of subsidies for
occupants of existing housing pursuant to Section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, or other federal programs, but may not
submit any competitive application for operation of an existing
housing program in a geographic area which includes a local public
entity that has applied. However, in conducting subsidy programs
pursuant to this section, the department shall not operate housing
developments or engage in the purchase, lease, or sublease of housing
developments.
50506.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both
of the following:
(1) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their
families because of homelessness or the lack of adequate shelter.
(2) To assist in the reunification of foster children and their
families when housing remains a problem.
(b) The department may, upon the request of a local public entity,
provide technical assistance for the purpose of developing
applications and plans from the local public entity for federal
funding under the Section 8 housing certificate program created by
Section 553 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
(P.L. 101-625).
(c) As used in this section, "Section 8" means Section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (Sec. 1437 et seq., Title 42,
U.S.C.).
50507. The department may, upon request by a local public entity,
provide technical assistance of staffing for the purpose of
developing applications and plans for community development funding
pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L.
93-383) or other federal programs.
50508. The department shall endeavor to obtain community
development funds available under Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383) or other federal
programs. The department may, if federal funds are available, conduct
an innovative neighborhood preservation program in cooperation with
a local public entity.
50508.5. The department may compile, analyze, and report upon the
use in redevelopment project areas, of federal funds granted under
selected federal programs, including Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-383), as amended.
The department may report the amounts and percentage of such funds
used for the purpose of (1) principally benefiting persons of low and
moderate income, (2) aiding in the prevention or elimination of
slums and blight, or (3) meeting other community development needs
having a particular urgency. Such analysis may include an assessment
of the extent to which the application of such funds meet the
specified purposes. Redevelopment agencies and other local agencies
shall promptly respond to any requests for information from the
department in connection with its duties under this section.
The department shall publish its analysis and assessment as
necessary.
50509. The department may provide technical assistance to any
public entity or public utility undertaking construction,
maintenance, operation, or financing of replacement housing designed
for persons displaced because of the acquisition or clearance of real
property for public purposes.
50510. The department shall develop and, subject to specific
authorization and appropriation by the Legislature or the
availability of federal subsidies, implement demonstration subsidy
programs to test the effectiveness of one or more housing subsidy
programs for very low income households or other persons and families
of low or moderate income. Such programs may include housing
allowance payments, homeownership downpayment assistance,
homeownership interest subsidy, leased housing subleased to very low
income households, rent supplement payments on behalf of very low
income households, or other types of subsidy programs.
50510.5. The department may provide technical assistance to housing
sponsors who are involved in any of the following activities:
(a) The development of cooperatively owned mobilehome parks for
persons and families of low and moderate income.
(b) The development of mobilehome parks in which the rents charged
for spaces are affordable to and occupied by persons and families of
low and moderate income.
(c) The development of manufactured housing subdivisions in which
lots and mobilehomes will be purchased by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
The department may also provide technical assistance to
cooperatives and nonprofit housing sponsors who are involved in the
purchase of an existing mobilehome park which is placed on the market
and which will be occupied primarily by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
50511. The department may provide potential housing sponsors and
persons and families of low or moderate income such advisory
consultative training and educational services as will assist them to
become owners or tenants of housing financed under this division.
Such training and services may include but are not limited to,
technical and professional planning assistance, the preparation and
promulgation of organizational planning and development outlines and
guides, consultation services, training courses, seminars and
lectures, the preparation and dissemination of newsletters and other
printed materials, and the services of field representatives.
The department shall, subject to appropriation by the Legislature,
or the availability of private, local governmental, or federal funds
establish a program of such home management training for persons and
families of low or moderate income who are occupants or potential
occupants of assisted housing.
The department may provide potential housing sponsors of
multiple-unit housing developments with advisory consultative
training and educational services in the management of housing.
50512. The department may provide technical assistance and aid to
governmental agencies, nonprofit corporations, and housing sponsors
for the purpose of providing the benefits of assisted housing to very
low income households and persons and families of low or moderate
income which are handicapped or in which the head of household has
been previously confined to institutional care. Subject to the
availability of staff resources, the department shall coordinate its
technical assistance activities and loan and grant programs in order
to increase participation and understanding of those activities and
programs by public and private groups and individuals seeking to
expand or improve housing opportunities for the elderly or
handicapped.
50513. The department may provide comprehensive technical
assistance to tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and
governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public
domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of
suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians
residing in such areas. Such assistance may include technical
assistance in land use planning, natural and environmental resource
planning, and economic resource planning. Upon request of the
governing body of a reservation or rancheria, the department may act
on behalf of the tribal housing authority and perform the functions
thereof and for such purpose shall have all the powers granted to
housing authorities by Part 2 (commencing with Section 34200) of
Division 13.
50514. The department shall take appropriate measures to assure
that its services and publications are available to persons and
families having limited fluency in the English language, in order to
assure full participation by such persons and families in programs
administered by the department. Where a significant number of persons
in a community have limited fluency in the English language,
services and essential publications of the department shall be
provided in the native language of such persons.
50514.5. Notwithstanding the proviso to subitem (b) of Item 190 of
the Budget Act of 1976, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of the
amount appropriated by subitem (b) of Item 190 of the Budget Act of
1976 shall not be allocated and expended as provided therein and
shall instead be allocated by the Department of Finance to the
Department of Housing and Community Development for a loan to a
community nonprofit organization for technical assistance in the
development of an industrial park in the city of Calexico. The loan
shall be repaid upon the terms and conditions prescribed by the
Department of Finance.
50500. The department may, upon receipt of a request of a local
public entity, provide advisory assistance or staffing for
development of new and rehabilitated housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income, the elderly, and persons displaced by
governmental action, and in the development of programs to correct or
eliminate blight and deterioration and to effect community
development or redevelopment. In providing such advisory assistance,
the department shall encourage, to the extent possible, the location
of housing developments in proximity to public transit service and,
in assisting with programs of neighborhood rehabilitation, shall
consider the availability of such services.
The department may contract with a local public entity to provide
any necessary staff services associated with, or required by, a local
public entity and which could be performed by the staff of a
redevelopment agency or housing authority.
The department may provide technical assistance in developing
housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges upon
the request of a potential housing sponsor, or at the request of the
governing board or other agency of a university or college.
50501. The department may furnish counseling and guidance services
to aid any governmental agency or any private or nonprofit
organization or persons in securing the financial aid or cooperation
of government agencies in the undertaking, construction, maintenance,
operation, or financing of housing for Indians, farm laborers and
their families, persons and families displaced by action of any state
or local public entity, workers engaged in cutting, processing,
milling, handling, or shipping lumber or lumber products, the
families of such workers, the elderly and handicapped, and persons
and families of low or moderate income. The department may contract
for or sponsor, subject to the availability of federal funds,
experimental or demonstration projects for permanently fixed or
mobile housing designed to meet the special needs of agricultural
workers, persons displaced by action of any local public entity, the
handicapped, the elderly, Indians, and persons and families of low or
moderate income. Such contracts or sponsorship agreements may be
between the department and local public entities, private enterprise,
or nonprofit organizations.
50502. The department shall encourage research and demonstration
projects to develop new and better techniques, including techniques
of rehabilitation, for increasing the quality and supply of housing
for persons and families of low or moderate income and may make
grants or loans, with or without interest, in connection therewith.
50503. The department may adopt rules and regulations establishing
a mutual self-help housing technical assistance program providing
grants to nonprofit housing sponsors for carrying out programs of
technical and supervisory assistance to aid persons and families of
low or moderate income to develop mutual self-help housing.
50504. The department may make grants to nonprofit housing sponsors
and local public entities for operating, administrative, and other
expenses of planning, constructing, rehabilitating, and operating
assisted housing and may make grants to housing sponsors for the
benefit of residents of assisted housing in order to achieve lower
rentals for some or all of the units within the assisted housing.
Such grants may not be made with moneys derived from the sale of
bonds.
50505. The department may enter into agreements to provide staffing
to assist government agencies in the conduct of federal loan and
grant programs for the provision of housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income in this state.
50506. The department may conduct programs of subsidies for
occupants of existing housing pursuant to Section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, or other federal programs, but may not
submit any competitive application for operation of an existing
housing program in a geographic area which includes a local public
entity that has applied. However, in conducting subsidy programs
pursuant to this section, the department shall not operate housing
developments or engage in the purchase, lease, or sublease of housing
developments.
50506.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both
of the following:
(1) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their
families because of homelessness or the lack of adequate shelter.
(2) To assist in the reunification of foster children and their
families when housing remains a problem.
(b) The department may, upon the request of a local public entity,
provide technical assistance for the purpose of developing
applications and plans from the local public entity for federal
funding under the Section 8 housing certificate program created by
Section 553 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
(P.L. 101-625).
(c) As used in this section, "Section 8" means Section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (Sec. 1437 et seq., Title 42,
U.S.C.).
50507. The department may, upon request by a local public entity,
provide technical assistance of staffing for the purpose of
developing applications and plans for community development funding
pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L.
93-383) or other federal programs.
50508. The department shall endeavor to obtain community
development funds available under Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383) or other federal
programs. The department may, if federal funds are available, conduct
an innovative neighborhood preservation program in cooperation with
a local public entity.
50508.5. The department may compile, analyze, and report upon the
use in redevelopment project areas, of federal funds granted under
selected federal programs, including Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-383), as amended.
The department may report the amounts and percentage of such funds
used for the purpose of (1) principally benefiting persons of low and
moderate income, (2) aiding in the prevention or elimination of
slums and blight, or (3) meeting other community development needs
having a particular urgency. Such analysis may include an assessment
of the extent to which the application of such funds meet the
specified purposes. Redevelopment agencies and other local agencies
shall promptly respond to any requests for information from the
department in connection with its duties under this section.
The department shall publish its analysis and assessment as
necessary.
50509. The department may provide technical assistance to any
public entity or public utility undertaking construction,
maintenance, operation, or financing of replacement housing designed
for persons displaced because of the acquisition or clearance of real
property for public purposes.
50510. The department shall develop and, subject to specific
authorization and appropriation by the Legislature or the
availability of federal subsidies, implement demonstration subsidy
programs to test the effectiveness of one or more housing subsidy
programs for very low income households or other persons and families
of low or moderate income. Such programs may include housing
allowance payments, homeownership downpayment assistance,
homeownership interest subsidy, leased housing subleased to very low
income households, rent supplement payments on behalf of very low
income households, or other types of subsidy programs.
50510.5. The department may provide technical assistance to housing
sponsors who are involved in any of the following activities:
(a) The development of cooperatively owned mobilehome parks for
persons and families of low and moderate income.
(b) The development of mobilehome parks in which the rents charged
for spaces are affordable to and occupied by persons and families of
low and moderate income.
(c) The development of manufactured housing subdivisions in which
lots and mobilehomes will be purchased by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
The department may also provide technical assistance to
cooperatives and nonprofit housing sponsors who are involved in the
purchase of an existing mobilehome park which is placed on the market
and which will be occupied primarily by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
50511. The department may provide potential housing sponsors and
persons and families of low or moderate income such advisory
consultative training and educational services as will assist them to
become owners or tenants of housing financed under this division.
Such training and services may include but are not limited to,
technical and professional planning assistance, the preparation and
promulgation of organizational planning and development outlines and
guides, consultation services, training courses, seminars and
lectures, the preparation and dissemination of newsletters and other
printed materials, and the services of field representatives.
The department shall, subject to appropriation by the Legislature,
or the availability of private, local governmental, or federal funds
establish a program of such home management training for persons and
families of low or moderate income who are occupants or potential
occupants of assisted housing.
The department may provide potential housing sponsors of
multiple-unit housing developments with advisory consultative
training and educational services in the management of housing.
50512. The department may provide technical assistance and aid to
governmental agencies, nonprofit corporations, and housing sponsors
for the purpose of providing the benefits of assisted housing to very
low income households and persons and families of low or moderate
income which are handicapped or in which the head of household has
been previously confined to institutional care. Subject to the
availability of staff resources, the department shall coordinate its
technical assistance activities and loan and grant programs in order
to increase participation and understanding of those activities and
programs by public and private groups and individuals seeking to
expand or improve housing opportunities for the elderly or
handicapped.
50513. The department may provide comprehensive technical
assistance to tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and
governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public
domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of
suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians
residing in such areas. Such assistance may include technical
assistance in land use planning, natural and environmental resource
planning, and economic resource planning. Upon request of the
governing body of a reservation or rancheria, the department may act
on behalf of the tribal housing authority and perform the functions
thereof and for such purpose shall have all the powers granted to
housing authorities by Part 2 (commencing with Section 34200) of
Division 13.
50514. The department shall take appropriate measures to assure
that its services and publications are available to persons and
families having limited fluency in the English language, in order to
assure full participation by such persons and families in programs
administered by the department. Where a significant number of persons
in a community have limited fluency in the English language,
services and essential publications of the department shall be
provided in the native language of such persons.
50514.5. Notwithstanding the proviso to subitem (b) of Item 190 of
the Budget Act of 1976, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of the
amount appropriated by subitem (b) of Item 190 of the Budget Act of
1976 shall not be allocated and expended as provided therein and
shall instead be allocated by the Department of Finance to the
Department of Housing and Community Development for a loan to a
community nonprofit organization for technical assistance in the
development of an industrial park in the city of Calexico. The loan
shall be repaid upon the terms and conditions prescribed by the
Department of Finance.
50500. The department may, upon receipt of a request of a local
public entity, provide advisory assistance or staffing for
development of new and rehabilitated housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income, the elderly, and persons displaced by
governmental action, and in the development of programs to correct or
eliminate blight and deterioration and to effect community
development or redevelopment. In providing such advisory assistance,
the department shall encourage, to the extent possible, the location
of housing developments in proximity to public transit service and,
in assisting with programs of neighborhood rehabilitation, shall
consider the availability of such services.
The department may contract with a local public entity to provide
any necessary staff services associated with, or required by, a local
public entity and which could be performed by the staff of a
redevelopment agency or housing authority.
The department may provide technical assistance in developing
housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges upon
the request of a potential housing sponsor, or at the request of the
governing board or other agency of a university or college.
50501. The department may furnish counseling and guidance services
to aid any governmental agency or any private or nonprofit
organization or persons in securing the financial aid or cooperation
of government agencies in the undertaking, construction, maintenance,
operation, or financing of housing for Indians, farm laborers and
their families, persons and families displaced by action of any state
or local public entity, workers engaged in cutting, processing,
milling, handling, or shipping lumber or lumber products, the
families of such workers, the elderly and handicapped, and persons
and families of low or moderate income. The department may contract
for or sponsor, subject to the availability of federal funds,
experimental or demonstration projects for permanently fixed or
mobile housing designed to meet the special needs of agricultural
workers, persons displaced by action of any local public entity, the
handicapped, the elderly, Indians, and persons and families of low or
moderate income. Such contracts or sponsorship agreements may be
between the department and local public entities, private enterprise,
or nonprofit organizations.
50502. The department shall encourage research and demonstration
projects to develop new and better techniques, including techniques
of rehabilitation, for increasing the quality and supply of housing
for persons and families of low or moderate income and may make
grants or loans, with or without interest, in connection therewith.
50503. The department may adopt rules and regulations establishing
a mutual self-help housing technical assistance program providing
grants to nonprofit housing sponsors for carrying out programs of
technical and supervisory assistance to aid persons and families of
low or moderate income to develop mutual self-help housing.
50504. The department may make grants to nonprofit housing sponsors
and local public entities for operating, administrative, and other
expenses of planning, constructing, rehabilitating, and operating
assisted housing and may make grants to housing sponsors for the
benefit of residents of assisted housing in order to achieve lower
rentals for some or all of the units within the assisted housing.
Such grants may not be made with moneys derived from the sale of
bonds.
50505. The department may enter into agreements to provide staffing
to assist government agencies in the conduct of federal loan and
grant programs for the provision of housing for persons and families
of low or moderate income in this state.
50506. The department may conduct programs of subsidies for
occupants of existing housing pursuant to Section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, or other federal programs, but may not
submit any competitive application for operation of an existing
housing program in a geographic area which includes a local public
entity that has applied. However, in conducting subsidy programs
pursuant to this section, the department shall not operate housing
developments or engage in the purchase, lease, or sublease of housing
developments.
50506.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both
of the following:
(1) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their
families because of homelessness or the lack of adequate shelter.
(2) To assist in the reunification of foster children and their
families when housing remains a problem.
(b) The department may, upon the request of a local public entity,
provide technical assistance for the purpose of developing
applications and plans from the local public entity for federal
funding under the Section 8 housing certificate program created by
Section 553 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
(P.L. 101-625).
(c) As used in this section, "Section 8" means Section 8 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (Sec. 1437 et seq., Title 42,
U.S.C.).
50507. The department may, upon request by a local public entity,
provide technical assistance of staffing for the purpose of
developing applications and plans for community development funding
pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L.
93-383) or other federal programs.
50508. The department shall endeavor to obtain community
development funds available under Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383) or other federal
programs. The department may, if federal funds are available, conduct
an innovative neighborhood preservation program in cooperation with
a local public entity.
50508.5. The department may compile, analyze, and report upon the
use in redevelopment project areas, of federal funds granted under
selected federal programs, including Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-383), as amended.
The department may report the amounts and percentage of such funds
used for the purpose of (1) principally benefiting persons of low and
moderate income, (2) aiding in the prevention or elimination of
slums and blight, or (3) meeting other community development needs
having a particular urgency. Such analysis may include an assessment
of the extent to which the application of such funds meet the
specified purposes. Redevelopment agencies and other local agencies
shall promptly respond to any requests for information from the
department in connection with its duties under this section.
The department shall publish its analysis and assessment as
necessary.
50509. The department may provide technical assistance to any
public entity or public utility undertaking construction,
maintenance, operation, or financing of replacement housing designed
for persons displaced because of the acquisition or clearance of real
property for public purposes.
50510. The department shall develop and, subject to specific
authorization and appropriation by the Legislature or the
availability of federal subsidies, implement demonstration subsidy
programs to test the effectiveness of one or more housing subsidy
programs for very low income households or other persons and families
of low or moderate income. Such programs may include housing
allowance payments, homeownership downpayment assistance,
homeownership interest subsidy, leased housing subleased to very low
income households, rent supplement payments on behalf of very low
income households, or other types of subsidy programs.
50510.5. The department may provide technical assistance to housing
sponsors who are involved in any of the following activities:
(a) The development of cooperatively owned mobilehome parks for
persons and families of low and moderate income.
(b) The development of mobilehome parks in which the rents charged
for spaces are affordable to and occupied by persons and families of
low and moderate income.
(c) The development of manufactured housing subdivisions in which
lots and mobilehomes will be purchased by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
The department may also provide technical assistance to
cooperatives and nonprofit housing sponsors who are involved in the
purchase of an existing mobilehome park which is placed on the market
and which will be occupied primarily by persons and families of low
and moderate income.
50511. The department may provide potential housing sponsors and
persons and families of low or moderate income such advisory
consultative training and educational services as will assist them to
become owners or tenants of housing financed under this division.
Such training and services may include but are not limited to,
technical and professional planning assistance, the preparation and
promulgation of organizational planning and development outlines and
guides, consultation services, training courses, seminars and
lectures, the preparation and dissemination of newsletters and other
printed materials, and the services of field representatives.
The department shall, subject to appropriation by the Legislature,
or the availability of private, local governmental, or federal funds
establish a program of such home management training for persons and
families of low or moderate income who are occupants or potential
occupants of assisted housing.
The department may provide potential housing sponsors of
multiple-unit housing developments with advisory consultative
training and educational services in the management of housing.
50512. The department may provide technical assistance and aid to
governmental agencies, nonprofit corporations, and housing sponsors
for the purpose of providing the benefits of assisted housing to very
low income households and persons and families of low or moderate
income which are handicapped or in which the head of household has
been previously confined to institutional care. Subject to the
availability of staff resources, the department shall coordinate its
technical assistance activities and loan and grant programs in order
to increase participation and understanding of those activities and
programs by public and private groups and individuals seeking to
expand or improve housing opportunities for the elderly or
handicapped.
50513. The department may provide comprehensive technical
assistance to tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and
governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public
domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of
suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians
residing in such areas. Such assistance may include technical
assistance in land use planning, natural and environmental resource
planning, and economic resource planning. Upon request of the
governing body of a reservation or rancheria, the department may act
on behalf of the tribal housing authority and perform the functions
thereof and for such purpose shall have all the powers granted to
housing authorities by Part 2 (commencing with Section 34200) of
Division 13.
50514. The department shall take appropriate measures to assure
that its services and publications are available to persons and
families having limited fluency in the English language, in order to
assure full participation by such persons and families in programs
administered by the department. Where a significant number of persons
in a community have limited fluency in the English language,
services and essential publications of the department shall be
provided in the native language of such persons.
50514.5. Notwithstanding the proviso to subitem (b) of Item 190 of
the Budget Act of 1976, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of the
amount appropriated by subitem (b) of Item 190 of the Budget Act of
1976 shall not be allocated and expended as provided therein and
shall instead be allocated by the Department of Finance to the
Department of Housing and Community Development for a loan to a
community nonprofit organization for technical assistance in the
development of an industrial park in the city of Calexico. The loan
shall be repaid upon the terms and conditions prescribed by the
Department of Finance.
