HSC § 50676.1

(a) The departments shall convene a stakeholder process to inform the development of the allocation plan. Stakeholders represented shall include, but not be limited to, organizations that provide rental housing for extremely low income households and very low income households or assist extremely low income households and very low income households to become homeowners.

(b) The department may adopt, amend, or repeal guidelines to implement this chapter. Any guidelines adopted to implement this chapter shall not be subject to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.