{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-62505","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 62505","heading":"","body":"(a) (1) Except as provided in Section 62505.1, two or more local governments may establish a regional housing authority pursuant to this title.\n(2) The authority shall be governed by a board established pursuant to Section 62506.\n(b) The authority shall be a separate legal entity from the local governments that establish the authority.\n(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).\n(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.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 6.5. Regional Housing Finance Authorities [62500. - 62592.]","PART 1. Authority Formation [62500. - 62531.]","CHAPTER 2. Governing Structure [62505. - 62510.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"cc9300ad3a898e9f7d7a0842bd9efa8404a86c132d57d1850c7da21d59cf081e","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-62503","next":"us-ca/gov-62505.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}