Cal. Health and Safety Code § 33334.19

(a) Notwithstanding Section 33670 or any other provision of this division, an agency may increase, improve, and preserve the supply of low- and moderate-income housing located within a transit village plan adopted pursuant to the Transit Village Development Planning Act of 1994, Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 65460) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, and is within its territorial limits but outside of a project area. In the event that the agency seeks to comply with any of its obligations under Section 33413 under a transit village plan, it shall provide two units outside of a project area, both of which shall be at the same level of affordability as, and otherwise comply with, all requirements pertaining to the unit that would otherwise have been available inside a project area. (b) To implement subdivision (a), an agency may increase, improve, and preserve the supply of low- and moderate-income housing which is located within a transit village plan with funds from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. In using these funds, the agency shall comply with all requirements of the Community Redevelopment Law (Division 24 (commencing with Section 33000) of the Health and Safety Code). (c) To implement subdivision (a), notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 33670, an agency may determine the location and character of any residential construction which is located within a transit village plan and which is to be financed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 33750) and may make mortgage or construction loans to participating parties through qualified mortgage lenders, or purchase mortgage or construction loans without premium made by qualified mortgage lenders to participating parties, for financing residential construction of multifamily rental units located within a transit village plan. (d) Expenditures from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be part of the agency’s redevelopment plans, as if those redevelopment plans had been amended to include those expenditures, and the agency is not required to comply with Article 12 (commencing with Section 33450). The Legislature hereby deems those expenditures to benefit the agency’s project areas.