The Department of Housing and Community Development may furnish counseling and guidance services to aid any public body or any private or nonprofit organization or persons in securing the financial aid or cooperation of the federal government in the undertaking, construction, maintenance, operation, or financing of any housing designed for farm laborers and their families, persons displaced by action of any state or local public agency, and workers engaged in cutting, processing, milling, handling, or shipping lumber or lumber products, and the families of such workers.
The Department of Housing and Community Development 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 and persons displaced by action of any state or local public agency. Such contracts or sponsorship agreements may be between the department and cities, counties, housing authorities, redevelopment agencies, or nonprofit organizations.
Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 36057.5