<P> City - and county - based housing authorities manage the Housing Choice Voucher program for the payment of rent assistance to private landlords on behalf of low - income households, as well as overseeing Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) entitlements and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funding . </P> <P> Local housing authorities were created following the 1 September 1937 signing by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Housing Act of 1937, sometimes called the Wagner - Steagall Act, which provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHA's) to improve living conditions for low - income families . On 21 March 1938 Governor Frank Merriam signed multiple laws including the Housing Authorities Law and the Housing Cooperation Law that establishes a housing authority in every city and county in California, and allows for the establishment of joint powers area housing authorities . The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 signed by President Gerald Ford later amended the Housing Act of 1937 and created Section 8 housing, now known as the Housing Choice Voucher program. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Housing Assistance Program (HAP) acts as the local housing authority for 12 rural counties: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Inyo, Modoc, Mono, Sierra, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Tuolumne . Some other examples of local and area housing authorities include the: </P> <Ul> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) within the Los Angeles County Community Development Department (CDC) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of San Diego (HACSD) </Li> <Li> Orange County Housing Authority (OCHA) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of Riverside (HARivCo) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (HACSB) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara (HACSC) </Li> <Li> San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) </Li> <Li> Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the City of Fresno and the Housing Authority of Fresno County </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of Alameda (HACA) </Li> <Li> Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) </Li> <Li> Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach (HACLB) </Li> <Li> Irvine Campus Housing Authority (ICHA) of the Regents of the University of California for the campus of UC Irvine </Li> </Ul> <Li> Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) within the Los Angeles County Community Development Department (CDC) </Li>

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