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Program Description

The State Housing Law (SHL) Program was established to assure the availability of affordable housing and uniform statewide code enforcement; to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public and occupants of housing and buildings accessory thereto. To fulfill this obligation the SHL Program may propose legislation and regulations. The program oversees the application of state laws, regulations, and code enforcement by a city, county, city and county building, housing, health, and fire department or fire district.

The SHL Program develops statewide building standards for new construction of hotels, motels, lodginghouses, apartments, dwellings and buildings accessory thereto. The building standards are published in the California Code of Regulations, Title 24, known as the California Building Standards Code.

The SHL Program adopts regulations for maintenance, use, occupancy, repair, alteration, moving and demolition of existing hotels, motels, lodginghouses, apartments, dwellings and buildings accessory thereto. The regulations are published in the California Code of Regulations, Title 25, Division 1, Chapter 1.