May 2025

CalGreen Application and Scope

Application

CALGreen applies to the planning, design, operation, construction, use, and occupancy of every newly-constructed building or structure on a statewide basis unless otherwise indicated.  Additions and alterations to existing buildings which increase the building’s conditioned area, interior volume, or size are also covered by the scope of CALGreen.

Consumer Information

Consumer resources related to living in manufactured homes, mobilehomes, employee housing facilities, and factory-built housing. See below for important information including complaint resolution options, home installations on a foundation system, fire safety, carbon monoxide, and more.

Director Gustavo Velasquez

Director Gustavo Velasquez

In May of 2020, Gustavo Velasquez was appointed Director of HCD by Governor Gavin Newsom. In this leadership role, Velasquez leads California’s housing policy agenda and administers a wide range of programs that produce, preserve, and protect affordable housing and address homelessness in communities across the state.

Targeted Area Contract Preference Act (TACPA)

The TACPA economic stimulus preference program was established to stimulate business investment in distressed areas of the state and create job opportunities for Californians for improving the economic vitality of their communities.

Solicitations expected to exceed $100,000.00 will contain the TACPA provision applying workplace and workforce preferences to eligible California-based companies.

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