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GSFA Celebrates 30 Years Paving a Path to Homeownership in California

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olden State Finance Authority (GSFA) celebrates 30 years paving a path to homeownership for lowand-moderate income California households, having helped over 85,000 individuals and families to purchase a home and provided more than $660 million in down payment and closing cost assistance. Join us as we showcase our beginning, our mission, and the many achievements of the past three decades.

GOLDEN STATE FINANCE AUTHORITY’S BEGINNING GSFA was organized as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) in 1993 by the Rural County Representatives of California, under the original name California Rural Home Mortgage Finance AUGUST 2023

Authority and represented 18 counties in California. As the JPA expanded its membership across the state, the name was changed to Golden State Finance Authority in February 2015. Today membership includes 56 counties and hundreds of cities across California with financial assistance programs throughout the state. Our vision to address housing affordability and the commitment of an innovative and missiondriven team over the span of three decades, hails a proven champion for affordable and responsible homeownership and economic development in California.

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