Subject to the limitations prescribed by Article 4 (commencing with Section 51175), the agency may make, or undertake commitments to make, development loans, construction loans, property improvement loans, mortgage loans, and advances in anticipation of such loans to housing sponsors to finance housing developments and residential structures.
The agency shall not issue more than two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) of its authorized revenue bond authority in aggregate principal amount of bonds in any one calendar year to finance, directly or indirectly, construction loans for which the agency is not providing a mortgage loan, exclusive of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued for those purposes.