Cal. Health & Safety Code § 33334.13
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 50079.5, 50093, and 50105, for purposes of providing assistance to mortgagors participating in a homeownership residential mortgage revenue bond program pursuant to Section 33750, or a home financing program pursuant to Section 52020, or a California Housing Finance Agency home financing program, “area median income” means the highest of the following:
(3) Median family income for the area, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development with respect to either a standard metropolitan statistical area or an area outside of a standard metropolitan statistical area.
Nothing in Section 50093 shall prevent the agency from adopting separate family size adjustment factors or programmatic definitions of income to qualify households, persons, and families for the programs of the agency.