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HCD's Loans, Grants and Enterprise Zone Programs

NOFAs, Workshops and Stakeholder Meetings for HCD Programs

Loan and Grant Program Directory

Division of Financial Assistance Organization Chart

Asset Management and Compliance Section (State Programs)

Division of Financial Assistance Publications

Bond-Funded Housing and Programs Update

Affordable Rental Housing Directory

Homebuyer Program Sample Guidelines and Checklist (Microsoft Word)

Loan and Grant Committee Members

Economic Development Advisory Committee Members

HCD administers more than 20 programs that award loans and grants for the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable rental and ownership housing, homeless shelters and transitional housing, public facilities and infrastructure, and the development of jobs for lower income workers. Please note that, with rare exceptions, these loans and grants are not made to individuals, but to local public agencies, nonprofit and for-profit housing developers, and service providers. In many cases these agencies then provide funds to individual end users.

Below is a Funds Available Calendar (FAC) that lists current Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs) for HCD's loan and grant programs. Click on the program names to see program descriptions. Below the individual descriptions are links to NOFAs and other publications related to that program. At the bottom of this page are links to other program-related publications, including our Loan and Grant Program Directory.

Affordable Housing Innovation Program (AHIP) - Golden State Acquisition Fund (GSAF)

Affordable Housing Innovation Program – Practitioner Fund (AHIP–P)

Affordable Housing Innovation Program – Local Housing Trust Fund Program (LHTF)

  • New Trust Funds
    • 08-July-11: NOFA Issuance
    New Trust funds treated as over-the-counter until available funds are exhausted for the new trust funds

Affordable Housing Innovation Program – Innovative Homeownership Program (IHP)

Affordable Housing Innovation Program – Construction Liability Insurance Reform Pilot Program (CLIRPP)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Community Development Block Grant Recovery Program (CDBG-R)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP)

  • 09-Jul-09: NOFA Issuance

Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods Program (BEGIN)

  • Notice of Funding Availability ($17 million)
    • 23-Dec-11: Notice of Closure for Notice of Funding Availability
    • 23-Sept-11: NOFA Issuance

CalHome Program

California Indian Assistance Program (CIAP)

Program not currently making loans or grants.

California Self-Help Housing Program (CSHHP)

No current funding being offered and no applications are being accepted.

Catalyst Projects for California Sustainable Strategies Pilot Program

Disaster Recovery Initiative (DRI) - 2008

  • 12-May-10: NOFA Issuance

    These funds will be awarded on an “Over-The-Counter” basis until available funds are exhausted

Downtown Rebound Program (DRP)

No current funding being offered for project loans or predevelopment grants.

Emergency Housing and Assistance Program Operating Facility Grants (EHAP)

  • Notice of Funding Availability ($6,040,000)
    • 20-Jan-11: NOFA Issuance
    • 24-Feb-11: Application Deadline
    • 8-Feb-11: Sacramento NOFA Training Workshop
    • 10-Feb-11: San Diego NOFA Training Workshop
    • Anticipated Award Announcement – Approximately May 2011

Emergency Housing and Assistance Program Capital Development (EHAPCD)

  • Notice of Funding Availability (minimum $20 million)
    • 15-Aug-11: NOFA Issuance
    • 30-Sep-11: Application Deadline
    • Anticipated Loan and Grant Committee – Approximately December 2011 & January 2012
    • Anticipated Award Announcement – Approximately January 2012

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program

Enterprise Zone Programs

  • Enterprise Zones (EZs)
  • Local Agency Military Base Recovery Areas (LAMBRAs)
  • Manufacturing Enhancement Areas (MEAs)
  • Targeted Tax Areas (TEAs)
  • Hiring Tax Credits & Vouchering (page under construction)

Exterior Accessibility Grants for Renters

Program not currently making grants

Federal Emergency Shelter Grant Program (FESG)

Governor's Homeless Initiative

  • 14-June-11: NOFA Issuance

Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)

  • 01-Jun-11: NOFA Issuance ($52 million)
  • 16-Aug-11: Application Deadline
  • Awards Announced: Programs, December 2011; Projects, January 2012

Housing Assistance Program (HAP)

Effective January 1, 2012, the Department of Housing and Community Development no longer acts as the Public Housing Agency (PHA) in the administration of the federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) and Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Programs.

Housing Related Parks Program (HRP)

Infill Infrastructure Grant Program

Jobs-Housing Balance Incentive Grants

Program not currently making grants

Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program (JSJFWHG)

  • No current funding being offered and no applications are being accepted.

Mobilehome Park Resident Ownership Program (MPROP)

  • Notice of Funding Availability ($8 million)
    • 01-Aug-11: NOFA Issuance

Multifamily Housing Program (MHP)

  • General NOFA
    • Allocation: $80 million
    • 14-June-11: NOFA Issuance
    • 31-August-11: Application Deadline
  • Homeless Youth NOFA
    • Allocation: $12 million
    • 14-June-11: NOFA Issuance
    • 05-July-11: Application Deadline
  • Supportive Housing NOFA
    • Allocation: $65 million
    • 14-June-11: NOFA Issuance
    • 10-August-11: Application Deadline

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP)

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) – Affordable Rental Housing Component

Office of Migrant Services (OMS)

This program develops, owns, and funds the operation of seasonal housing for migrant farm workers.
Funding to operate, maintain, and rehabilitate existing centers is budgeted and contracted annually.

Predevelopment Loan Program (PDLP)

  • Notice of Funding Availability (revolving fund amount available fluctuates)
    • 15-Nov-10: NOFA Issuance
    • 05-Dec-08: NOFA Issuance
    • Ongoing, continuous: Applications accepted, reviewed and funds awarded as funds become available.

Preservation Interim Repositioning Program (PIRP)

All available funds have been allocated.

State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Economic Development Allocation: Over-the-Counter Component

State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Economic Development Allocation: California Community Economic Enterprise Fund Component

State Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG): General, Native American and Colonias Allocations

State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG): Planning and Technical Assistance Grants

TOD Housing Program

Workforce Housing Reward Program

Program not currently making grants.

Publications