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Emergency Housing and Assistance Program Operating Facility Grants (EHAP)
Purpose
Provide facility operating grants for emergency shelters, transitional housing projects, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families.
Assistance Type
Grants
Terms
Each county receives a formula grant allocation. Twenty percent of the total allocation is available to non-urban counties, and eighty percent to urban counties.
Eligible Activities
Providing direct client housing, including facility operations and administration, residential rent assistance, leasing or renting rooms for provision of temporary shelter, capital development activities of up to $20,000 per site, and administration of the award (limited to 5 percent).
Eligible Applicants
Local government agencies and nonprofit corporations that shelter the homeless on an emergency or transitional basis, and provide support services.
Application Procedure
Applications are invited through Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs). In some counties, Designated Local Boards (DLBs) develop local strategies to allocate EHAP funding, and rate and recommend applications. Where no DLB exists, applications are submitted directly to HCD/EHAP. Check with EHAP staff to determine where applications should be sent.
Contact
Amanda Lockwood, (916) 327-3607, alockwood@hcd.ca.gov
Or email homeless@hcd.ca.gov
Program Publications
- Current EHAP Operating Facilities Grants Information
- 2008 EHAP NOFA - Cancelled
- 2008 EHAP Application - Cancelled
- Serving Selected Populations with EHAP Funding (Microsoft Word)
- EHAP Forms
- EHAP Designated Local Boards (DLBs)
- EHAP Regulations (Adobe PDF)