May 2025

Notice of Opportunity to Submit an Offer to Purchase

An owner must provide a Notice of Opportunity to Submit an Offer to Purchase (NOSOP) prior to or concurrent with the 12-month notice. Additionally, if an owner is contemplating selling an assisted property within five years of expiration or eligibility for termination or prepayment, they must provide the NOSOP at least twelve months in advance unless the sale or disposition qualifies for exemption pursuant to Government Code section 65863.13.

Six-Month Notice

Six months prior to a scheduled expiration of rental restrictions, prepayment of a federally insured or held mortgage, or anticipated date of the termination of a subsidy contract, the owner of an assisted housing development must provide notice using the HCD-approved form (Gov. Code, § 65863.10, subd.

2015 Drought Housing Relocation Assistance (DHRA) Program

Provide needed assistance to those affected by the California drought that continues into 2016.

Program Overview

Assistance Type for Communities and Public Infrastructure

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program current grantees, per Management Memo 14-04, may request to have their grants reprogrammed for drought-related activities. CDBG funds within the eligible jurisdictions may be used for public infrastructure.

Emergency Housing and Assistance Program Operating Facility Grants (EHAP)

Provide operating facility grants for emergency shelters, transitional housing projects, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families.

Program Overview

Assistance Type and Terms

Each county receives a formula grant allocation. Twenty (20) percent of the total allocation is available to non-urban counties, and eighty (80) percent to urban counties.

Enterprise Zone Program

The Enterprise Zone Program at HCD has been responsible for the designation and administrative oversight of the 42 Enterprise Zones authorized by the State legislature. Targeting economically distressed areas throughout California, the program provided special incentives designed to encourage business investment and promote the creation of new jobs.

California Self-Help Housing Program (CSHHP)

Fund programs that assist low- and moderate-income families to build their homes with their own labor.

Program Overview

Assistance Type and Terms

Grants are made to sponsor organizations that provide technical assistance for participating families. (The original program made mortgage loans to owner-builders.)

Eligibility

Eligible Activities - Training and supervision of low- and moderate-income self-help homebuilders.

Publications and Reports

These publications provide an overview of the requirements for operating employee housing facilities, including basic information for providers on the most restrictive housing requirements of the federal and California laws and regulations that govern maintenance, use, and occupancy standards of living quarters for employees, primarily for agricultural workers.

Mobilehome Parks

The Mobilehome and Special Occupancy Parks Program develops, adopts, and enforces state regulations for the construction, use, maintenance, and occupancy of privately owned mobilehome and special occupancy parks throughout California, which assure owners, residents, and users protection from risks to their health, safety, and general welfare. 

 

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