One-Stop Shop for Affordable Homeownership Projects and Programs
HCD, in accordance with Assembly Bill 434 (Chapter 192, Statutes 2020), is working to make our homeownership program funds accessible to more developers and communities.
Two Programs. One Purpose.
Streamlines two of HCD's homeownership programs to align eligibility criteria, scoring, and release of funds allowing for a coordinated single application and award process. Learn more about the individual programs with funding available under this Super NOFA.
Program Overview
To apply for CalHome funding, the applicant shall be a Local Public Entity, Local Public Agency, Tribal Entity, or Nonprofit Corporation.
To apply for the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Homeownership funding, the applicant shall be a Local Public Entity, Local Public Agency, Tribal Entity, Nonprofit Corporation, Limited Liability Company, or Limited Partnership.
- Homeownership Development Project Loans
- First-Time Homebuyer Mortgage Assistance
- Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Assistance
- Technical Assistance for Self-Help Housing Projects
- Technical Assistance for Shared Housing Programs
- ADU/JADU Programs
- Acquisition Of Manufactured Housing
This Homeownership Super NOFA is issued to distribute funds for the CalHome Program and funds for the homeownership activities within FWHG only. Please note that new construction or rehabilitation (with or without acquisition) of a multifamily rental housing development, including under the FWHG program, is not an eligible activity under this Super NOFA.
- CalHome program, which supports homeownership programs aimed at lower and very low income households, and in the case of a disaster, households at or below moderate income, and operated by private nonprofit and local government agencies, to increase homeownership, encourage neighborhood revitalization and sustainable development, and maximize use of existing homes.
- Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant (FWHG or Serna) program, which supports development projects involving multiple home ownership units, including single-family subdivisions, for lower-income agricultural employees and their families, and programs that assist lower-income agricultural employees and their families to become or remain homeowners.