Multifamily Housing Programs Income, Rent, and Loan Limits | California Department of Housing and Community Development

HCD’s Multifamily Housing Programs: General (MHP); Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program (AHSC); California Housing Accelerator (CHAP); Families Moving to Work (FMTW); Governor’s Homeless Initiative (GH); Homeless Youth (HY); Housing for a Healthy California (HHC); Joe Serna, Jr., Farmworker Housing Grant Program (Serna / FWHG); No Place Like Home (NPLH); Portfolio Reinvestment Program (PRP), Supportive Housing (SH); Transit Oriented Development Housing Program (TOD), and Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention Program (VHHP) use the Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects (MTSP) income limits published by HUD to calculate maximum rents and income limits in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects (even if the specific project does not utilize tax credits). Also, projects that were converted under the Housing Loan Conversion Program (HLCP) and restructured under the Loan Portfolio Restructuring Program (LPRP) use these income and rent limits. Below are links to the recent several years' income, rent, and loan limits applicable to these programs for California’s 58 counties.

Please note, Section 3009(a) of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) includes provisions for increases to income limits in areas impacted by the HUD “hold harmless policy.” As a result, HUD published “HERA Special Income Limits” for “HUD Hold Harmless Impacted Projects.” For 2025 these HERA Special limits apply only to projects placed in service prior to January 1, 2009, and located within the following five counties: Marin, Nevada, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara.

The 2025 Multifamily Tax Subsidy Projects (MTSP) Income Limits should be compared with income limits under which MTSPs are currently operating to see if they are eligible for an increase in income and rent limits. The statutory hold harmless provisions in HERA prevent income and rent limits from falling below the highest levels the project ever achieved. Please call your AMC Program Representative if you have any questions about these limits.