The CalHome Program Provides grants to local public agencies and nonprofit corporations for first-time homebuyer and housing rehabilitation assistance, homebuyer counseling and technical assistance activities to enable low- and very low-income households to become or remain homeowners.
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Upon execution of your Standard Agreement, oversight of your contract is transferred to the HCD State Grant Management Section.
Grants to local public agencies and nonprofit developers to assist individual first-time homebuyers through deferred-payment loans for downpayment assistance, home rehabilitation, including manufactured homes not on permanent foundations, acquisition and rehabilitation, homebuyer counseling, self-help mortgage assistance, or technical assistance for self-help homeownership. All funds to individual homeowners will be in the form of loans.
Direct, forgivable loans to assist development projects involving multiple ownership units, including single-family subdivisions.
Loans for real property acquisition, site development, predevelopment, construction period expenses of homeownership development projects, or permanent financing for mutual housing and cooperative developments.
Project loans to developers may be forgiven as the loans convert into deferred payment loans to individual homeowners.
Assistance to individual households will be in the form of deferred-payment loans payable on sale or transfer of the homes, or when they cease to be owner occupied, or at maturity.
Note: CalHome does not lend directly to individuals.
Predevelopment, site development, and site acquisition for development projects. Rehabilitation and acquisition and rehabilitation of site-built housing, and rehabilitation, repair, and replacement of manufactured homes.
Downpayment assistance, mortgage financing, homebuyer counseling, and technical assistance for self-help.
Local public agencies and nonprofit corporations.
To view CalHome forms, visit State Grant Management.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (Development) has released a Super Notice of Funding Availability (Super NOFA) and new guidelines for the CalHome Program and the homeownership elements of the Joe Serna, Jr., Farmworker Housing Grant Program (Serna Homeownership). The Homeownership Super NOFA will not include funds for multifamily rental housing. Serna multifamily rental projects should apply for funding the Department’s next Multifamily Super NOFA in 2023.
2019 CalHome Awards and Final Scores Round 1 (PDF)
2019 Disaster Assistance Awards, Round II (PDF)
2018 Disaster Assistance Awards, Round 1 (PDF)
