A One-Stop Shop for Affordable Homeownership Projects and Programs. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (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.
For all Reporting, Disbursement, and Program Questions following Standard Agreement Execution: HOSN@hcd.ca.gov
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For NOFA, Application, and Standard Agreements questions:
Homeownership Super NOFA (2023) (PDF)
Homeownership Super NOFA Application (XLS)
How to Import Your Data from and Older Version of the Application (PDF)
Please Note: The Homeownership Super NOFA Application is in a different format from previous years’ CalHome and Serna applications, and from other HCD program applications. BE SURE TO READ AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS in the document below to ensure the application will function correctly. The application is only compatible with Window’s Based PCs.
Updated Instructions for Unblocking Macros in the HOSN Application Workbook (PDF)
Homeownership Super NOFA Portal Instructions (PDF)
Certification and Legal Status (PDF)
Verification of Environmental Review (PDF)
Verification of Land Use (PDF)
Application materials will be posted by January 20, 2023.
Homeownership Super NOFA Webinar Recorded January 18, 2023
Homeownership Super NOFA Webinar 2023 (PDF)
Recorded Tribal Homeownership Super NOFA Webinar 2023
Tribal Homeownership Super NOFA Webinar
March 2, 2023
1:00pm—3:30pm
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Tribal Homeownership Super NOFA Office Hours
Various dates and times.
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This Homeownership Super NOFA (HOSN) is issued to distribute funds for the CalHome Program and funds for the homeownership activities within Serna only. Please note that new construction or rehabilitation (with or without acquisition) of a multifamily rental housing development, including under the Serna program, is not an eligible activity under this Super NOFA.
Eligible Activities under this NOFA are:
An Applicant is the entity or entities applying to the Department for the Program funding. Such entity or entities may also be the Sponsor. If receiving an Award of funds, the Applicant or co-Applicants will, both individually and collectively, be referred to as the “Recipient” in the Department’s legal documents relative to an Award of a grant, or as “Sponsor” in the Department’s legal documents relative to an Award of a loan.
A Sponsor shall be any individual, joint venture, partnership, limited liability company, limited partnership (including a limited partnership in which the Sponsor or an affiliate is a general partner), trust, corporation, cooperative, Local Public Entity, Tribal Entity, other legal entity, or any combination thereof which meets the requirements of the following sections of the relevant Program Guidelines
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.
Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program (FWHG)
