Plain English Breakdown
The provided source text is truncated at section (7), so details regarding application submission deadlines and specific disbursement percentages for Round 6 are incomplete.
Housing and Homelessness Funding Changes
This law changes how state housing money is awarded by considering local contributions, adjusts funding rules for homelessness programs to track more data, and sets the total amount available for Round 7 of a major grant program.
What This Bill Does
- Requires agencies to consider quantifiable in-kind or financial commitments from cities, counties, or city-counties when awarding funds for new affordable housing construction projects after July 1, 2027, if feasible.
- Reduces total project awards if lead applicants do not commit to waiving development impact fees on the projects.
- Returns unspent money from previous homelessness grant rounds back to the department for reallocation instead of letting it go to the General Fund.
- Changes performance measures for homeless programs to include tracking how many people access services and their age, gender, race, and ethnicity.
- Updates eligibility rules to require regions to report on unsheltered homelessness counts from a single night along with demographic data.
- Sets the funding amount available for Round 7 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program at $900 million.
Who It Names or Affects
- Cities, counties, city-counties, tribes, and continuums of care applying for housing or homelessness grants.
- The California Housing and Homelessness Agency and its state entities like the Department of Housing and Community Development.
- Developers building new affordable multifamily rental or ownership housing.
Terms To Know
- In-kind contributions
- A financial commitment or non-cash support provided by a city, county, or city and county to help fund a project.
- Development impact fee
- A charge that local governments impose on new construction projects to pay for the costs of public services needed because of the development.
- Continuum of care
- A regional group or organization involved in planning and delivering homeless assistance programs.
Limits and Unknowns
- The requirement to consider local contributions applies only if it is feasible for the state entity.
- Future legislation must still be enacted to specify certain parameters before some funding conditions are fully met.
- The official text provided ends abruptly and does not contain full details on application timelines or disbursement percentages beyond Round 6.