California Code of Regulations › Title 25 - Housing and Community Development › Division 1 - Housing and Community Development › Chapter 7 - Department of Housing and Community Development Programs › Subchapter 12 - Emergency Housing and Assistance Program › Section 7950 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Allowable costs" mean expenditures for eligible
					 activities. See Section 7961.
"Capital Development Grant" means a grant of up to $150,000
					 from the EHAF made to defray costs of capital development activities such as
					 the acquisition, construction, conversion, expansion, reconstruction or
					 rehabilitation of real property or the purchase of equipment for emergency
					 shelter or transitional housing where the combined cost of these activities at
					 a single site exceeds $20,000. See section 7966.
"Client" is the person or household provided client housing
					 or rental assistance funded by a program grant.
"Client housing" is the general term used in these
					 regulations to describe emergency shelter, transitional housing, or vouchers
					 provided to the client to meet emergency or transitional housing needs pursuant
					 to this subchapter.
"Construction" means building a new structure, or expanding
					 an existing structure, which will provide emergency shelter and/or transitional
					 housing.
"Construction or service contractor" refers to the parties
					 with whom a grantee contracts for construction services or equipment.
"Conversion" means the alteration of nonresidential space
					 within an existing structure to create space for emergency shelter and/or
					 transitional housing.
"Day" means calendar day.
"Department" means the California Department of Housing and
					 Community Development.
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Housing
					 and Community Development.
"DLB" is the acronym for "designated local board" which is
					 a group, including social service providers and a representative of local
					 government, that has met Department requirements for distribution of grants
					 allocated by the Department pursuant to chapter 11.5 of the Health and Safety
					 Code. See section 7952.
"EHAF" is the acronym for the "Emergency Housing and
					 Assistance Fund established by section 50800.5 of the Health and Safety
					 Code.
"EHAP" is the acronym for the "Emergency Housing and
					 Assistance Program" established by Health and Safety Code section 50800.
"Eligible activities" mean those activities upon which
					 program funds may be expended. See section 7961.
"Eligible organization" means an agency of local government
					 or a nonprofit corporation that provides, or contracts with community
					 organizations to provide, emergency shelter or transitional housing, or both.
					 See section 7959.
"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive
					 services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or
					 less by a homeless person and that is not withheld due to a client's inability
					 to pay.
"Grant" or "program grant" means a grant of monies from the
					 Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund.
"Grantee" is the recipient of a grant, who enters into a
					 Standard Agreement with the Department to provide specified eligible
					 activities.
"Interested party or parties" means, for Department or DLB
					 purposes, anyone who has informed the Department or the DLB, respectively, that
					 they wish to receive information concerning the Department's or the DLB's EHAP
					 activities and shall include any person who has spoken at a meeting of the
					 Department or the DLB regarding EHAP or communicated in writing with the
					 Department or the DLB concerning its EHAP activities during the prior
					 year.
"LESS" is the acronym for "local emergency shelter
					 strategy," a planning and evaluation document which is developed for a region
					 by a DLB and which provides the basis for the selection of grantees and for
					 monitoring subsequent grantee activities. See section 7955.
"Local organization" is the local group eligible to apply
					 to the Department for designation as a DLB. See sections 7952 and 7953.
"Milestone" means a measurable objective toward the
					 achievement of the project or program goals.
"NOFA" is the acronym for a "notice of funding
					 availability" described in section 7958.
"Nonurban county" means any county with a population of
					 less than 200,000, as published in the most recent edition of Population
					 Estimates of California Cities and Counties, E-1, prepared by the Department of
					 Finance, Population Research Unit.
"Operating Facility Grant" means a grant of up to $50,000
					 in program funds made to defray costs of eligible activities including facility
					 operations and administration, residential rental assistance, leasing or
					 renting rooms for provision of temporary shelter, and up to $20,000 per site in
					 capital development-type activities, as described in Health and Safety Code
					 section 50803 and in section 7963.
"Program" means the Emergency Housing and Assistance
					 Program (EHAP).
"Rank" means the order of eligible applications for funding
					 based only on the rating established pursuant to the applicable grant selection
					 criteria.
"Rating" means the process by which eligible applications
					 are evaluated and given an overall numerical or relative value based on the
					 numerical or relative value(s) assigned to each of the identified selection
					 criteria described in the NOFA to which the applicant is responding.
"Reconstruction" means replacing an existing structure with
					 a structure of similar size and type, which will be used to provide emergency
					 shelter and/or transitional housing.
"Region" means a county or a consortium of counties
					 voluntarily banding together by action of a designated local board.
"Rehabilitation" means making repairs or improvements to a
					 building necessary to correct substandard conditions as defined by section
					 17920.3 of the Health and Safety Code. As used in these regulations,
					 rehabilitation may include reconstruction or conversion.
"RTE" is the acronym for "responsible technical entity", an
					 entity determined by the Department to have the expertise in housing
					 construction and development necessary to make determinations about the
					 feasibility of a proposed capital development project for which program funding
					 is sought. See section 7954.
"Site" means a given parcel or contiguous parcel(s) of
					 land, generally distinguished by a tax assessor's parcel number(s), developed
					 or to be developed with emergency shelter and/or transitional housing.
"Transitional housing" means housing with supportive
					 services that is limited to occupancy of up to 24 months that is exclusively
					 designated and targeted for recently homeless persons. Transitional housing
					 includes self-sufficiency development services, with the ultimate goals of
					 moving recently homeless persons to permanent housing as quickly as possible,
					 and limits rents and service fees to an ability-to-pay formula reasonably
					 consistent with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's
					 requirements for subsidized housing for low-income persons.
"Urban county" means any county that is not a "nonurban
					 county."
1. Amendment
					 of subchapter heading and repealer and new section filed 3-18-94 as an
					 emergency; operative 3-18-94 (Register 94, No. 11). A Certificate of Compliance
					 must be transmitted to OAL 7-18-94 or emergency language will be repealed by
					 operation of law on the following day. For prior history, see Register 85, No.
					 37.
2. Amendment of subchapter heading and repealer and new section
					 refiled 7-8-94 as an emergency; operative 7-8-94 (Register 94, No. 27). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-7-94 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
3. Amendment of subchapter heading and repealer and new section
					 refiled 10-31-94 as an emergency; operative 10-31-94 (Register 94, No. 44). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-28-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
4. Amendment of subchapter heading and repealer and new section
					 refiled 2-15-95 as an emergency; operative 2-15-95 (Register 95, No. 7). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-15-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
5. Amendment of subchapter heading and repealer and new section
					 refiled 6-15-95 as an emergency; operative 6-15-95 (Register 95, No. 24). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-13-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 6-15-95 order including
					 amendment of section transmitted to OAL 6-26-95 and filed 7-12-95 (Register 95,
					 No. 28).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 50402, 50801.5 and
						50806.5, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 50800 through 50804.5,
						Health and Safety Code.