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Regional Early Action Planning (REAP) Grants of 2021 | California Department of Housing and Community Development
(SANDAG): $38.73 million to fund affordable housing development, to establish an affordable housing trust fund, and three separate suballocation programs: one to local jurisdictions for planning and capital investment; one to transportation agencies for studies and predevelopment work to create mobility hubs; and one to tribal entities for predevelopment plans, studies, and outreach materials for housing proposals.Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG): $5.25 million to suballocate to the following projects: infrastructure improvements in the downtown area of the City Santa Maria; a permit-ready ADU program in the City of Lompoc; construction of a prototypical single-family home utilizing 3D printing construction technology; County-wide active transportation dashboard; connective, multipurpose path in the City of Goleta; pilot housing project in the City of Santa Barbara converting vacant and underutilized city-owned property to affordable housing; 100% affordable housing project in the Town of New Cuyama.Shasta Regional Transportation Agency (SRTA): $2.24 million to develop two infill sites for housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households and to make infrastructure improvements to provide greater connectivity and more transportation options in Downtown Shasta Lake.Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG): $237.41 million for several programs including: Programs to Accelerate Transformative Housing (PATH), Transportation Partnership Program (TPP), Subregional Partnership Program 2.0, Sustainable Communities Program for civic engagement, equity, and environmental justice, and a Big Data Platform.Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA): $567,239 to update density, height, and coverage regulations to facilitate multifamily development and accessory dwelling units, increasing housing supply, choice, and affordability in the region.REAP 2.0 Higher Impact Transformative (HIT) Awards:$30,000,000 in competitive funding was awarded to communities for place-based planning and implementation activities that support REAP 2.0’s goals and objectives.
Disability Housing Grants For Veterans | Veterans Affairs
Can I get a Specially Adapted Housing grant?
You may be able to get an SAH grant if you’re using the grant money to buy, build, or change your permanent home (a home you plan to live in for a long time) and you meet both of these requirements.
Both of these must be true:

You own or will own the home, and
You have a qualifying service-connected disability

Qualifying service-connected disabilities include:

The loss or loss of use of more than one limb
The loss or loss of use of a lower leg along with the residuals (lasting effects) of an organic (natural) disease or injury
Blindness in both eyes (with 20/200 visual acuity or less)
Certain severe burns
The loss, or loss of use, of one lower extremity (foot or leg) after September 11, 2001, which makes it so you can’t balance or walk without the help of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair

Note: Only 120 Veterans and service members each fiscal year (FY) can qualify for a grant based on the loss of one extremity after September 11, 2001, as set by Congress. A fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30. If you qualify for a grant in the current fiscal year but you can’t receive it because of the 120-grant limit, you may be able to receive this benefit in future years.
How much funding does an SAH grant offer?
If you qualify for an SAH grant, you can get up to $117,014 for FY 2024. This is the current total maximum amount allowed for SAH grants.
Can I get a Special Home Adaptation (SHA) grant?
You may be able to get an SHA grant if you’re using the grant money to buy, build, or change your permanent home (a home you plan to live in for a long time) and you meet both of these requirements.
Both of these must be true:

You or a family member own or will own the home, and
You have a qualifying service-connected disability

Qualifying service-connected disabilities include:

The loss or loss of use of both hands
Certain severe burns
Certain respiratory or breathing injuries
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Group homes include  group living facilities, such as housing for the elderly, drug and alcohol  rehabilitation centers, battered-women shelters, and homeless shelters. Group  homes can be authorized representatives for residents receiving benefits, and  can use those benefits to purchase food for the facility. 

                  The group home may use a residentâs Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card on  their EBT point-of-sale (POS) device and that cardholderâs food benefits will  be transferred to the group home's CalFresh account. It works just like an EBT  food benefit transaction at a store. The group home can then shop for food for  the home using its own EBT card. 

                If a resident leaves before the end of the month, the group home can return any  unused portion of the food benefits to the recipient's EBT account using their  POS device.
                  If your group home would  like to participate, contact the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) at (877)  823-4369 and request an application, or Link to request for the application. Once a facility is  approved and an FNS number is assigned to it, Fidelity Information Services,  LLC (FIS) will contact the group home about installing POS equipment.
                Because all counties in  California issue CalWORKs (and in some counties, General Assistance cash aid)  and other cash benefits via EBT, the POS equipment can also be set up to accept  these benefits. A group home may elect to use this feature, so residents can  pay rent and other non-food costs using their EBT cards.

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The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan
The 2021‑22 budget provided HCD $2.75 billion ($1.45 billion in 2021‑22 and $1.3 billion in 2022‑23) to fund additional Homekey projects that can be converted and rehabilitated to provide permanent housing for persons experiencing homelessness and who are also at risk of COVID‑19 or other communicable diseases. Most of the funding is federal, however the state also provided General Fund—$250 million in 2021‑22 and $300 million in 2022‑23—to support initial operating subsidies. Recipients have until June 30, 2026 to expend the General Fund portion. Within the total allocation, there is an 8 percent set‑aside for programs serving youth. Applications for funds are accepted from local governmental entities and tribal governments on a continuous basis. HCD began accepting applications in September 2021. Between September 2021 and January 2022, the program maintained the eight geographic region structure for initial prioritization of funding. Beginning in February 2022, applications will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis without regard to the regions. Additionally, the Homekey Program requires full occupancy—defined as no more than a 10 percent vacancy rate—within 90 days of completing construction and/or rehabilitation. For interim housing projects, the program requires an affordability restriction on the units for 15 years, while a 55 years affordability restriction is required for permanent housing projects. The administration estimates this funding will support the creation of 14,000 housing units. Figure 7 provides an overview of Homekey Program funding. Figure 8 provides a full breakdown of the set‑asides in the 2021‑22 funding. 

Figure 7
Homekey Program Overview
(Dollars in Millions)

Amounta

Awarded Projects 

Units Created 

2020‑21

$800 

94

 5,900 

2021‑22b

1,450 

14

1,200

2022‑23c

1,300 

—

—

Totals

$3,550 

108

7,100

aAll fund sources. 
bApplications are still being accepted, so far $323 million has been awarded.
2001 Budget Analysis: Housing and Community Development (2240)
The 2000-01 Budget Act included a substantial increase in the department's General Fund support, largely on a one-time basis. In
addition to augmenting funding for existing programs, the budget and accompanying legislation also created a number of new
department programs. Figure 1 summarizes the allocation of the more than $500 million housing package, as well as the proposed
spending in these programs in 2001-02. We discuss the status of the various programs below. Funding notices and applications
should be available to eligible applicants for all of the programs by February 2001.

 Figure 1
 HCD Funding for Major Housing Programs
 General Fund
1999-00 Through 2001-02
(In Millions) 
 
 1999-00

2000-01a

Proposed
2001-02
 Local Government Incentives
Jobs-Housing Balance Improvement Program:
Incentive grants
—
$100.0
$200.0
Economic development grants
—
5.0
—
Mass transit predevelopment loans
—
5.0
—
 Homeownership
CalHome:
Base program
—
$40.0
—
Mobilehome ownership
—
10.0
—
Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance
—
50.0
—
Farmworker Housing:
Base program
$3.5
35.5
$18.5
Manufactured housing
—
3.0
—
Unhealthy and unsafe units
—
3.0
—
Health services demonstration
—
5.0
—
Self-help housing
2.0
2.1
2.1
 Multifamily Housing
Base program
$11.0
$188.0
$31.0
Downtown Rebound:
Project loans
—
22.6
3.0
Local government planning grants
—
2.4
1.4
 Homeless
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Figure 6 shows preliminary data from a June 2021 report on the experience of Roomkey participants upon exiting the program. Today DSS is currently in the process of working with all Project Roomkey grantees to develop and execute local rehousing plans. The administration indicates that the time line for completing these transition plans varies by community. 

Homekey Program
2020‑21 Budget Established Homekey Program. Building off of Project Roomkey, the 2020‑21 budget and subsequent action allocated $800 million in one‑time funding for the newly established Homekey Program. The program provides for the acquisition of hotels, motels, residential care facilities, and other facilities that can be converted and rehabilitated to provide permanent housing for persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, and who also are impacted by COVID‑19. Homekey provides grants to local entities to acquire these properties, which are owned and operated at the local level. To promote equitable access to Homekey funding, the program divided the state into eight regions and reserved funding for applicants in each region during the initial priority application period. Each region’s share of the Homekey funding was based on its statewide share of (1) persons experiencing homelessness and (2) low‑income renter households that are rent burdened. The program also provides some exemptions to the California Environmental Quality Act and local zoning restrictions to expedite the acquisition of Homekey sites. Unlike Project Roomkey, this program is administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). 
2021‑22 Budget Provided Significant Additional Funding for Homekey Program. The 2021‑22 budget provided HCD $2.75 billion ($1.45 billion in 2021‑22 and $1.3 billion in 2022‑23) to fund additional Homekey projects that can be converted and rehabilitated to provide permanent housing for persons experiencing homelessness and who are also at risk of COVID‑19 or other communicable diseases. Most of the funding is federal, however the state also provided General Fund—$250 million in 2021‑22 and $300 million in 2022‑23—to support initial operating subsidies. Recipients have until June 30, 2026 to expend the General Fund portion.
California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities
California also updated state policy to conform with federal guidance to allow more child support dollars to flow to families participating in reunification services. 
Supporting Placements With Relatives. As noted, research finds that foster youth placed with family members or kin tend to experience more stability and better longer‑term outcomes than those placed in congregate care or with non‑relative foster families. Accordingly, a number of recent legislative actions and budget augmentations aim to support family members to be able to provide care for relative children who are placed into foster care. For example, Chapter 687 of 2021 (SB 354, Skinner) aims to reduce barriers for relatives to become resource families, while certain budget augmentations in 2021‑22 and 2022‑23 aim to provide enhanced supports for finding and engaging relatives, home‑based placement options for foster youth with complex behavioral health needs, and case‑by‑case flexible funding for resource families to help sustain foster placements.
Clarifying Differences Between Neglect and Conditions of Poverty. In some cases, poverty can be mistaken for neglect. (We discuss this tension in more detail in the next section of this report.) For instance, a mandated reporter may make a report to the child welfare hotline based on observing a child who appears malnourished—which may or may not ultimately meet the statutory definition of reportable neglect. Given the potential to conflate poverty and possible neglect, some recent policy bills—namely, Chapter 770 of 2022 (AB 2085, Holden) and Chapter 832 of 2022 (SB 1085, Kamlager)—have focused on clarifying that experiencing poverty is distinct from child maltreatment, in particular general neglect. These bills, described in the box below, have amended relevant sections of the Welfare and Institutions Code and Penal Code accordingly. 

Recent Bills Aim to Distinguish Poverty From Reportable Neglect
Chapter 770 of 2022 (AB 2085, Holden) clarified that a parent’s economic disadvantage in and of itself does not constitute neglect and added that “general neglect” entails a situation in which a child is at substantial risk of suffering serious physical harm or illness.
The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan
Shifting State‑Local Relationship. Historically, local entities have provided most of the homelessness assistance in their jurisdiction, relying in part on federal and state funding. As the homelessness crisis has become more acute, the state has taken a larger role in funding and supporting local governments’ efforts to address homelessness. The state has increased its role in addressing homelessness by providing significant, albeit one‑time and temporary, funding towards infrastructure and flexible aid to local governments in recent years. 
Update on Key Recent Homelessness State Spending. Recent budget actions reflect the increased role of the state in addressing homelessness. The state budget provided a total of $7.2 billion ($3.3 billion General Fund) in 2021‑22 to about 30 homelessness‑related programs across various state departments. We provide implementation updates for several of the major, recent homelessness augmentations. 
Homelessness Package Proposes to Focuses on Near‑Team Needs. The Governor’s 2022‑23 budget proposes $2 billion one‑time General Fund over two years that is intended to address near‑term homelessness needs while previously authorized funds for long‑term housing solutions are implemented: $1.5 billion for behavioral health “bridge” housing and $500 million for the Encampment Resolution Grants Program. 
Devote Attention to Overseeing Recent Augmentations. We suggest the Legislature dedicate the early part of the budget process to overseeing the implementation of last year’s significant homelessness augmentations. Prior to authorizing increased funding for the activities proposed in the 2022‑23 budget, ensuring that the homelessness efforts authorized in prior budgets are operating effectively, adequately supported, and can be maintained over time will be important. 
Consider Long‑Term Plan for Ongoing Homelessness Efforts. Addressing this crisis requires a complex combination of services and infrastructure. As more information about recent state efforts becomes available, we suggest the Legislature assess which types of interventions appear most effective. This information could help guide the state’s long‑term fiscal and policy role in addressing homelessness. 
For Any Authorized Funds, Set Clear Expectations and Establish Metrics to Assess Performance. Setting clear expectations through statute and establishing reporting requirements to facilitate oversight over the state’s progress towards addressing homelessness will be critical. 

Background
2001 Budget Analysis: Housing and Community Development (2240)
Previously, the department funded multifamily projects through a variety of special purpose
programs, such as a welfare-to-work housing program and a rehabilitation program. Similar to the CalHome program,
Chapter 637, Statutes of 1999 (SB 1121, Alarcon), consolidated a number of multifamily housing programs, allowing the
department to fund a variety of project types through a single application. The new program received a $188 million appropriation
in 2000-01, with a proposed ongoing appropriation of $31 million. In its initial funding application process this year (which made
$50 million available), the department received requests totaling $175 million.
Downtown Rebound. The Downtown Rebound program which was created by Chapter 83, Statutes of 2000 (AB 2870,
Cedillo), and appropriated $25 million in the 2000-01 budget for three components, intended to promote the revitalization of urban
areas:

Adaptive Reuse Loans. Most of the funds, $19 million, are available for projects to reuse commercial or industrial buildings for
residential units.
Additional Housing Projects. Another $3.6 million in loans is available for a variety of multifamily housing purposes, including
adaptive reuse, in-fill of vacant sites, and housing near transit centers. The Governor proposes $3 million in ongoing funds for the
Downtown Rebound program to be eligible for these purposes.
Local Government Planning Grants. The remaining $2.4 million is available to local governments for planning grants for site
inventories and feasibility studies, updates of general plans and zoning ordinances, and related purposes. The Governor proposes
$1.4 million in ongoing funds for planning grants.

Homeless Programs 
The state's primary program for the funding of homeless shelter services is the department's Emergency Housing and Assistance
Program (EHAP). The 2000-01 budget contained $39 million for two components of EHAP:

Operating Grants. $14 million of the funds are available to fund the ongoing services of homeless shelters. This level of funding
is again proposed for 2001-02.
Capital Loans.
The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan
Homeless Population Likely Larger Than Available Data Reveals. Various factors, including difficulty reaching all unsheltered individuals, limitations on counting all forms of homelessness, and capacity constraints of CoCs complicate efforts to produce an accurate count. The expert consensus is that the HUD PIT count underrepresents the homeless population. 
COVID‑19 Further Complicates Data Availability and Accuracy. Federal reporting from the January 2020 PIT count (before the onset of COVID‑19) is available. Recently, HUD released 2021 PIT count data for people experiencing sheltered homelessness. Due to public health concerns associated with the pandemic, a federal waiver for the January 2021 PIT count means data will not be available for unsheltered homelessness that year. HUD is requiring the full January 2022 PIT count to move forward—sheltered and unsheltered. However, many jurisdictions are delaying their count to the end of February 2022 to allow time for the current surge in COVID‑19 cases to subside. This means that the first federal PIT count data reflecting the impact of COVID‑19 on homelessness will likely not be available until early 2023. 
State’s New Homelessness Data Integration System Offers More Information. The Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS) administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), which became operational in 2021, allows the state to access and compile standardized data collected by CoCs about the people they serve. Cal ICH anticipates updating the system to focus more on the outcomes of people accessing services to help the state and local entities better assess their progress toward preventing, reducing, and ending homelessness. While this data would not replace the PIT count data, it can complement PIT count data by providing more information about the delivery of homelessness services in the state and captures a broader population of people experiencing housing instability. 

Shifting State‑Local Relationship. Historically, local entities have provided most of the homelessness assistance in their jurisdiction, relying in part on federal and state funding. As the homelessness crisis has become more acute, the state has taken a larger role in funding and supporting local governments’ efforts to address homelessness.