STATE OF CALIFORNIA - BUSINESS, CONSUMER SERVICES AND HOUSING AGENCY EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 2020 W. El Camino Avenue, Suite 500 Sacramento, CA 95833 (916) 263-2771 / FAX (916) 263-2763 June 27, 2018 MEMORANDUM FOR: County Executive Officers for Los Angeles County, San County, San Francisco County, and Santa Clara County FROM: Lisa Bates, Deputy Director Division of Financial Assistance SUBJECT: Alternative Process County Designation Requirements and forms for the No Place Like Home Program The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), anticipates the availability of approximately $200 million in funding for the No Place Like Home (NPLH) Program’s Noncompetitive Allocation. This funding is contingent on voter approval of the No Place Like Home Act of 2018, AB 1827 (Budget Committee) ballot measure on November 6, 2018. Only Counties with five percent or more of the State’s homeless population are eligible to be designated as an Alternative Process County. Once designated as an Alternative Process County, this designation permits an Alternative Process County to administer NPLH Noncompetitive and Competitive funds for Shared Housing as well as multifamily rental housing of five or more units. BACKGROUND On July 1, 2016, Governor Brown signed landmark legislation enacting the NPLH Program. NPLH provides funding for Counties to develop multifamily housing specifically for persons with serious mental illness who are Homeless, Chronically Homeless, or At-risk of Chronic Homelessness. Definitions of these Target Populations are located in Section 101 of the NPLH Guidelines () dated July 17, 2017, published on August 14, 2017. HCD’s initial NOFA will make NPLH Noncompetitive Allocation funds available to all Counties proportionally, based on each Counties’ most current sheltered and unsheltered Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, as published in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In no event shall a County be eligible to receive an allocation of less than $500,000 from the Noncompetitive Allocation.
FORM IV: ALTERNATIVE PROCESS COUNTY CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS List the local or federally-funded affordable housing programs the County administered that resulted in four or more multifamily rental project loans in the past seven years, including at least one for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). or Federally Funded Housing Program Project Name, Address, City, and Zip # of PSH Units Year Project Loan Funded Describe the County’s proposed method of distributing NPLH Program funds that meets the requirements of Section 301 of the Guidelines. Include an estimate of how frequently awards will be made. At a minimum, awards must be made on an annual basis until all funds available to the APC have been committed.
If the existing CES system is not equipped to assess the needs of, provide housing navigation services to, or locate supportive housing for persons At-Risk of Chronic Homelessness, describe what alternate system the County will be put in place to ensure that the most vulnerable persons among this group will be prioritized for available housing, including the approximate date the alternative system will be in place. NOTE: This alternative system, if used, must be in place prior to rent-up of the County’s first NPLH funded Project.
FORM IX: TENANT SELECTION, RENTAL AGREEMENTS and GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES Describe the County’s proposed standards for Project rental agreements, property management plans and tenant grievance procedures consistent with the Housing First requirements and core components set forth in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8255(b). These standards must also comply with basic tenant protections established under federal, state, and local law. NOTE: Tenants be accepted regardless of sobriety, participation in services or treatment, history of incarceration, credit history, or history of eviction, in accordance with practices permitted pursuant to WIC Section 8255 or other federal or State Project funding sources.