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2021 Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program Entitlement and Non-Entitlement Local government Formula Component Notice of Funding Availability – competitive

Department of Housing and Community Development · 6139

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Source matching-funds field: Not Required.

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About this opportunity

The non-Entitlement competitive grant program component prioritizes assistance to persons experiencing or At risk of homelessness and investments that increase the supply of housing to households with incomes of 60% or less of AMI. A. Eligible Applicants Applicant must be a Non-Entitlement Local Government. A Non-Entitlement Local Government means a Local Government in an area which is not a metropolitan city or part of an urban county, a Local Government that, as of September 1, 2017, was an incorporated city with a population of less than 50,000 or a county with an unincorporated area population of less than 200,000 persons, which had not entered into a three-year Urban County Cooperation Agreement, or a Local Government that was not otherwise entitled to receive CDBG funds directly from HUD. See Appendix A for list of eligible Applicants for Non-Entitlement Local Government for fiscal year 2019-20. For applications that include the development of a Rental Housing project, the Sponsor must be a co-Applicant with the Non-Entitlement Local Government, pursuant to Guidelines Section 400. Sponsor includes the general partner(s); if there are two general partners, both must submit all the required co-Applicant documents. B. Eligible Activities Pursuant to Guidelines Section 401, eligible activities limited to the following and must take place within jurisdiction of the Applicant Local Government: 1. Development of new multifamily rental housing that is Affordable to households at or below 60% of AMI or substantial rehabilitation of multifamily rental housing that will be Affordable to households at or below 60% of AMI, but which is not currently restricted as Affordable housing. In order to be eligible as “substantial rehabilitation”, a project must complete a minimum of $40,000 per unit in hard construction costs; or 2. Assistance to persons experiencing or At risk of homelessness, including, but not limited to, through rapid rehousing, or rental assistance, supportive services and case management services that allow people to obtain and retain housing, operating and capital costs for navigation centers, or new construction, rehabilitation, or preservation of permanent or transitional rental housing C. Funding Limits The maximum application amount, including administrative costs, for the development of new multifamily rental housing or substantial rehabilitation of a multifamily rental housing project, or development of a navigation center is $3 million. The minimum application amount shall be $500,000. The maximum application amount, including administrative costs, for assistance through program activities is $1 million. The minimum application amount shall be $500,000. Administrative expenses may be incurred to implement project or program activity, up to a maximum of 5% of grant amount. Total NOFA amount will be distributed equally to the two eligible activities, based on scores relative to all other applications. If there are insufficient eligible applications to utilize the allocation for one activity, any unused funds will be used to fund any other eligible applications in the other activity set forth in Section 401(a) of the Guidelines and this NOFA

Funding geography: Not specified — review source. A funder’s address does not establish eligibility.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.