Funding and housing management
The HCD Housing Assistance Program (HAP) acts as the local housing authority for 12 rural counties: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Inyo, Modoc, Mono, Sierra, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Tuolumne. One of the primary purposes of housing authorities is to manage Section 8 housing, but other activities include Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) entitlements and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funding. The HCD has administered CDBG program for non-entitlement cities and counties (cities and counties under a specified population level that do not automatically receive CDBG funds directly from the federal government) since 1983, and administers HOME funding for cities and counties that do not receive HOME allocations directly from the federal government since the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990.
Since the passage of AB 2853 in 1980, the HCD has been empowered to review housing elements drafted by each region's Council of Governments through the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), which must be adopted by the jurisdiction which is then responsible for ensuring there are enough sites and proper zoning to accommodate its RHNA allocation. [4] [5] [6]
Several state laws have been passed since 2016 to streamline the construction of housing statewide, many of which have increased the enforcement authority of the HCD to notify the California Department of Justice regarding violations of said laws by local governments. Under AB 72 (2017), the HCD is also authorized to decertify a local government's noncompliant housing element, which triggers the HAA's "Builder's remedy" until the local government enacts a compliant housing element.
As of 2024, the HCD is required to notify the Attorney General and an offending local agency of that local agency's violation of any of the following laws:
- Housing Element Law
- HAA (1982)
- State Density Bonus Law (1979)
- fair housing law (Section 65008 of the Government Code)
- the "no net loss" requirements for replacing housing element sites that are not developed as projected (Section 65863 of the Government Code).
- Permit Streamlining Act (1977)
- Surplus Lands Act (1968)
- The Rental Inclusionary Zoning policies of AB 1505 (2017)
- SB 35 (2017)
- SB 330 (2019)
- AB 2011 (2022)
- HOME Act (SB 9, 2021) projects concerning ministerial processing of lot splits in single-family residential zones, along with the streamlining of projects which fall under the
- ADU law
- SB 6 (2022)
- SB 4 (2023)
- SB 684 (2023)
- AB 1218 (2023)
- Housing Crisis Act (2019)
- AFFH policies (AB 686, 2018)
- Permanent Supportive Housing streamlining (AB 2162, 2018)
- Low Barrier Navigation Center streamlining (AB 101, 2019) [7] [8]
