March 4, 2025
HCD recently joined Mercy Housing and city leaders in celebrating the grand opening of a new affordable housing project in Long Beach. Heritage Gardens, a development for adults aged 55-plus, offers 67 homes for low-income seniors and senior…
February 25, 2025
What you need to know: Governor Newsom is expanding access to the state’s program to create new housing on underutilized state property by streamlining the effort. Today the Governor launched a revamped Excess Sites Program and…
February 24, 2025
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Governor Newsom today announced stronger accountability measures to hold local governments accountable if they fail to make progress in addressing homelessness. The Governor also unveiled a new online…
February 20, 2025
Sacramento, CA —
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the Department of General Services (DGS) today celebrated the grand opening of the Reedley affordable housing development, Guardian Village.
The departments also…
February 19, 2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Director Gustavo Velasquez issued the following statements after yesterday’s decision by the Los Angeles County…
February 13, 2025
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is pleased to announce the release of the 2025 Round 3 Multifamily Finance Super NOFA (MFSN) Guidelines and NOFA.
Through this NOFA, there is approximately $382 million in…
February 12, 2025
Ventura County recently hosted a ribbon cutting to celebrate Casa Pacifica, a new supportive housing development in Camarillo for young adults aged 18-25 years. Casa Pacifica, named after the project’s co-developer and main service provider, is a…
February 11, 2025
Los Angeles, CA —
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced new efforts to provide accountability with ongoing Los Angeles firestorm recovery efforts and support firestorm survivors.
California launched a new dashboard on the…
February 6, 2025
Johnny was living in his car before he moved into his new home at Buena Tierra, a permanent supportive housing development for people exiting homelessness.
“For a person that was unhoused to go to having a roof over his head is great…
January 31, 2025
The City of Santa Cruz recently broke ground on a new permanent supportive housing project, Harvey West Studios, that is planned to include 120 homes for people exiting homelessness. It will be the largest development of its kind in Santa Cruz…