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April 24, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

California Governor Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) today announced a settlement with the city of Malibu that will enable the city to reach compliance…

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April 19, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that the cities of Berkeley, Brea, Crescent City, Fairfield, Pinole, Rancho Cucamonga, Richmond, South Lake Tahoe, and West Hollywood and the County of Los Angeles have earned the coveted Prohousing…

Graphic of multifamily housing. Text reads - The multifamily finance supernofa         awards issued in round 2 will create 4,018 new homes in 14 counties and fund infrastructure improvements that support infill development.
April 17, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced the second round of awards from California’s innovative Multifamily Finance Super NOFA (MFSN), designed to spur much-needed housing development by reducing…

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April 16, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) today published California’s Housing Future 2040: The Next Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). In this report, HCD recommends to legislators the changes to the…

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February 16, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced Homekey grant awards to six new projects that will create 369 homes for Californians at risk of or experiencing homelessness, including several developments focused on young people transitioning to…

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February 2, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

The Orange County Superior Court today ruled in favor of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), finding that the City of Anaheim violated multiple state housing laws when it denied a well-established local nonprofit…

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January 31, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that the cities of Eureka, Healdsburg, Mountain View, Petaluma, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Monica, and the County of Tulare, have earned the coveted designation as Prohousing communities for their efforts to…

Map of California with overlay text with today's $95.6 million investment, more than 15,000 homes have been funded by Homekey!
January 18, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

Governor Gavin Newsom today announced more grant awards from the third round of Homekey, the Administration’s initiative to help communities to address the challenge of homelessness by rapidly expanding the availability of housing for at-risk…

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January 18, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

California Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Director Gustavo Velasquez, and the City of Fullerton today announced an agreement requiring the city to reach…

Excess Sites Local Government Matching Grants (LGMG) awarded to accelerate development on state excess sites.
January 4, 2024
Sacramento, CA —  

Today, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced more than $63 million in Excess Sites Local Government Matching Grants (LGMG) to accelerate development of 975 affordable homes across ten projects statewide.…

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