Press Release
January 24, 2023
Sacramento, CA —
The Department of General Services (DGS) in partnership with the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released an interactive public map of property identified by local governments to help developers find land for housing…
October 24, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
The California Department of General Services (DGS) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) announced today the beginning of the first phase of Sugar Pine Village, a 248-unit community that will transform vacant…
October 3, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
On behalf of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), the Attorney General moved to intervene today in a lawsuit against the City of Anaheim. The lawsuit alleges that …
September 29, 2022
San Francisco, CA —
To continue to address the state’s long-term affordable housing shortfall, California officials today announced all $1.02 billion in new awards for California Housing Accelerator, which provides funding to 30 shovel-ready projects in lieu of tax…
September 19, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
As part of the state’s multipronged strategy to reach a goal of more than one million affordable homes by 2030, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the California Department of General Services (DGS) today…
August 9, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) today announced that its Housing Accountability Unit (HAU) will conduct a first-ever Housing Policy and Practice Review of San Francisco, aimed at identifying and removing barriers to…
July 21, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
Today, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) acknowledged and applauded a critical veto by San Francisco Mayor London Breed of a local ordinance that attempts to bypass state housing laws. Specifically, the fourplex…
June 17, 2022
Sacramento, CA —
The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency (BCSH) and the Department of Housing and Community Development today joined Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Santa Cruz) and representatives for Senator John Laird (D-Santa) Cruz at the county’s…
May 2, 2022
California COVID-19 Rent Relief Program Distributes Over $3 Billion to California Low-Income Renters
COMPTON — Today, during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo in Compton, Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Secretary Lourdes Castro Ramírez announced that the California COVID-19 Rent Relief…
April 25, 2022
Today the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is announcing that, in partnership with the State Department of Justice, we have prepared for filing, an enforceable judgment against the City of Anaheim, terms of which,…