The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) champions diversity, equity, and inclusion. We foster a diverse workplace by prioritizing continuous education to enhance awareness, understanding, and skills. Our commitment includes actively recruiting and retaining a high-performance team that reflects the rich diversity of our state.
With 109 federally recognized tribes and over 50 unrecognized tribes, California is proud to be the home of more Native people than any other state.
Tribal Finance Workshop, September 9-11 2026, Times TBD
For decades, tribal communities have been excluded from state-administered housing programs. Over time, this has contributed to disparities in access to safe, affordable housing among tribal communities in California. To improve communication and consideration of the needs of California Native American Tribes, Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown issued Executive Order (EO) B-10-11 in 2011.
The HNMP program allocates $13.7 million in grants to counties based on each county’s percentage of the total statewide number of young adults aged 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, currently or formerly in the foster care system.
The THP program allocates $33.3 million in grants to counties based on each county’s percentage of the total statewide number of young adults aged 18 to 24 years, inclusive, in foster care or probation systems.
Per Chapter 727, Statues of 2004 (SB 1087), upon completion of an amended or adopted housing element, a local government is responsible for immediately distributing a copy of the housing element to area water and sewer providers. In addition, water and sewer providers must grant priority for service allocations to proposed developments that include housing units affordable to lower-income households. Chapter 727 was enacted to improve the effectiveness of the law in facilitating housing development for lower-income families and workers.
The element shall contain a program which sets forth a schedule of actions the local governments is undertaking or intends to undertake to implement the policies and achieve the goals and objectives of the housing element through the administration of land use and development controls, provision of regulatory concessions and incentives, and the utilization of appropriate federal and state financing and subsidy programs when available Government Code Section 65583(c).
Preserve for lower income households the assisted housing developments identified pursuant to paragraph (8) of subdivision (a)
The city will continue or undertake the following programs and activities during the five-year period of the housing element. The housing commission will implement these efforts, except where another division or agency of the city is identified. Funding sources to support the implementation of these efforts is specified where appropriate. The efforts listed below represent a varied strategy to mitigate potential loss of “at-risk” units due to conversion to market-rate units. These local efforts utilize existing city and local resources.
