CalHome Program
Contact
CalHOMENOFA@hcd.ca.gov
Program Details
- Purpose
- Assistance Type and Terms
- Eligible Activities and Applicants
- Regulations
- Get Funding — Current Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
- Previous Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs)
- Awards
- Program Forms
- Management Memos
- Training and Technical Assistance
Purpose
Enable low- and very low-income households to become or remain homeowners.
Assistance Type and Terms
Grants to local public agencies and nonprofit developers to assist individual first-time homebuyers through deferred-payment loans for downpayment assistance, home rehabilitation, including manufactured homes not on permanent foundations, acquisition and rehabilitation, homebuyer counseling, self-help mortgage assistance, or technical assistance for self-help homeownership. All funds to individual homeowners will be in the form of loans.
Direct, forgivable loans to assist development projects involving multiple ownership units, including single-family subdivisions.
Loans for real property acquisition, site development, predevelopment, construction period expenses of homeownership development projects, or permanent financing for mutual housing and cooperative developments.
Project loans to developers may be forgiven as the loans convert into deferred payment loans to individual homeowners.
Assistance to individual households will be in the form of deferred-payment loans payable on sale or transfer of the homes, or when they cease to be owner occupied, or at maturity.
Note: CalHome does not lend directly to individuals.
Eligible Activities
Predevelopment, site development, and site acquisition for development projects. Rehabilitation and acquisition and rehabilitation of site-built housing, and rehabilitation, repair, and replacement of manufactured homes.
Downpayment assistance, mortgage financing, homebuyer counseling, and technical assistance for self-help.
Eligible Applicants
Local public agencies and nonprofit corporations.
Regulations/Guidelines
- State Regulations (PDF)
- New! CalHome Draft Guidelines – track change version (PDF)
- New! CalHome Draft Guidelines (PDF) – 30-Day Public Comment Period ends July 9, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. Comments can be emailed to CalHome@hcd.ca.gov
- New! Statement of Reasons (PDF)
- New! CalHome Draft Guidelines Public Comment Presentation (PDF)
Get Funding
Applications are invited through the issuance of Notices of Funding Avaiability (NOFAs).
Current NOFAs
Application due date - Until all available funds (allocated per county) are exhausted, or by October 3, 2019 by 5:00pm, whichever is earlier. Awards will be released within 90 days of receipt of OTC application through December 2019. Please be sure you are subscribed to the CalHome emailing list to receive notifications and announcements.
- NOFA
- New! Round 2 Disaster NOFA - Amended (PDF) — 9/6/2019
- Round 2 Disaster NOFA (PDF) — 9/6/2019
- Application
- New! Round 2 Disaster NOFA Application - Amended (XLS) — 9/6/2019
- Round 2 Disaster NOFA Application (XLS)
- Compliance Memo (PDF)
- Round 2 Disaster NOFA Application Workshop Presentation (YouTube)
- Round 2 Disaster NOFA FAQ’s (PDF)
2018 Disaster Assistance NOFA
- 2018 Disaster Assistance Awards
- New! 2018 Disaster Assistance NOFA, Round 1 - Amended (PDF) — 11/01/2019
- 2018 Disaster Assistance NOFA, Round 1 (PDF)
- 2018 Disaster Assistance FAQs (PDF)
- State Regulations
- 2018 Income Limits (PDF)
2016 Disaster Assistance NOFA
- 2016 Disaster Assistance Awards
- 2016 Disaster Assistance NOFA for the 2015 Butte and Valley Wildfires (PDF)
- State Regulations
2014 NOFA
- 2014 Awards
- 2014 NOFA (PDF)
- State Regulations
- 2014 Income Limits (PDF)
Program Forms
Annual Reuse Report
- Annual Reuse Report (XLS)
Wage Income Calculations
- Wage Income Calculations 2A (DOC)
- Wage Income Calculations 2B (DOC)
- Gross Income (DOC)
Sample Documents
Mortgage Assistance
- First-Time Homebuyer Mortgage Assistance Promissory Note (DOC)
- First-Time Homebuyer Mortgage Assistance Deed of Trust (DOC)
- First-Time Homebuyer Escrow Instructions (DOC)
Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation/Replacement
- Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation/Replacement Promissory Note (DOC)
- Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation/Replacement Deed of Trust (DOC)
- Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation/Replacement Escrow Instructions (DOC)
Manufactured Housing
Management Memos
There are currently no management memos for the CalHome Program on the website at this time.
Training and Technical Assistance
There are currently no CalHome Training and Technical resources on the website at this time.