The Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program was first signed into law on July 31, 2019 by Governor Gavin Newsom and is being administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), formerly the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC). Â
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HHAP Round 1 is a $650 million grant that provides local jurisdictions with funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges.Â
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HHAP Round 2 is a $300 million grant that provides support to local jurisdictions to continue to build on regional collaboration developed through previous rounds of Cal ICH funding and to develop a unified regional response to homelessness.Â
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HHAP Round 3 is a $1 billion grant that provides local jurisdictions, including federally recognized tribal governments, with flexible funding to continue efforts to end and prevent homelessness in their communities.Â
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HHAP Round 5 is a $1 billion grant that provides local jurisdictions, including federally recognized tribal governments, with flexible funding to continue efforts to improve regional and systems coordination to prevent and end homelessness in their communities.Â
Eligible Applicants
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Each jurisdiction’s final program allocation award amount for the first 3 rounds were based on their 2019 point-in-time count numbers that were finalized and posted by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The 4th round of HHAP will bewas based on 2022 point-in-time count numbers, and the 5th round of HHAP is based on 2023 point-in-time count numbers.Â
The Sacramento Local Homeless Action Plan (LHAP) was initiated in early 2022 to 1) meet the requirement of the HHAP-3 application, but more importantly 2) to create a cross-jurisdictional unified approach to addressing homelessness across Sacramento County. This three-year plan beginning on July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 was developed in partnership with SSF, Sacramento City and County Continuum of Care, Sacramento County, City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.  The LHAP strategies and sub-strategies are based on the recent gaps analysis and needs assessment (Appendix A of the LHAP).Â
The Sacramento Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan (RCHAP) has been submitted and presents an opportunity to build on the foundation of the LHAP, adding specificity and additional partnership opportunities. The revised plan will be adopted in the spring of 2024 as the new Homelessness Action Plan. Visit the dedicated RCHAP page, linked below, to learn more.Â
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program Round 5 (HHAP-5) is a $1 billion block grant program authorized by AB 129, which was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 10, 2023. This fifth round of funding has been made available to support building regional coordination and unified response to reduce homelessness across California. The HHAP-5 application template was released on September 29, 2023 and the application was due March 27, 2024. The Sacramento region’s HHAP-5 application as submitted can be found here.Â
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 The funding allocations for HHAP-5 were based on 2023 Point-in-Time count numbers for all of the communities in the state. The Sacramento region’s allocation across Sacramento County, the City of Sacramento, and the Continuum of Care was $53.2 million.
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HHAP-5 also required the creation of a Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plan (RCHAP). For more information on our region’s Homelessness Action Plan, please see our RCHAP page.Â
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program Round 4 (HHAP-4) is a $1 billion block grant program authorized by AB 140, which was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 19, 2021. This fourth round of funding was made available to support building regional coordination and unified response to reduce homelessness across California. The HHAP-4 application template was released on September 30, 2022 and the application was due November 30, 2022.
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The funding allocations for HHAP-4 was based on 2022 Point-in-Time count numbers. The Sacramento region wa expected to receive at least, if not more that the HHAP-3 allocation. Applications were based on percentages of funding for eligible use categories.
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For more information, please see the overview presentation give at the Sacramento CoC Board meeting on October 12, 2022.
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program Round 3 (HHAP-3) is a $1 billion block grant program authorized by AB 140, which was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 19, 2021. This third round of funding was made available to support building regional coordination and unified response to reduce homelessness across California. The HHAP-3 Notice of Funding Availability was released on December 17, 2021, and the application was due June 30, 2022.Â
The Sacramento region HHAP-3 allocation:
In addition, as part of the HHAP-3 application requirements, Cal ICH has provided an application template table (Attachment 2) required to be agendized at the local governing board meetings and available for public comment as stated in Health and Safety Code Section 50220.7(b)(2). These tables were agendized at the CoC Board’s June 8, 2022 meeting and an opportunity for public comment was provided during the meeting.
Building upon the direction provided with HHAP-1 and HHAP-2 funding allocations, recent CoC Board discussions, recommendation of the Youth Homelessness Taskforce, and the gaps analysis and Sacramento Local Homeless Action Plan, the CoC Board approved the staff recommendation for HHAP-3 funding on June 8, 2022.
The submitted application and HHAP-3 data tables were submitted on June 30, 2022 and are currently being reviewed by the State. See the links below:
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Round 2 (HHAP-2) grant funding in the amount of $300 million was authorized by AB 83 (Committee on Budget, Chapter 15, Statutes of 2020) and was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on June 29, 2020. This second round of HHAP builds on the regional coordination created through previous funding and is intended to support local jurisdictions in their unified regional response to reduce and end homelessness.
The Sacramento region received the following HHAP-2 allocation:
Building upon the direction provided with HHAP-1 funding allocations, CoC Board discussions and addressing immediate needs in the community, the CoC Board approved the HHAP-2 funding allocations at their January 13, 2021 meeting.
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program round 1 (HHAP-1) was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on July 31, 2019. Authorized by Assembly Bill 101 (Chapter 159, Statutes of 2019), HHAP-1 is designed to provide jurisdictions with one-time grant funding to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges.
The Sacramento region received the following HHAP-1 allocation:
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The Sacramento Continuum of Care, in partnership with the City and County undertook a community input process to determine the funding and prioritization of activities with HHAP funding. The HHAP application was due to the state February 15, 2020.
Community Meeting #1 was held in conjunction with a regular CoC Board meeting on December 11, 2019. Please click the link for the PowerPoint Presentation from the meeting.Â
State Funding for Homelessness in Sacramento Presentation – December 11, 2019
Prior to the December 11, 2019 community meeting, an online survey was sent out to stakeholders to gather initial thoughts and comments. In addition to the information presented in the PowerPoint, the following are all the survey comments received.
Survey Comments received prior to December 11, 2019
During the meeting, small groups had discussions around the areas of need in the homeless response system. The following are the comments and discussion points.
Community Meeting Discussion Groups Notes from December 11, 2019
Community Meeting #2Â was help on January 29, 2020 to further discuss and gather input from the community on funding priorities. Please click the link for the PowerPoint Presentation from the meeting.
State Funding for Homelessness in Sacramento Presentation – January 29, 2020
After the presentation, there were three smaller facilitated groups around Landlord Engagement, Prevention, and Access and Diversion. Please click the following link for the notes from the group discussion.
HHAP Community Meeting 2 Group Notes – January 29, 2020
The CoC Board reviewed and approved a funding recommendation for HHAP-1 funds on February 12, 2020 and the application was submitted prior to the application due date.
For more information please contact Sarah Fletcher
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