The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) published the final Program Year 2021 Housing Development Gap Financing (HDGF) Guidelines. The HDGF program will award Ohio Housing Trust Funds and National Housing Trust Funds to affordable housing developments consisting of four to 24 units. OHFA will begin accepting Intents to Apply from applicants on May 3, 2021.
OHFA also released the draft Program Year 2021 Bond Gap Financing (BGF) Guidelines. Comments must be sent to QAP@ohiohome.org by Friday, March 19. The BGF program will award HOME funds, Ohio Housing Trust Funds, and National Housing Trust Funds to affordable housing developments that are also utilizing four percent LIHTCs. The amount of funding available for PY21 is still to be determined as funding amounts from HUD and the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA) have not yet been released.
ODSA will hold a public hearing on the Draft PY 2021 Ohio Consolidated Plan Annual Action Plan and PY 2021 National Housing Trust Fund Allocation Plan on March 11, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. ET.
The public hearing can be accessed via the following:
WebEx OR Phone: 1-408-418-9388, access code: 179 433 5092.
Interested parties can submit written testimony beginning March 1, 2020 until March 31, 2021, via email to ocd@development.ohio.gov. Interested parties can also provide oral testimony during the public hearing. Questions regarding the plans or comment process should be emailed to Ian Thomas at Ian.Thomas@development.ohio.gov.
