The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD released the Prohousing Incentive Pilot Program (PIP) Final Guidelines, Notice of Funding Availability, and application. This new grant program seeks to reward local governments working to meet California’s housing goals by providing incentives to cities and counties in the form of additional points and/or other preference in the scoring of competitive housing, community development and infrastructure funding programs administered by HCD.
The cities currently eligible for the PIP Program are Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Fontana, Oakland, Roseville, San Diego and West Sacramento. Applications for the PIP Program are due by March 15, 2023. Jurisdictions that have not received a designation but are interested in becoming Prohousing and applying for PIP can submit both applications.
