Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention RFP Announcement

Yolo Continuum of Care (CoC) Provider Community

The Yolo County Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition (HPAC) is pleased to announce the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program, Round 5 (HHAP 5). HHAP 5 is a $1 billion block grant program issued by the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC). The exact amount of funds allocated to HPAC will be determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

Round 5 is designed to build on regional coordination developed through previous rounds of HCFC Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP), and HHAP funding. Round 5 funds should be used to continue to build a unified regional response to reduce and end homelessness informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing.

To successfully reduce homelessness through this funding, HCFC also expects applicants to:

• Strategically pair these funds with other local, state, and federal funds to reduce and end homelessness as laid out in the Putting the Funding Pieces Together: Guide to Strategic Uses of New and Recent State and Federal Funds to Prevent and End Homelessness.
• Demonstrate a commitment to address racial disproportionality in homeless populations and achieve equitable provision of services and outcomes for Black, Native, and Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islanders and other People of Color who are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and COVID-19.
• Establish a mechanism for people with lived experience of homelessness to have meaningful and purposeful opportunities to inform and shape all levels of planning and implementation, including through opportunities to hire people with lived experience.
• Fund projects that provide housing and services that are Housing First compliant, per Health and Safety Code Section 50220.5(g), and delivered in a low barrier, trauma informed, and culturally responsive manner. Individuals and families assisted with these funds must not be required to receive treatment or perform any other prerequisite activities as a condition for receiving shelter, housing, or other services for which these funds are used. Housing First should be adopted within the entire local homelessness response system, including outreach and emergency shelter, short-term interventions like rapid re-housing, and longer-term interventions like supportive housing.

HCFC strongly encourages applicants to prioritize the use of HHAP funds to assist people experiencing literal homelessness move into safe, stable housing. HHAP funding should be housing-focused -- either funding permanent housing interventions directly or, if used for shelter or street outreach, have clear pathways to connect people to permanent housing options.

HPAC’s spending plan submitted to HCFC encourages aid to Yolo Counties Emergency Housing Services System, and includes funds for the following eligible services:

• Rapid rehousing, including rental subsidies and incentives to landlords, such as security deposits and holding fees
• Operating subsidies in new and existing affordable or supportive housing units, emergency shelters, and navigation centers. Operating subsidies may include operating reserves.
• Delivery of permanent housing and innovative housing solutions, such as hotel and motel conversions Permanent Housing
• Prevention and shelter diversion to permanent housing, including rental subsidies
• Interim sheltering, limited to newly developed clinically enhanced congregate shelters, new or existing non-congregate shelters, and operations of existing navigation centers and shelters based on demonstrated need. Demonstrated need for purposes of this paragraph shall be based on the following:

1. The number of available shelter beds in the city, county, or region served by a continuum of care
2. The number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the homeless point-in-time count
3. Shelter vacancy rate in the summer and winter months
4. Percentage of exits from emergency shelters to permanent housing solutions. e. A plan to connect residents to permanent housing
5. Any new interim sheltering funded by round 3 funds must be low barrier, comply with Housing First, and prioritize interventions other than congregate shelters

• Improvements to existing emergency shelters to lower barriers and increase privacy 

Next Steps/Upcoming NOFO Events

1. Review the NOFO to determine eligibility and interest
2. Attend Non-Mandatory HHAP 5 Bidders Conference on March 11th (tbd)
3. Mandatory Notice of Intent to Apply deadline March 14th by 5 pm due to trevor@yolohpac.org
4. Applications deadline on April 4th by 5 pm due to trevor@yolohpac.org

For questions, or assistance, please email trevor@yolohpac.org

Attached to the Notification you'll find:

• HHAP 5 NOFA published by the California Homeless Coordinating and Finance Council
• HPAC HHAP 5 RFP Process and Timeline
• Resource Documents (Appendix 1, and Appendix 2)

The Consolidated Plan (Plan) is a five-year plan, required by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which serves as a comprehensive strategy to address the needs of low- and moderate-income residents in the City of Davis (City). The Plan identifies community needs and provides a strategy to address those needs using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds, as well as other resources.

The City of Davis DRAFT 2025-2030 Consolidated Plan can be found here.

Davis will conduct two public hearings to receive comments on the Consolidated Plan. The first hearing will be conducted by the Social Services Commission on Monday, March 17, 2025 at 7:00pm in Council Chambers.

The second hearing will be conducted by City Council on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 6:30pm in Council Chambers.

A required Public Comment period begins March 14, 2025 and ends April 15, 2025.  Please direct questions or comments to:  Dana Bailey, Social Services and Housing Director, at 530-757-5602 or email dbailey@cityofdavis.org. 

 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the FY 2024 and FY 2025 Continuum of Care Competition and the Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program grants, authorizing homeless services organizations to apply for more than $3.6 billion in competitive funding to provide supportive services and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness.

This 2-year CoC Program NOFO is authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 and establishes application submission deadlines for each fiscal year. 

FY 2024 Application Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024

The  NOFO revision adds $93,000,000 from an additional funding source to the list of funding sources that will be used to award CoC grants. The added funding will cover the costs of applying FY 2025 Fair Market Rents to renewal projects. There are no other changes to rating factors, policies, or eligibility for new projects. More info here.

The Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency’s (HHSA) mission is to ensure Yolo County residents are healthy, safe and economically stable. Yolo County Homeless and Poverty Action Coalition (HPAC) provides leadership on homelessness and poverty in Yolo County. HHSA and HPAC have developed the 2023-26 Yolo County Plan to Address Homelessness. The Plan describes how the county will address homelessness through 2026. As part of this process, HHSA and HPAC convened a Committee of 14 stakeholders. Over six months, the Committee came up with tangible Action Plans for the Plan’s four goals. Please see attached files.