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Planning and Building Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/planning-and-building <br />Item # 11 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />December 5, 2023 <br />TOPIC: HCD Prohousing Designation Program Application <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />A Resolution Authorizing Application to the California State Department of Housing and <br />Community Development for the Prohousing Designation Program <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Adopt a Resolution authorizing the application to the California State Department of <br />Housing and Community Development Prohousing Designation Program. <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2023-XXXX entitled A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF <br />THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AUTHORIZING THE APPLICATION TO AND <br />PARTICIPATION IN THE PROHOUSING DESIGNATION PROGRAM <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES No <br />DISCUSSION <br />In 2019, Assembly Bill (AB) 101 established the Prohousing Designation Program <br />administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development <br />(HCD). The program provides incentives to cities and other jurisdictions in the form of <br />additional points or other preference in the scoring of competitive funding applications <br />for housing, community development, and infrastructure grant programs. Jurisdictions <br />that receive a Prohousing Designation will have a competitive advantage in grant <br />funding for the acceleration of housing production. The program is designed to further <br />assist jurisdictions that are compliant with their General Plan Housing Elements and <br />have enacted or are in the process of enacting policies that promote housing. <br />Cities with a designation are eligible to apply for a new Prohousing Incentive Program <br />first released in a Notice of Funding Availability in December 2022. This first round of <br />funding awarded jurisdictions over $33 million in grants from the Building Homes and <br />Jobs Trust Fund to accelerate affordable housing production and preservation. This <br />program is expected to have additional rounds of funding available as the participation <br />in the Prohousing Designation Program increases. The Prohousing Designation and the <br />Prohousing Incentive Program provide additional opportunities for funding of projects <br />that include development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable <br />housing.