CA AB 1413

Title: Homelessness prevention programs: Department of Housing and Community Development: funding.
Author: Luz Maria Rivas

Summary
AB 1413, as amended, Ting. Homelessness prevention programs: Department of Housing and Community Development: funding. Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, renamed the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and specifies the duties of the coordinating council to include creating partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, and specified federal agencies and private entities, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness.Existing law establishes, among various other programs intended to address homelessness in this state, the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges 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. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness.Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program to assist cities, counties, and continuums of care in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments, to provide encampment resolution grants to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing, and to encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach to address encampment concerns. Existing law requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to administer the program in accordance with a specified timeline.Existing law establishes the Family Homelessness Challenge Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions for the purpose of addressing and ending family homelessness. Existing law requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to administer the program.This bill, commencing November 1, 2023, would transfer the duty to administer the 3 above-described programs to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would provide that the department is the successor to, and is vested with, all of the duties, powers, and responsibilities of the council with regard to the programs. The bill would provide that program awards or approvals issued by the council and in effect on October 31, 2023, will be deemed on and after November 1, 2023, to be an award or approval of the department. The bill would further provide that whenever any reference to the council appears in any regulation or contract with respect to any of the programs, it instead means the department.Existing law, in order to receive a round 3 or round 4 allocation from the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, requires an applicant to submit an application to the council that includes outcome goals that set definitive metrics for, among other things, reducing the number of persons experiencing homelessness and reducing the number of persons who become homeless for the first time. Existing law requires 18%, or $180,000,000, of the funds allocated for rounds 3 and 4 of the program to be set aside for awarding bonus funds to recipients that have met their outcome goals.This bill would require the bonus funds described above that have not been awarded by November 1, 2023, to be made available for round 5 of the program. By reallocating round 3 and round 4 funding to the 5th program round, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would delay the operative date of these provisions until November 1, 2023.This bill, for future rounds of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, Encampment Resolutio

Status
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1413 - 04/18/23 - Amended Assembly
04/18/23 - CA AB 1413 (04/18/23 - Amended Assembly)