The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) held its first regional public meeting on the No Place Like Home (NPLH) program this week in Sacramento. HCD staff provided a detailed overview of the Draft NPLH framing document, which sets the stage for how HCD envisions the structure, goals, outcome measures, and performance metrics of the program. RCRC worked closely with our local government partners and HCD staff over the last several months leading up to the release of the Draft NPLH framing document, and would like to recognize them for considering our comments in advance of its release.
While there are still outstanding technical issues that need to be carefully considered, and certain aspects of the program that we would like to see further refined, including definitions around various types of homeless populations and application rating factors, it is HCD’s intent to have the final NPLH Program guidelines completed this summer.
RCRC will continue collaborative efforts to further address county issues throughout development of the NPLH Program Guidelines, and will engage our rural county stakeholders to provide technical guidance on key provisions moving forward. The Draft NPLH framing paper and list of regional public workshops, including the upcoming January 11th meeting scheduled in Redding and statewide webinar on January 26th can be accessed here.