New streamlined application process grants $800 million for housing in 58 communities

By RIA ROEBUCK JOSEPH THE CENTER

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(The Center Square) - Across the state of California, 58 communities were awarded more than $825.5 million to build multifamily and infill developments amounting to roughly 9,550 homes in a new funding development process that combines multiple applications into a single award.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week the first funding awards with approximately $125 million distributed for infill development and $700 million allotted for multifamily housing development in a scheme called the Multifamily Finance Super Notice of Funding Availability (Super NOFA).

The largest awardee was Tenderloin Neighborhood Development at $36,363,022 for their 2550 Irving project in San Francisco. The project is expected to create 90 units of housing in the Northern California city with 89 units dedicated to multifamily development. The smallest award to Northern California went to

Satellite Affordable Housing Associates at $1,672,488 to build 811 San Pablo with 33 infill affordable housing units.

In Southern California, Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation received $30,599.069, the largest award of the region to build 117 units with 87 Super NOFA designations at their Cuatro City Heights project in San Diego. Southern California’s smallest award went to Los Angeles Abode Communities in the amount of $1,500,000 for their community

Western, with 80 units of affordable infill housing. The awardee list also included a number of awards for rural community developments.

The Super NOFA Funding, administered by California Department of Housing and Community Development, combines four housing programs: Multifamily Housing; Infill Infrastructure Grant; Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention; and Joe Serna Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant - into

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