Tiny Home Videos

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Hope you enjoy learning about the field of tiny home developments.  With the help of Albert Bruin, we're assembling links to videos on the web of tiny homes and communities of them.  If you come across others, please email us at:  gfearon@gmail.com.  Check back every week, the list will get longer.

Communities

Jenna presents Tiny Tranquility

Community First Village, Austin, Texas

Community First, 2020

Opportunity House, Eugene Oregon

Tiny Homes

Kirsten Dirksen presents We the Tiny House People

Kirsten Dirksen presents Brad "Darby" Kittel

Kirsten Dirksen presents Austin Hay

Kirsten Dirksen presents Morten Bo Jenson

Kirsten Dirksen presents the Park Delta Bay

Kirsten Dirksen presents Clara Bensen

Kirsten Dirksen presents Lulu

Kirsten Dirksen presents Felice Cohen

Kirsten Dirksen presents Greg Parham

Kirsten Dirksen presents Kam Kasravi and Connie Dewitt

Kirsten Dirksen presents Laura Alvarez

Kirsten Dirksen presents Marlena and Eugene

California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC) Meeting, Dec 18, 2020

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Attached is a link to agenda materials, and to the video of the Dec 18, 2020 meeting of the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC).  Added to the agenda at the beginning is a 45-minute conversation between the Governor and the Council covering accomplishments for 2020, plans for 2021, and high priority homeless issues. 

I would invite the reader to begin with the meeting presentation document, then department updates, and end with the two Action Plan documents.

Cancer Park, Santa Rosa, Whack-a-Mole Revisited

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This morning, Santa Rosa once again evicted a homeless tent camp in a public park.  Here are some photos of the beginning of the eviction.

Gregory

Homeless Safe Parking Housing

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Here are some articles on safe parking in California:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/24/rv-parking-lot-offers-safety-and-xmas-cheer-victims-housing-crisis/2729845001/

https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=605-2020-safe-parking-program-rfp

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-may-let-25-RVs-park-in-lots-but-in-15011578.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix&sid=5becccde67808943a245b22d

Homeless Housing News Via HEAPA

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I have asked recipients of California's local government entities administering state and federal funding for homeless housing to put me on their mailing lists.  This post contains the information I have found from those emails that seems important for homeless activists to know.

Catholic Charities program strives to ease chronic homelessness Crux: Covering all things Catholic BALTIMORE - An experimental program to address chronic homelessness is ... homeless people are among the primary users of hospital emergency room ... to ensure that Catholic values underlie its relief and development work. Albany city leaders take new measures to tackle homelessness WFXL FOX 31 "A couple of the programs that the city administers are our tenant-based rental assistance program, and our emergency solutions grant program. Winter preview warns Butler County residents to prepare for extreme temperatures Hamilton Journal News There are numerous programs and agencies in Butler County to serve those ... 1 to March 31, 2020, provides emergency utility assistance to low-income ... For those seeking temporary shelter, Butler County has homeless facilities in ... City Reveals Proposal for New Homeless First Response Pilot Program The Portland Mercury (blog) The details of a new emergency response system meant to reduce Portland officers' time spent following up on low-level 911 calls have begun to ... Gary Horton | The Courage to Intervene in Homelessness Santa Clarita Valley Signal And it turns out that we do already have a variety of partial-fix programs to aid homeless vets. Section-8 assistance, emergency assistance, short-term ... San Jose homeless shelters get $1M boost from Google's big housing promise San José Spotlight Santa Clara County's Board of Supervisors last week allocated $939,982 in State Homeless Emergency Assistance Program — known as HEAP ... Responding To Council Request, City Staff Prepares To Implement "HomelessEmployment Pilot ... LBReport.com ... that the funds will come from CA taxpayers through the City's use of one-time Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) funds from Sacramento. Burbank officials review progress of homelessness plan Los Angeles Times Those who are sheltered either live in an emergency shelter or transitional housing, Gonzalez said. The city's homelessness plan takes a ... Stockton City Council Plans To Spend Half Of $3M Surplus On Addressing Homelessness CBS Sacramento This week, the Stockton City Council approved spending $200,000 in emergency funds to accommodate about 100 additional people at two separate ... Apple pledges $2.5 billion for affordable housing in the Bay Area Mic To help address this crisis, Apple announced a $2.5 billion plan meant to .... short-term emergency assistance than to see them become homeless.". Help the homeless or criminalize them? Las Vegas debates a public sleeping ban KVOA Tucson News However, they have also built an emergency homeless camp with nearly 300 ... Foscarinis pointed to inclusionary housing programs, in which local ... for everyone that needs them,” Paulsen said of housing assistance programs. A Push for a Warming Shelter in Bend The Source Weekly Livingston told attendees that funds may be available for next year at the city level ... Fire Chief Medina agreed that homelessness is a national crisis. 'Rapid rehousing' for homeless in Riverside County can take from 3 to 118 days, depending on ... The Desert Sun The program many officials are touting as the most successful is "rapid ... a six-month placement in a private apartment, paid for with federal funds that are ... rehousing" models because it is coupled with "crisisstabilization housing," ... LA's homeless crisis is beyond a state of emergency Daily Trojan Online Gavin Newsom to declare the L.A. homelessness crisis a state of ... more, declaring a state of emergencydoes not allow for tapping into federal funds. The Private Sector Has a Key Role to Play in Carrying Out the Homelessness Plan Voice of San Diego Adopting an action plan to tackle homelessness was the easy part. ... the homeless crisis through the costs of first responders, emergency room visits ... Rare, brief and non-recurring: What works in addressing homelessness Chippewa Herald Below is a list of responses in an effort to make homelessness rare, brief and ... The state provides funding through nearly 80 programs for emergency ... Key factors driving homelessness The Courier Life News Madison commits more than $10 million in local tax funds to community ... What advocates want: A 24-hour, low-barrier, service-rich emergency ... Board tables controversial housing projects for homeless and mentally ill Calaveras Enterprise For instance, the $302,412 Homeless Emergency Aid Program grant for the emergency shelter project could instead be used for social services like ...

No Place Like Home Developments

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On July 1, 2016, Governor Brown signed landmark legislation enacting the No Place Like Home (NPLH) program to dedicate $2 billion in bond proceeds to invest in the development of permanent supportive housing for persons who are in need of mental health services and are experiencing homelessness, chronic homelessness, or who are at risk of chronic homelessness. The bonds are repaid through funding from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA).


One of the largest single sources of California funding for homeless housing is far enough into being awarded to the development community in California to begin to research what is being planned.  Its origins in mental health funding for homeless services led to designing the notice of grant funding intention to build housing for homeless coupled with mental health support services.

So far, the $2 Billion placed under the No Place Like Home Program has been awarded as follows:

Funds Available

Round One Awards:

Noncompetitive Allocation ($190 million)

Competitive funds:  A NOFA was released on September 27, 2019 by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (CA – HCD) for approximately $ 178 million in Round 2 No Place Like Home (NPLH) competitive funds, which will include approximately $ 80.9 million in competitive funding for large counties, including Riverside County.  Applications for funding from Riverside County compete with applications from 10 other large counties. 

Non-competitive funds:  An amended NOFA was released on October 30, 2018 by CA – HCD for approximately $ 190 million in non-competitive NPLH funds.  These funds may be used to acquire, design, construct, rehabilitate, or preserve Permanent Supportive Housing, which may include a Capitalized Operating Subsidy Reserve.  Please refer to NPLH Program Guidelinesat http://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/active-funding/nplh.shtml for more complete information about the NPLH program and funding availability. 

This is a one-time allocation of funds.  Non-competitive funds are allocated to counties by CA – HCD using information about population and Point-in-Time counts. Distributed by formula allocation to each county based on their 2017 homeless Point-In-Time Count with a minimum allocation per county of $500,000.

NPLH March 2019 Alternative Process County Award List 

NPLH June 2019 Alternative Process County Award List 


Round Two Awards:

Second Round Funding: Competitive allocation (up to $1.8 billion for multiple funding rounds).  Anticipated minimum of $622 million.

Counties will compete for funding with counties of similar size:

• Los Angeles County*
• Large counties (population greater than 750,000)* 
• Medium counties (population between 200,000 to 750,000) 
• Small counties (population less than 200,000) 

*Counties with five percent or more of the state's homeless population may be designated by HCD to receive and administer their own allocations of NPLH funds under their own HCD-approved method of distribution.

NPLH 2018 NOFA - List of Awarded Projects 

Round Three Awards: ?

June 30th, 2018

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7/23 - Downtown San Jose welcomes first 100% homeless housing project

7/19 - Denver Invests Another $2.4 Million in the Housing First Model

7/19 - The cities making a dent in homelessness — and what Seattle can learn from them

7/18 - City mistakenly overstates number of homeless getting permanent housing

7/18 - First Local Landlord Rents Apartment to Malibu Homeless Man with Housing Voucher

7/18 - Council car parks 'should be used' for modular housing for rough sleepers

7/18 - Fort Worth’s Public Housing Authority is Overhauling Itself

7/18 - First apartment building funded by Massachusetts’ workforce housing subsidy program opens

7/17 - Tiny-home villages are a key part of Seattle’s homeless strategy. So why did one village lack case management for three months?

7/14 - Adirondack Vets House plans to offer permanent housing

7/13 - Homeless Trust Cuts Money to Put Families in Hotels, Will Move Them to Shelters Instead

7/13 - Housing Opportunity Fund Board Members Meet For The First Time, They’re Already Under A Time Crunch

7/13 - With homelessness up, Worcester task force to propose $6 million plan

7/12 - Letter to the editor: City using wrong approach, wrong housing for assisting homeless

7/11 - Henry Cisneros gives tour of inequality crisis and hope for affordable housing

7/11 - Ian Campbell: As mayor of Vancouver, I would triple the empty-homes tax and speed up permits for new housing

7/6 - The  Overselling  of  Rapid Re-housing  by  Sharon Lee

7/6 -   A New Approach to Homelessness: Housing First

7/6 -   More permanent supportive housing needed locally

7/6 -   The world's first family to live in 3-D printed home

7/6 -   South Dakota's first "passive" apartments will also be affordable

7/6 -   Australian First: NSW government to donate land in Redfern for build-to-rent program

7/5 -   London to get First LGBT+ Homeless Shelter

7/4 -   Greenville Housing Fund set to approve first round of funding for affordable housing projects.

7/3 -   Missing Middle is not affordable housing.

7/1 -   HACAP's end of transitional housing leads to concerns.

6/30 - Humboldt County homeless, officials vet progress on housing shortage, service needs.

6/29 - Lawsuit filed over tiny-house homeless village in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.

6/29 - If you hear someone talking 'Comp Plan' in your favorite Capitol Hill cafe, it's probably Housing Now shaping plan to take on Seattle's restrictive zoning.

6/29 - County Partnership in Addressing Homelessness Wins National Award.

6/28 - Can Tuff Sheds help Oakland ease the Housing Crisis?

6/28 - Maple Ridge wants new way to help the homeless.

6/27 - First arrivals at Social Bite's homeless village will move in this weekend.

6/26 - Homelessness can and should be fixed, says our Fourth #European Hero

6/26 - New data shows Housing First program helping Juneau's homeless.

6/26 - Brockton nonprofit builds another building for homeless veterans.

Other recommended sources of current homeless news are:
https://www.facebook.com/Homeless-Action-379217005553363/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1668986663330859/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/118644661530995/