Public Hearing (In-Person, Virtual)

FULL NOTICE (Available in Filipino, Cantonese, and Spanish):
Notice of March 5, 2024 Public Hearing and Availability of the Draft 2024-25 Action Plan and HOME-ARP Plan for Public Review and Comment 

The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) invite you to join us for a public hearing. We would like your input on the Draft 2024-2025 Action Plan and the Draft Substantial Amendment to the 2021-2022 Action Plan, both of which include funding recommendations for fiscal year 2024-2025. This public hearing is part of the annual process to receive community input on funding recommendations and in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan for federal funding. Please note that the Draft 2024-2025 Action Plan will only include funding recommendations with federal funding sources and will not include funding recommendations with General Fund, Housing Trust Fund and other local funding sources.

You may attend this public hearing online or in-person. Four hybrid meetings, one in English, one in Filipino, one in Cantonese, and one in Spanish, will be held simultaneously. To attend virtually, please register below for the meeting that meets your needs.

Virtual (Zoom) Registration Links

• English meeting: Link to register
• Filipino meeting (Link upang magparehistro para sa online na pulong): Link to register
• Cantonese meeting (在線會議註冊鏈接 粵語會議): Link to register
• Spanish meeting (Reunión virtual en español): Link to register

PLEASE NOTE: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom containing information about joining the online meeting. The in-person meetings will take place at the MOHCD office located at 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 5th Floor in San Francisco. Please register for in-person attendance by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 4, 2024, by emailing Gloria Woo at gloria.woo@sfgov.org.

The 2024-2025 Action Plan will be the fifth and final year of program implementation under the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan. It outlines community development and affordable housing strategies and priorities that will be supported with the following four federal funding sources administered by MOHCD, OEWD, and HSH during the program year that starts on July 1, 2024 and ends on June 30, 2025: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), Home Investment Partnership (HOME), and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA).

The estimated amount of funding the City and County of San Francisco will receive from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 2024-2025 is as follows: CDBG - $18,000,000; ESG - $1,500,000; and HOME - $5,000,000. The City and County of San Francisco will receive an estimated $7,000,000 in HOPWA funding for San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Please note that at the time of this notice, the 2024-2025 funding amounts for the four federal programs have not yet been issued by HUD.

The purpose of the Substantial Amendment to the 2021-2022 Action Plan is to incorporate the Allocation Plan for the Home Investment Partnership-American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) program. Funds were appropriated under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for the HOME program to provide homelessness assistance and supportive services. The City and County of San Francisco will receive $18,707,742 under the HOME-ARP program from HUD. CDBG, ESG, HOME, HOME-ARP and HOPWA funds will be used to support the following five objectives, which are described in San Francisco’s 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan:

• Families and individuals are stably housed;
• Families and individuals are resilient and economically self-sufficient;
• Communities have healthy physical, social, and business infrastructure;
• Communities at risk of displacement are stabilized; and,
• City works to eliminate the causes of racial disparities.

The Draft 2024-2025 Action Plan and the Draft Substantial Amendment to the 2021-2022 Action Plan will be available for public review and comment from February 29, 2024 to March 29, 2024. The draft documents will be available electronically on the MOHCD website at https://sfmohcd.org, OEWD website at https://oewd.org, and HSH website at http://hsh.sfgov.org on the dates listed above.

Members of the public who wish to provide feedback on the draft documents, which include funding recommendations, may do so at the March 5th public hearing or by submitting written comments to gloria.woo@sfgov.org. The deadline for receiving written comments on the draft documents and the preliminary funding recommendations is March 29, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. If you have questions, please email Gloria Woo at gloria.woo@sfgov.org.