California Code of Regulations
Title 25 - Housing and Community Development
Division 1 - Housing and Community Development
Chapter 7 - Department of Housing and Community Development Programs
Subchapter 9 - Calhome Program Requirements
Article 9 - Application Procedures
Section 7751 - Selection Criteria

(1) The application contains substantially all of the information required by Section 7750 and contains sufficient information to allow the Department to apply the rating factors set forth in subsection (b) of this Section.

(2) the applicant is eligible;

(3) the applicant proposes an eligible activity;

(4) the applicant proposes an eligible use of the funds;

(5) the applicant does not have any unresolved audit findings for prior Department or federally-funded housing or community development projects or programs;

(6) the applicant has no pending lawsuits that would impact implementation of the program or project for which funding is being requested;

(7) if the application is for a development project, construction on the project has not yet begun; and

(8) the proposed program or project is consistent with any special terms and conditions of the NOFA (e.g., maximum amounts for downpayment assistance, sales price, development loan).

(1) Capability to operate the local proposed program, administer and conduct the self-help technical assistance project, or develop the type of homeownership project proposed in the application as follows (up to 400 points):

(2) Community need in a geographic area of the proposed local program or project will be based on one or more of the following factors: poverty level and overpayment for housing by low-income households, age of housing stock in the jurisdiction, numbers and percentages of substandard housing units, overcrowding of housing by tenure (including rental and ownership housing) in the jurisdiction, and percentages of households that are below poverty level and who are overcrowded and living in substandard housing by tenure, as reflected in U.S. Census data; and the ratio between the median home sales price and the median household income in the jurisdiction. The specific community need factors that will apply to each activity will be identified in the NOFA. (up to 150 points)

(3) Feasibility of the proposed activity as demonstrated by either of the following (up to 250 points):

(4) Contributes to community revitalization as defined in Section 7716(g) or meets a legislatively mandated priority for funds allocated to the CalHome Program. (up to 100 points)

(5) Volunteer Labor, Self-Help Labor or Youth Construction Skills Training Program (up to 100 points)

Applications applying for homeownership development projects, self-help technical assistance homeownership projects, or a mortgage assistance local program for new construction housing or acquisition with rehabilitation when the recipient is acquiring and rehabilitating properties for sale to first-time homebuyers, will receive up to 100 points to the extent that they are utilizing: