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Riverbank council amends PLHA plan, directs $1.5 million notice-of-funding availability for supportive housing
Summary
The Riverbank City Council on a 5-0 vote amended its PLHA spending plan to direct a larger share to Sierra House and voted to issue a notice of funding availability for $1.5 million in state-designated funds to support a permanent or transitional supportive housing project.
The Riverbank City Council voted unanimously to amend the city’s Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) plan and to open a competitive funding process for $1.5 million in state-allocated interim funds for supportive housing.
The council’s two actions on the topic were: (1) adopting an amendment to the PLHA plan allocating a greater share of remaining PLHA dollars to operations and services at Sierra House, the city’s newly purchased transitional housing facility; and (2) directing staff to issue a notice of funding availability (NOFA) inviting affordable-housing developers to propose use of $1.5 million in program funds that had been set aside earlier by the council for transitional or permanent supportive housing.
City staff told the council the PLHA program originates from SB 2, a state housing law that created a permanent funding source for local affordable-housing activities. Staff said the city has been formally awarded the first three years of PLHA funding and has used earlier allocations to help underwrite eight tiny…
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