The City’s draft application for the Prohousing Designation is now available for a 30-day public review period, which will end on November 16, 2026. View the draft application here. Please submit any comments through this form and direct any questions to this email address.

The City is seeking public input on its application for the Prohousing Designation Program, which could help secure more funding for affordable housing in the City. The application requires the City to consider and submit all comments to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

The HCD Prohousing Designation Program offers recognition of a jurisdiction’s policies that support the state’s housing goals. The designation allows jurisdictions to apply for certain grant funds to increase the availability of housing and to end homelessness, and to receive priority processing or additional points for other grants, such as programs for sustainability, infrastructure, and transportation.

The City of Los Angeles received the Prohousing Designation in 2023. Maintaining the designation will continue to provide projects located in the City with a competitive advantage when seeking funding through State funding sources including the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program, Infill Infrastructure Grant (IIG) Program, Transformative Climate Communities Program, Local Partnership Program, Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Program, and Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program. Since receiving its designation, projects located in the City of Los Angeles have been awarded approximately $556.6 million through the AHSC and $35.8 million through IIG.

The application package includes a resolution, a completion schedule for any proposed policies included in the application, the project proposal scoring sheet, and supporting documentation. The most significant portion of the application is the scoring sheet, which evaluates policies across 4 categories: