Tribal Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (Tribal HHAP)

Funding Flexibility

Tribal communities hold the expertise to design and implement culturally responsive solutions that meet the needs of their communities. Health and Safety Code section 50220.8, subdivision (e) provides for nine broad categories where Tribal communities can choose a variety of interventions. Examples of these nine broad categories are provided below.

Examples include:

• Rapid Rehousing:  Case management, services, and financial support to help individuals and families find and retain permanent housing.
• Landlord Incentives:  Financial incentives to encourage landlords to allow a home to be rented. 
• Permanent Housing & Innovative Housing Solutions: The development of new permanent housing solutions, including motel and hotel conversion into housing.  
• Operating subsidies:  Subsidizing new and existing affordable or supportive housing units, emergency shelters, and navigation centers.  Operating subsidies may include operating reserves.  
• Strengthening Crisis Response Systems: Emergency shelters, street outreach, and other crisis services. Meeting needs like shelter, clothing, and personal hygiene, while also helping individuals and families resolve crisis and swiftly secure permanent housing opportunities that will end their homelessness.
• Services Coordination:  Improving access to workforce, education, and training programs, or other services needed to promote housing stability in supportive housing.  
• Systems Support: For activities necessary to create regional partnerships and maintain a homeless services and housing delivery systems, particularly for vulnerable populations, including homeless youth.  
• Strengthening Partnerships: Strengthen partnerships between behavioral health/health, child welfare, juvenile justice, criminal justice, homelessness service systems, and tribal systems; strengthen transition, discharge planning and case management for individuals in these systems.  Reduce barriers to housing, employment, and services. 
• Prevention & Shelter Diversion:  Services and activities that connect individuals and families to permanent housing and help them to be successful. 
• Shelter Improvements:  To lower barriers and increase privacy.  
• Interim Sheltering: Newly developed clinically enhanced congregate shelters, new or existing noncongregate shelters, and operations of existing navigations centers and shelters, with some limitations and additional requirements for approval. 

For Eligible Uses of Funding, see https://bcsh.ca.gov/calich/documents/tribal_hhap2_nofa.pdf#page=5

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