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• Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program: This program provides funding for cities, counties, and states to engage homeless individuals and families living on the street; improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless individuals and families; help operate these shelters; provide essential services to shelter residents; rapidly rehouse homeless individuals and families; and prevent families/individuals from becoming homeless. • HOME Program: Participating jurisdictions may use HOME funds for a variety of housing activities, according to local housing needs. Eligible uses of funds include tenant -based rental assistance; housing rehabilitation; assistance to homebuyers; and new construction of rental housing. HOME funding may also be used for site acquisition, site improvements, demolition, relocation, and other necessary and reasonable activities related to the development of non -luxury housing. Funds may not be used for public housing development, public housing operating costs, or for Section 8 tenant -based assistance, nor may they be used to provide non-federal matching contributions for other federal programs, for operating subsidies for rental housing, or for activities under the Low -Income Housing Preservation Act. Pleasanton is a member of the Alameda County HOME Consortium that consists of the County of Alameda as the lead agency for the Urban County consisting of Albany, Dublin, Emeryville, Newark, Piedmont, and the Unincorporated County, and the cities of Alameda, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Pleasanton, San Leandro, and Union City. • Low -Income Housing Preservation and Residential Home Ownership Act (LIHPRHA): This program requires all eligible HUD Section 236 and Section 221(d) projects at risk of conversion to market -rate rentals from mortgage pre -payments be subject to LIHPRHA incentives, which include subsidies to guarantee an eight percent annual return on equity. • Low-income Housing Tax Credit: Administered through the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC), the Low -Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) subsidizes the acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of affordable housing by providing a tax credit to construct or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for low-income households. • Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program: Allows CDBG entitlement jurisdictions to leverage their annual grant allocations to access low-cost financing for capital improvement projects. Eligible activities include housing, economic development, public facility, and infrastructure. This program is often used to catalyze private investment in underserved communities or as gap financing. • Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program: Provides an interest-free capital advance to cover the costs of construction, rehabilitation, or acquisition of very low- income senior housing. The program is available to private, nonprofit sponsors; public sponsors are not eligible for the program. • Section 811 Project Rental Assistance: HUD offers long-term project -based rental assistance through a NOFA published by the California Housing Finance Agency (CaIHFA). Housing Resources City of Pleasanton I G-7