Affordable housing: grant programs: progress payments.

Existing law establishes various housing programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, including, among others, the CalHome Program to enable low- and very low income households to become or remain homeowners and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program the purpose of addressing the crisis of homelessness in California. This bill would require the department to establish and administer a progress payment option for grants distributed pursuant to any program administered by the department that relates to the development of affordable housing, including, among other, the CalHome Program and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program described above. The bill would authorize a grant award recipient of a program subject to these provisions to, upon request, receive the award pursuant to that progress payment option. The bill would require the department to require a grant award recipient that elects to use the progress payment option to submit a claim for reimbursable work or progress at least once every 6 months and would prohibit the department from disbursing any portion of a grant award until the department verifies that the claim seeks reimbursement for eligible costs under the applicable program.