Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Expanding inclusive communities of opportunity. Director

@California_HCD

. Former Assistant Secretary

@HUDgov

@urbaninstitute

. Views mine.

Sacramento, CAhcd.ca.govJoined September 2013

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Gustavo Velasquez’s Tweets

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

We have a goal in California to create 2.5 million new homes between now and 2030. These funds will help regions and localities meet that goal in a climate-smart way.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

· Jul 27

HCD, @Cal_OPR, @CalSGC & @AirResources are excited to release $540M in regional planning grants (REAP 2.0) from the State General Fund for regional, tribal, & rural entities to accelerate progress toward CA housing goals & climate commitments.

1/ hcd.ca.gov/regional-early

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Jul 11

🗺️ HCD just released a new map layer in our interactive Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Data Viewer that shows Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence (RCAAs). This metric better reflects California’s diversity and regional conditions. 🧵 1/ hcd.ca.gov/affirmatively-

Metropolitan Transportation Commission and 8 others

Put it simply, every eligible struggling renter that applied to the CA rent relief program

@HousingIsKey

and was engaged to complete an application WILL be paid. There is a lot of misinformation out there based on raw, incomplete, or misunderstood data on these applications.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

· Jul 1

It took a coordinated effort to reach people in need of relief. 144 community-based orgs helped 120K+ families receive rent relief w/ virtual & in-person appts in 13+ languages. This Local Partner Network is still here to help connect to resources & legal aid: 833-687-0967 twitter.com/CAgovernor/sta…

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Office of the Governor of California

@CAgovernor

Jul 1

Weapons of war don’t belong on our streets or in the hands of our children. With

@BauerKahan

@AsmMikeGipson

’s bills, CA is blocking the marketing of guns to kids & restricts ghost guns & their parts. We’re doubling down on commonsense gun safety measures that save lives.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Jun 3

📢 HCD released new features in the Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR) Dashboard! Cities & counties self-report annual progress on the prior year’s housing production & pipeline. The dashboard makes that data more accessible. hcd.ca.gov/apr-data-dashb New features🧵👇🏾

2021 CA housing development pipeline numbers showing all housing submitted, entitled, permitted, and completed. 94,936 units were completed in 2021 as self-reported by CA cities and counties.

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Liam Dillon and 9 others

Looking forward to a great dialogue with

@DavidChiu

@BuffyWicks

@DepSecTodman

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The Housing Action Coalition

@HACdotorg

· May 23

Our All Star lineup of speakers includes...

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Congrats

. Great choice at such important time!!

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End Homelessness

@naehomelessness

· May 12

The Alliance is pleased to welcome its next CEO, @annymoliva! “I am wholly committed to using the Alliance’s voice to fiercely pursue housing justice and an end to homelessness in our nation.” buff.ly/39XyIbh

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📢 Today

announced 7 new #Homekey awards, leading the program to surpass 10,000 units funded in less than 2 years. Governor Newsom also previewed his proposal to add $150M for Homekey, bringing the total Homekey funding to $3.75B. 1/2 More: bit.ly/3FGiyif

Los Angeles County and 9 others

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Office of the Governor of California

@CAgovernor

· May 10

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California is doubling down on our efforts to tackle the homelessness crisis. We’re adding more $$ to our nation-leading Homekey program that will create thousands of units - helping get people off the streets & into housing & shelter.

As ⁦

⁩ continues its review of housing elements, this is a reminder of what we know from new and old research going back to my days ⁦

@HUDgov

⁩: creating low income housing has insignificant or NO impact on property values…

bloomberg.com

What Does Affordable Housing Do to Nearby Property Values?

A new Urban Institute study examined low-income housing in Alexandria, Virginia, to look for new answers to an age-old question.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

May 2

Since the March 2021 launch of the CA COVID-19 Rent Relief program, CA has distributed over $3B in relief to 275,628 households, approx $500M more than what the state program originally had available. CA received additional funds from

@USTreasury

to further address need. (1/2)

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📢 Today

awarded 6 localities nearly $70M in #Homekey funds. These 💪🏾 local partners plan to use the funds to create 231 permanent supportive homes for Californians currently experiencing or at risk of homelessness. More on each award: bit.ly/3MyCSnY 🧵 1/3

City of Los Angeles and 9 others

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Apr 7

Learn more about the $600M Regional Early Action Planning Grants (REAP) 2.0 here: hcd.ca.gov/regional-early

There you have it...

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@fifamedia

· Apr 1

Final match schedule

for the FIFA

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2022™ published

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back on sale on 5 April via FIFA.com/tickets!

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Apr 1

We are closely watching the last few hours of applications for the Covid-19 #CARentRelief program - tremendous activity peaking at 8k new applications yesterday and 11k today. Thank you everyone that shared information to low income renters who had not yet applied. #housingiskey

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Mar 30

Homekey isn't just another California program to reduce the impacts of the homelessness crisis. It's a recipe that should be considered for replication across the country.

@naehomelessness

@California_HCD

. P.S. And it's not just hotel conversions qz.com/2147726/ via

This is common sense: keeping a home already affordable is faster and cheaper than building a new. Thank you Gov

@GavinNewsom

for working on multiple fronts and strategies: produce-preserve-protect. And the great

@California_HCD

team for delivering results.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

· Mar 29

HCD today released the $285M Portfolio Reinvestment Program to preserve existing HCD-funded housing at risk of losing affordability restrictions. Preserving subsidized affordable

is a key

piece of the comprehensive #CAHousingPlan. Apply now: hcd.ca.gov/portfolio-rein

The CA Statewide Housing Plan has 3 objectives to ensure everyone has a safe, stable, and affordable home. Objective 1 is to keep Californians in their homes. Actions to do this include preventing evictions and supporting renters facing eviction, supporting homeowners facing foreclosure, preserving subsidized affordable homes, and preserving non-subsidized affordable homes and keeping existing tenants in their housing.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Mar 25

📢Today, HCD is rolling out a new resource to support cities & counties to implement #SB9. SB9 is an important tool for creating more homes throughout the state & a key strategy to solving CA’s housing crisis🏠🔑 Check out the fact sheet here: bit.ly/36OGiDl 1/4🧵

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Mar 24

The #CAHousingPlan calls for producing more affordable, climate-smart 🏘️ and reducing 🚗 travel. 💰 HCD w/

@Cal_OPR

@AirResources

@CalSGC

are granting $600M in regional planning to help achieve this goal. 📅 Draft guidelines for feedback by 4/15 out now: hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Mar 15

So far in San Mateo county five #homekey projects and nearly $120million to provide hundreds of interim & permanent homes for persons experiencing homelessness - It works!

@naehomelessness

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl via

@sfchronicle

sfchronicle.com

One Bay Area county says it could end homelessness this year. Can its approach spread?

Officials say San Mateo is on track to be first county in Bay Area to virtually end...

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Mar 11

Keeping ⬆️ momentum on building more affordable homes, HCD today announced $220M in awards of voter-approved funds in the Multifamily Housing Program for 1300 units in 12 counties. 60% of these will serve people experiencing/at risk of homelessness. More: bit.ly/3tRG5aF

Abode Communities and 9 others

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Mar 9

More evidence continue to reinforce the reasons why housing choice & meaningful #AFFH goals must be part of every housing plan/housing element in every CA city.

nytimes.com

How Air Pollution Across America Reflects Racist Policy From the 1930s

A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Mar 4

Compelling data, stories from cross-sector experts help #CAHousingPlan better explain why we don't have enough homes & what we're doing about it. Thank you: #TeamHCD

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Mar 2

📢 OUT NOW: Statewide Housing Plan – comprehensive roadmap that tracks progress toward >2.5M homes required to be planned for across CA. It will take us all – state, localities, partners – to create an affordable, equitable #CAForAll. 1/ #CAHousingPlan: bit.ly/3sHHvFn

CA Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency and 9 others

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Nancy Skinner

@NancySkinnerCA

Feb 28

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla wants to take California’s Project Homekey national

capradio.org

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla wants to take California’s Project Homekey national

The Housing for All Act is modeled after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Project Homekey, which converted thousands of hotels into long-term housing during the pandemic. It would spend more than a half-trillion...

New report

shows 7k affordable units in CA at risk of losing affordability restrictions next year. That’s near the same # of units produced last year w/

@California_HCD

💰 We are working on critical

@CAgovernor

initiatives to preserve the afford housing we already have

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Feb 24

At #SacramentoPITcount with ⁦

@Mayor_Steinberg

⁩, Sec ⁦

@LCastroRamirez

⁩ and ⁦

@JoshFryday

⁩ to gather critical data that we will use to continue to work towards #endhomelessess

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Feb 19

An amazing human being. All of us who knew her from the Obama years will forever remember her kindness, character.

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CHCI

@CHCI

· Feb 19

CHCI and the CHCI Alumni Association mourn the terrible loss of Betsaida Alcantara, a 2006-2007 Public Policy Fellow. Betsaida was a beloved alum of our program, and meant so much to our entire community. 1/3

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Feb 8

📢 Today we launched the #Homekey dashboard to track progress on $1.45B made available by #CALeg &

@CAGovernor

in 2021 to prevent, #endhomelessness. Since 2020 Homekey has created >7K no-barrier homes, many of which will serve families for 50+ yrs. homekey.hcd.ca.gov/content/funding

CA Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency and 8 others

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Mayor London Breed's Press Office

@MyrPressOffice

Feb 4

San Francisco Secures Over $200 Million in State Funding for Affordable Housing - sfmayor.org/article/san-fr

Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Feb 4

California Housing Accelerator! twitter.com/California_HCD

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Office of the Governor of California

@CAgovernor

Feb 2

CA is providing $24 million to Sacramento to buy this motel & convert it into 92 permanent new homes for people coming off the streets. Behind every Homekey grant award we make is the story of a Californian who will no longer have to sleep in a car, in a tent, or on the street.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Jan 27

Today's Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities Program awards illustrate how serious California is about #climatechange AND improving residents' quality of life. We're thrilled to partner w/

@CalSGC

@AirResources

to help 37 affordable developments. sgc.ca.gov/news/2022/01-2

Lauren Hepler and 9 others

The US’s housing greenhouse gas emissions are equivalent to the 6th largest emitter on earth. In CA we are moving policy that gradually reverses this trend. We must do it in a way that doesn’t penalize people that have been victims of environm. injustice and unfair housing policy

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Jan 21

The first land swap under

@CAgovernor

's exec order (EO) offering state land for affordable housing will result in 82 homes in Clearlake. Wildfire-stricken

@LakeCountyCA

is using innovation to rebuild. EO Progress: 2yrs ➡️ 2K+ homes in pipeline Read more: bit.ly/3KxZFQs

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Lake County News

@LakeCoNews

· Jan 20

County and state complete land swap for sheriff’s office headquarters, housing project - bit.ly/33AxakG

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CA Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency

@CAbcsh

Dec 27, 2021

We launched programs like the California COVID-19 Rent Relief program and built more housing with historic funding from the Governor and the Legislature. Learn more about our milestones and impact in the BSCH End of Year report. bit.ly/3et4lZf

California HCD and 3 others

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Dec 21, 2021

🚨 A hotel, converted church, modular homes on a vacant city lot – all part of today’s #Homekey announcement. 5 communities, $113M. CA continues to act with urgency to provide Californians safe shelter during the pandemic. Read about today’s awards: hcd.ca.gov/about/newsroom

Office of the Governor of California and 9 others

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California HCD

@California_HCD

Dec 16, 2021

ADUs, casitas, granny flats – call them what you like – CA has passed several laws unlocking the potential to add thousands of this home type statewide. How many ADUs has your city approved? Find out using our Annual Progress Report Dashboard: bit.ly/3GSwwgb 2/3

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This is about both integrating

@California_HCD

funding programs as well as aligning priorities across the entire CA affordable housing financing system. Outcome? More housing, faster housing, in the right places.

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California HCD

@California_HCD

· Dec 15, 2021

HCD is making multifamily housing funds accessible to more developers, more equitable for lowest-income Californians & more targeted to the right places to achieve better health, climate, & household outcomes in one #SuperNOFA. Webinars/Comment Form/Info: bit.ly/3GNTUeQ

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Gustavo Velasquez

@GVelasquez72

Dec 15, 2021

First round of #homekey 2.0 awards. Thank you to Gov

@GavinNewsom

and the amazing

@California_HCD

team for yet another milestone in the quest to eradicate homelessness.

@CAbcsh

@naehomelessness

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Office of the Governor of California

@CAgovernor

· Dec 15, 2021

California is creating 433 new homes for people exiting homelessness! Today we announced $105 million in Homekey grants. @sanmateoco is one of the recipients and their county manager, Mike, knows this money will help make a major impact on homelessness there.

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