Locations of affordable housing projects funded through the HOME Program in San Mateo County during the period of 2003 thru 2014. Data is reported by fiscal year, so projects dated as 2013 were completed between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

The Department of Housing (DOH), on behalf of the County of San Mateo as a qualifying jurisdiction, receives HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding from US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to build, buy and/or rehabilitate affordable housing. HOME is the largest Federal block grant to local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households.

Locations of affordable housing projects in the County that are in either pre-development or are already under construction.

In April 2013, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors approved an allocation, through a "Notice of Funding Availability" (NOFA) process, of approximately $13.4 million of unrestricted General Funds for affordable housing purposes. These funds were derived from a one-time distribution of Housing Trust Funds held by former redevelopment agencies in San Mateo County. These unrestricted general funds - which initiated the County's Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) - were set aside to provide financial assistance for the development of multifamily affordable rental housing and provision of emergency and transitional shelter in the County. The Board directed the County's Department of Housing to develop allocation guidelines and recommend projects for funding. As of May 2014, approximately $13.2 million of AHF funds have been allocated, collectively, to six multifamily affordable rental housing developments and four emergency and transitional housing projects ("AHF 1.0").

On August 5, 2014, the County Board of Supervisors authorized the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo to publish another NOFA, using funds from the Housing Authority's Housing Assistance Program (HAP) Reserves to create affordable housing options for low-, very low-, and extremely low-income households. A total of $5 million was awarded to five projects, including three multifamily affordable housing rental developments, a homeownership project, and a farmworker housing program. This became the second funding round of the AHF ("AHF 2.0").

This dataset contains income limits per household size for housing assistance in San Mateo County. These limits are established by the County Housing Department, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of California. In order to qualify, your household must not exceed the income limit that corresponds to the family size (number of residents) of your household. Due to reporting changes required by the State of California and HUD, users are strongly encouraged to review notes and documentation for each year's data by downloading the appropriate report from the San Mateo County Housing Department site: http://housing.smcgov.org/income-and-rent-limits

Healthy Housings data for Get Healthy San Mateo County's Healthy Cities SMC: http://www.gethealthysmc.org/healthy-cities-smc