Strategic Growth Council Factory Built Housing Pilot Program Round 3 Planning Grant

The Factory-Built Housing (FBH) Program is designed to support regional strategies that use factory-built housing to expand the supply of affordable, high-quality homes across California. The goal is to create solutions that can be scaled and replicated to move beyond one-off development projects to broader, long-term impact. The FBH Program will provide Planning Grants of up to $3 million over a three-year term to support initiatives that are ready to translate exploratory and early-stage coordination efforts into actionable strategies, scalable plans, and targeted pre-implementation activities. Some examples of activities that may be funded include: • Amending local or regional policies to streamline permitting for factory-built housing projects • Conducting in-depth regional factory-built housing market analyses and developing action plans • Identifying and assessing feasible sites for factory-built housing development • Advancing predevelopment work and pilot project pipeline planning • Designing regional financing tools or aligning public subsidy strategies • Implementing or advancing regional regulatory or permitting reforms to remove barriers to factory-built housing • Developing and implementing governance structures and other regional collaborative frameworks • Integrating factory-built housing strategies into regional transportation, climate, or housing plans