The California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) announces the availability of funding for Round 3 of the Factory Built Housing Regional Pilot Program.
Donor Name: California Strategic Growth Council (SGC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/05/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The 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.
Objectives
The FBH Program seeks to fund a diverse portfolio of regional and multi-regional projects that demonstrate how factory-built housing can deliver benefits across a wide range of communities and jurisdictions. The program encourages applicants to propose innovative models for regional collaboration, planning, and implementation that can be adapted and scaled across different areas of the state. The FBH Program is anchored in four core program objectives:
- Build Regional Networks and Capacity: Strengthen the ability of regions to deliver factory-built housing at scale by cultivating durable partnerships among public agencies, private developers, and nonprofit organizations.
- Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Lower the environmental impact of residential construction through more efficient design, production, and delivery methods that reduce emissions across the residential construction lifecycle.
- Deliver Co-Benefits for California Communities: Advance regional housing and community development initiatives that deliver meaningful co-benefits to local communities — particularly for California’s priority populations.
- Foster Innovation: Elevate creative regional initiatives that demonstrate scalable, effective models for planning and delivering factory-built housing aligned with local and statewide priorities.
Grant Types
- Catalyst Grants
- The program will provide Catalyst Grants of up to $500,000 over a two-year term to help grantees launch or advance early-stage efforts that build regional knowledge, capacity, networks, and stakeholder support for the production and deployment of factory-built housing in California.
- These grants are designed for entities exploring factory-built housing opportunities, forming new partnerships, or conducting early-stage efforts to build regional knowledge, capacity, and stakeholder support for factory-built housing development. Catalyst Grants are ideal for applicants in the early stages of partnership formation, research and analysis, or stakeholder engagement who wish to establish or grow relationships and networks among regional partners, increase regional understanding of factory-built housing solutions and benefits, and/or identify enabling conditions for advancing factory-built housing as an affordable housing solution in their region.
- Catalyst Grants may fund activities such as:
- Conducting research on regulatory, zoning, or land use barriers to factory-built housing production.
- Completing market studies to assess regional demand and housing needs.
- Identifying and convening public, private, and community stakeholders to form cross-jurisdictional coalitions.
- Hosting peer learning exchanges or regional dialogues on factory-built housing opportunities, challenges, and strategies
- Developing preliminary plans, frameworks, or roadmaps to inform future factory built housing projects and policies.
- Planning Grant
- 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.
- Planning Grants are designed for projects that have progressed beyond the early-stage activities and are poised to implement or meaningfully advance coordinated planning efforts that position their region for scalable factory-built housing delivery. Planning Grant applicants must propose a clear vision for expanding factory-built housing at a regional scale and demonstrate that they possess the legal authority, capacity, established relationships, and collaborative infrastructure needed to deliver actionable plans, policies, or frameworks that advance program objectives.
- Planning Grants may fund activities such as:
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead applicants and project partners must be one of the following entities to be eligible for either grant type: tribal entities; local governments; multijurisdictional entities; community-based organizations and nonprofits; community development financial institutions; private for-profit entities (excluding those traded publicly); California institutes of higher education; public authorities; public corporations (excluding state agencies); special districts; state agencies, subagencies, and departments; and other local and regional public agencies.
The following entity types are not eligible to apply as a lead applicant or partner:
- individuals; federal agencies, subagencies, and departments; and public companies (corporate entities that offer publicly traded stock for sale)
Lead applicants for both grant types must meet all of the following criteria for their application to be considered for an award:
- Must be based/operating in the State of California.
- Must be authorized to enter into agreements and to receive and hold public funds, or be operating/able to operate under a fiscal sponsor authorized to enter into agreements and receive and hold public funds.
- Must demonstrate financial and operational capacity to manage a regional project, coordinate multiple project partners and subcontractors, and satisfy grant requirements.
- Must demonstrate a track record of or commitment to accelerating the production and use of factory-built housing, and/or other innovative and affordable housing solutions.
For more information, visit SGC.
