Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:3 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Priority Populations</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Senate Bill (SB) 535 (De Leó</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>n, Chapter 830, Statutes of 2012) directs State and local agencies to make investments that benefit California's disadvantaged communities. The bill directs the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) to identify disadvantaged communities for the purposes of these investments based on geographic, socio-economic, public health, and environmental hazard criteria.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Assembly Bill (AB) 1550 (Gomez, Chapter 369, Statutes of 2016), increased the percentage of funds for projects located in disadvantaged communities from 10 to 25 percent and added a requirement for an additional 10 percent of funds to be invested in low-income communities or low-income households, as defined in the bill.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:3 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>CalEnviroScreen</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>CalEnviroScreen (CES) is a screening methodology developed by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. CalEPA classified census tracts in the top 25</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>th</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>percentile of cumulative CES scores as disadvantaged communities and includes tribal census areas categorized as disadvantaged communities throughout the State</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>In October 2021, OEHHA released CES version 4.0, CalEPA released a corresponding list of disadvantaged communities for the purpose of SB 535 and AB</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>-</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>1550 investments in May 2022</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:3 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Note on Tribal Areas</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">Tribal census areas intersect with one or more census tracts. More than one tribal land area may intersect with a single census tract. Tribal areas may be wholly within a single census tract or may be partially within more than one census tract. A tribe may have a single land area represented or may be a multipart feature.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:3 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Revision Log</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN>In May 2022, CalEPA identified two census tracts not designated as disadvantaged community that were prior disadvantaged community census tracts for CES version 3.0. These census tracts, 6059052404 and 6037980015 are now designated as disadvantaged community for this version CES 4.0 and surrounding buffers have been adjusted to reflect this change in designation.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:3 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Further Information</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Information on California Climate Investments benefiting priority populations is available at: </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.arb.ca.gov/cci-communityinvestments"><SPAN><SPAN>www.arb.ca.gov/cci-communityinvestments</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Information on CES version 4.0 is available at: </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-40"><SPAN><SPAN>https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-40</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Identification of SB 535 Disadvantaged Communities Designation can be found at: </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://calepa.ca.gov/envjustice/ghginvest/"><SPAN><SPAN>https://calepa.ca.gov/envjustice/ghginvest/</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>The California Air Resources Board Climate Investments Branch can be contacted at: </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:GGRFProgram@arb.ca.gov"><SPAN><SPAN>GGRFProgram@arb.ca.gov</SPAN></SPAN></A></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Previous CES 3.0 Priority Populations map and information can be found at:</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><A href="https://webmaps.arb.ca.gov/PriorityPopulations3/"><SPAN><SPAN>https://webmaps.arb.ca.gov/PriorityPopulations3/</SPAN></SPAN></A></P><P /><P><SPAN>ABOUT PRIORITY POPULATION INVESTMENTS 4.0</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Priority Population Investments 4.0</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This dataset was updated May 2022 to reflect updated disadvantaged community and low-income community designations. To see information on the previous designations, established in 2017, use the Priority Populations Investment 3.0 webmap.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Certain populations are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. At least 35 percent of California Climate Investments must benefit these populations, which include disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households, also known as "priority populations."</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Priority Populations</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Disadvantaged communities are designated by the California Environmental Protection Agencies (CalEPA)*. In May 2022, using CalEnviroScreen 4.0 and the American Indian Areas Related National Geodatabase, CalEPA identified the list of disadvantaged community census tracts and land areas available at CalEPA Climate Investments to Benefit Disadvantaged Communities webpage. If the dataset does not show all the lands under control of a federally recognized Tribe, that Tribe may request a consultation to identify other lands. For consultations, please contact CalEPA Office of the Deputy Secretary for Environmental Justice, Tribal Affairs, and Border Relations at TribalAffairs@calepa.ca.gov.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Low-income communities and households are defined as the census tracts and households, respectively, that are either at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income, or at or below the threshold designated as low-income by the California Department of Housing and Community Development's (HCD) Revised 2021 State Income Limits.**</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>*Disadvantaged community designations per Senate Bill (SB) 535 (De León, Chapter 830, Statutes of 2012)</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>**Low-income definitions per Assembly Bill (AB) 1550 (Gomez, Chapter 369, Statutes of 2016)</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Investment Minimums and Requirements</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>To count a project toward the investment minimums, administering agencies must show that a project provides direct, meaningful, and assured benefits and meets an important community need by using Benefit Criteria Tables developed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The Funding Guidelines include other requirements and guidance for targeting investments to priority populations.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Projects selected after August 2017 must follow the 2018 Funding Guidelines. Projects selected before August 2017 may refer to the 2015 Funding Guidelines and the Funding Guidelines Supplement.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For questions, please contact: GGRFProgram@arb.ca.gov</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For assistance with web accessibility, please email webaccessibility@arb.ca.gov</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>In February 2017, the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) convened a group of independent organizations and research centers that would become the California Fair Housing Task Force (“Task Force”). TCAC and HCD charged the Task Force with creating an opportunity map to identify areas in every region of the state whose characteristics have been shown by research to support positive economic, educational, and health outcomes for low-income families—particularly long-term outcomes for children. This dataset is from the TCAC opportunity areas mapping analysis of 2023.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee utilized data from 16 indicators categorized into 3 domains, which were then filtered down to produce an index score applied to census tracts across California. The purpose of this data is to identify “high opportunity areas” to incentivize housing development in neighborhoods that will benefit families subsidized by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program and will therefore offer improved circumstances for childhood development and economic mobility. Utilizing this data will help meet state housing objectives while concurrently promoting equity goals.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Source: https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/opportunity.asp</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Copyright Text: Data is developed, maintained, and distributed by the California Office of the Treasurer and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. For more information, please see here: https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/opportunity.asp
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>This Disadvantaged Communities (DAC) file contains the Census tracts that met criteria as 2022 Disadvantaged Communities (SB535) with Tribal Areas that fall outside of the designated Census tracts. </SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>This DAC file represents four (4)geographic areas. In this designation, CalEPA formally designated four categories of geographic areas as disadvantaged: </SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>1. Census tracts receiving the highest 25 percent of overall scores in CalEnviroScreen 4.0 (1,984 tracts).</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>2. Census tracts lacking overall scores in CalEnviroScreen 4.0 due to data gaps, but receiving the highest 5 percent of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 cumulative pollution burden scores (19 tracts).</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>3. Census tracts identified in the 2017 DAC designation as disadvantaged, regardless of their scores in CalEnviroScreen 4.0 (307 tracts).</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>4. Lands under the control of federally recognized Tribes. For purposes of this designation, a Tribe may establish that a particular area of land is under its control even if not represented as such on CalEPA’s DAC map and therefore should be considered a DAC by requesting a consultation with the CalEPA Deputy Secretary for Environmental Justice, Tribal Affairs and Border Relations at TribalAffairs@calepa.ca.gov.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>SCAG combined both those Census tracts described in 1-3 categories and tribal areas defined by the United States Census Bureau in 4thcategory to present a single layer with all of the designated disadvantaged communities. </SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>Note: Tribal Areas do not have CalEnviroScreen 4.0 analysis. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>