2240-053 HCD Connect

The Housing and Community Development (HCD) Department proposes the procurement and implementation of an enterprise loan and grant management system. The Department oversees more than 80 programs that award loans and grants for construction, acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable rental and ownership housing, homeless shelters and transitional housing, public facilities, and infrastructure. New funding programs have increased dramatically over the last few years with more new funding programs to be released for years to come in support of California residents. HCD’s current technology systems are outdated and inefficient and unable to support the ever-expanding housing initiatives, State and Federal mandates, meet reporting requirements and sustain HCD’s operational needs.

Project Details

IPOR Reporting Period	Overall IPOR Rating
11/01/2025 - 11/30/2025	Green

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Key Questions

Is the project on track to satisfy the customer's business objectives?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives in the approved timeframe?Yes

Is the project on track to achieve the objectives within the approved budget?Yes

Project Overall Health	Comments
Green	The Project Overall Health is Green for this reporting period with two focus areas in Yellow. HCD is working on a time only extension amendment to the implementation schedule to help mitigate project delays.

Focus Area/Rating	Comments
Governance Green	Project leadership continues to be actively involved in the project, with active visible sponsorship. The project team provides Project Sponsor updates through published weekly status reports. During the October Executive Steering Committee (ESC) meeting the ESC approved the implementation time extension to the System Integrator (SI) contract.
Time Management Yellow	The Time Management Focus remains Yellow during this reporting period due to the proposed time extension to the implementation schedule.
Cost & Contract Management Green	The project tracks costs monthly, and the expenses are currently within the planned budget amount. The required external Independent Analysis contractor was onboarded during this reporting period. The proposed SI contract time extension has implementation of R2 ending March 31, 2026.
Scope Management Green	The project scope has been revised as per the guidance provided by the CDT Leadership to help achieve project objectives. An SPR and contract amendment to reflect these changes has been approved.
Resources Green	The vendor continues to make staffing changes. The IPO is observing better staffing management and contractor management practices being implemented in accordance with the documented approach.
Quality Yellow	The Yellow rating is based on the number of high priority defects still open in key workflows as well as environmental instability and multi-persona test complexities. moved to Yellow during this reporting period.
Risk And Issues Green	The project has created detailed Risk/Issue Management Plans, Risk Registers, and Issue Logs.
Transition Readiness Green	The Training Schedule and Curriculum were updated to align to the new project delivery approach and timeline.
Conditions For Approval Green	HCD will execute a contract for Independent Assessment of the program standardization analysis to determine fitness to move forward. Contract was executed on October 15, 2025.
Corrective Action Green	No corrective action plans are in place currently.

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