Housing Resources - City of Placerville

Welcome to the City of Placerville’s Housing Resources:


Here you will find information regarding the City's:

  • 2021-2029 Housing Element
  • Affordable Housing Development
    • Inventory of Publicly Assisted Housing
    • Housing Accommodation for Persons With Disabilities
    • Housing Assistance
    • Fair Housing
  • Density Bonus Program
  • California Tenants- A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and ResponsibilitiesThe California State Department of Consumer Affairs has published an informative guide to your rights as a tenant
  • Fair Housing
  • Accommodation of Housing for Persons with Disabilities
  • Vacant Parcel Inventory – residential and multi-family
  • Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU/JADU) The City allows the establishment of accessory dwelling units within its residential zones. City regulations and standards for accessory dwelling units may be viewed on our ADU website listed accessible above. 
  • Public Housing Authority  El Dorado County's Department of Community Services operates the Housing Authority for all of El Dorado County. The Housing Authority provides information regarding rental assistance to low income households, and lists several apartments within El Dorado County, including several within the City of Placerville.
  • California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) CalHFA supports the needs of renters and homebuyers by providing financing and programs that create safe, decent and affordable housing opportunities for low to moderate income Californians. CalHFA has first and junior loan options for low to moderate income families, including low to zero interest rate down payment assistance loans.
  • Information for Developers – Housing Program 18, Statewide Community Infrastructure Program (SCIP) The City intends to implement this program for all projects, particularly housing projects, to provide housing developers this program to finance impact fees. If a developer/property owner chose to participate in SCIP, the selected public capital improvements and the development impact fees owed to the City would be financed by the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA). CSCDA would impose a special assessment on the owner's property tax bill to repay the portion of the bonds issued to finance the fees paid with respect to the property and the public capital improvements benefiting the property. With respect to the impact fees, the developer may choose to pay the impact fees at the time of permit issuance and receive reimbursement from the SCIP bond proceeds when the SCIP bonds are issued or the fees will be funded directly from the proceeds of the SCIP bonds. If the property owner pays the impact fees in advance, the City is required to pay the fees to SCIP. If the property owner does not pay the impact fees in advance, SCIP holds onto the bond proceeds representing the fees. In either case, the fees are subject to requisition by the City at any time to make authorized fee expenditures. By holding and investing the money until it is spent, SCIP is able to monitor the investment earnings (which come to the City for federal tax law arbitrage purposes). SCIP encourages the City to spend the proceeds before any other fee revenues of the City. If the fees are paid by the property owner and bonds are never issued, the fees would be returned to the City by SCIP. In this way, the City is never at risk of losing the impact fees


City of Placerville
Planning Division
3101 Center Street
Placerville CA 95667

(530) 642-5252
updated: August 31, 2020