Pleasanton Council To Consider Allocating Federal Funds To Tri-Valley Haven Shelter Rebuild

PLEASANTON, CA — The Pleasanton City Council will vote whether to approve allocating funding from a federal Community Development Block Grant toward the construction of a new domestic violence shelter.

The funding allocation appears on the council’s consent calendar and is the only item requiring council action at Tuesday’s meeting. Tri-Valley Haven is also scheduled to present an award during the meeting.

The city received a block grant of $381,455 for the fiscal year of 2025/26 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. CDBG regulations require Pleasanton to allocate $224,630 of those funds to a capital project, but the city has not made those allocations this year because it did not receive any applications, according to a staff report. City staff identified Tri-Valley Haven’s Shiloh Rebuilding project, construction of a 45-bed domestic violence shelter, as having a funding gap that it could help close.

The allocation requires a “Substantial Amendment” to the city’s federally required Annual Action Plan, followed by a 30-day public comment period.

The city previously allocated $250,000 of CDBG funds in FY 2023-24 and another $250,000 in 2024-25 to this project. In December 2025, the city council directed staff to draft a substantial amendment for formal review and approval. At the same meeting, the council approved the allocation of $228,805 in State Permanent Local Housing Assistance funds to the project for the purpose of funding interim housing for shelter residents during the construction of the new shelter.

The funds will not affect the city’s General Fund.

Though construction of the shelter began in December, the project still has a $1.5-$2 million funding gap, according to the staff report.
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