(a) Pursuant to the Prohousing Designation Program, established by Government Code section 65589.9, the Department shall designate qualifying jurisdictions as Prohousing. Such Prohousing Jurisdictions shall receive additional points or other preference in the scoring of competitive applications for funding under programs that support housing, transportation, infrastructure, land use, and related objectives. The administrators of each program will determine the value and form of the preference.

(b) These regulations establish the Program's procedures for application submittal, application scoring, designation of jurisdictions as Prohousing, reporting, and monitoring pursuant to Government Code section 65589.9.