Private Enforcement and Education/Outreach Initiatives

Eligible Applicants:   Nonprofit and public agencies: HUD-approved Local Housing Counseling Agencies, HUD-approved national and regional intermediaries; and State Finance Agencies

Funding Available:  $14,748,800

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Closing Date for Applications:  May 17, 2007   

DESCRIPTION: Improve counseling to home buyers.   This funding delivers a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, low- to moderate-income renters, and the homeless.  The primary objectives of the program are to expand homeownership opportunities, improve access to affordable housing and preserve homeownership.

Eligible Applicants:   Nonprofit and public agencies, and for-profit firms, state and local governments, federally recognized Indian Tribes, and colleges and universities located in the United States . 

Funding Available:   $5,000,000 

Cost Sharing or Matching:  No

Closing Date for Applications:  May 18, 2007     

Description: Educate consumers about home hazards.  The purpose of the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is to develop, demonstrate, and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and healthy hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children in low- and very low-income families.  These grants provide direct remediation, including assessment of housing-related hazards, education and outreach, and capacity building.

Eligible Applicants:  Academic and nonprofit institutions located in the United States, states and units of general local government, and federally recognized Native American tribes are eligible under all existing authorizations.

Funding Available:  

Cost Sharing or Matching:  No 

Closing Date for Applications:   May 18, 2007   

DESCRIPTION:  The overall goal of both the Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies programs is to gain knowledge to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for evaluation and control of lead-based paint and other housing related health and safety hazards.

Eligible Applicants:   Public Housing Authorities 

Funding Available:  $47,000,000

Closing Date for Applications:  May 18, 2007   

DESCRIPTION:  Funds to improve family self-sufficiency.  Coordinate the use of assistance under the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program with public and private resources to enable participating families to increase earned income, reduce or eliminate the need for welfare assistance, and make progress toward economic independence and self-sufficiency.

Eligible Applicants:  Nonprofit and public agencies including State, Native American Tribe, city, county, or other unit of local government

Funding Available:  $2,000,000

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:   May 18, 2007   

DESCRIPTION:  Funding to raise public awareness and deliver HUD-approved training about lead-based paint as a source of lead poisoning, childhood lead poisoning prevention, and proper lead hazard identification and control.  And to assist states, Native American Tribes, and local governments in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned housing for rental or owner-occupants.

Eligible Applicants:  Nonprofit organizations with a Section 501(c)(3) tax exemption from the IRS and who meet the threshold requirements contained in the General Section NOFA and the Program NOFA

Funding Available:  $88,300,000

Closing Date for Applications:  May 24, 2007   

DESCRIPTION: Build new housing for persons with disabilities!  These funds are to develop and operate supportive housing for very low-income persons, with disabilities, who are at least 18 years old.  HUD provides capital advances and contracts for project rental assistance in accordance with 24 CFR part 891.

Community Development Technical Assistance

Eligible Applicants:  National nonprofits and states.  The eligible applicants for each of the four CD-TA programs are listed in the chart contained in the NOFA.

Funding Available:  Varies by program

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:  May 25, 2007

DESCRIPTION: Provide technical assistance to HUD funding recipients.  These grants provide a variety of technical assistance services on the nationwide level, including the production of written products, the development of on-line materials, the provision of training courses, and the like.   The purpose of the CDTA program is to provide assistance to achieve the highest level of performance and results for four separate community development program areas: HOME; CHDO (HOME); Homeless and; HOPWA.

Eligible Applicants:  The eligible applicants for each of the four CD-TA programs are listed in the chart contained in the NOFA.

Funding Available: 

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No  

Closing Date for Applications:   May 25, 2007   

Description:  The purpose of the CDTA program is to provide assistance to achieve the highest level of performance and results for four separate community development program areas: HOME; CHDO (HOME); Homeless and; HOPWA.

Eligible Applicants:   Cities, counties, Indian Tribes, or other local government units

Funding Available:  $54,700,000

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:  May 30, 2007

DESCRIPTION: Reduce Lead Exposure.  These grants are for demonstration programs to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in housing units.  The purpose of the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program is the same as Lead Based Paint Hazard Control, but the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Program is targeted for urban jurisdictions with the highest lead-based paint hazard control needs.

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit and public agencies, including states.  If you are a nonprofit organization, you must also satisfy the nonprofit requirements established in the definition for eligible nonprofit organizations found in 24 CFR 574.3 and in the definitions section of the NOFA.

Funding Available:  $28,463,000

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:  May 31, 2007

Description:   Provide housing for persons with AIDS!  The purpose of the program is to provide states and localities with the resources and incentives to devise long term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of low-income persons living with AIDS.

Eligible Applicants: Private nonprofit owners of multifamily assisted living housing developments.  Only private nonprofit owners of eligible multifamily assisted housing developments specified in section 683(2)(,(C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 may apply for an ALCP grant.

Funding Available:  $30,000,000 

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications: June 7, 2007

DESCRIPTION: Provide Assisted Living Facilities! Grants to convert some or all of the dwelling units in an eligible project into assisted  living facilities (ALFs) for frail elderly persons. 

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit and public agencies, including states.  Eligible Applicants are identified in a chart available in the Program NOFA.

Funding Available:

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:   June 8, 2007

Description: Help homeless people find homes and be self-sufficient!  The purpose of the Continuum of Care (CoC) homeless assistance program is to reduce the incidence of homelessness in CoC communities by assisting homeless individuals and families move to self-sufficiency and permanent housing.  

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit consortiums.  You must be a national or regional nonprofit public or private organization or consortium that has the capacity and experience to provide self-help housing homeownership opportunities. 

Funding Available:  $19,800,000

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:  No

Closing Date for Applications:   June 16, 2007

Description:  Increase homeownership!  Grants for a variety of approaches that encourage homeownership through self-help programs.  SHOP funds are to be used to facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities on a national geographically diverse basis through self-help housing programs that require significant sweat-equity by the homebuyer toward the construction or rehabilitation of the dwelling.

Eligible Applicants:   Public Housing Authorities

Funding Available:  Up to $30,000,000

Closing Date for Applications:   June 6, 2007 to July 19, 2007

DESCRIPTION: Improve outcomes for public housing residents.   Several grant programs to improve outcomes for residents of public housing by providing a range of supportive services that lead to enhanced self-sufficiency.

Eligible Applicants:  Public Housing Authorities, Tribes, Tribally-Designated Housing entities, Resident Associations and nonprofit entities.

Funding Available:  

Cost Sharing or Matching:  No

Closing Date for Applications:  July 19, 2007   

Description:  The purpose of the program is to provide grants to public housing agencies/tribes/TDHEs, RAs and nonprofit organizations (including grassroots, faith-based, and other community based organizations) for the delivery and coordination of supportive services and other activities designed to help improve the living conditions of public and Indian housing residents.