In accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in compe...
In accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in competitions for funding under the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the following programs: FY2018 and FY2019 HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program, FY2020 HOPWA Permanent Supportive Housing, FY2019 Family-Self Sufficiency-Renewal (FSS), FY2019 Resident Opportunity & Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Grant Program, FY2019 Jobs Plus Initiative, FY2019 and FY2020 Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG), FY2019 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, FY2019/2020 Housing Counseling Training Grant, FY2020 Supplemental Comprehensive Housing Counseling Grant Program, FY2020 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program, FY2020 Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies Grants Program Pre and Full Application, FY2020 Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing, FY2019/2020 Cooperative
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Research in Housing Technologies FY2019/2020 Examining Long Term Outcomes Following Exit from HUD-Assisted Housing, FY2019/2020 Estimating the Prevalence and Probability of Homeless Youth, and FY2019/2020 Impact of Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) on Children in HUD Assisted Households.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of the Chief Financial Officer (Systems), Grants Management and Oversight at
AskGMO@hud.gov
or the contact person listed in each appendix.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
HUD posted its FY 2018 and FY 2019 HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program on
grants.gov
on December 17, 2018, (FR-6200-N-06). The competition closed on March 14, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. The initial funding awards, including supplemental awards funded by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, were published with the September 1, 2020
Federal Register
Notice.
Additional funds recently became available through recaptures and appropriated funds uncommitted. The funds were competitively awarded as amendments to awards for five applicants from the FY2018 and FY2019 HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program NOFO competition. The award amendments provide technical assistance and capacity building services to CARES Act grantees associated with the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program, and grantees and other customers of HUD's Offices of Community Planning and Development (CPD), Public and Indian Housing (PIH), and EnVision Centers.
HUD posted its FY2020 HOPWA Permanent Supportive Housing Program on
grants.gov
on February 28, 2019, (CPD-20-02). The competition closed on April 3, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $35,815,555 to 31 recipients. Pursuant to the authority provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, Public Law 116-6, Div. G, Title II, the Department will renew all eligible expiring HOPWA permanent supportive housing (PSH) competitive grants initially funded with appropriated funds from Fiscal Year 2010 or earlier provided they meet applicable program requirements.
HUD posted its FY2019 Family Self-Sufficiency-Renewal (FSS) Program on
grants.gov
on September 26, 2019, (FR-6300-N-04). The competition closed on October 28, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $79,549,539 to 673 recipients to support the Department's strategic goal of increasing economic opportunity for HUD-assisted families. FSS provides grants to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to support the salaries and training needs of FSS Program Coordinators who assist participating families receiving housing assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV/PBV) and Public Housing (PH) programs. FSS Program Coordinators develop local strategies to connect participating families to public and private resources to increase their earned income and financial empowerment, reduce or eliminate the need for welfare assistance, and make progress toward economic independence and self-sufficiency. PHAs and each individual participating family execute a five-year contract that incorporates the responsibilities of each party, as well as a training and services plan to help the family become more self-sufficient.
HUD posted its FY2019 Resident Opportunity & Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Grant Program on
grants.gov
on August 4, 2019, (FR-6300-N-05). The competition closed on October 15, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFA. This competition awarded $36,843,021 to 137 recipients to assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic self-sufficiency. HUD provides ROSS-SC grant funding to Public Housing Authorities, tribes, resident associations, and eligible nonprofits to hire a Service Coordinator who assesses the needs of Public and Indian housing residents and links them to supportive services that enable participants to move along a continuum towards economic independence and stability.
HUD posted its FY2019 Jobs Plus Initiative Program on
grants.gov
on July 30, 2019, (FR-6300-N-14). The competition closed on October 1, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $20,744,952 to 9 recipients to develop locally based, job-driven approaches that increase earnings and advance employment outcomes through work readiness, employer linkages, job placement, educational advancement, technology skills, and financial literacy for residents of public housing. The place-based Jobs Plus program addresses poverty among public housing residents by incentivizing and enabling employment through earned income disregards for working residents and a set of services designed to support work including employer linkages, job placement and counseling, educational advancement, and financial counseling.
HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (ICDBG) Program on
grants.gov
on November 19, 2019, (FR-6300-N-23). The competition closed on February 3, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $119,849,893 to 103 recipients to develop viable Indian and Alaska Native communities, including the creation of decent housing, suitable living environments, and economic opportunities primarily for persons with low- and moderate-incomes.
HUD posted its FY2019 Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grants Program on
grants.gov
on August 5, 2019, (FR-6300-N-34). The competition closed on November 4, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $130,000,000 to 4 recipients to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and/or assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood, including vacant property, housing, businesses, services, and schools. HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Housing Counseling Training Grant Program on
grants.gov
on August 6, 2019, (FR-6300-N-30). The competition closed on September 5, 2019. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $3,000,000 to 5 recipients to housing counseling agencies to better assist individuals and families. This NOFO was a two-year funding grant to support basic housing counseling training and specialized topics to housing counseling agencies to better assist individuals and families. In
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addition, the grant supports training the agencies on state and local issues and to support the emerging administrative priorities such as HECM default counseling and disaster preparation/recovery classes, both on-line and onsite courses.
HUD posted its FY 2020 Supplemental Comprehensive Housing Counseling Grant Program on
grants.gov
on May 27, 2019, (FR-6400-N-33). The competition closed on July 8, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. HUD awarded 21 new grantees under the Supplemental Comprehensive Housing Counseling NOFO. FY2020 funding was also provided to grantees under HUD's two-year FY 2019 NOFO for the Comprehensive Housing Counseling (CHC) Grant Program. In total, $49,090,442 was awarded to 224 recipients: HUD-approved local housing counseling agencies, national and regional organizations, and state housing finance agencies (SHFAs) who competed under HUD's FY 2020 Supplemental Comprehensive Housing Counseling Grant NOFO or HUD's FY 2019/2020 Comprehensive Housing Counseling NOFO. These grants will support quality housing counseling services to help individuals and families to avoid eviction or foreclosure or to make more informed homebuying and rental choices.
HUD posted FY2020 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program on
grants.gov
on July 22, 2020, (FR-6400-N-13). The competition closed on August 24, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $164,155,145.90 to 44 recipients to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead poisoning by assisting states, cities, counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner-occupied housing populations.
HUD posted FY2020 Lead Technical Studies Grant Program on
grants.gov
on May 01, 2020, (FR-6400-N-15). The competition closed on June 15, 2020 (Pre-Application) and August 13, 2020 (Full Application). HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $3,780,022 to 6 recipients to gain knowledge to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for evaluation and control of residential lead-based paint hazards.
HUD posted its FY2020 Healthy Homes Production Technical Studies Grant Program on
grants.gov
May 01, 2020, (FR-6400-N-15). The competition closed on June 15, 2020 (Pre-Application) and August 13, 2020 (Full Application). HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $5,591,849 to 7 recipients to advance the recognition and control of priority residential health and safety hazards and more closely examine the link between housing and health.
HUD posted its FY2020 Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing Program on
grants.gov
on July 23, 2020, (FR-6400-N-44). The competition closed on August 24, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $9,939,998 to 12 recipients to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time in Tribal housing.
HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Cooperative Research in Housing Technologies Program on
grants.gov
on May 15, 2020, (FR-6400-N-56). The competition closed on June 29, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $2,000,000 to 6 recipients to develop and deploy knowledge that provides the homebuilding industry with new, innovative construction products or practices that may lead to more affordable, energy efficient, resilient (
i.e.,
durable, disaster resistant, adaptable for future requirements, and maintainable), and healthier housing while at the same time reducing the cost of construction. Specifically, applications are encouraged to focus on aspects of residential construction related to factory-built housing and components and/or resilience.
HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Examining Long Term Outcomes Following Exit from HUD-Assisted Housing Program on
grants.gov
on May 29, 2020, (FR-6400-N-58). The competition closed on July 14, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $318,413 to 2 recipients to examine long-term outcomes of households who have exited HUD-assisted housing (all programs), also referred to as “leavers.” HUD's purpose is to learn how housing assistance can better support good outcomes, such as economic opportunity and self-sufficiency of assisted households, enabling households to exit HUD assistance and thus increase the availability of scarce housing resources for other families in need. HUD is soliciting proposals to explore this topic by taking advantage of HUD administrative or tenant data linked with other longitudinal data sources on households or individuals.
HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Estimating the Prevalence and Probability of Homeless Youth Program on
grants.gov
on May 15, 2020, (FR-6400-N-59). The competition closed on July 1, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $2,000,000 to 3 recipients to meet the requirements for youth research activities authorized under Section 345 of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which calls for “using the best quantitative and qualitative social science research methods available to produce estimates of the incidence and prevalence of runaway and homeless individuals who are not less than 13 years of age but are less than 26 years of age and that includes with such estimate an assessment of the characteristics of such individuals.”
HUD posted its FY2019 and FY2020 Impact of Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) on Children in HUD Assisted Households Program competition on
grants.gov
on May 26, 2020, (FR-6400-N-66). The competition closed on July 30, 2020. HUD rated and selected for funding based on selection criteria contained in the NOFO. This competition awarded $750,000 to 2 recipients to support research project(s) that will advance scientific knowledge and produce policy-relevant evidence on the implementation of the RAD program and its effect on children's well-being.
In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545(a)(4)(C)), the Department is publishing the awardees and the amounts of the awards in Appendices A-Q of this document.
Director, Grants Management and Oversight for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Dorthera Yorkshire, having reviewed and approved this document, is delegating the authority to electronically sign this document to submitter, Aaron Santa Anna, who is the Federal Register Liaison for HUD,
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for purposes of publication in the
Federal Register
.
Aaron Santa Anna,
Federal Register Liaison for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Appendix A
FY2018 and FY2019 HUD Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program (FR-6200-FA-06)
Contact:
Stephanie V. Stone (202) 402-7418.
Legal name
Address line 1
City
Zip
FY2018 total
award
2019 total
award
Total
supplemental
(CARES Act)
awards
Total awards
HomeBase/The Center for Common Concerns
870 Market Street
San Francisco
94102
$500,000.00
$1,500,000.00
$2,000,000.00
Econometrica, INC
7475 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda
20814
305,459.00
305,459.00
University of Chicago (formerly John Marshall Law School)