Connecting with Communities: A User’s Guide to HUD Programs and the 2005 SuperNOFA Process
April 2005 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Table of Contents
Introduction………… ..................................................................................................... 1 Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives..................................................... 3 Southwest Border Region (SWBR), Colonias, and Migrant/Farmworker Initiative ..... 3 What’s New?.............................................................................................................. 3 Electronic Submission of Applications for Grants and Other HUD Financial Assistance ............................................................................................................ 3 Use of Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Identifier: Final Rule ............. 4 Equal Participation of Faith Based-Organizations ................................................ 5 Other.......................................................................................................................... 5 American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI)................................................. 5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 6 Part I: Understanding HUD’s SuperNOFA................................................................... 7 What Is the SuperNOFA? .......................................................................................... 7 What Is a Competitive Grant Program? ..................................................................... 7 Competitive Grant Program List................................................................................. 8 Policies and Procedures Associated With the SuperNOFA ..................................... 12 Submission Policy .............................................................................................. 12 Common Factors for Award................................................................................ 13 Who Can Apply for SuperNOFA Programs?............................................................ 16 Additional Items Related to HUD’s NOFAs .............................................................. 23 Waiver of Electronic Submission Requirement................................................... 23 Corrections to Deficient Applications .................................................................. 23 Environmental Requirements ............................................................................. 24 Part II: Descriptions of Programs Included in the SuperNOFA ............................... 25 Housing and Community Development.................................................................... 26 Technical Assistance (TA) .................................................................................. 27 Universities and Colleges ................................................................................... 32 Fair Housing Education and Outreach/Enforcement and Housing Counseling .. 36 Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control .......................................................... 38 Economic Development and Empowerment ............................................................ 42 Targeted Housing and Homeless Assistance .......................................................... 46 Homeless Assistance ......................................................................................... 46 Elderly ................................................................................................................ 48 Persons With Disabilities .................................................................................... 49 Other Targeted Housing Assistance................................................................... 49 Part III: Additional Competitive Programs Not Included in the SuperNOFA .......... 51 Public Housing Revitalization HOPE VI.............................................................. 51 Elderly ................................................................................................................ 52 Economic Development...................................................................................... 53
Persons with Disabilities..................................................................................... 54 Part IV: HUD’s Formula-Based Programs ................................................................. 55 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program......................................... 56 Economic Development Loan Guarantee (Section 108) .......................................... 57 HOME Investment Partnerships Program................................................................ 58 Housing Choice Voucher Program Contract Renewals ........................................... 59 Public Housing Operating Fund ............................................................................... 60 Public Housing—Capital Fund Program (CFP) ........................................................ 61 Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program .......................................................... 61 Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant (NHHBG) Program ...................................... 61 Native Hawaiian Housing Loan Guarantees (Section 184A).................................... 62 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program............................................................... 62 Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)........................................ 63 Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP)............................................................... 63 Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Homeownership Programs ......................... 64 HUD’s Discount Property Sales Programs............................................................... 64 Indian Home Loan Guarantees (Section 184).......................................................... 65 Title VI Loan Guarantee Program ............................................................................ 66 Part V: Contact Information........................................................................................ 67 Appendix A: HUD Field Office Contact Information.................................................. 69 Appendix B: Office of Native American Programs (ONAP) Contact Information...... 81 Appendix C: HUD Headquarters Program Offices ................................................... 83 Appendix D: HUD Homeownership Centers ............................................................ 85 Appendix E: HUD Contacts for Colonias and Farmworkers..................................... 87
A User’s Guide to HUD Programs and the 2005 SuperNOFA Process
Introduction
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to provide you with this year’s Connecting with Communities: A User’s Guide to HUD Programs and the 2005 SuperNOFA Process. HUD provides this User’s Guide to help you become familiar with programs available to State and local governments; public housing agencies (PHAs); nonprofit organizations including colleges and universities; Indian tribes and tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs); graduate students; public housing resident organizations; owners of federally assisted low-income housing; and for-profit professional and technical services companies. The User’s Guide is divided into five parts. Part I, “Understanding HUD’s SuperNOFA”, explains HUD’s Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA). This part includes tables listing the 2005 SuperNOFA funding opportunities by category and by applicant type. Part I also details the funding notification, application, and selection processes for the programs contained in the SuperNOFA. Part II, “Descriptions of Programs Included in the SuperNOFA”, provides information on the goals, eligible applicants, and eligible activities for each of the funding opportunities announced in the SuperNOFA. Part III, “Additional Competitive Programs Not Included in the SuperNOFA”, discusses competitive programs not included in the SuperNOFA. Part IV, “HUD’s Formula-Based Programs”, provides information on HUD’s formula-based programs and other major initiatives, which account for the majority of the funding that HUD provides each year. Part V, “Appendices”, provides field office listings. However, not all field offices handle all of the programs contained in the SuperNOFA. Applicants should look to the SuperNOFA for contact numbers for information on specific programs. The 2005 SuperNOFA, which was published on March 21, 2005, announced approximately $2.26 billion in 53 funding opportunities1, tailored to help communities design and implement housing and community development programs that address local needs. Funds are available to State and local governments, Indian tribes and TDHEs, nonprofit organizations, public and private developers and managers of affordable housing, universities, PHAs and resident organizations, and graduate students in fields of interest to HUD. These funds are in addition to, and complement, the more than $25.5 billion2 provided to communities via formula grants, housing choice vouchers, and other funding.
Nearly all of HUD’s competitive grant programs are included in the SuperNOFA. Certain competitive programs, such as demonstrations, those with statutory deadlines, or those that are still being designed at the time the SuperNOFA is released may still have a separate NOFA as warranted.
2 This total includes appropriations for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program (less set-asides), HOME Investment Partnerships, Public Housing Operating Fund, Public Housing Capital Fund, Indian Housing Block Grants (IHBG), Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), formula portion, Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP), and renewal of Housing Choice vouchers. 1
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Most of the more than $25.5 billion that HUD administers is provided directly to State and local governments and PHAs to address locally-identified priority housing and community development needs. HUD believes these resources should promote comprehensive, coordinated approaches to address community conditions. Housing assistance, public housing revitalization, economic development, and other community development strategies work best when jointly implemented at the local level. HUD’s Strategic Plan contains critical goals for the Department. In awarding funding under this year’s SuperNOFA, HUD will be guided by these strategic goals: • • • • • • Increase homeownership opportunities. Promote decent affordable housing. Strengthen communities. Ensure equal opportunity in housing. Embrace high standards of ethics, management, and accountability. Promote participation of grassroots faith-based and other community-based organizations.
In addition, Secretary Alphonso Jackson has established several Secretarial Policy Priorities for the Department. The rating plans in each NOFA encourage applicants to undertake specific activities that further HUD’s policy priorities and assist the Department in achieving its strategic goals. HUD’s policy priorities are: • Providing increased homeownership and rental opportunities for low- and moderate-income persons, persons with disabilities, the elderly, minorities, and persons with limited English proficiency. Improving our Nation’s communities. Encouraging accessible design features, including: – Visitability in new construction and substantial rehabilitation. – Use of universal design. • • • • • Providing full and equal access to grassroots faith-based and other community-based organizations in HUD program implementation. Increasing participation of minority-serving institutions in HUD programs. Ending chronic homelessness. Removing regulatory barriers to affordable housing. Participating in Energy Star.
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Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
In support of its goal to promote participation of grassroots faith-based and other communitybased organizations, HUD has established the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The center’s mission is to support and develop HUD’s relationship with community and faithbased organizations. Although the center is not a funding source, it fulfills its mission by seeking input, sharing resources, and building a network of organizations to maximize the impact of local and national community development projects. By forming partnerships among various levels of government and community-based grassroots organizations, including faith-based organizations, communities can utilize all their resources to build stronger communities.
Southwest Border Region (SWBR), Colonias, and Migrant/Farmworker Initiative
The Southwest Border Region (SWBR), Colonias, and Migrant/Farmworker Initiative works to improve the lives of people living along the U.S.-Mexico border and in farmworker communities throughout the United States. SWBR does this by coordinating resources and collaborating with Federal, State, and local partners to bring existing resources to these underserved rural populations. Colonias are rural communities located within 150 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border that often lack the basic infrastructure most U.S. citizens take for granted, such as running water, electricity, and paved roads. Many colonias are located in rural areas without formally sanctioned local governance and thus are unincorporated communities. As such, they lack the collective services that local governments customarily provide. Colonias typically have high rates of poverty, which makes it more difficult for residents to help pay for roads, sanitary water and sewer systems, decent housing, street lighting, and other basic services. Without these services in place, colonias struggle with issues often associated with developing nations. The initiative is not a funding source but works to make better use of existing resources available for the U.S.-Mexico border region and farm-worker communities.
What’s New?
Electronic Submission of Applications for Grants and Other HUD Financial Assistance President George W. Bush has outlined a management agenda for making Government more focused on citizens and results, which includes expanding Electronic Government (EGovernment). On December 17, 2004, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released future goals for expanding E-Government (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/press/press.htm). The report identifies improved service delivery, the enhanced role of enterprise architecture to promote interoperability between the federal agency, and future steps to be accomplished as part of the President’s Management Agenda.
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Grants.gov is a major component of the E-Government initiative – serving as a single online portal for all Federal grant customers to find and apply for grants, and making it easier for potential applicants to obtain information about Federal grants. Since implementation of Grants.gov in October of 2003, HUD has posted all of its funding opportunities on grants.gov/FIND. In May of 2004, HUD posted and received its first electronic application for the Housing Counseling Training funding opportunity. In December of the same year, HUD launched its second electronic funding opportunity. The movement of the SuperNOFA to electronic application submission is therefore part of the natural progression to full electronic application submission. Grantees and applicants should check regularly for updates on the Grants.gov initiative. Information can be obtained from HUD’s website at www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm. Applicants are encouraged to sign up to receive an electronic notification of funding opportunities at http://www.grants.gov/SubscribeAll. In support of HUD’s efforts to move to electronic application submission, on November 23, 2004, HUD published in the “Federal Register” a proposed rule which established the requirement that all applicants for HUD grants and other financial assistance must submit applications electronically through the Grants.gov web site when HUD places an application for financial assistance on that site. For a copy of HUD’s mandatory electronic submission rule, please visit HUD’s web site at http://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm, located under the topic “What’s HOT” and clicking on Mandatory Electronic Submission. Electronic application submission means applicants will not waste time and resources on preparing, mailing, and hand delivering paper copies of their applications to HUD Headquarters, field offices, or multiple locations. To participate in electronic grant submission on www.grants.gov, applicants need only a computer with access to the Internet. To make it easier for applicants to use the Grants.gov electronic portal, applicants can download the application instructions and forms, complete the application off-line, and later upload and submit the completed application via Grants.gov. Use of Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Identifier: Final Rule On November 9, 2004, the Department published a Final Rule which adopts the federal government-wide requirement that applicants for federal funding must have and include a Dunn and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number on their application submission. This requirement covers funds awarded as a grant, cooperative agreement, capital fund or operating fund subsidy, capital advance, or other assistance. The DUNS rule requires that every application for a new grant or assistance award or renewal of an award or plan (including PHA plan) under all discretionary and formula grant programs must include the applicant’s DUNS number. The DUNS requirement, however, does not extend to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance or loan guarantee transactions that are not associated with a grant program or grant award. Unless an exemption from this requirement is requested by HUD and approved by OMB, HUD will not consider an application as complete until the applicant provides a valid DUNS number. Individuals are not required to have a DUNS number. Consistent with an OMB
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policy directive issued on June 27, 2003, HUD may request that OMB approve an exemption from this requirement for classes of grants or grantees. A copy of HUD’s regulation implementing the DUNS requirement published in the Federal Register can be found on HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/duns.cfm. Equal Participation of Faith Based-Organizations On July 9, 2004, HUD’s Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations final rule was published. The final rule implements executive branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional church-state guidelines, faith-based organizations should be able to compete on equal footing with other organizations for Federal funding. Executive Order 13279, entitled “Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations,” establishes fundamental principals and policymaking criteria to guide Federal agencies in formulating and developing policies that have implications for faith-based and community organizations to ensure the equal protection of the laws for these organizations in federally-assisted social services programs. Consistent with the Executive Order, the final rule describes HUD’s policy for the participation of faith-based organizations in HUD programs and activities. In addition, the final rule makes a conforming amendment to regulations for the State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program regarding the equal participation of faith-based organizations in the program.
Other
American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) The American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) was signed into law on December 16, 2003. The American Dream Downpayment Assistance Act authorizes up to $200 million annually for FY 2004–07. ADDI will provide funds to all 50 States and to local participating jurisdictions (PJs) that have populations of at least 150,000 or will receive an allocation of at least $50,000 under the ADDI formula. ADDI will be administered as part of the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, a formula grant program. To be eligible for ADDI assistance, individuals must be first-time homebuyers interested in purchasing single-family housing. A first-time homebuyer is defined as an individual (and his or her spouse) who has not owned a home during the 3-year period prior to the purchase of a home with ADDI assistance. ADDI funds may be used to purchase one- to four-family housing, condominium units, cooperative units, or manufactured housing. Additionally, individuals who qualify for ADDI assistance must have incomes not exceeding 80 percent of the area median income. The amount of ADDI assistance provided to any family may not exceed the greater of 6 percent of the purchase price of a single family housing unit or $10,000.
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If you are interested in obtaining downpayment assistance through ADDI, please contact your local HOME administering agency. Visit HUD’s “HOME Program Contacts” web page at http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/affordablehousing/programs/home/contacts/index.cfm.
Conclusion
Connecting with Communities: A User’s Guide to HUD Programs and the 2005 SuperNOFA Process provides a succinct overview of all HUD programs so that citizens can better understand the scope of resources available to them. The appendices provide contact information for more than 80 local HUD offices. If you have questions about HUD programs, please contact your local office or browse our Web site at www.hud.gov. A copy of the User’s Guide is also available through HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/grants. The Web site also contains links to the application materials for programs in the SuperNOFA, the schedule of satellite training broadcasts for SuperNOFA programs, and related information on HUD programs and program offices.
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Part I: Understanding HUD’s SuperNOFA
What Is the SuperNOFA?
The Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) is the way HUD announces and distributes funding available through its competitive grant programs. The SuperNOFA describes the application and selection process and amounts available for funding opportunities under a variety of HUD programs in a single document. The General Section of the SuperNOFA identifies HUD policies and requirements applicable to all programs. Each program NOFA contained in the SuperNOFA describes program details including the grant’s purpose, eligible applicants, amount of funding available, acceptable activities under the program, application process and requirements, and pre-established factors used to evaluate funding requests. The SuperNOFA as published in the Federal Register is the official, legally binding document HUD uses to evaluate applications. Therefore, if there is a discrepancy between any materials published by HUD in its Federal Register publication and other information provided in hard copy or on HUD’s Web site or the Grants.gov Web site, the Federal Register publication prevails.
This User’s Guide is only a supplement to the SuperNOFA. It is not the official legal document related to HUD’s competitive grant programs. The SuperNOFA Federal Register publication is the official legal document for competitive grant programs and the document that you should follow in developing your funding application.
What Is a Competitive Grant Program?
Competitive grant programs allow eligible applicants to request funding directly from HUD by submitting an application. Each competitive program has been created and authorized by Congress to accomplish one or more goals through specific types of activities. For example, Youthbuild, authorized in 1992, has a goal of helping youth ages 16 to 24 obtain meaningful employment and achieve self-sufficiency. It does so by funding 2-year job training programs. The programs provide life training and education as well as teaching construction and building trade skills, including on-the-job training in which students construct or rehabilitate low-income housing. Each application submitted competes with all other applications submitted for that particular program. Only a limited number of applicants—those that best meet the funding criteria established in the program NOFA—receive funding. Applicants who are eligible to apply for funding are listed in Table 2.
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If you are an individual looking for information on Government benefits, refer to the GovBenefits Web site at www.govbenefits.gov/index.jsp, the official Government benefits Web site. This free confidential tool helps individuals find Government benefits they may be eligible to receive.
Competitive Grant Program List
Table 1 lists all of the programs included in the 2005 SuperNOFA by program category. Within each category, the programs are grouped under subheadings, such as “Technical Assistance” or “Homelessness Assistance,” based on the general purpose of the grant. The approximate amount of funds available for each grant program is also shown. Each program is described in Part II of this User’s Guide.
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Table 1: Grant Programs Included in the SuperNOFA Grant Program Funding Amount3 (millions)
Housing and Community Development Programs
Technical Assistance (TA) • • • • • • HOME TA HOME Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) TA McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) TA Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) TA Youthbuild TA $30.12 [7.22] [7.44] [9] [2] [1.39] [3.07]
Indian Community Development Block Grant Program (ICDBG) for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages Universities and Colleges • • • • • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC) Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC)
$64.42 $33.6 [13.2] [6.6] [4.2] [3] [6.6]
Student Research and Study Programs • • • Early Doctoral Student Research Grant (EDSRG) Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) Program Community Development Work Study Program (CDWSP)
$3.75 [.15] [.4] [3.2] $18.04 [13] [3.94] [.4] [.4] [.8] [2.34] [1.1]
Fair Housing Education and Outreach/Enforcement
• Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) — Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) — Minority Serving Institutions Component — Asian Americans Pacific Islander Fair Housing Awareness Component — Disability Component — General Component — Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI)
3 The funding amounts listed in the table are approximate. They do not necessarily reflect the exact amount of funding that will be made available through the competition.
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Table 1: Grant Programs Included in the SuperNOFA Grant Program
Housing Counseling
• Housing Counseling Program (HCP) — Local Counseling Agencies — National, Regional — State Housing Finance Agencies (SHFAs) • Housing Counseling Supplementary Funding — — — — Housing Counseling Agencies Serving Colonias Predatory Lending Section 8 Homeownership Program Housing Counseling HECM [.394] [2.7] [1.7] [2.0] [12.92] [17.2] [2.0]
Funding Amount3 (millions)
$38.91
Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
• • • • • • • Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program Lead Technical Studies Program Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Lead Outreach Grant Program Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP)
$163 [93.6] [49.4] [2.0] [3.0] [5.0] [2.0] [8.0]
Economic Development and Empowerment Programs
Economic Development • • • • • Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) Youthbuild Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program Coordinators Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Program Rural Housing and Economic Development (RHED) $174.08 [24.4] [56.4] [45.6] [23.88] [23.8] $81.07 [16.27] [22.95] [18.9] [22.95]
Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Program
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ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models Elderly and Persons with Disabilities ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models Family ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services ROSS Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency
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Table 1: Grant Programs Included in the SuperNOFA Grant Program Targeted Housing and Homeless Assistance Programs
Supportive Housing Elderly • • Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP) for Eligible Multifamily Projects [462.9] [35]
Funding Amount4 (millions)
Persons With Disabilities • Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities [95.8]
Other Targeted Housing Assistance • • Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing [37.0] [10]
Homelessness Assistance • Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program for Homeless Individuals — Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Housing for People Who Are Addicted to Alcohol
[$1b] $1 billion
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$10 million
4 The funding amounts listed in the table are approximate. They do not necessarily reflect the exact amount of funding that will be made available through the competition.
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HUD and IRS Partner to Help Low-Income Families On December 6, 2004, a landmark agreement was designed to assist the working poor. The Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a partnership agreement, which will result in improved services and greater coordination to reach low-income taxpayers. These taxpayers may be unaware of but could potentially benefit from critical tax breaks such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The HUD-IRS agreement emphasizes greater coordination between the agencies, and expands information sharing and building on existing services. The partnership will work to encourage community-based collaboration to educate and assist lowincome families. To view the HUD and IRS agreement, visit HUD’s Grants website at http://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm. SuperNOFA Incentive Criteria for Reducing Regulatory Barriers On November 25, 2003, HUD published a notice for public comment announcing the Department’s intention to provide incentives in the FY 2005 competitive funding process to eligible applicants in communities that have taken steps to reduce or address regulatory barriers to affordable housing. On March 22, 2004, HUD published its final notice making regulatory reform for affordable housing a Secretarial Policy Priority. Applicants who complete a questionnaire and provide the required documentation identifying work done to remove regulatory barriers can receive up to two points in the evaluation of their application. On April 21, 2004, HUD published a technical correction to this notice, which also responded to a question received since publication of the notice on March 22. For details of this Secretarial Policy Priority, go to HUD’s Web site at http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm. For information on how HUD will evaluate applications for funding using these criteria, please read the Federal Register notices and instructions provided in the General Section and each Program Section of the SuperNOFA.
Policies and Procedures Associated With the SuperNOFA
Submission Policy To ensure fairness to all participants, and in accordance with the principles of relevant laws, late applications are ineligible for consideration in HUD’s grant competitions. As part of the SuperNOFA process, HUD has established a uniform late policy, which is explained in the General Section of the SuperNOFA. Although the late policy is uniform for all programs, the actual date and time when an application for a specific program is considered late is based on the submission date and time established for that program. Each program NOFA will identify a specific date for application submission. Therefore, pay special attention to the submission date listed in the individual NOFAs and the submission information listed in the General Section. HUD encourages you to begin working on your proposals immediately so that you can maximize coordination and ensure that your application is submitted on time. As always for each NOFA, HUD will accept (and encourages) applications submitted before the submission dates listed. Applicants for programs which require that their applications be submitted to the State Point of Contact (SPOC) in accordance with Executive Order 12372, “Intergovernmental Review of
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Federal Programs,”5 should allow ample time for the State review process prior to submitting an application to HUD (see the General Section of the SuperNOFA). The order allows each State to designate an entity to perform this function. The official listing of State Points of Contact (SPOC) can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/spoc.html. Common Factors for Award Most of HUD’s competitive grant programs announced in the SuperNOFA and other stand-alone NOFAs use five criteria, known as Factors for Award, to rate and rank applications in the grant competitions. Using common factors for award makes preparing your grant applications more manageable if you are applying for funding under several different HUD programs. The factors for award are as follow: 1. Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Staff. 2. Need/Extent of the Problem. 3. Soundness of Approach. 4. Leveraging Resources. 5. Achieving Results and Program Evaluation. The content of these five factors may vary slightly and may be measured differently during the application review according to the goals of specific programs. For example, the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) might measure need as the extent of brown fields and poverty in a target community, whereas Youthbuild might measure need as the proportion of young high school dropouts and poverty in a community. The User’s Guide is a supplement to the SuperNOFA, not a replacement. Anyone applying for funds must refer to the Federal Register publication on the SuperNOFA for details on how each program defines and measures these factors. The following is a more detailed discussion of each factor. Factor 1—Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Staff. This factor addresses the extent to which you have the organizational resources necessary to successfully implement your proposed activities in a timely manner. Such resources include a staff of sufficient size that possesses knowledge and experience in your proposed program activities. In cases where you will use personnel not considered to be staff of your organization, you may be asked to demonstrate timely and easy access to qualified experts/professionals. Relevant experience may include experience in managing grants. In cases where you previously received funding from HUD,
5 This was issued with the desire to foster intergovernmental partnership and strengthen federalism by relying on State and local processes for the coordination and review of proposed Federal financial assistance and direct Federal development.
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experience may be evaluated by your ability to achieve measurable progress in implementing your most recent grant awards. Factor 2—Need/Extent of the Problem. This factor refers to whether or not your community has a significant problem to be addressed and an urgent need for HUD funding to address that problem. To determine need, HUD relies on you to document the extent of the problem in the geographic area that you will target with your program. For example, when you propose to target activities to a particular neighborhood, you should document the extent of need in that neighborhood as opposed to the larger community in which the neighborhood is located. The need should be related to the purpose of your proposed activities and documented using sound and reliable data wherever possible. If firm statistical data are not available for the target area, other means of documenting need are acceptable, but often are not rated as highly as an application that contains firm statistical evidence of need. If possible, you are encouraged to link the documentation of need to data identified in the community’s Consolidated Plan, including the Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing Choice.6 To obtain a copy of your community’s Consolidated Plan, contact the community development office of your local government or your local HUD Field Office. A list of HUD Field Offices and telephone numbers is provided in Appendix A. (Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of those numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 1-800–877–8339.) To obtain a copy of your community’s AI to Fair Housing Choice, contact the housing and community development office of your local government. Small cities (communities with less than 50,000 population) that are CDBG nonentitlement communities should contact the offices of their State government instead of their local government for copies of the Consolidated Plan, including the AI. Applicants should request electronic copies of these documents, if available, so that they can insert relevant portions of these documents into their electronic application submissions. Factor 3—Soundness of Approach. This factor addresses the quality and appropriateness of your proposed program. The exact criteria that will be considered in rating this factor will vary by program and are detailed in each program NOFA. Examples of some criteria that might be considered include the extent to which: • • • Activities in your work plan and proposed budget detail the specific activities to be performed and benefits to be achieved. Activities in your work plan give priority to the needs identified in factor 2. Activities in your work plan affirmatively further fair housing.
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Activities in your work plan have a clear timeframe for implementation and will produce measurable results related to the purposes of the grant program in a reasonable time period. Activities in your work plan will produce products or ideas that can be used in other communities. Activities in your work plan further the policy priorities of HUD.
Factor 4—Leveraging Resources. This factor refers to your ability to secure resources beyond those provided by the specific program from which you are seeking funds. This factor is designed to encourage you to obtain resources in combination with HUD funding to increase your chances of achieving the purposes of the activities you propose to undertake. Leveraged resources may include funding or in-kind contributions, such as services or equipment. Partners providing the leveraged resources may include governmental entities, public or private nonprofit organizations, for-profit private organizations, individuals, or other entities willing to partner with you. Be sure to document evidence of these resources in a letter or other document signed by an authorized official of the organization legally able to make a binding commitment for the organization that will provide the resources, as specified in each program NOFA. The requirements for documentation are contained in each program section of the SuperNOFA. Therefore, you may need to make special efforts to coordinate promises for funding to satisfy requirements. This factor focuses on resources targeted to the specific activities you are proposing. Therefore, you should give special consideration to creating partnerships that are appropriate for designing and implementing your proposed activities. Factor 5—Achieving Results and Program Evaluation. Achieving results means that each applicant in his/her application has clearly defined specific interim or final products (called outputs) that will be achieved during the award period. These will serve as benchmarks for measuring progress. In addition, your application should identify specific outcomes or impacts that your program of activities will have on the community. For example, as a result of your activities, you may successfully increase homeownership opportunities for minorities or persons with disabilities in your community, or you may improve the environmental quality of housing for children in the community. In structuring your application, you should keep in mind that outcomes are ultimate goals. Benchmarks or outputs are interim activities or products that lead to the ultimate achievement of your goals. You should carefully review the program NOFA(s) for which you are seeking funding, as many of the NOFAs contain specific outputs and outcomes that applicants are expected to achieve if awarded funds. Program evaluation requires that you, the applicant, have identified specific reporting tools that you have in place (or will have in place) to track output and outcome information, how information is being collected and how often, and the methodology you will use to measure your success in meeting your stated goals. HUD expects that if you are not meeting your stated goals and projected results that you will use the evaluation tool to adjust your business practices to
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ensure that performance goals are met within the award period. HUD uses a logic model to assist applicants in identifying outputs and outcomes. HUD’s Logic Model Form will help you complete your response to rating factor 5. Training via satellite broadcast will be provided and available as a Webcast from HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm. Webcast training information is available on HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov: click on “Training.” Although HUD does not offer direct grants or loans to individuals, we do work with local governments and nonprofit organizations to make financial assistance and counseling available. Further information can be obtained from HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm. If you are an individual looking for information on Government benefits, refer to GovBenefits Web site at govbenefits.gov, the official Government benefits Web site, a free, confidential tool that helps individuals find Government benefits they may be eligible to receive.
Who Can Apply for SuperNOFA Programs?
Each of the programs included in the SuperNOFA have different statutory and congressionally mandated requirements for determining which organizations are eligible to apply for funding. Table 2 provides a listing of the SuperNOFA funding opportunities arranged by the type of applicant eligible for each. The table is only a guide. You must read the Eligible Applicants Section for the specific programs in the SuperNOFA to determine eligibility for program funds. Although HUD is strictly prohibited from awarding funding to ineligible applicants, we strongly encourage ineligible groups with expertise to partner with an eligible entity that would be eligible to apply.
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Table 2: SuperNOFA Programs Listed by Applicant Type Type of Applicant7
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Governmental Organizations
HOME Technical Assistance (TA) McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) TA Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) TA Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) Housing Counseling Program — State Housing Finance Agencies (SHFAs) — Housing Counseling Agencies Serving Colonias — Predatory Lending — Section 8 Homeownership Program Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program Lead Technical Studies Program Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Lead Outreach Grant Program Youthbuild Rural Housing and Economic Development (RHED) Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)—Competitive Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol HOME TA McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA HOPWA TA CDBG TA FHIP — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI)
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Table 2: SuperNOFA Programs Listed by Applicant Type Type of Applicant7
Units of General Local Government (cont’d) • • • • • • • • • • • Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) • • • • •
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Governmental Organizations
Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program Lead Technical Studies Program Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Lead Outreach Grant Program Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) Youthbuild Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Shelter Plus Care (S+C) HOPWA—Competitive Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA FHIP — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) Youthbuild Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Program — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Elderly and Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Family — ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services (HSS) — ROSS for Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Public Housing for Neighborhood Networks Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program for Homeless Individuals — Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities8 Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing Housing Choice Voucher FSS Program Coordinators
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Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) •
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ROSS Program — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models– Elderly/Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Family — ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services (HSS) Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency Program Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program Lead Technical Studies Program Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Lead Outreach Grant Program Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages ROSS Program — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models−Elderly and Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Family — ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services (HSS)
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Nonprofit Organizations and Others Nonprofit Organizations • • • Community Development TA Youthbuild TA Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP)9 — Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) — Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI)
For FHIP-PEI, the nonprofit organization must be a fair housing enforcement organization with at least 1 year of experience in complaint intake and investigation, testing for fair housing violations, and meritorious claims in the 2 years prior to the filing of the application. For FHIP-FHOI, the nonprofit must be a qualified fair housing enforcement organization with at least 2 years experience in complaint intake and investigation, testing for fair housing violations, and meritorious claims in the 3 years prior to the filing of the application.
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Table 2: SuperNOFA Programs Listed by Applicant Type Type of Applicant5 Available Programs
Nonprofit Organizations and Others
Nonprofit Organizations (cont’d) • Housing Counseling Programs (HCP)10 — Local Housing Counseling Agencies — National, Regional — Supplemental Funding — Housing Counseling Agencies Serving Colonias — Predatory Lending — Section 8 Homeownership Program Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control — Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program — Lead Technical Studies Program — Healthy Homes Demonstration Program — Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP) — Lead Outreach Grant Program Youthbuild Rural Housing and Economic Development (RHED) ROSS Program — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models−Elderly and Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models−Family — ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services (HSS) — Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation SRO Program for Homeless Individuals (private, nonprofit organizations) Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP) for Eligible Multifamily Projects Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities HOPWA−Competitive Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing
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Colleges and Universities • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Doctoral Students and Post-Doctoral Students • • • •
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Nonprofit Organizations and Others
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA CDBG TA Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)11 Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC)12 Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC)13 Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)14 FHIP – Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program Lead Technical Studies Program Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Operation LEAP (non-public entities) Lead Outreach Grant Program Community Development Work Study Program (CDWSP) Youthbuild Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) Early Doctoral Student Research Grant (EDSRG) FHIP — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) ROSS Program — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Elderly and Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Family Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing
Resident Organizations
Owners of Assisted Low-Income Housing
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13 To qualify for AN/NHIAC, the college or university must meet the U.S. Department of Education’s definition of an Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian Institution. 14 To qualify for TCUP, the college or university must meet the U.S. Department of Education’s definition of a tribal college or university. In some cases, TCUPs are part of a tribal government. 12
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Table 2: SuperNOFA Programs Listed by Applicant Type Type of Applicant5
Federally Approved Education and Employment Training Organization • Youthbuild
Available Programs
Nonprofit Organizations and Others
For-Profit Professional and Technical Services Companies
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Additional Items Related to HUD’s NOFAs
Waiver of Electronic Submission Requirement During FY 2005, HUD will only accept electronic applications submitted through the Grants.gov portal unless the applicant has received a waiver from the Department. As already noted, the Continuum of Care (CoC) NOFA is the only program exempt from this electronic submission requirement and therefore applications may be submitted in hard copy. HUD regulations at 24 CFR 5.110 permit waivers of regulatory requirements to be granted for cause. If you are unable to submit your application electronically, you may, in writing, request a waiver from this requirement. Your waiver request must state the basis for the request and explain why electronic submission is not possible. The basis for waivers for cause may include but are not limited to: (a) lack of available internet access in the geographic location in which the applicant’s business office is located, or (b) the physical disability of the applicant prevents the applicant from accessing or responding to the electronic application. Corrections to Deficient Applications In accordance with our regulations in 24 CFR Part 4, Subpart B, HUD cannot consider any unsolicited information that you, the applicant, may want to provide after the application submission date. However, to ensure that no applications are unreasonably excluded from being rated and ranked, HUD may contact applicants to correct technical deficiencies and will do so on a uniform basis for all applicants. HUD may also contact you to clarify an item in your application. You should note that HUD might not seek clarification of items or responses that improve the substantive quality of your response to any selection factors. Examples of curable (correctable) technical deficiencies include inconsistencies in the funding request, failure to submit the proper certifications, and failure to submit an application that contains a signature by an official able to make a legally binding commitment on behalf of the applicant. In the case of an applicant that received a waiver, the technical deficiency may include failure to submit an application that contains an original signature. In each case, HUD will notify you in writing by facsimile or by letter with return receipt requested describing the clarification or technical deficiency. You must submit clarifications or corrections of technical deficiencies in accordance with the information provided by HUD within 14 calendar days, or within another specified timeframe, of the date you receive HUD notification. If your deficiency is not corrected within this time period, HUD will reject your application as incomplete and will not consider it for funding. (Note that the Sections 202 and 811 programs provide for appeal of rejection of an application on technical deficiency. Please see the Programs Section of the SuperNOFA for additional information and instructions.)
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Environmental Requirements HUD’s mission is to promote a decent, safe, and sanitary home and suitable living environment for every American. In furtherance of this mission, all of HUD’s programs have applicable federal environmental review requirements. Applicants should be aware that upon submission of application for HUD assistance, neither the applicant nor any participant in the development process may undertake any actions with respect to the project that are choice-limiting or could have environmentally adverse effects, including demolishing, acquiring, rehabilitating, converting, leasing, repairing, or constructing property proposed to be assisted under this NOFA until an environmental review is complete.
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Part II: Descriptions of Programs Included in the SuperNOFA
This section provides brief descriptions of the programs included in HUD’s 2005 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA). The descriptions summarize the purpose of the programs, eligible applicants, and eligible activities. Before applying for a particular program, applicants should read the SuperNOFA explanation of the program, including eligible applicants, to make sure that their organizations and proposed activities qualify under the program regulations. The descriptions in the SuperNOFA are more detailed than those provided below. You may also contact your HUD Field Office (see Appendix A) for more information. The program descriptions are presented in the same order as they appear in Table 1. The programs are grouped under subheadings based on the general purpose of the program.
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Housing and Community Development
Descriptions of the following programs are included in this section. Technical Assistance (TA) • • • • • • • HOME TA HOME-Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) TA McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) TA Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) TA Youthbuild TA Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages Fair Housing Outreach/Enforcement and Housing Counseling • Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) — Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) — Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) — Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI) • Housing Counseling Program (HCP) — National, Regional — Local Counseling Agencies — State Housing Finance Agencies (SHFAs) Supplemental Funding — Housing Counseling Agencies Serving Colonias — Predatory Lending — Section 8 Homeownership Program — Housing Counseing HECM Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control • Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program • Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program • Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program • Lead Technical Studies Program • Healthy Homes Demonstration Program • Lead Outreach Grant Program • Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP)
Universities and Colleges • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) • Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) • Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC) • Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) • Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) Student Research and Study Programs • Early Doctoral Student Research Grant (EDSRG) Program • Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) Program • Community Development Work Study Program (CDWSP)
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Technical Assistance (TA) HOME TA. The HOME Investment Partnerships Program provides funds to States and local governments (participating jurisdictions [PJs]), to implement local housing strategies to increase the supply of housing for low-income people. HOME TA is designed to improve the ability of PJs to effectively design and implement HOME strategies. HOME TA provides funds to the following entities: • • • • • HOME PJs. For-profit or nonprofit professional and technical services firms with demonstrated knowledge of the HOME program and the capacity to provide TA. Public purpose organizations responsible to the chief elected officers of PJs established pursuant to State or local legislation. Agencies or authorities established by two or more PJs to carry out activities consistent with the purposes of the HOME program. National or regional nonprofit organizations that have memberships comprised predominantly of entities, officials of entities of PJs, or PJs’ agencies or established organizations.
The funding may be used for the following activities: • To improve the ability of HOME participants to design and implement housing programs that reflect sound underwriting, management, and fiscal controls; demonstrate measurable outcomes in the use of public funds; and include accurate and timely reporting of HOME program accomplishments. To encourage public-private partnerships that yield an increase in the amount of private dollars leveraged for HOME-assisted projects and result in an increase in the commitment and production of HOME-assisted units. To assist PJs in developing strategies that ameliorate the affordability gap between rapidly increasing housing costs and the less rapid growth in income among low-income households, especially among underserved populations. To assist PJs in developing strategies that increase and help sustain homeownership opportunities for low-income households, particularly low-income minority households, and directly result in the commitment and completion of HOME-assisted units.
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Approximately $7.22 million is available under the HOME TA Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development HOME Community Housing Development Organization TA (HOME-CHDO TA). HOMECHDO TA is designed to provide education and organizational support assistance to CHDOs in the HOME program with the objective of developing their HOME-assisted units. Not less than 40 percent of the funds made available for HOME-CHDO TA in FY 2005 shall be made available to
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eligible organizations that have worked primarily in one state. HOME-CHDO TA provides funds to the following entities: • Public or private nonprofit intermediary organizations that: customarily provide services in more than one community related to the provision of decent housing that is affordable to lowand moderate-income persons or related to the revitalization of deteriorating neighborhoods; have demonstrated experience in providing a range of assistance (such as financing, TA, construction, and property management assistance) to CHDOs or similar organizations that engage in community revitalization; and have demonstrated the ability to provide TA and training for community-based developers of affordable housing.
The funding may be used for the following activities: • To assist new CHDOs and potential CHDOs develop the organizational capacity to own, develop, and sponsor HOME-assisted projects. A new CHDO is defined as a nonprofit organization that, within 3 years of the publication of this NOFA, was determined by a PJ to qualify as a CHDO and is expected to enter into a written agreement with that PJ to own, develop, or sponsor HOME-assisted housing within 24 months of the PJ’s determining the organization qualifies as a CHDO. To improve the HOME program production and performance of existing CHDOs in the areas of program design and management, including underwriting, project financing, property management, and compliance; and organizational management and capacity, including fiscal controls, board development, contract administration, and compliance systems. Provision of organizational support TA and training to community groups for the establishment of community land trusts as defined in Section 223(f) of the Cranston Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act. Funding of various operating expenses for eligible CHDOs that own, develop, or sponsor HOME-assisted housing under the “passthrough” provision. Such operating expenses may include reasonable and necessary costs for the operation of the CHDO including salaries, wages, and other employee compensation and benefits; employee education, training, and travel; rent; utilities; communication costs; taxes; insurance; and equipment, materials, and supplies. Providers must establish written criteria for selection of CHDOs receiving passthrough funds. PJs must designate the organizations as CHDOs, and generally the organizations should not have been in existence more that 3 years. Providers must enter into an agreement with the CHDO that the agreement and passthrough funding may be terminated at the discretion of HUD if no written legally binding agreement to provide assistance for a specific housing project (for acquisition, rehabilitation, new construction, or tenant-based rental assistance) has been made by the PJ with the CHDO within 24 months of initially receiving passthrough funding. The passthrough amount, when combined with other capacity building and operating support available through the HOME program, cannot exceed the greater of 50 percent of the CHDO’s operating budget for the year in which it receives funds, or $50,000 annually.
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Approximately $7.44 million is available under the HOME-CHDO TA Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs TA (McKinney-Vento TA). McKinney-Vento TA is designed to improve the effectiveness of homeless assistance strategies implemented through HUD’s Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program and Continuum of Care, which includes the Supportive Housing Program (SHP), Shelter Plus Care (S+C), and Section 8 Assistance for Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Dwellings. McKinney-Vento TA funds the following entities: • • • • States. Units of general local government. Public housing agencies (PHAs). Public or private nonprofit or for-profit groups including educational institutions and area wide planning organizations that are qualified to provide TA.
These organizations use the funds to provide TA that enhances the planning, development, administration, and/or evaluation skills of McKinney-Vento program applicants, prospective applicants, funding recipients, and project sponsors. The TA activities are focused on the following priorities: • To facilitate the exchange of information between community organizations to develop and implement a community-wide discharge plan for individuals exiting publicly funded institutions (e.g., criminal justice system, foster care system, mental health system) so that these individuals do not become homeless. To improve the ability of eligible applicants to develop and operate permanent housing projects for chronically homeless persons. To develop materials on effective grant administration for grantees and sponsors. To improve the ability of eligible grantees and sponsors to reach out to chronically homeless persons. To improve the ability of grantees and sponsors in coordinating services that are available through mainstream resources with housing units available for homeless persons. To assist in the formation of metropolitan, regional, and Statewide Homeless Management Information Systems. To develop materials on effective grant management for ESG recipients, including guidance on Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) implementation.
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Program Office: Community Planning and Development Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS TA (HOPWA TA). HOPWA TA is designed to improve the overall effectiveness of programs and projects implemented with HOPWA funding. It accomplishes this by funding states, units of general local government, for-profit and nonprofit organizations to provide national, regional, and local programs to train HOPWA grantees, project sponsors, and potential recipients of HOPWA funds in comprehensive housing strategies, sound program/project management, and organizational capacity building. HOPWA TA funds the following entities: • • • For-profit and nonprofit organizations. States. Units of general local government.
The TA activities are focused on the following priorities: • • • • • • • To improve HOPWA client access to health and human welfare resources in connection with housing provided under the program. To increase appropriate use of HOPWA management and performance reporting tools. To obtain accurate data reporting and program evaluation. To develop and train on tools to measure and evaluate long-term outcomes for clients on housing stability reduced risk of homelessness, and improved access to care. To improve the ability of grantees and project sponsors to reach and assist persons who are chronically homeless persons. To disseminate HOPWA Special Projects of National Significance successes and lessons learned. To enhance the ability of grantees and sponsors to sustain program operations.
Approximately up to $2 million is available under the HOPWA TA Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Community Development Block Grant TA (CDBG TA). CDBG TA is designed to provide funds to States and local governments to implement community and economic development projects. CDBG TA accomplishes this by improving the ability of grantees and their subrecipients to implement community and economic development strategies and projects in their jurisdictions. CDBG TA provides funds to the following entities: • States.
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Units of general local government. National or regional nonprofit organizations that have membership comprised predominately of entities or officials of entities of CDBG recipients. For-profit or nonprofit professional and technical services companies or firms that have demonstrated knowledge of the CDBG program and the capacity to provide TA services. Public or private nonprofit or for-profit organizations, including educational institutions and ide planning organizations.
The CDBG TA may provide program information to facilitate skills and knowledge in planning, developing, and administering activities under the CDBG program and Section 108 Loan Guarantees for recipients and other entities that need but do not possess such skill and knowledge. TA activities are focused on the following priorities: • • • • • • To improve CDBG and Section 108 program knowledge through program-specific recipient training. To improve CDBG and Section 108 recipient understanding of performance measurement from a national programmatic perspective. To improve recipient knowledge and skills to develop and implement local CDBG performance measurement systems. To assist recipient development of local CDBG performance measurement systems. To develop model local protocols that ensure accurate program recordkeeping and performance data by recipients, subrecipients, and subgrantees. To develop materials on effective grant administration for grantees, subrecipients, and subgrantees.
Approximately $1.39 million is available under the CDBG TA program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Youthbuild TA (Youthbuild TA). Youthbuild TA funds are designed to provide appropriate training, information, and TA to federally funded Youthbuild programs and to HUD regarding the management, supervision, and coordination of such Youthbuild programs. Youthbuild TA funds are available to public or private nonprofit agencies that have significant prior experience in the operation of projects similar to the Youthbuild program and that have the capacity to provide effective TA. Youthbuild TA funds are focused on improving the management and implementation of Youthbuild programs, improving Youthbuild program applications, strengthening Youthbuild program design, and assisting HUD in the management, supervision, and coordination of Youthbuild programs.
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Approximately $3.07 million is available under the Youthbuild TA program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for Indian Tribes and Alaskan Native Villages. The primary objective of this program is to aid the development of viable Indian and Alaskan Native communities that provide a suitable living environment with decent housing and significant economic opportunities, particularly for people with low to moderate incomes. The program funds federally recognized Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages and, in certain circumstances, tribal organizations, on a competitive basis for housing rehabilitation, land to support new housing, new housing construction, community infrastructure, community buildings, economic development, public services, and planning. Approximately $64.42 million is available for the ICDBG program for Indian Tribes and Alaskan Native Villages for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Universities and Colleges Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). The HBCU program is designed to help historically black colleges and universities expand their role and effectiveness in addressing local community development needs in localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development, principally for persons of low- and moderate-income. Only HBCUs as determined by the U.S. Department of Education are eligible to apply for funding under this program. HBCUs must also be accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The types of activities that are eligible under this program are the same as those that are eligible under the CDBG program and must meet one of the CDBG national objectives. Activities include, but are not limited to, the following: • • • • • • • Real property acquisition. Clearance and demolition. Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures. Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income people. Public facilities improvements. Special economic development activities. Eligible public services.
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Facilitation of the establishment/expansion of microenterprises. Assistance to community-based development organizations. Establishment of a community development corporation (CDC) to undertake eligible activities. Planning and administration of costs related to grant-funded activities.
Approximately $13.2 million is available under the HBCU program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC) Program. HSIAC is designed to assist nonprofit Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) of higher education expand their role and their effectiveness in addressing community development needs such as neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development. Under this program, HSIs (as defined by the U.S. Department of Education) are funded for projects that benefit primarily low- and moderateincome persons, aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or meet urgent community development needs for which no other financial resources are available. Examples of eligible activities under this program include: • • • • • • • Real property acquisition. Clearance and demolition. Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures. Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income people. Public facilities improvements. Special economic development activities. Eligible public services.
Approximately $6.6 million is available under the HSIAC program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC) Program. The AN/NHIAC program is designed to assist nonprofit Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian (AN/NHI) Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) expand their roles and their effectiveness in addressing community development needs such as neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development needs in their communities. Under this program, accredited AN/NHI IHEs (as defined by the U.S. Department of Education) are funded for projects that benefit primarily low- and moderate-income persons, aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or
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blight, or meet urgent community development needs for which no other financial resources are available. Examples of eligible activities under this program include: • • • • • • • Real property acquisition. Clearance and demolition. Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures. Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income people. Public facilities improvements. Special economic development activities. Eligible public services.
Approximately $4.2 million is available under the AN/NHIAC program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP). The TCUP program is designed to assist tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in building, expanding, renovating, and equipping their own facilities. Under this program, TCUs (as defined by the U.S. Department of Education) are awarded funds for activities that benefit primarily low- and moderate-income persons, aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or meet other urgent community development needs for which no other financial resources are available. Examples of eligible activities under this program include: • • • Equipment purchase. Construction. Facilities improvement.
Approximately $3 million is available under TCUP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) Program. The COPC program is designed to help nonprofit colleges and universities establish or conduct outreach and applied research activities to address problems in urban areas. The program also seeks to encourage structural changes, both within an IHE and in the way the institution relates to the community. The COPC program provides funding to accredited 2- or 4-year colleges and universities to establish and operate COPCs that address at least three of the following issues in a targeted urban community: • • Local housing. Economic development.
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Multiple IHEs in a particular region also may apply jointly as a consortium. Approximately $6.6 million is available under the COPC program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Early Doctoral Student Research Grant (EDSRG) Program. The EDSRG program enables a doctoral student in the early stages of his/her doctoral program to cultivate research skills through the preparation of a research manuscript that focuses on housing and urban development issues. An applicant can receive up to $15,000 for a maximum grant period of 12 months. Applicants applying for funding under this program must meet the following requirements: 1. Be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (recipients of Alien Registration Recipient Card Form I–551, commonly referred to as a “green card”). 2. Not have taken preliminary/comprehensive examinations. 3. Completed at least two semesters or three terms of a doctoral studies program. 4. Receive support from their university in the form of office space, equipment, and/or other resources. Approximately $150,000 is available under the EDSRG program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) Program. The DDRG program enables doctoral candidates to complete their research and dissertations on housing and urban development issues. Applicants can receive up to $25,000 for a maximum grant period of 24 months. Students applying for funding under this program must meet the following requirements: • • Be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (recipients of Alien Registration Recipient Card Form I–551, commonly referred to as a green card). Completed all other written and oral PhD requirements.
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Approximately $400,000 is available under the DDRG program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Community Development Work Study Program (CDWSP). CDWSP awards 2-year grants to accredited IHEs, area planning organizations (APOs), and states applying on behalf of IHEs to provide assistance to economically disadvantaged and minority graduate students who participate in a community development work study program. This funding allows IHEs to provide students with work stipends, tuition support, and other additional forms of support. The students must be enrolled full time in graduate programs in community and economic development, community planning or management, or other related fields of study. Related fields include public administration, urban management, and urban planning, community development and exclude fields such as law, economics, education, and history. Approximately $3.2 million is available under CDWSP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Policy Development and Research Fair Housing Education and Outreach/Enforcement and Housing Counseling Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP). FHIP is designed to increase compliance with the Fair Housing Act and with substantially equivalent state and local fair housing laws by providing funding resulting in an increased number of referrals to HUD of fair housing complaints and other information regarding discriminatory housing practices. FHIP has two objectives, education/outreach and enforcement. Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI). FHIP-PEI provides funding to Qualified Fair Housing Organizations (QFHOs) and Fair Housing Organizations (FHOs) for a broad range of activities related to enforcing the Fair Housing Act and substantially equivalent State and local fair housing laws. Under this initiative, at least 38 percent of the funding will be awarded to consistently high performing enforcement organizations that will assist agencies in implementing strategic plans and developing long-term systemic investigations. Education and Outreach (EOI). FHIP-EOI assists national and local projects that inform and educate the public about rights and obligations under the Fair Housing Act and substantially
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equivalent State and local fair housing enforcement laws. Almost any public or private organization that is formulating or carrying out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices is eligible for FHIP-EOI. Eligible program activities include: • • • • • • Holding education symposia. Duplicating existing fair housing materials for distribution. Conducting outreach and providing information on fair housing through printed and electronic media. Providing outreach to all protected classes. Developing or implementing Fair Housing Month activities. Referring fair housing complaints.
Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI). FHIP-FHOI is designed to build the capacity of organizations to conduct fair housing enforcement activities in unserved and underserved areas with large concentrations of persons protected by the Fair Housing Act. Fair housing enforcement grants are generally limited to QFHOs, which are agencies with no fewer than 2 years of enforcement-related experience, and FHOs, which are agencies with at least 1 year of enforcement-related experience. The eligible activities for enforcement grants are: • • • • Conducting intake of allegations of housing discrimination, testing, and evaluating test results. Investigating individual complaints and systemic housing discrimination. Mediating or otherwise voluntarily resolving allegations of fair housing discrimination. Litigating fair housing cases.
Approximately $18.04 million is available under FHIP for fiscal year (FY) 2005.15 Program Office: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Housing Counseling Program (HCP). This program supports the delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, low- to moderate-income renters, and homeless individuals and families. The primary objectives of the program are to expand homeownership opportunities and improve access to affordable housing. Counselors provide guidance and advice to help families and individuals improve their housing conditions and meet the responsibilities of tenancy and homeownership. Agencies funded through this program may also provide Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) counseling to elderly homeowners who
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are looking to convert equity in their homes into income that can be used to pay for home improvements, medical costs, and/or living expenses. HCP funds HUD-approved local housing counseling agencies, HUD-approved national and regional intermediaries, and state housing finance agencies (SHFAs). The 2005 SuperNOFA includes supplemental funds for agencies providing services to residents of colonias, for counseling and education regarding predatory lending, and for counseling and education performed in conjunction with HUD’s Homeownership Voucher Program. Local agencies are funded directly by HUD to provide services within their communities. Intermediaries and SHFAs manage the use of HUD housing counseling funds by subgrantees, including local affiliates and branches. For information on how to become a HUD-approved housing counseling agency, consult the HUD Web site at www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/hccprof13.cfm. Approximately $38.91 million is available under HCP for fiscal year (FY) 2005.16 Program Office: Housing Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program. The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program is to reduce the exposure of young children to lead hazards in their homes. This program provides funding to states, Indian tribes, and local governments to evaluate and reduce lead hazards in private housing rented or owned by low-income families. Examples of activities that can be funded under this program include: • • • • • • • • Risk assessments, paint inspections, and clearance testing of homes for lead hazards. Remediation of lead hazards in units through interim controls and abatement of lead hazards. Blood testing of young children in units where lead hazard control activities will be undertaken. Partnering with faith-based and community-based organizations to conduct lead hazard control activities. Temporary relocation of families during hazard control work in a unit. Training low-income people to conduct lead hazard control worker activities. Community education and outreach. Data collection, analysis, and evaluation.
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Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program. The Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program is designed to provide grants to units of general local government in areas with the highest lead paint abatement needs, as determined by the highest number of pre1940 occupied rental units and a disproportionately high number of documented cases of leadpoisoned children under age 6. Under this program, at least 90 percent of the funds are to be used for lead-based paint abatement, interim controls, combined lead-based paint inspection and risk assessment, clearance testing, and the temporary relocation of occupants during lead hazard control work in privately owned housing units that serve low-income families with children under age 6. Housing units treated under this demonstration grant program must remain available for low-income residents for at least 3 years following lead hazard control work. Approximately $49.4 million is available under the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program. The purpose of this program is to improve the efficacy and cost effectiveness of methods for detecting and controlling housing-related health and safety hazards in the home. This program funds state and local governments, academic institutions, other nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and federally recognized Native American tribes to support research on these issues. Examples of research topics for which applications are being solicited are: • • • Evaluation of methodologies to assess and control residential environmental health and safety hazards. Testing of low-cost analytical technologies or visual assessment tools for the rapid onsite determination of environmental contaminants in the home environment. Other areas of research consistent with the overall goals of the program.
Approximately $2 million is available under the Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Lead Technical Studies Program. The purpose of this program is to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for detecting and controlling residential lead-based paint hazards. This program funds state and local governments, academic and other nonprofit organizations, forprofit organizations, and federally recognized Native American tribes to support research on these
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issues. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are also eligible to apply under a set-aside. Examples of research topics for which applications are being solicited are: • • • • • Assessing the effectiveness of novel cleaning technologies. Reducing exterior soil and dust-lead hazards. Assessing the effectiveness of ongoing maintenance programs in controlling lead-based paint hazards. New and creative uses of public databases to improve lead hazard control activities. Other areas of research consistent with the overall goals of the program.
Approximately $3 million is available under the Lead Technical Studies Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Healthy Homes Demonstration Program. The Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is designed to develop, demonstrate, and promote cost-effective preventive measures to correct multiple housing-related safety and health hazards that cause serious diseases and injuries to children. HUD is interested in reducing threats to a maximum number of residents, especially children in low-income families, in a cost-efficient manner. The objectives of the demonstration are to mobilize public and private resources by involving cooperation among all levels of government, the private sector, and faith-based and other community-based organizations to develop the most promising, cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling housing-based hazards. Healthy Homes Demonstrations develop housing assessment, maintenance, renovation, and construction techniques to identify and correct housing-related illness and injury risk factors, disseminate healthy homes information, and replicate successful models. Eligible applicants are states, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit institutions, and for-profit firms located in the United States. Approximately $5 million is available under the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Lead Outreach Grant Program. The purpose of the Lead Outreach Grant Program is to develop and distribute outreach and educational materials to raise public awareness of childhood lead poisoning and its prevention; promote proper lead hazard identification and control methods among at-risk communities and at-risk populations of children and workers; encourage occupants to identify potential lead-based paint hazards and report them to property owners and managers, public health officials, and/or housing officials as appropriate; and increase enrollment of low40 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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income housing units for remediation through the HUD Lead Hazard Control Program or other similar lead hazard control programs. Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations, such as groups of parents of children who have had lead poisoning; grassroots organizations, including faith-based and community-based organizations; and for-profit firms, such as marketing/advertising, broadcasting, publishing, and print media companies. Approximately $2 million is available under the Lead Outreach Grant Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP). The purpose of Operation LEAP is to leverage private-sector resources to eliminate lead poisoning as a major public health threat to young children. Operation LEAP is a HUD initiative designed to provide seed money to nonprofit and for-profit entities that possess the capacity to mobilize substantial private-sector resources to support lead hazard control activities in housing. Resources generated by Operation LEAP grantees will be used to assist national, state, and local efforts being conducted on both a preventive and a remedial basis to prevent childhood lead poisoning. To be eligible to apply for funding under this program, applicants must be a tax-exempt nonprofit or for-profit entity or firm. States and units of general local government and their departments are not eligible. Private colleges and universities are eligible as nonprofit entities. Approximately $8 million is available under Operation LEAP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
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Economic Development and Empowerment
Descriptions of the following programs are included in this section. • • • • • Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) Youthbuild Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program Coordinators Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Program (ROSS) — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Elderly and Persons with Disabilities — ROSS for Resident Service Delivery Models–Family — ROSS for Homeownership Supportive Services — Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency
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Funding for BEDI is provided through a specific appropriation for brownfields redevelopment. BEDI funds are to be used to strengthen the economic feasibility of a brownfields economic development project financed with a Section 108 guaranteed loan or to directly enhance the
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security of the guaranteed loan. CDBG funding, which is awarded to entitlement communities and States on a formula basis, does not need to be used in conjunction with a Section 108 loan guarantee. Approximately $24.4 million is available under BEDI for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Youthbuild Program. Youthbuild is designed to provide economically disadvantaged young adults with opportunities to obtain an educational experience that will enhance their employment skills as a means to achieving self-sufficiency. Youthbuild provides funds to nonprofit organizations, state and local housing agencies, state and local governments, and other organizations eligible to provide education and employment training under Federal employment training programs. The funding is used to implement housing construction/rehabilitation training programs for disadvantaged and very low-income high school dropouts ages 16 to 24. Youthbuild programs offer educational and job-training services, counseling and other support activities, and onsite paid training in housing rehabilitation or construction work. At least 50 percent of each participant’s time is spent in classroom training. Approximately $56.4 million is available under the Youthbuild program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program Coordinators. The FSS program is intended to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the housing choice voucher program with public and private resources to enable participating families to achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency. Through annual NOFAs, HUD provides funding to PHAs to pay salaries of HCV/FSS program coordinates for one year. An FSS program coordinator ensures that program participants are linked to the supportive services they need to achieve self-sufficiency. Approximately $45.6 million is available under HCV/FSS for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Public Housing Neighborhood Networks (NN) Program. Neighborhood Networks provides funds to PHAs and qualified nonprofit entities to establish and operate new Neighborhood Networks centers or update and expand existing Neighborhood Networks centers. Neighborhood Networks centers operate in public housing developments and offer a wide range of services that help residents gain 21st Century job skills and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Neighborhood
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Networks also provides funding for physical improvements, computer hardware, software, Internet, and so on. Approximately $23.88 million is available under the Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Programs for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Rural Housing and Economic Development (RHED) Program. The RHED program is designed to build capacity for planning and implementing rural housing and economic development strategies and to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. The program provides funding to local rural nonprofit organizations, community development corporations (CDCs), federally designated Indian tribes, state housing finance agencies (SHFAs), and state economic or community development agencies for capacity building and implementation of innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas. Examples of capacitybuilding activities include: hiring and training staff; purchasing, developing, and managing management information system (MIS) tools; and obtaining expertise from outside sources. Examples of implementation costs include design costs, acquisition of land and buildings, provision of infrastructure, and construction. Approximately $23.8 million is available under the RHED program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Program. ROSS is designed to help public housing residents become economically self-sufficient. ROSS funds PHAs, resident management corporations, resident councils, resident organizations, intermediary resident organizations, citywide resident organizations, and nonprofit entities supported by residents, Indian tribes, and tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs) to provide training and supportive services to public housing residents. The ROSS program has the Public Housing Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, which was previously funded under the Operating Fund. The Public Housing FSS NOFA will provide funding on a competitive basis for PHAs to hire an FSS program coordinator. In another change this year, renewals of the Public Housing Elderly/Disabled Service Coordinator grants will be funded through the Operating Fund, not through a separate notice or the SuperNOFA. ROSS has the following three funding categories: • Resident Service Delivery Model–Elderly and Persons with Disabilities funds programs to enable elderly/people with disabilities living in public housing to live independently.
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Targeted Housing and Homeless Assistance
Descriptions of the following programs are included in this section. Homeless Assistance • Continuum of Care — Supportive Housing Program (SHP) — Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program — Shelter Plus Care (S+C) • Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol Elderly • Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly • Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP) for Eligible Multifamily Projects Persons With Disabilities • Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities Other Targeted Housing Assistance • Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) • Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing
Homeless Assistance The Continuum of Care is a comprehensive approach to assisting individuals and families in moving from homelessness to independence and self-sufficiency. Understanding that homeless people have varying needs, the Continuum of Care provides a continuum of services allowing individuals to move from emergency shelter to transitional housing, then to permanent housing. Along the way, individuals in need of counseling and supportive services, job training, and other social services are provided with these opportunities so that root causes of homelessness are addressed. Funding for Continuum of Care approaches is provided through three competitive programs: Supportive Housing Program (SHP), the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program, and Shelter Plus Care (S+C). In addition to the programs in the SuperNOFA, the Continuum of Care is also supported through one formula grant program, the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program. Continuum of Care—Supportive Housing Program (SHP). SHP helps homeless people live as independently as possible by facilitating the development of housing and related supportive services for people moving from homelessness to independent living. SHP funds state and local governments, other agencies (such as PHAs), and nonprofit organizations that provide housing and supportive services for the homeless. SHP supports six types of program designs:
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Transitional housing, which helps homeless people move to permanent housing. Permanent housing for homeless people with disabilities. Safe Havens, 24-hour supportive housing that serves hard-to-reach homeless people with severe mental illness. Supportive services for homeless people not living in supportive housing. − Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), a computerized system that captures client-level information over time regarding characteristics of homeless persons. − Other types of innovative supportive housing for homeless people.
Supportive services include childcare, employment assistance, outpatient health services, case management, assistance in locating and accessing permanent housing, help in obtaining employment, nutritional counseling, security arrangements, implementation and operation of a homeless management information system, and other assistance. SHP funds may be used to: • • • • • Acquire land for a homeless facility. Build, rehabilitate, or lease housing for homeless persons. Pay for new or increased supportive services for homeless people. Cover day-to-day operating expenses of supportive housing. Pay administrative expenses. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Continuum of Care—Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program. Section 8 SRO is designed to ensure an adequate supply of SRO units to provide housing for the homeless. This program funds public housing agencies (PHAs) and private nonprofit organizations for rental assistance to homeless individuals who rent rehabilitated SRO units. The rental assistance is paid to the owners of the rehabilitated units in the form of monthly rental subsidies. A portion of the subsidy covers the normal rental assistance that would be paid on behalf of the person occupying the unit under the Section 8 SRO program. The rest of the subsidy can be used by the owner to help offset the monthly debt service on the rehabilitation financing. Occupants of rehabilitated units must be otherwise eligible for Section 8 rental assistance. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Continuum of Care—Shelter Plus Care (S+C). S+C is designed to ensure the availability of supportive housing opportunities for homeless people with disabilities and their families. S+C has a primary focus on persons who are seriously mentally ill; who have chronic problems with alcohol, drugs, or both; or who have HIV/AIDS. S+C funds states, local governments, and PHAs
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to provide rental assistance to homeless people with disabilities and their families. Four types of rental assistance are available: tenant-based, project-based (contracted with a building owner), sponsor-based (contracted with a nonprofit organization), and SRO-based. Grantees must match the rental assistance with supportive services that are at least equal in value to the amount of HUD’s rental assistance. Approximately $1 billion is available under the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance programs for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol. This demonstration program is designed to provide housing assistance to homeless persons who have been living on the streets for at least three hundred and sixty-five (365) days during the last five (5) years and have a longterm addition to alcohol, otherwise described as serial inebriates. Grantees will partner with local law enforcement and court systems and other relevant institutions to identify eligible clients for this program. Grantees will demonstrate established relationships with service providers, including grassroots community-based organizations including faith-based organizations, to ensure the comprehensive supportive services needs of the clients are addressed. Approximately $10 million is available under the Housing for People who are Homeless and Addicted to Alcohol programs for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Elderly Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly. The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program is designed to enable very low-income elderly people (age 62 or older) to live independently by increasing the supply of rental housing with supportive services. Section 202 provides interest-free capital advances to private nonprofit organizations to construct, rehabilitate, or acquire (with or without rehabilitation) rental housing with supportive services for the very low-income elderly. The capital advance remains interest-free and does not need to be repaid as long as the housing remains available to very low-income elderly people for at least 40 years. The program also provides rental assistance for project residents. Residents pay no more than 30 percent of their adjusted gross income in rent, while the project rental assistance covers the difference between the monthly approved operating cost and the rent received from the tenant. Approximately $462.9 million is available under the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Housing
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Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP) for Eligible Multifamily Projects. ALCP supports the conversion of existing eligible projects for the elderly to a licensed assisted living facility (ALF). The program provides grants to private nonprofit project owners to convert the cost of the physical conversion of existing units, common space, and office space to assisted living. The grant requires that the project remain available for very low- and/or low-income residents for 20 years beyond the term of the original mortgage. Project owners must provide the necessary board and supportive services to support activities of daily living for frail elderly ALF residents consistent with the licensing requirements of the state in which the project is located. Approximately $35 million is available under the ALCP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Housing Persons With Disabilities Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities. The Section 811 program is designed to enable very low-income persons with disabilities to live independently by increasing the supply of rental housing that includes supportive services. The program provides interest-free capital advances to nonprofit organizations to construct, rehabilitate, or acquire (with or without rehabilitation) rental housing that includes supportive services for very low-income people with disabilities who are at least 18 years old. The advance remains interest-free and does not need to be repaid as long as the housing remains available for very low-income persons with disabilities for at least 40 years. The program also provides rental assistance for project residents. Residents pay no more than 30 percent of their adjusted gross income in rent, and the project rental assistance covers the difference between the monthly-approved operating cost and the rent received from the tenant. Approximately $95.8 million is available under the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Housing Other Targeted Housing Assistance Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA). HOPWA is designed to provide housing assistance and related supportive services for low-income people with HIV/AIDS and their families. Ninety percent of HOPWA funds are awarded using a formula and are made available through the Consolidated Planning process. The remaining funds are awarded and made available through a competition. The competitive portion of HOPWA funds state and local governments and qualified nonprofit organizations. Funding may be used for a range of activities, including: housing information services; resource identification; project or tenant-based rental
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assistance; short-term rent, mortgage, and utility payments to prevent homelessness; housing and development operations; and supportive services. Applicants may submit one of two types of applications: Long-Term Comprehensive Strategies or Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS). Long-Term Comprehensive Strategies applications propose provisions of housing and services in areas that did not qualify for the formula portion of HOPWA. SPNS applications propose the development and operation of model or innovative programs that can be replicated in other communities. Approximately $37 million is available for the HOPWA Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Service Coordinators in Multifamily Housing. The Service Coordinator program is designed to ensure that elderly persons and non-elderly people with disabilities, living in multifamily insured and assisted housing, are linked to the supportive services they need to continue living independently. The program funds owners of multifamily assisted housing developments designed for occupancy by the elderly and non-elderly people with disabilities (such as Sections 8, 202, 221(d)(3), and 236). Owners use grant funds to hire service coordinators and to pay administrative costs associated with the positions. Service coordinators work with development and community residents, helping them locate, create, and obtain affordable supportive services. Approximately $10 million is available under the Service Coordinators program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Housing
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Part III: Additional Competitive Programs Not Included in the SuperNOFA
Descriptions of the following programs are included in this section. Public Housing HOPE VI • HOPE VI Revitalization Grants • HOPE VI Main Street Grants for Small Communities • Enhancement of HOPE VI Communities through Mentoring Program Grants Elderly • Section 202 Demonstration Planning Grant Program Economic Development • Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) • Public Housing Graduation Incentive Bonus Program • Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) Persons With Disabilities • Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (Mainstream Program)
Public Housing Revitalization HOPE VI HOPE VI Revitalization Grants. HOPE VI revitalization grants may be used for activities including relocation, demolition, development, and rehabilitation of public housing rental units and homeownership units, and community and supportive services to residents to revitalize severely distressed public housing developments in accordance with Section 24 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937. Public housing agencies (PHAs) that have severely distressed public housing in their inventory and meet the threshold requirements of the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) are eligible to apply for HOPE VI funds. Approximately $110 million in HOPE VI funds plus approximately $25 million for additional grantees’ first year, grant-related Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) assistance is available for HOPE VI revitalization grants for fiscal year (FY) 2005. This NOFA was published on March 31, 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
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HOPE VI Main Street Grants for Small Communities. HOPE VI Main Street grants will be used in support of revitalization or redevelopment of a historic or traditional commercial area and involves investment, or other participation, by the Government and private entities. Congress set aside up to 5% of the HOPE VI appropriation the Main Street Program. Approximately $5 million is available for HOPE VI Main Street grants for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Enhancement of Public Housing HOPE VI Communities Through Mentoring Program Grants. Through this program, individuals from grassroots, faith-based and other communitybased organizations will become mentors to HOPE VI families and assist the family as they meet various self-sufficiency benchmarks (e.g., obtaining a job, achieving a GED, purchasing a home). All public housing authorities (PHAs) with HOPE VI Revitalization Grants are eligible to apply. PHAs that do not have a HOPE VI Revitalization grant or that manage only an HCV program, and tribal PHAs and tribally designated housing entities are not eligible. These grant awards are to implement pilot programs with current HOPE VI grantees. Through these pilots, Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) with HOPE VI grants would work in partnership with grassroots, faith-based and other community based organizations that provide services to transitioning families (i.e., families transitioning from traditional Public Housing to re-developed Mixed-Income communities). PHAs would partner with grassroots, faith-based and other community-based organizations that will receive grant funds on a fee-for-service basis according to the number of benchmarks completed by participating HOPE VI residents. Approximately $525,000 is available under the Mentoring Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. The NOFA is expected to be published in the spring of 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Elderly Section 202 Demonstration Planning Grant Program. The Consolidated Appropriations Resolution of FYs 2003 and 2005 provided predevelopment grant funds to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives. Eligible activities under this program include architectural and engineering work, site control, and other planning activities relating to the development of supportive housing for the elderly that would otherwise be eligible for assistance under Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959. A NOFA will be published in the near future. Approximately $42 million is available for the Section 202 Demonstration Planning Grant Program for FY 2005 provided in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003. Program Office: Housing
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Economic Development Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP). SHOP is designed to facilitate and encourage nonprofit organizations to provide innovative singe-family or multifamily homeownership opportunities through the provision of self-help housing in which the homebuyer contributes a significant amount of sweat equity toward the construction of the dwelling. Only experienced national or regional organizations or consortia (which cover two or more states) are eligible to apply. Program funds may be used only for: i Land acquisition and/or infrastructure improvements. i Administration, planning, and management development costs. Approximately $24.8 million is available under SHOP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development Public Housing Graduation Incentive Bonus Program. The Public Housing Graduation Incentive Bonus is granted to PHAs that can show their public housing residents are moving away from long-term dependence on housing assistance as evidenced by the proportion of households that leave public housing and end their participation in assisted housing programs during calendar year 2004, as well as the average length of stay among public housing residents. HUD expects that a beneficial byproduct of this incentive will be to encourage the timely submission of tenant household data, including End of Participation (EOP) records. Approximately $10 million is available under the Incentive Bonus Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. The NOFA is expected to be published in the Spring of 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH). The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) is a voluntary partnership in which leaders in the homebuilding, product manufacturing, insurance, and financial industries join forces with representatives of Federal agencies concern with housing. PATH partners work to improve the quality and affordability of today’s new and existing homes, while strengthening the technology infrastructure of the United States. PATH is designed to spur change in housing industry design and construction by providing the latest information on innovative building materials, techniques and systems. Approximately $3 million is available under the PATH for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Office of Policy Development and Research
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Persons with Disabilities Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons With Disabilities (Mainstream Program). The purpose of the Mainstream Program is to enable very low-income people with disabilities, whether elderly or non-elderly, to access affordable, private housing of their choice on the private market. The Mainstream Program provides PHAs and nonprofit disability organizations with funding for housing choice vouchers for persons with disabilities. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
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Part IV: HUD’s Formula-Based Programs
HUD’s competitive programs are meant to work in tandem with HUD’s larger formula programs, Housing Choice Voucher Contract Renewals, and loan guarantee programs. Whereas the competitive programs offered in the 2005 Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) have approximately $2.26 billion in funding opportunities, HUD’s formula-based programs and Section 8 contract renewals total nearly $25.5 billion. Table 3: HUD’s Formula-Based and Other Non-Competitive Grant Programs
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Economic Development Loan Guarantee (Section 108) HOME Investment Partnerships Program — American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) Housing Choice Voucher Program Contract Renewals Competitive Allocation Area Voucher Funding Program Public Housing Operating Fund Public Housing Capital Fund Program (CFP) Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant (NHHBG) Native Hawaiian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund (Section 184A) Emergency Shelter Grant Program (ESG) Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Homeownership Programs HUD’s Discount Property Sales Programs — Teacher Next Door — Office Next Door — Dollar Homes — Sales to Nonprofit Organizations Indian Home Loan Guarantees (Section 184) Title VI Loan Guarantee Program
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Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is the Federal Government’s primary program for promoting community revitalization throughout the country. CDBG provides annual grants on a formula basis to approximately 1,000 metropolitan cities and urban counties (entitlement communities). In addition, it provides formula-based grants to 49 States and Puerto Rico for distribution to smaller, non-entitled communities. (HUD directly distributes funds to non-entitled communities in Hawaii.) CDBG funds are used for a wide range of community development activities directed toward neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and improved community facilities and services. Activities that can be funded with CDBG dollars include: • • • • • • • • • • • • Acquisition of real property. Acquisition and construction of public works and facilities. Code enforcement. Relocation assistance. Reconstruction and rehabilitation of residential and nonresidential properties. Provision of public services, including those concerned with employment, crime prevention, childcare, health, drug abuse, education, and fair housing counseling. Provision of special economic development assistance. Assistance to community-based development organizations for neighborhood revitalization, community economic development, and energy conservation projects. Homeownership assistance. Clearance and demolition. Planning and administrative costs, including actions to meet the grantee’s certification to affirmatively further fair housing. Micro-enterprise assistance.
Each activity must meet at least one of the CDBG program’s three national objectives: • • • Principally benefit low- and moderate-income persons (primary objective). Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight. Meet other community development needs that present a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of a community.
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Seventy percent of CDBG funding is allocated to metropolitan cities and counties known as entitlement communities; the remaining funds are allocated to states under the State CDBG program for distribution to non-entitled units of general local government. Allocations are made on the basis of a dual formula that takes into account population, poverty, overcrowded housing, housing age, and growth lag. Entitlement communities carry out their own programs. Under the State CDBG program, states design a distribution system to pass funds through to smaller, nonentitlement communities and are responsible for ensuring compliance with program requirements. Localities receiving CDBG funding often pass a large portion of their funding through to other organizations, such as nonprofit organizations, to implement CDBG-funded activities. Approximately $4.1 billion is available for the CDBG program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development
Economic Development Loan Guarantee (Section 108)
Section 108, the loan guarantee provision of the CDBG program, is one of the most potent and important public investment tools that HUD offers to local governments. It allows local governments participating in the CDBG program to obtain Federal loan guarantees that enable them to borrow money at more favorable terms (usually for less cost) than would be possible without the guarantees. Local governments use the borrowed funds to help finance and leverage private investment in large economic development and other revitalization projects. Under the Section 108 program, CDBG entitlement communities (or non-entitlement communities, if the state makes the necessary pledge of CDBG funding) borrowing federally guaranteed funds must pledge their current and future CDBG allocations (up to the loan amount) as security for the loan. Like other CDBG assistance, Section 108 loan guarantees must be used for activities that meet national CDBG objectives as described previously. Eligible activities include: • • • • • • Property acquisition. Rehabilitation of publicly owned property. Housing rehabilitation. Economic development activities. Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, or installation of public facilities. Public works and other site improvements for colonias.
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In recent years, Section 108 loan guarantees have been used to encourage primarily economic development either through public physical development projects (for example, acquiring a failed shopping center for rehabilitation or assembling land for a new hotel or factory) or through loans to private firms and individuals (for example, providing below-market financing for the expansion of an existing firm). However, Section 108 guarantees also have financed other initiatives, such as Homeownership Zones and community-based lending institutions. Eligible communities may apply for loan guarantees year-round. To apply, entitlement communities should contact their local HUD Field Office. Non-entitlement communities may apply through their State (except in Hawaii). To make the Section 108 program easier to use, HUD has the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) program. BEDI provides grants to enhance the security of Section 108 guaranteed loans and the feasibility of revitalization projects financed through the Section 108 program. Approximately $259 million in loan commitments is available under the Economic Development Loan Guarantee (Section 108) for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development
HOME Investment Partnerships Program
The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) affirms the Federal Government’s commitment to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing to all Americans and to alleviate the problems of excessive rent burdens, homelessness, and deteriorating housing stock. HOME provides funds and general guidelines to state and local governments to design affordable housing strategies that address local needs and housing conditions. HOME strives to meet both the shortterm goal of increasing the supply and availability of affordable housing and the long-term goal of building partnerships between state and local governments and private and nonprofit housing providers. HOME funds may be used for the acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of rental housing; tenant-based rental assistance; homebuyer assistance; and administrative costs. All HOMEassisted housing and rental assistance must target low- and very low-income families. HOME funds may not be used as matching funds for other Federal programs. Jurisdictions must reserve 15 percent of their HOME funds for housing to be developed, sponsored, or owned by community housing development organizations (CHDOs). A CHDO is a private, community-based nonprofit organization that has, among its purposes, the provision of decent, affordable housing for lowincome people.
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In December 2003, HUD announced the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI). ADDI aims to increase the homeownership rate, especially among low-income and minority households, and to revitalize and stabilize communities. ADDI will help first-time homebuyers with the biggest hurdle to homeownership: downpayment and closing costs. The program was created to assist low-income, first-time homebuyers in purchasing single-family homes by providing funds for downpayments, closing costs, and rehabilitation carried out in conjunction with assisted home purchases. ADDI will provide downpayment, closing costs, and rehabilitation assistance to eligible individuals. The amount of ADDI assistance provided may not exceed $10,000 or six percent of the purchase price of the home, whichever is greater. The rehabilitation must be completed within a year of the home purchase. Rehabilitation may include, but is not limited to, the reduction of lead paint hazards and the remediation of other home health hazards. To be eligible for ADDI assistance, individuals must be first-time homebuyers interested in purchasing single-family housing. A first-time homebuyer is defined as an individual (and his or her spouse) who have not owned a home during the 3-year period prior to the purchase of a home with ADDI assistance. ADDI funds may be used to purchase one- to four-family housing, condominium units, cooperative units, or manufactured housing. Additionally, individuals who qualify for ADDI assistance must have incomes not exceeding 80 percent of area median income. Approximately $1.9 billion (less $62 million in set-asides) is appropriated for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program including $50 million is available for ADDI for FY 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development
Housing Choice Voucher Program Contract Renewals
Tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher Program Contract Renewals increase the housing choices available to very low-income households by making privately owned housing affordable to them. The program provides funds to local public housing agencies (PHAs), which then provide housing choice vouchers to qualified very low-income households. These vouchers provide rent subsidies that equal the difference between 30 percent of the household’s adjusted income and the gross rent of the unit, provided the gross rent does not exceed the PHA-approved payment standard. The PHA pays the subsidies directly to the landlord. Under the Housing Choice Voucher Program, a family may select a unit with a gross rent that exceeds the PHA’s payment standard, but the family must pay the additional amount. However, the law restricts a voucher holder from renting a unit that would initially require the family to pay more than 40 percent of the family’s adjusted income for rent. Voucher funding is used for tenant-based assistance, which can be provided for any eligible rental unit as long as the landlord agrees to participate in the program. Each PHA has the option to use as much as 20 percent of its tenant-based voucher funding to provide project-
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based voucher (PBV) assistance to competitively selected existing, rehabilitated, or newly constructed units. To ensure their compliance with HUD housing quality standards, the PHA must inspect all voucher units. PHAs may also elect to use a portion of their voucher funding to assist very low-income families in purchasing a home. The PHA funding that would otherwise be used for rental assistance is dedicated to paying a portion of the family’s monthly mortgage payment. As soon as funding for housing choice vouchers is awarded to a PHA, the PHA receives funding from HUD on an annual basis until the contract for the funding expires.19 Congress appropriates new funding to renew the expiring contracts each year. Some housing choice vouchers are provided for a variety of special purposes, such as relocating public housing tenants who are displaced because of public housing demolition or disposition, designation of mixed-use public housing units as single use (that is, disabled and elderly to elderly only), and court settlements. Approximately $13.4 billion is available under Housing Choice Voucher Program Contract Renewals for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Public Housing Operating Fund
The Public Housing Operating Fund program provides funds, based on a formula, to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to help them meet their operating and maintenance expenses and offset operating deficits associated with public housing units. Funding allocations are based primarily on the operating fund formula. Under this formula, each PHA’s subsidy is equal to the difference between a formula-determined allowable expense level (plus utility and independent audit costs) and the PHA’s projected income (rents and charges to residents for excess utility consumption). Approximately $2.4 billion is available for the Public Housing Operating Fund for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
19 Prior to FY 1998, Indian tribes and/or Indian housing authorities were eligible for funding from the Section 8 rental certificate and voucher programs. Although they are no longer eligible for new funds, they do receive annual funding for previously approved certificates and vouchers until the contract associated with the funding expires.
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Public Housing—Capital Fund Program (CFP)
CFP provides funding, based on a formula, to PHAs so they may carry out capital and management activities. All PHAs, regardless of size, are eligible to participate in CFP. Eligible activities under CFP include: • • • • Development, financing, and modernization of public housing developments. Vacancy reduction. Planned code compliance. Management improvements.
Approximately $2.5 billion is available for CFP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program20
The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 created the IHBG program. This act also repealed Indian eligibility for many other HUD programs, including those falling under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 and some that are announced in the SuperNOFA. It provides annual grants, on a formula basis, to all eligible Indian tribes or tribally designated housing entities (TDHEs) based on submission of a compliant Indian Housing Plan. The funds may be used for a wide range of affordable housing activities. Anyone with questions regarding IHBG should contact their area Office of Native American Programs (ONAP). A list of area ONAPs is provided in Appendix B. Approximately $601 million is available for IHBG for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant (NHHBG) Program
The NHHBG program provides block grant funds for affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiians. The grant will be made available to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to carry out the following activities for Native Hawaiian families who are eligible to reside on the Hawaiian Home Lands: 1. Development. 2. Housing Services.
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3. Housing Management Services. 4. Crime Prevention and Safety Activities. 5. Model Activities. Approximately $9 million is available for the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant Program. If you have questions regarding the NHHBG program, you may contact the ONAP in Washington, D.C., at 202–401–7914 or 303–672–5248 (TDD). Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Native Hawaiian Housing Loan Guarantees (Section 184A)
The FY05 HUD appropriations provide Native Hawaiians with a loan guarantee program designed specifically for them. The Section 184A program will provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who otherwise could not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands, or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. The loan guarantee allows for infrastructure developments necessary to achieve the affordable housing goals of the program. It is anticipated that the FY05 HUD appropriation of $992,000 will support up to $37 million in loan guarantees that can fund 133 home mortgages based on a median single-family price of $280,000. Anyone with questions regarding the Section 184A program should contact the ONAP Loan Guarantee Office at 800–561–5913 or 303–675–1600, or the Federal Relay Service at 800–877– 8339. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program
The ESG program is designed to help improve the quality of existing emergency shelters for homeless persons, make additional shelters and transitional housing available, meet the costs of operating shelters, provide essential social services to homeless individuals, and help prevent homelessness. ESG funds states, metropolitan cities, urban counties, and territories according to the formula used for the CDBG program. ESG funding may be used for renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for use as emergency shelters or transitional housing; provision of essential social services; payment of operating costs for shelters; and the development and implementation of homeless prevention activities, such as short-term mortgage/rent or utility payments, security deposits, first month’s rent, landlord-tenant mediation, and tenant legal services.
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Approximately $159 million is available for the ESG program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
HOPWA is designed to provide housing assistance and related supportive services for low-income people with HIV/AIDS and their families. Ninety percent of HOPWA funds are awarded using a formula and are made available through the Consolidated Planning process. The formula allocates funding to States and cities in metropolitan areas that have the greatest number of cumulative HIV/AIDS cases. The remaining 10 percent of HOPWA funding is awarded through a competition announced in the SuperNOFA. Funding may be used for a range of activities, including housing information services; resource identification; project or tenant-based rental assistance; short-term rent, mortgage, and utility payments to prevent homelessness; housing and development operations; and supportive services. Approximately $251 million is available for the HOPWA formula program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Community Planning and Development
Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP)
FHAP is designed to build a coordinated, intergovernmental enforcement effort to further fair housing. It provides funding to state and local fair housing enforcement agencies that have been certified by the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as administering laws that are substantially equivalent to the Fair Housing Act. Funding FHAP agencies encourages them to assume a greater share of the responsibility for the administration and enforcement of their fair housing statutes and ordinances. FHAP funding is distributed through a formula and can be used to cover the costs of processing dual-filed complaints, training, administrative costs, special enforcement efforts, fair housing partnerships, and the development and enhancement of other fair housing projects. Approximately $20 million in non-competitive grants is available for FHAP for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Homeownership Programs
One of HUD’s most fundamental functions is increasing homeownership, particularly among lowand moderate-income people, by insuring mortgage loans issued by private financial institutions. This insurance, administered through HUD’s FHA, protects lenders against the risk of default on mortgages issued to qualified borrowers. By providing mortgage insurance, FHA gives private lenders the security they need to lend to first-time homebuyers who might not be able to qualify for a conventional loan. HUD’s mortgage insurance programs provide affordable options for lowand moderate-income borrowers to purchase homes by reducing the down payment required, limiting certain fees, and allowing financing of some of the closing costs. FHA administers a variety of mortgage insurance programs, each intended to serve a slightly different need. The centerpiece of FHA’s insurance programs is the Section 203(b) program, which insures mortgages for moderately priced, one- to four-family homes. Additional programs provide insurance for adjustable rate mortgages (Section 251); disaster victims’ homes (Section 203(h)); mortgages to increase energy efficiency (Section 513); homes in older declining areas (Section 223(e)); homes in outlying areas (Section 203(i)); condominiums (Section 234(c)); and cooperative housing units (Section 203(n)). In addition, FHA offers programs that enable borrowers to finance housing rehabilitation costs as part of the mortgage (Section 203(k)). All of these programs operate through HUD-approved lenders (for example, banks, mortgage companies, and savings and loans) that provide FHA-insured mortgages. Generally, any person able to meet the cash investment, mortgage payments, and credit requirements can apply for a FHA-insured mortgage from a HUD-approved lender. However, these loans generally are limited to owner-occupied housing units. Also, to ensure that these programs serve low- and moderateincome people, the maximum dollar value of FHA-insured mortgages is limited. For FHA’s current mortgage limits, you can go to HUD’s Web site at www.hud.gov. The FHA current limit for single-family units ranges from $172,632 to $312,895.
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FHA also manages four programs that offer unique opportunities for teachers, law enforcement officers, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to turn HUD Homes (properties on which a borrower has defaulted on an FHA-insured mortgage) into tools for community revitalization. These programs are Teacher Next Door, Officer Next Door, Dollar Homes, and Sales to NonProfit Organizations. For additional information on these FHA programs, you can go to www.hud.gov. Teacher Next Door enables full-time, State-certified K–12 classroom teachers or administrators in public schools, private schools, or Federal, State, county, or municipal educational agencies to purchase HUD Homes at 50 percent of the list price. The homes must be located in HUD64 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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designated revitalization areas and in the school district where the purchaser is employed. Teachers must live in the homes they purchase through the program as their sole residence for at least 3 years from the date of purchase and cannot own other residential property during this term. Officer Next Door enables law enforcement officers to purchase HUD Homes at 50 percent of the list price. The home must be located in a HUD-designated revitalization area. Officers must live in the homes they purchase through the program as their sole residence for at least 3 years from the date of purchase and cannot own other residential property during this term. Dollar Homes allows local governments to purchase HUD-owned homes for $1 plus closing costs to create housing for families in need and to benefit neighborhoods. Under the policy, singlefamily homes that are acquired in foreclosure actions by FHA are eligible for sale to local governments around the nation for $1 plus closing costs whenever FHA is unable to sell the homes for 6 months. By selling each vacant home for $1 plus closing costs after 6 months on the market, HUD makes it possible for communities to fix up the homes at considerable savings and put them to good use. The newly occupied homes can then act as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization, attracting new residents and businesses to the area. Sales to Nonprofit Organizations offers community-based nonprofit organizations the opportunity to purchase HUD Homes at discounts of up to 30 percent off the appraised value. With this discount, local nonprofit organizations invest in property rehabilitation, and are then more readily able to resell to first-time homebuyers and low- and moderate-income families. For more information about these and other FHA programs, you can visit HUD’s Web site (www.hud.gov), contact a HUD-approved lender (a searchable listing of HUD-approved lenders is available on HUD’s Web site) or HUD-approved housing counseling agency, or call the Homeownership Center (HOC) nearest you. For a list of HOCs and contact information, refer to Appendix D at the back of this document. Lenders interested in becoming HUD-approved lenders should contact the Director of Single Family Programs at the nearest HUD Field Office (see Appendix A for a listing of HUD Field Offices).
Indian Home Loan Guarantees (Section 184)
Because the Federal Government holds most land in Indian country in trust, it cannot be mortgaged. Section 184 provides loan guarantees to private lenders so that they will issue mortgage financing for projects located on such land. Section 184 provides loan guarantees to private lenders approved by HUD/FHA, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, or the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The loans must be issued for one- to four-family homes located in Indian or Alaskan Native areas. The loans may be used for construction, acquisition, refinancing, or rehabilitation of homes. Borrowers must be: Indians or Indian families who will occupy the
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property as a principal residence and who meet the credit and underwriting standards of the program; Indian housing authorities, including TDHEs; or Indian tribes. Eligible borrowers apply for loans through private mortgage lenders that prepare the documents and submit them to the ONAP Denver Program Office for approval. For more information on Indian Home Loan Guarantees, contact the Office of Loan Guarantee at 800–561–5913 or 303– 675–1600. Persons with hearing impairments can contact the Federal Relay Service at 800–877– 8339. Approximately $145 million in new loan commitments are available for the Indian Loan Guarantee Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
Title VI Loan Guarantee Program
Title VI loan guarantees are designed to increase the ability of Indian tribes to secure private financial resources for developing affordable housing. Under the program, HUD guarantees loans issued by Indian tribes or TDHEs for affordable housing activities. Indian tribes and TDHEs participating in the program must pledge current and future IHBG program allocations as security for the guarantee. Proceeds from loans guaranteed under this program may be used for affordable housing activities eligible under IHBG. These include modernization or operating assistance for housing developed under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937; acquisition, new construction, or rehabilitation of housing (which may include site development, development of utilities, and utility services); housingrelated services; housing management services; and model housing activities. Lenders providing affordable housing financing to Indian tribes or TDHEs apply directly to HUD for the loan guarantees. The lenders must be supervised, approved, regulated, or insured by an agency of the Federal Government. To apply, eligible lenders should contact the ONAP Denver Program Office (see Appendix B for contact information). Approximately $18 million in new loan commitments are available for the Title VI Loan Guarantee Program for fiscal year (FY) 2005. Program Office: Public and Indian Housing
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Appendix A: HUD Field Office Contact Information Appendix B: Office of Native American Programs (ONAP) Contact Information Appendix C: HUD Headquarters Program Offices Appendix D: HUD Homeownership Centers Appendix E: HUD Contacts for Colonias and Farmworkers
Not all field offices listed handle all of the programs contained in the SuperNOFA. Applicants should look to the SuperNOFA for contact numbers for information on specific programs. Office hour listings are local time. Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of these numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339.
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Appendix A: HUD Field Office Contact Information
REGION I Bangor Field Office Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building 202 Harlow Street, Suite 101 Bangor, ME 04401-4919 207–945–0467 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 202 Harlow Street, Suite 9998 207-941-2011 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m. –6:00 p.m., M-F Boston Regional Office O’Neil Federal Building 10 Causeway Street, Room 301 Boston, MA 02222–1092 617–994–8200 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 217 Hanover Street 617-723-6397 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Burlington Field Office 159 Bank Street, Second Floor Burlington, VT 05401–4411 802–951–6290 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 11 Elmwood Ave 802-863-6033 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F
Hartford Field Office One Corporate Center 20 Church Street, 19th Floor Hartford, CT 06103-3220 860–240–4800 ext. 3100 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 141 Weston Street 860-524-6092 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F Manchester Field Office 1000 Elm Street, Eighth Floor Manchester, NH 03101-1730 603–666–7510, ext. 3903 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1000 Elm Street, Suite 104 603-623-3681 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Providence Field Office 10 Weybosset Street, Sixth Floor Providence, RI 02903–2818 401–528–5230 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 24 Corliss Street 401-276-8615 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F Region II Albany Office 52 Corporate Circle Albany, NY 12203–5121 518–464–4200 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Convenient USPS Station: 1425 Central Avenue 518-458-1859 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Buffalo Office Lafayette Court 465 Main Street, 2nd Floor Buffalo, NY 14203-1780 716-551-5755 Office Hours: 8 a.m. –4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1200 William Street, Room 200 716-846-2301 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Camden Office Hudson Building 800 Hudson Square, Second Floor Camden, NJ 08102–1156 856–757–5081 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 401 Market Street 856-963-6597 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Newark Office One Newark Center, 13th Floor 1085 Raymond Boulevard Newark, NJ 07102–5269 973–622–7900 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2 Federal Square 973-693-5235 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F New York Regional Office 26 Federal Plaza, Suite 3541 New York, NY 10278–0068 212–264–8000 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Convenient USPS Station: 73 Pine Street 212-809-6108 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Syracuse Office 128 East Jefferson Street Syracuse, NY 13202 315–477–0616 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 444 South Salina Street 315-472-0817 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Region III Baltimore Office 10 South Howard Street, Fifth Floor Baltimore, MD 21201–2505 410–962–2520, ext. 3061 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 900 East Fayette Street 410-347-4202 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m., M-F Charleston Office 405 Capitol Street, Suite 708 Charleston, WV 25301–1795 304–347–7000, ext. 103 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1002 Lee Street, East 304-561-1000 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–11:59 p.m., M-F
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Philadelphia Regional Office The Wanamaker Building 100 Penn Square East Philadelphia, PA 19107–3380 215–656–0500 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 900 Market Street, Lobby 215-923-2472 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Pittsburgh Office 339 Sixth Avenue, Sixth Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222–2515 Phone: 412–644–6436 Fax: 412-644-4240 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 700 Grant Street, Suite A 412-642-0769 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Richmond Office 600 East Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219-4920 804–771–2100, ext 3736 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1801 Brook Road 804-775-6304 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Washington, DC Office 820 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002–4205 202–275–9200, ext. 3077 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE. 202-523-2368 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–11:59 p.m., M-F
Wilmington Office 920 King Street, Suite 404 Wilmington, DE 19801-3016 302–573–6300 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1101 North King Street 302-656-0228 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Region IV Atlanta Regional Office 40 Marietta Street Five Points Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303–2806 404–331–4111 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 183 Forsyth Street, SW 404-521-2053 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Birmingham Office 950 22nd Street, North, Suite 900 Birmingham, AL 35203–5302 205–731–2617 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 351 24th Street, North 205-521-0822 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Columbia Office 1835 Assembly Street, 13th Floor Columbia, SC 29201–2480 803–765–5592 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1601 Assembly Street 803-733-4643 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F
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Greensboro Office Asheville Building – Suite 401 1500 Pinecroft Road Greensboro, NC 27407–3707 336–547–4000, ext. 2801 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 301 Four Seasons Town Center 800-275-8777 Business Hours: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F Jackson Office McCoy Federal Building 100 West Capitol Street, Room 910 Jackson, MS 39269-1096 601–965–4757 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 401 East South Street 601-351-7096 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Jacksonville Office 301 West Bay Street, Suite 2200 Jacksonville, FL 32202–5121 904–232–2627 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1100 Kings Road 904-366-4886 Business Hours: 6:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m., M-F Knoxville Office 710 Locust Street, SW., Suite 300 Knoxville, TN 37902–2526 865–545–4384 Office Hours: 7:30 a.m.–4:15 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 501 West Main Street 865-522-1070 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. M-F
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Louisville Office 601 West Broadway Louisville, KY 40202 502–582–5251 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 835 South 7th Street 502-584-6045 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Memphis Office 200 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 300 Memphis, TN 38103–2389 901–544–3367 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1 North Front Street 901-576-2037 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Miami Office 909 Southeast First Avenue, Suite 500 Miami, FL 33131 305–536–4456 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1101 Brickell Avenue 305-377-9124 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Nashville Office 235 Cumberland Bend, Suite 200 Nashville, TN 37228–1803 615–736–5213 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2245 Metrocenter Boulevard 615-254-5505 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F
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Orlando Office 3751 Maguire Boulevard Room 270 Orlando, FL 32803–3032 407–648–6441 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 821 Herndon Avenue 407-897-3469 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F San Juan Office 171 Carlos E. Chardón Avenue San Juan, PR 00918–0903 787–766–5201 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 525 Avenue FD Roosevelt, Suite 111 787-282-6331 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F Tampa Office 500 Zack Street, Suite 402 Tampa, FL 33602-3945 813–228–2026 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 925 North Florida Avenue 813-223-4225 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Region V Chicago Regional Office Ralph Metcalfe Federal Building 77 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL 60604–3507 312–353–5680 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 433 West Harrison Street
312-983-8182 Business Hours: 12:00 a.m.-11:59 p.m., M-F Cincinnati Office 15 East Seventh Street Cincinnati, OH 45202-2401 513–684–3451 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1623 Dalton Avenue 513-684-5664 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F Cleveland Office 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 500 Cleveland, OH 44115–1815 216–522–4058, ext. 7102 Office Hours: 8:20 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2400 Orange Avenue 216-443-4372 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Columbus Office 200 North High Street, Room 700 Columbus, OH 43215–2463 614–469–2540 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 850 Twin Rivers Drive 614-469-4267 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., M-F Detroit Office 477 Michigan Avenue Detroit, MI 48226–2592 313–226–7900 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1401 West Fort Street, Room M135 313-226-8075 Business Hours: 12:00 a.m.-11:59 p.m., M-F
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Flint Office Phoenix Building 801 South, Saginaw Street, 4th Floor Flint, MI 48502–1953 810–766–5112 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 250 East Boulevard Drive 810-257-1506 Business Hours: 7:45 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Grand Rapids Office Trade Center Building 50 Louis Street, NW Grand Rapids, MI 49503–2633 616–456–2100 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 225 Michigan Street, NW. 616-776-1515 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., M-F Indianapolis Office 151 North Delaware Street, Suite 1200 Indianapolis, IN 46204–2526 317–226–6303 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 125 West South Street 317-464-6874 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Milwaukee Office 310 West Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1380 Milwaukee, WI 53203–2289 414–297–3214, ext. 8001 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 345 West Saint Paul Avenue 414-270-2308 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F
Minneapolis Office Kinnard Financial Center 920 Second Avenue, South, Suite 1300 Minneapolis, MN 55402 612–370–3220 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 100 South First Street 612-349-0359 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Springfield Office Business Center 500 West Monroe Street, Suite 1 SW Springfield, IL 62704 217–492–4120 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2105 East Cook Street 217-788-7225 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Region VI Albuquerque Office 625 Silver Avenue, SW, Suite 100 Albuquerque, NM 87102–3185 505–346–6463 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 303 Romero NW 505-242-5927 Business Hours: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Dallas Office 525 Griffin Street, Suite 860 Dallas, TX 75202–5007 214–767–8300 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Convenient USPS Station: 1201 Main Street 214-752-5654 Business Hours: 12:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Fort Worth Regional Office 801 Cherry Street P.O. Box 2905 Fort Worth, TX 76113-2905 817–978–5965 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 251 West Lancaster Avenue 817-870-8104 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Houston Office 1301 Fannin, Suite 2200 Houston, TX 77002 713–718-3199 Office Hours: 7:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 401 Franklin Street 713-226-3161 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., M-F Little Rock Office 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 900 Little Rock, AR 72201–3488 501–324–5931 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 600 East Capitol Avenue 501-375-5073 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Lubbock Office 1205 Texas Avenue, Room 511 Lubbock, TX 79401–4093 806–472–7265, ext. 3030 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Convenient USPS Station: 5014 Gary Avenue 806-795-0836 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m., M-F New Orleans Office Hale Boggs Building 501 Magazine Street, Ninth Floor New Orleans, LA 70130–3099 504–589–7201 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 701 Loyola Avenue 504-589-1706 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., M-F Oklahoma City Office 301 Northwest Sixth Street, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 405–609-8509 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 305 Northwest 5th Street 405-232-2176 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., M-F San Antonio Office One Alamo Center 106 South St. Mary’s Street, Suite 405 San Antonio, TX 78205 210–475–6806 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 105 South St. Mary’s Street, Lobby 2 210-227-3399 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F
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Shreveport Office 401 Edwards Street, Room 1510 Shreveport, LA 71101–5513 318–676–3440 Office Hours: 7:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2400 Texas Avenue 318-677-2369 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Tulsa Office 1516 South Boston Avenue, Suite 100 Tulsa, OK 74119 918–581–7434 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 333 West Fourth Street, Room 246 918-732-6654 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Region VII Des Moines Office 210 Walnut Street, Room 239 Des Moines, IA 50309–2155 515–284–4512 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1165 Second Avenue 515-283-7575 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Kansas City Regional Office* 400 State Avenue, Room 200 Kansas City, KS 66101–2406 913–551–5462 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. *this office is considering a move in the near future; confirm address before submitting applications Convenient USPS Station: 550 Nebraska Avenue
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Convenient USPS Station: 951 20th Street 303-296-4692 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–10:30 p.m., M-F Fargo Office 657 Second Avenue North, Room 366 Fargo, ND 58108 701–239–5136 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 657 Second Avenue, North 701-241-6115 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Helena Office 7 West Sixth Avenue Power Block Bldg. Helena, MT 59601 406–449–5050 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 2300 North Harris Street 406-443-3304 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Salt Lake City Office 125 South State Street, Suite 3001 Salt Lake City, UT 84138 801–524–6070 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 36 South State Street, Suite 202 801-359-6812 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Sioux Falls Office 2400 West 49th Street, Rm. I–201 Sioux Falls, SD 57105–6558 605–330–4223 Office Hours: 7:45 a.m.–4:15 p.m.
Convenient USPS Station: 2501 South Louise Avenue 605-575-3565 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Region IX Fresno Office 2135 Fresno Street, Suite 100 Fresno, CA 93721–1718 559–487–5032 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1900 E Street 559-497-7566 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Guam Office San Ramon Building, Suite 306 115 San Ramon Street Hagatna, Guam 96910 671-472-7231 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 143 Edward T Calvo Memorial Parkway 671-646-5539 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., M-F Honolulu Office 500 Ala Moana Boulevard, Ste. 3A Honolulu, HI 96813–4918 808–522–8175, ext. 256 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1450 Ala Moana Boulevard, Suite 1066 808-973-7528 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Las Vegas Office 300 S. Las Vegas Boulevard, Suite 2900 Las Vegas, NV 89101–5833 702–388–6500 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Convenient USPS Station: 1801 North Martin Luther King Boulevard 702-648-0238 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Los Angeles Office 611 West Sixth Street, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90017 213–894–8007 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 750 West 7th Street, Suite 33 213-624-1952 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Phoenix Office 1 North Central Avenue, Suite 600 Phoenix, AZ 85004 602–379–7100 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 522 North Central Avenue, Lobby 602-253-9648 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Reno Office 3702 South Virginia Street, Suite G2 Reno, NV 89502–6581 775–784–5383 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 279 East Plumb Lane 775-853-2615 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Sacramento Office 925 L Street, Suite 175 Sacramento, CA 95814 916–498–5220, ext. 322 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Convenient USPS Station: 801 I Street, Room 149 916-556-3415 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F San Diego Office Symphony Towers 750 B Street, Suite 1600 San Diego, CA 92101–8131 619–557–5310 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 51 Horton Plaza 619-232-4015 Business Hours: 9:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F San Francisco Regional Office 600 Harrison Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94107–1300 415–489-6400 Office Hours: 8:15 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 1390 Market Street, Lobby 415-487-9013 Business Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Santa Ana Office 34 Civic Center Plaza Room 720 Santa Ana, CA 92701–4003 714–796–5577, ext. 3006 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 615 North Bush Street 714-973-7721 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F
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Tucson Office 160 North Stone Avenue Tucson, AZ 85701-1467 520–670–6000 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 141 South 6th Avenue 520-903-1958 Business Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F Region X Anchorage Office 3000 C Street, Suite 401 Anchorage, AK 99503 907–667-9800 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 3721 B Street 907-273-5800 Business Hours: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., M-F Boise Office Suite 220, Plaza IV 800 Park Boulevard Boise, ID 83712–7743 208–334–1990 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 770 South 13th Street 208-433-4351 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Portland Office 400 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Suite 700 Portland, OR 97204–1632 503–326–2561 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Convenient USPS Station: 715 Northwest Hoyt Street 503-294-2564 Business Hours: 7:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m., M-F Seattle Regional Office 909 First Avenue, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98104–1000 206–220–5101 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 301 Union Street 206-748-5417 Business Hours: 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., M-F Spokane Office Courthouse Building 920 West Riverside, Suite 588 Spokane, WA 99201–1010 509–353–0674, ext. 3102 Office Hours: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Convenient USPS Station: 904 West Riverside 509-252-2337 Business Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., M-F
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Appendix B: Office of Native American Programs (ONAP) Contact Information
Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of these numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339. Location of Tribes and TDHEs All States east of the Mississippi River (plus Minnesota and Iowa)
ONAP Contact Information Eastern/Woodlands Office of Native American Programs, 5API Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Room 2404 Chicago, IL 60604–3507 312–886–4532 or 800–735–3239 Southern Plains Office of Native American Programs, 6IPI 301 Northwest Sixth Street, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 405–609-8532 TDD: 405–609-8480 Northern Plains Office of Native American Programs, 8API UMB Plaza 1670 Broadway, 22nd Floor Denver, CO 80202–4801 303–672–5465. Toll Free: 888-814-2945 TDD: 303–672–5116 Denver Program Office of Native American Programs 1999 Broadway, Suite 3390, Box 4 Denver, CO 80202 303–675–1600 or 800–561–5913
Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas (except for Ysleta del Sur) Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming
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ONAP Contact Information Southwest Office of Native American Programs, 9EPI One North Central Avenue, Suite 600 Phoenix, AZ 85004–2361 602–379–7200 TTY Number: 602-379-7181 OR Southwest Office of Native American Programs (Albuquerque Office), 9EPI 625 Silver Avenue, SW., Suite 300 Albuquerque, NM 87102-3186 505–346–6923
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Northwest Office of Native American Programs, OAPI Seattle Federal Office Building 909 First Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98104–1000 206–220–5270 TDD Number: 206-220-5185 Alaska Office of Native American Programs, OCPI 3000 C Street, Suite 401 Anchorage, AK 99503 907–677-9800 or Alaska only Toll Free: 877-302-9800 TDD: 907–677-9800
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Appendix C: HUD Headquarters Program Offices
Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of these numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339. Program Office Community Planning and Development Contact Information U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 7100 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–2690 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 5100 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–4252 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Housing 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 9100 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–2601 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Public and Indian Housing 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 4100 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–0950 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control 451 Seventh Street, SW, Room P3206 Washington, DC 20410 202-755-1785
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Appendix D: HUD Homeownership Centers
Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of these numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339. Homeownership Center Philadelphia Homeownership Center Wanamaker Building 100 Penn Square East Philadelphia, PA 19107–3380 Contact: Robert Wright 215–656–0527, ext. 3406 Atlanta Homeownership Center 40 Marietta Street, Eighth Floor Atlanta, GA 30303–2806 Contact: Carolyn Hogans 404–331–5001, ext. 2129 Denver Homeownership Center 1670 Broadway, 21st Floor Denver, CO 80202 Contact: Jonna Munson 800–543-9378, ext. 1987 Santa Ana Homeownership Center 1600 North Broadway, Suite 101 Santa Ana, CA 92706–3927 Contact: Rhonda J. Rivera, Chief 888–827–5605, ext. 3210 Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, as well as the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, as well as the Caribbean States Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
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Appendix E: HUD Contacts for Colonias and Farmworkers
Persons with hearing or speech impediments may access any of these numbers via TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339. Colonias and Farmworker Specialists Esperanza “Espy” Holguin 2507 North Telshor Boulevard Suite C-3 Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011 505-521-3905 or 505-522-7192 Lorenzo “Larry” Reyes (Acting) 451 Seventh Street, SW., Suite 3120 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–3086, ext. 4658 Richard Lopez Federal Building One Alamo Center 106 South St. Mary’s Street, Suite 502 San Antonio, Texas 78205 210–475–6800, ext. 2296 Farmworker Specialists Christine Talcott-Roberts Brickell Plaza 909 SE 1st Avenue, Room 500 Miami, Florida 33131 305–536–5678, ext. 2214 Lorenzo “Larry” Reyes (Acting) 451 Seventh Street, SW., Suite 3120 Washington, DC 20410 202–708–3086, ext. 4658 States Arizona/New Mexico
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