Healthy Homes Production Grant Program | FR 6800 N 44

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The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Healthy Homes Initiative that began in 1999. Its core aim is to reduce housing-related health and safety risks by taking a whole-home, coordinated approach rather than tackling one hazard at a time. The program builds on HUD's lead hazard control work, but expands the scope to include multiple environmental and safety hazards that can contribute to childhood illness and injury, and that can also seriously affect older adults and people with disabilities. The focus is on producing real, on-the-ground hazard control outcomes in homes, especially where vulnerable residents live.

Funded projects are expected to identify and remediate housing-related health and safety hazards in privately owned, low-income housing, including both rental units and owner-occupied homes. Priority populations include families with children, households with older adults age 62 and up, and families that include people with disabilities. The program emphasizes maximizing impact in two ways at once: protecting as many vulnerable residents as possible and treating as many housing units as possible. In addition to direct remediation work, HUD expects applicants to promote cost-effective, efficient healthy homes methods that can be replicated and maintained over time, rather than one-off interventions that cannot be sustained.

A major theme of the program is building local capacity and integrating healthy homes work into existing housing and community systems. Applicants are encouraged to connect this grant-funded work with housing rehabilitation programs, property maintenance efforts, weatherization services, local healthy homes initiatives, lead-based paint hazard control programs, and broader health and safety and energy efficiency activities. HUD also calls for strengthening partnerships and developing shared resources so communities can better identify, target, and control key hazards in the most cost-effective way. Collaboration is not just encouraged in general terms; the notice explicitly highlights coordination, data sharing, and targeting between health departments and housing departments as a program objective, reflecting the idea that housing conditions and health outcomes are tightly linked and should be addressed jointly.

The opportunity also carries clear expectations around equity, civil rights compliance, and community benefit. Projects are expected to further environmental justice through fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in target communities, regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), familial status, or income. Recipients must comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and they also have obligations under the Fair Housing Act (including the duty to affirmatively further fair housing) and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, the program incorporates HUD Section 3 priorities (24 CFR 135), meaning that, to the greatest extent feasible, job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities created by the grant should be directed to low- and very-low-income residents, especially those receiving housing assistance, and to businesses that create economic opportunities for low- and very-low-income people in the project area.

Eligible applicants include state governments, counties, cities or townships, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations with IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), along with certain other eligible entities as specified by HUD. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorships are not eligible. Nonprofit applicants must provide documentation of their 501(c)(3) status with the application. The program allows consortia, meaning multiple organizations or units of local government can apply together as long as one eligible entity serves as the lead applicant responsible for compliance, and each participating entity meets the required civil rights threshold conditions (including the Resolution of Civil Rights Matters requirement). For government applicants whose department does not report through a direct chain of command to the jurisdiction's chief executive (such as a governor, county executive, or mayor), the application must include the legal authority establishing the entity as part of government, either by attaching the relevant statutory language or providing a publicly accessible web link.

Key funding details listed for this opportunity include an award ceiling of $2,000,000, an estimated 20 awards, and a closing date of 2024-09-03. The opportunity is issued by HUD under Funding Opportunity Number FR 6800 N 44 and is associated with CFDA 14.913 in the housing funding category. A notable eligibility restriction is that any applicant that received an award under the FY 2023 Healthy Homes Production (HHP) NOFO is not eligible to apply for FY 2024 HHP funding, which is intended to broaden access to funds across communities rather than repeatedly funding the same grantees in consecutive cycles.

• The Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Healthy Homes Production Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.913.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-03. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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