Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing | FR 6100 N 44

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The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing is a discretionary grant offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under CFDA 14.913. It is designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and eligible tribal organizations identify, address, and prevent health and safety hazards in housing. The program focuses on improving living conditions for residents who are most at risk, especially children and older adults, by reducing home-based environmental threats that can lead to illness, injury, or long-term health complications. Rather than treating one hazard at a time, the program promotes a coordinated, whole-home approach that looks at multiple risks together and fixes them in a practical, cost-effective way.

This grant sits within HUD's broader Healthy Homes Initiative, launched in 1999, and builds on HUD's long-standing experience with lead hazard control work. The core idea is that many serious health issues, including childhood diseases and injuries, are directly tied to unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions. Through this funding, HUD expects grantees to develop and operate a comprehensive local program that can consistently find hazards, prioritize the most urgent needs, and carry out remediation in low-income housing. The emphasis is on privately owned, low-income rental housing and owner-occupied homes, particularly where children and elderly residents live, since these groups are more likely to suffer severe consequences from hazards such as poor indoor air quality, mold and moisture problems, unsafe structural conditions, allergens, or other environmental and safety deficiencies.

HUD lays out several major objectives for applicants that go beyond just making repairs. Grantees are expected to maximize the number of vulnerable residents protected and the number of units where hazards are controlled, while targeting the most pressing and common health and safety risks. The program pushes for approaches that are efficient and replicable, meaning the methods used should be practical enough to continue after the grant and potentially be adopted by other communities. Public education and outreach are also a required component, with the goal of helping residents understand housing-related risks and how to reduce exposure. Another central expectation is building long-term local capacity, including creating a trained workforce able to perform healthy homes assessments and remediation work, so the community is not dependent on outside expertise indefinitely.

A key feature of the program is integration. HUD encourages grantees to coordinate healthy homes work with related efforts such as housing rehabilitation programs, property maintenance, weatherization services, energy efficiency upgrades, other healthy homes initiatives, and lead-based paint hazard control programs. Collaboration is also expected between housing and health departments, including better data sharing and joint targeting so that resources reach the households with the greatest need. HUD also stresses partnerships and leveraging resources to develop and test the most promising and cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling hazards, strengthening the overall system of services available in the community.

The grant opportunity includes strong civil rights, equity, and economic opportunity requirements. Projects are expected to advance environmental justice by ensuring fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in the target community, regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, or income. Grantees must comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the implementing regulations at 24 CFR Part 8, as well as Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibit disability-based discrimination. There is also an explicit obligation to affirmatively further fair housing, which HUD notes is both a stated objective and an ongoing civil rights requirement. Additionally, to the greatest extent feasible, economic benefits created by the grant (such as job training, employment, and contracting) should be directed toward low- and very low-income people, including those receiving housing assistance, and toward businesses that create economic opportunities for low-income residents, consistent with 24 CFR 135.

For this specific funding announcement (Funding Opportunity Number FR 6100 N 44), HUD anticipated making about 12 awards, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000 per grant. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments as well as other Native American tribal organizations. The opportunity was originally posted on June 4, 2018, with an original application deadline of July 18, 2018, and required electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing" 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 Jun 04, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 18, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).

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