Funding Opportunities

Applications Due December 11

Today HUD posted the FY 2023 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to www.grants.gov.

With this publication, HUD is making available approximately $256,000,000 for Implementation Grants of up to $50 million each.  Of this amount, HUD will award approximately $10 million as Supplemental Grants to FY17-FY20 CN Implementation Grantees that met certain requirements, as detailed in the NOFO Appendix.

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants support the implementation of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans that are expected to achieve the following three core goals:

• Housing: Replace severely distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
• People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to income and employment, health, and education; and
• Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private investment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community.

Applications for a new Implementation Grant are due on December 11, 2023. (Applications for a Supplemental Grant are due on March 4, 2024.)

For more information about the Choice Neighborhoods program, please visit www.hud.gov/cn.  The NOFO and application package must be downloaded from the www.grants.gov site.  Potential applicants may submit questions to [email protected].

View NOFO

Deadline to Apply is October 30, 2023

HUD has announced the availability of $85 million in planning grants through the new Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (“PRO Housing”) program. The PRO Housing Program will provide planning grants for entities to take steps to remove barriers to affordable housing, such as: 

• addressing outdated zoning and land use policies; 
• inefficient procedures; 
• gaps in available resources for development; 
• deteriorating infrastructure;
• lack of neighborhood amenities; or 
• preserving existing stock by improving resiliency to natural disasters or expiring affordability requirements.  

Grantees may use awards to further develop, evaluate, and implement housing policy plans, improve housing strategies, and facilitate affordable housing production and preservation. The program will use the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) framework and is therefore being administered through HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development.

PHAs will apply for funding through grants.gov; the NOFO will be posted to grants.gov and applications will open in September. An estimated 20 grant awards of between $1 million and $10 million will be made through this $85 million program. The application deadline is October 30, 2023. Aquick reference guide to the PRO Housing Program is available here.