Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing | FR 6400 N 44

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The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing is a discretionary grant opportunity from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under CFDA 14.913. It is designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities reduce health and safety risks inside homes by finding and fixing housing-related hazards. The program is specifically aimed at supporting tribal governments and eligible tribal organizations as they build or strengthen comprehensive, locally run healthy homes programs that can operate over time, rather than treating problems one hazard at a time.

At its core, the program reflects HUD's broader Healthy Homes Initiative, which began in 1999 and grew out of HUD's earlier Lead Hazard Control work. The guiding idea is that many serious health outcomes, especially for children and older adults, are linked to conditions in the home, and those risks often overlap. Instead of funding narrow, single-issue fixes, the Healthy Homes Production approach encourages coordinated assessment and remediation of multiple high-priority environmental health and safety hazards in a single, practical strategy. The emphasis is on producing measurable results: more vulnerable residents protected and more homes made safer through real hazard control work.

Grant recipients are expected to prioritize privately owned, low-income housing, including both rental units and owner-occupied homes, with special focus on places where children and elderly residents live. Projects should identify the most pressing housing-related hazards in the target community and carry out remediation, while also promoting methods that are cost-effective, efficient, and capable of being replicated and sustained. HUD is looking for programs that do more than complete individual repairs; applicants are expected to develop systems and local capacity that last, including building a trained workforce that understands healthy homes assessment and remediation principles.

The program also places strong weight on coordination and partnership. Applicants are encouraged to integrate healthy homes work with other housing and community improvement efforts such as rehabilitation and repair programs, property maintenance, weatherization, energy efficiency upgrades, other lead-based paint hazard control programs, and related health and safety initiatives. Collaboration between housing and health departments is specifically called out, with an expectation of better data sharing, targeting of high-need households, and coordinated community response so that resources reach the residents at greatest risk.

Another major theme is community engagement and education. Recipients are expected to conduct public education and outreach that supports the goal of protecting children and other vulnerable populations from home-based hazards. In addition, the opportunity emphasizes building and enhancing partner resources so that communities can develop and use the most promising and cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling hazards, rather than relying on one-off interventions that disappear when a grant ends.

HUD also ties the grant to broader equity, civil rights, and economic opportunity requirements. Projects should, to the greatest extent feasible, direct job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by grant activities to low- and very low-income persons, including people receiving housing assistance, as well as to businesses that create opportunities for low-income residents in the project area (referencing 24 CFR 135). The program explicitly advances environmental justice, meaning the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in the target communities regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, or income. Recipients must also comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and relevant ADA provisions that prohibit disability-based discrimination, and they must meet the obligation to affirmatively further fair housing, which HUD notes is not only an objective of the notice but also an ongoing civil-rights-related program requirement.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number FR 6400 N 44. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other eligible Native American tribal organizations. The award ceiling listed is up to $1,000,000 per award, with an estimated 12 awards expected. The notice provided shows a creation date of July 24, 2020, with an original closing date of August 24, 2020, and an application deadline of 11:59:59 pm Eastern time on the due date.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing, opportunity zone benefits 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 Jul 24, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 24, 2020 The application deadline is 115959 pm Eastern Standard time on. (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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