Healthy Homes Production Grant Program | FR 6700 N 44

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The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program is a discretionary grant offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Healthy Homes Initiative that began in 1999. Its core purpose is to reduce multiple home-based health and safety risks in a coordinated way, especially risks that contribute to childhood illness and injury. Instead of funding work that targets only one hazard at a time, the program supports a more comprehensive approach that identifies and fixes several high-priority housing-related hazards together. It also builds on HUDs long-running Lead Hazard Control efforts by expanding the focus to additional environmental health and safety issues that can affect residents quality of life.

The program is designed to protect vulnerable populations and improve conditions in privately owned, low-income homes, including both rental and owner-occupied housing. Priority is placed on units where families with children live, where older adults aged 62 and over reside, or where households include people with disabilities. Grantees are expected to maximize impact by increasing both the number of people protected and the number of housing units where hazards are controlled or remediated. Alongside direct remediation, HUD emphasizes using methods that are cost-effective, efficient, replicable, and sustainable, so the work can continue beyond the grant period and be adopted by other communities.

A major expectation of awardees is building local capacity to run lasting healthy homes programs. This includes strengthening or creating systems for assessing hazards, coordinating interventions, and developing a trained workforce familiar with healthy homes principles and assessment practices. The opportunity also encourages grantees to integrate healthy homes work with related efforts such as housing rehabilitation, property maintenance programs, weatherization, energy efficiency improvements, local lead-based paint hazard control programs, and other health and safety initiatives. HUD is explicitly looking for partnerships that help communities target resources better, share data between housing and health departments, and develop the most cost-effective approaches for identifying and controlling key hazards.

Public education and outreach are another important component. Grantees are expected to support outreach that helps protect children and other at-risk residents by improving awareness of housing-related hazards and how to prevent or address them. In addition, HUD expects that economic opportunities created by the grant, such as job training, employment, and contracting, should be directed as much as feasible toward low- and very low-income residents, including people receiving housing assistance, and toward businesses that provide economic opportunities to those populations. This aligns with Section 3 requirements under 24 CFR 135, which aim to ensure that HUD-funded projects generate meaningful local economic benefits.

The grant also carries significant civil rights and equity-related expectations. Projects are expected to further environmental justice by ensuring fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in the 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 of 1973 and its regulations at 24 CFR part 8, along with Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act when applicable, all of which prohibit disability-based discrimination. Recipients also remain responsible for complying with the Fair Housing Act, including the duty to affirmatively further fair housing, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Administratively, this opportunity is a HUD grant (Funding Opportunity Number FR 6700 N 44) in the housing assistance domain and is listed under CFDA 14.913. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; federally recognized tribal governments; and qualifying nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (with additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice). The award ceiling is $2,000,000, with an estimated 20 awards expected. The posting lists a creation date of September 15, 2023, and an original closing date of November 7, 2023, with applications due by 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time.

• The US 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 Sep 15, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 07, 2023 The application deadline is 115959 PM Eastern 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 $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 (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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