The City of Lawrence, through the Housing Initiatives Division of the Planning & Development Services Department, invites non-profit and for-profit organizations to submit applications for projects to be funded through the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) as part of the 2025 Annual Action Plan.
Donor Name: City of Lawrence
State: Kansas
City: Lawrence
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The HOME program provides formula grants to eligible State and local governments to strengthen public private partnerships and to expand the supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for very low-income and low-income families. Generally, HOME funds must be matched by nonfederal resources. State and local governments that become participating jurisdictions (PJ) may use HOME funds to carry out multi-year housing strategies through acquisition, rehabilitation, and new construction of housing, and tenant-based rental assistance. PJs may provide assistance in a number of eligible forms, including loans, advances, equity investments, interest subsidies and other forms of investment that HUD approves. It is the largest Federal block grant to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households.
Funding Information
For Program Year 2025, the City anticipates available HOME funding to be approximately $430,000.
Grant Period
August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026.
Eligible Activities
HOME funds may be used by a participating jurisdiction (PJ) to provide incentives to develop and support affordable rental housing and homeownership affordability through the acquisition (including assistance to homebuyers), new construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of nonluxury housing with suitable amenities, including real property acquisition, site improvements, conversion, demolition, and other expenses, including financing costs, relocation expenses of any displaced persons, families, businesses, or organizations; to provide tenant-based rental assistance, including security deposits; to provide payment of reasonable administrative and planning costs; and to provide for the payment of operating expenses of community housing development organizations (CHDO). The housing must be permanent or transitional housing. The specific eligible costs for these activities are set forth in 24 CFR 92.206 through 92.209. The activities and costs are eligible only if the housing meets the property standards in 92.251 upon project completion.
For more information, visit City of Lawrence.
