HUD Healthy Homes Production Grant Program

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking applications for its Healthy Homes Production Grant Program.

Donor Name: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 11/07/2023

Size of the Grant: $2,000,000

Grant Duration: 42 months

Details:

The program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The program builds upon HUD’s successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand the Department’s efforts to address.

Goals and Objectives from HUD’s Strategic Plan

• Strategic Goal 1: Support Underserved Communities
  • Fortify support for underserved communities and support equitable community development for all people.
• 1A: Advance Housing Justice
  • Fortify support for vulnerable populations, underserved communities, and Fair Housing enforcement.
• 1C: Invest in the Success of Communities
  • Promote equitable community development that generates wealth-building for underserved communities, particularly for communities of color.
• Strategic Goal 4: Advance Sustainable Communities
  • Advance sustainable communities by strengthening climate resilience and energy efficiency, promoting environmental justice, and recognizing housing’s role as essential to health.
• 4B: Strengthen Environmental Justice
  • Reduce exposure to health risks, environmental hazards, and substandard housing, especially for low-income households and communities of color.
• 4C: Integrate Health and Housing
  • Advance policies that recognize housing’s role as essential to health.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Funding: $40,000,000
• Minimum Award Amount: $1,000,000
• Maximum Award Amount: $2,000,000

Period of Performance

• Estimated Project Start Date: 01/15/2024
• Estimated Project End Date: 07/15/2027

Eligibility Criteria

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township government
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Additional Information on Eligibility

Multiple organizations or multiple units of local government may apply as a consortium, provided an eligible entity is the principal (lead) applicant responsible for ensuring compliance with NOFO requirements, and each entity must meet the Resolution of Civil Rights Matters threshold requirement.

Faith-based organizations

• Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at, and subject to the protections and requirements of HUD will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization based on the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
• A faith-based organization that participates in this program will retain its independence and may continue to carry out its mission consistent with religious freedom and conscience protections in Federal law, including the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the Constitution, and the Weldon Amendment, among others. Religious accommodations may also be sought under many of these religious freedom and conscience protection laws, particularly under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
• A faith-based organization may not use direct financial assistance from HUD to support or engage in any explicitly religious activities except where consistent with the Establishment Clause and any other applicable requirements. Such an organization also may not, in providing services funded by HUD, discriminate against a beneficiary or prospective program beneficiary on the basis of religion, religious belief, a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a refusal to attend or participate in a religious practice

For more information, visit Grants.gov.