Cities and housing authorities are eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Housing Preservation Grant program grants, which offer support to assist low-and very-low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas.
The program also assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very-low-income persons.
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces a notice in funding availability under its Housing Preservation Grant (HPG) program. The HPG program is a grant program that provides qualified public agencies, and private nonprofit organizations, which may include but not be limited to, faith-based and community organizations, and other eligible entities grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very-low-income persons. This action is taken to comply with Agency regulations found in 7 CFR part 1944, subpart N, which require the agency to announce the opening and closing dates for receipt of pre-applications for HPG funds from eligible applicants. The intended effect of this Notice is to provide eligible organizations with notice of these dates.
Approximately $2.5 million of FY2023 funding is available for disaster assistance ($50,000 maximum award). Pre-applications for disaster assistance grants may be utilized for calendar year 2022 presidentially declared disaster area(s) only (2022 presidentially declared disaster areas can be viewed at https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations).
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