PART IV: Descriptions of Programs Included in the SuperNOFA
Housing and Community Development

Technical Assistance

HOME Technical Assistance (HOME-TA). The HOME Investment Partnerships Program provides funds to States and local governments based on a formula to implement local housing strategies designed to increase the supply of housing for low- income persons. HOME–TA is designed to improve the ability of participating jurisdictions (PJs) to effectively design and implement HOME strategies. HOME–TA provides funds to the following entities:

• HOME PJs.
  
  
• Agencies of HOME PJs.
  
  
• For profit or nonprofit Professional and technical services firms with demonstrated capacity to provide TA.
  
  
• Public purpose organizations responsible to chief elected officials of PJs established pursuant to State or local legislation.
  
  
• Agencies or authorities established by two or more PJs to carry out activities consistent with the purposes of HOME.
  
  
• National or regional nonprofit organizations that have memberships comprised predominantly of entities, officials of entities of PJs, or PJs' agencies or established organizations.

The funding may be used for the following activities:

• To facilitate the exchange of HOME-related information.
  
  
• To improve the ability of HOME participants to design and implement housing strategies.
  
  
• To encourage private lenders and for-profit developers of low-income housing to participate in public-private partnerships to achieve the purposes of HOME.
  
  
• To improve the ability of participants in low-income housing development to incorporate energy efficiency into affordable housing.
  
  
• To facilitate the establishment and efficient operation of employer-assisted housing programs.
  
  
• To facilitate the establishment and efficient operation of land bank programs.

   Program Office: Community Planning and Development

Community Housing Development Organization Technical Assistance (CHDO–TA). A CHDO is a private, community-based nonprofit organization whose purposes include the provision of decent affordable housing to low-income persons. A portion of HOME funding is set aside for housing developed, sponsored, or owned by CHDOs. CHDO–TA funds nonprofit intermediary organizations that customarily provide services to CHDOs—in more than one community—that are related to affordable housing or neighborhood revitalization. Funding may be used for the following:

• Organizational support, housing education, or programwide support of nonprofit development and management.
  
  
• Benevolent loan funds.
  
  
• Community development banks and credit unions.
  
  
• Community land trusts.
  
  
• Facilitation of women into homebuilding professions.

   Program Office: Community Planning and Development

McKinney Act Homeless Assistance Programs Technical Assistance. In FY 2000 Congress authorized technical assistance for all of HUD's McKinney Act Homeless Assistance Programs. This includes the Supportive Housing Program (SHP), Shelter Plus Care (S+C), Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) and Section 8 Assistance for Single Room Occupancy Dwellings (SRO) Programs. McKinney Technical Assistance FY 2000 funds may be used to enhance the planning, development, administration and/or evaluations skill of providers of housing and services funded by these McKinney Act programs. The purpose of enhancing these skills is to promote the development of housing and services as part of a Continuum of Care approach. HUD may provide funding to states, units of general local government and nonprofit or for-profit groups – including educational institutions and area wide planning organizations – qualified to provide Technical Assistance. Funds may be used to provide technical assistance to prospective applicants, applicants, recipients and project sponsors. Types of assistance can include written information, person-to-person exchanges and training (for example, seminars, classes, workshops, meeting and computer-based training).

   Program Office: Community Planning and Development

Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance (HOPWA TA). HOPWA TA is designed to train HOPWA grantees, project sponsors, and potential recipients of program funds in: comprehensive housing strategies and responsive area programs that assist residents who are living with HIV/AIDS; sound management of HOPWA programs to support program operations in an efficient and effective manner, including undertaking community consultations, program planning, housing development and operations, program evaluation and reporting on accomplishments; capacity building for nonprofit organizations to carry out activities as HOPWA projects sponsors.

   Program Office: Community Planning and Development

Universities and Colleges

Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC). COPC is designed to help colleges and universities apply their human, intellectual, and institutional resources to the challenge of revitalizing distressed communities. COPC provides funding to accredited 2- or 4-year degree-granting nonprofit institutions of higher learning to address at least three of the following issues in a targeted urban community:

• Local housing.
• Infrastructure.
• Economic development.
• Neighborhood revitalization.
• Health care.
• Job training.
• Crime prevention.
• Education.
• Planning.
• Community organizing.

Grantees may address these issues by conducting and applying relevant research, coordinating outreach efforts with neighborhood groups and residents, acting as a local information exchange, galvanizing support for neighborhood revitalization, developing public service projects and instructional programs, and collaborating with other partnership centers. Multiple institutions of higher learning in a particular region may also apply jointly as a consortium.

   Program Office: Policy Development and Research

Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The HBCU Program is designed to help historically black colleges and universities expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs—neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development—in their localities. Under this program, HBCUs (as determined by the U.S. Department of Education) are awarded funding for projects designed primarily to benefit low- and moderate-income residents, help prevent or eliminate slums or blight, or meet an urgent community development need in the community in which the HBCU is located. The types of activities that are eligible under this program are the same as those that are eligible under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Real property acquisition.
• Clearance and demolition.
• Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures.
• Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income persons.
• Public facilities improvements.
• Special economic development activities.
• Eligible public services.
• Facilitation of the establishment/expansion of microenterprises.
• Assistance to community-based development organizations.
• Establishment of a Community Development Corporation to undertake eligible activities.
• Planning and administrative costs related to grant-funded activities.

   Program Office: Community Planning and Development

Community Development Work Study (CDWS) Program. CDWS is designed to attract economically disadvantaged and minority graduate students to careers in community and economic development. It accomplishes this by providing funding to institutions of higher learning offering graduate degrees in community development, areawide planning organizations (applying on behalf of two or more institutions of higher learning), and States (applying on behalf of two or more institutions of higher learning in the State). The grantees provide work stipends, tuition support, and additional forms of support to economically disadvantaged and minority graduate students. The students must be enrolled full-time in graduate programs in community and economic development, community planning or management, or other related fields of study. Related fields include public administration, urban management, and urban planning but exclude sociology and such fields as law, economics, education, and history.

   Program Office: Policy Development and Research

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities (HSIAC). HSIAC is designed to help nonprofit Hispanic-serving Institutions of higher education (HSIs) expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs—neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development—in their localities. Under this program, HSIs (as determined by the U.S. Department of Education) are funded for projects designed to primarily benefit low- and moderate-income residents, help prevent or eliminate slums or blight, or meet an urgent community development need in the community in which the HSI is located. The types of activities that are eligible under the program are the same as those that are eligible under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. These include the following:

• Real property acquisition.
• Clearance and demolition.
• Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures.
• Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income persons.
• Public facilities improvements.
• Special Economic development activities.

   Program Office: Policy Development and Research

Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities (AN/NHIAC). This program is designed to help nonprofit Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions of higher education (AN/NHIACs) expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs – neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development needs – in their localities. Under this program, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Institutions (as determined by the U. S. Department of Education) are funded for projects designed to primarily benefit low- and moderate-income residents, prevent or eliminate slums or blight, or meet an urgent community development need in the community which the AN/NHIAC is located. The types of activities that are eligible under the program are the same as those that are eligible under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. These include the following:

• Real property acquisition.
• Clearance and demolition.
• Rehabilitation of residential and/or commercial structures.
• Direct homeownership assistance to low- and moderate-income persons.
• Public facilities improvements.
• Special economic development activities.

   Program Office: Policy Development and Research

Fair Housing Outreach/Enforcement and Housing Counseling

Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP):

Fair Housing Education and Outreach -- Virtually any public or private organization which is formulating or carrying out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices is eligible for FHIP-supported education and outreach funds. Eligible activities for education and outreach grants are:

• Holding education symposia,
• Duplicating existing fair housing materials for distribution,
• Conducting outreach and providing information on fair housing through printed and electronic media,
• Providing outreach to persons with disabilities
• Developing or implementing Fair Housing Month activities, and or the national EOI award, collecting prototypes of successful fair housing education and enforcement business practices and techniques which benefit underserved populations.

The activities funded under this initiative are expected to result in an increased number of referrals to HUD of credible, legitimate fair housing claims and other information regarding discriminatory practices.

There is one FHIP education and outreach initiative (EOI). FHIP-EOI assists projects which inform and educate the public about their rights and obligations under the Fair Housing Act and substantially equivalent State and local fair housing laws.

This Initiative funds projects with activities which operate nationwide (national program) and locally (regional/local/community-based program).

Fair Housing Enforcement -- Fair housing enforcement grants are generally limited to qualified Fair Housing Organizations. The eligible activities for enforcement grants are:

• Investigating individual complaints and systemic housing discrimination,
• Mediating or otherwise voluntarily resolving allegations of fair housing discrimination,
• Litigating fair housing cases, and
• Partnering with State and local agencies (certified by the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as administering laws which are substantially equivalent to the Fair Housing Act) and private fair housing enforcement and civil rights organizations to enforce fair housing.

The enforcement activities funded under FHIP are expected to result in an increased number of referrals to HUD of credible, legitimate fair housing claims and other information regarding discriminatory practices.

There are two FHIP enforcement initiatives:

Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI): FHIP-PEI provides funding to qualified fair housing organizations for a broad range of activities related to enforcing the Fair Housing Act and substantially equivalent State and Local fair housing laws.

Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI): FHIP-FHOI is designed to establish new fair housing enforcement organizations in underserved areas and to provide support to build the enforcement capacity of newly established fair housing enforcement organizations.

   Program Office: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

Housing Counseling Program. The purpose of the Housing Counseling Program (HCP) is to ensure that housing counseling services are available to low- and moderate-income families and individuals nationwide, improve the quality of housing counseling services, enhance coordination among housing counseling providers, and develop reliable sources of funding and other resources for counseling agencies. The HCP assists HUD-approved national, regional, and multi-state intermediaries, and State Housing Finance Agencies (SHFAs) by making grant funds available to defray a portion of the cost of delivering counseling. The primary responsibility of the intermediaries and SHFA's is to manage the use of HUD housing counseling funds by affiliated local housing counseling organizations.

Housing counseling services include giving information, advice and guidance to tenants, first-time homebuyers, homeowners, and senior citizens in such areas as pre-purchase, mortgage, default, home equity conversions, financial management, property maintenance, fair housing rights, and other matters that relate to improving housing conditions and meeting the responsibilities of tenancy and homeownership. In addition, the HCP encourages counseling providers to conduct community outreach activities with the objective of increasing awareness of homeownership opportunities and improving access to sources of mortgage credit. The counseling agencies are expected to use a portion of HUD funds for affirmative marketing and actions to reduce concentrations of poverty and/or minority populations.

   Program Office: Housing

Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control

Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control. The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program is to reduce the exposure of young children to lead-based paint hazards in their homes. This program provides funding to State, Indian Tribal, and local governments to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in private housing rented or owned by low-income families. Examples of activities that can be funded under this program include:

• Inspection and testing of homes for lead-based paint hazards.
• Remediation of lead hazards.
• Blood testing of young children.
• Partnering with community based organizations.
• Temporary relocation of families during hazard control.
• Training low-income persons as lead-based paint workers.
• Community education and outreach.
• Data collection, analysis, and evaluation.
• Pre- and post-hazard reduction testing.

   Program Office: Lead Hazard Control

Lead Hazard Control Research. The purpose of this program is to fund research to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for lead-based paint hazard evaluation and control. This program provides funding to State and local governments and academic, not-for-profit organization, and for-profit organizations. Specific research topics for which applications are being solicited include:

• Evaluation of lead hazard control methodologies; contribution of exterior lead sources to lead in interior dust.
• Low-cost analytical technologies for the rapid, on-site determination of lead in dust.
• New or novel methods of lead-based paint hazard evaluation or control, or other areas of research that are consistent with the overall goals of this program.

   Program Office: Lead Hazard Control

Healthy Homes Initiative. The Healthy Homes Initiative is designed to develop, demonstrate and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home which produce serious diseases and injuries in children. HUD is interested in mobilizing public and private resources to operate programs that (1) demonstrate housing assessment, maintenance, renovation and construction techniques to identify and correct housing-related illness and injury risk factors; (2) disseminate healthy homes information and replicate successful models; and (3) research new methods of evaluating and controlling housing-based hazards. Eligible applicants are research institutions, nonprofit institutions and for-profit firms located in the U.S., State and Local governments, and federally recognized Indian Tribes.

   Program Office: Office of Lead Hazard Control

Modernization and Revitalization

Public Housing HOPE VI - Revitalization Grants. HOPE VI is designed to aid the transformation of the physical site and social dynamics for low-income residents of severely distressed or obsolete public housing sites. HOPE VI takes a holistic approach to revitalization of public housing communities. HOPE VI is the sole source of substantial and concentrated capital assistance to public housing agencies (PHAs) of all sizes and characteristics whose level of formula modernization funding cannot support revitalization or major reconfiguration of an obsolete development. HOPE VI - Revitalization Grants fund PHAs to demolish obsolete public housing developments or portions of them; revitalize—where appropriate—sites, including remaining public housing units, on which such developments are located; provide replacement housing and assistance to tenants that will be displaced by the demolition; and implement public housing management improvements. Assistance for displaced tenants is provided through the Section 8 Voucher programs. HOPE VI also provides funding for tenant self-sufficiency services, such as child care, employment training, computer skills training, education, transportation, and health care. For FY2000, $513.8 million has been allocated to the HOPE VI Revitalization.

   Program Office: Public and Indian Housing

Public Housing HOPE VI Demolition Grants. The HOPE VI Demolition program provides funding to public housing agencies for the demolition and minimal site restoration of obsolete public housing units without revitalization, where demolition would otherwise not occur due to lack of available resources. For FY 2000, approximately $50 million has been allocated to the HOPE VI Demolition program.

   Program Office: Public and Indian Housing

Drug Elimination in Public and Assisted Housing

Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Technical Assistance. The purpose of PHDEP TA is to provide short-term TA to public housing agencies, resident management corporations, incorporated resident councils, and resident organizations that are combating drug abuse and related crime in public and Indian housing communities. Examples of eligible activities include consultation in the following areas:

• Program planning.
• Development of future strategies to eliminate drugs and drug-related crime.
• Needs assessments or surveys.
• Training for public housing agency staff and residents in anti-crime and anti-drug practices, programs, and management.

   Program Office: Public and Indian Housing

Public Housing Drug Elimination Technical Assistance for Safety and Security (DETASS). The Drug Elimination Technical Assistance for Safety and Security (DETASS) is designed to improve the skills, knowledge, management and administration of the public housing community in three areas:

• Obtaining and maintaining Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) certification for public housing police departments.
• Helping residents develop, administer, improve and evaluate resident patrol groups.
• Understanding techniques used for successful defensible space and environmental design to promote safety and security.
• Addressing youth violence and youth violence prevention techniques.

The types of assistance provided can include written information, peer-to-peer exchanges, training classes, workshops, and other means to ensure public housing residents live in a safe and secure community.

   Program: Public and Indian Housing

New Approach Anti-Drug Program. The New Approach program provides funding to entities managing or operating public, federally assisted, and other low-income housing to provide enhanced security, assistance to investigate and/or prosecute drug-related crime in and around such low-income housing, and security-related capital improvements. Under this program, applicants are required to address the crime related needs of an entire neighborhood with at least one project being a HUD-assisted multifamily project. In the interest of comprehensiveness applicants are required to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local police department, local district attorney or prosecutor's office, and other stakeholders, such as PHAs to design and implement their strategy.

   Program Office: Housing

Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Program (MHDEP). MHDEP's goal is to eliminate drug-related crime and associated problems in and around the premises of federally assisted low-income housing. MHDEP provides funds to owners of such housing for physical improvements to enhance security, comprehensive programs to reduce the use of drugs (for example, programs combining prevention, education, treatment, and youth services), and strengthening the role of tenant patrols.

   Program Office: Housing