HUD Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program

August 14, 2022 $ by Tonza Borden $ Leave a comment

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HUD Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program provides funding to States, local governments and nonprofit providers to serve individuals and families.

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What Is HUD Rural Housing Stability Assistance Providing In Your Area?

HUD rural housing stability assistance provides re-housing or improves the housing situations of individuals and families who are homeless or in the worst housing situations in the geographic area.

It stabilizes the housing of individuals and families who are in imminent danger of losing housing.

Also, it improves the ability of the lowest-income residents of the community to afford stable housing.

Nature Of The Program

Competitively awarded grants for:

Rent
Mortgage, or utility assistance
Security deposits
Relocation assistance
Short-term emergency lodging
Construction of new housing units to provide transitional or permanent housing
Acquisition or rehabilitation of a structure to provide non-emergency transitional or permanent housing
Property leasing
Rental assistance
Payment of operating costs for assisted housing units.

Applicant Eligibility

Organizations eligible to receive a grant under this program include private nonprofit entities and county and local governments.

Legal Authority

Subtitle D of Title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11408). Regulations are under development.

Note: The Act to Prevent Mortgage Foreclosures and Enhance Mortgage Credit Availability Act was signed into law on May 20, 2009 (Public Law 111-22). Division B of this new law is the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), which repealed the Rural Homeless Housing Assistance program, which had never been implemented or funded, and created the Rural Housing Stability Assistance program.

Administering Office

Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) in the Office of Community Planning and Development, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC 20410-7000.