Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing | FR 6200 N 44

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The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities reduce health and safety risks inside the home. It focuses on helping tribal governments and eligible tribal organizations create or strengthen practical, on-the-ground programs that can find, prioritize, and fix housing conditions that contribute to illness and injury, especially in low-income households. The program is part of HUD's broader Healthy Homes Initiative, which began in 1999, and it reflects the idea that families are often exposed to multiple hazards at once, so the best results come from addressing several serious issues together instead of tackling one isolated problem at a time. Building on HUD's experience with Lead Hazard Control efforts, the HHP program expands attention to other high-priority environmental health and safety hazards that can affect children, elders, and other vulnerable residents.

A central theme of the grant is production and measurable impact: awardees are expected to maximize both the number of people protected and the number of housing units where hazards are actually controlled. The program prioritizes privately owned, low-income rental housing and owner-occupied homes, with special emphasis on units where children and elderly residents live. In practical terms, grantees are expected to run a comprehensive healthy homes approach that includes identifying priority hazards, carrying out remediation, and using methods that are cost-effective, efficient, and realistic for replication in other homes and future years. HUD is clearly signaling that funded work should not be a one-time set of repairs; it should be structured so that the approach can be sustained and scaled within the community over time.

Beyond direct remediation, the grant expects communities to invest in long-term capacity and prevention. That includes public education and outreach to help residents understand common housing-related health risks and how to reduce them, as well as building a trained local workforce that can perform healthy homes assessments and remediation work. The program also emphasizes integration, meaning grantees should coordinate healthy homes hazard control with related efforts such as housing rehabilitation, property maintenance, weatherization, energy efficiency improvements, and other health and safety initiatives, including lead-based paint hazard control programs. This integrated approach is meant to reduce duplication, stretch limited resources further, and produce healthier, safer, and more durable housing outcomes.

HUD also places strong weight on partnerships and coordination between systems that often operate separately. Applicants are expected to build and enhance partner resources and collaborate across agencies, including encouraging data sharing and more strategic targeting between health departments and housing departments. In addition, the opportunity includes explicit expectations around directing economic benefits to the community. To the greatest extent feasible, job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by the grant should be directed to low- and very low-income persons, including people receiving housing assistance, and to businesses that provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income residents in the project area, consistent with the requirements referenced at 24 CFR 135.

The grant also embeds civil rights and equity requirements as core program expectations. It calls for advancing environmental justice, defined as fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in the target communities regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, or income as it relates to environmental laws, regulations, and policies. It requires compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and its implementing regulations at 24 CFR 8, as well as Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, all of which prohibit disability-based discrimination. Finally, it highlights the obligation to affirmatively further fair housing, noting that this is not only an objective of the funding notice but also an ongoing civil-rights-related program requirement.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed as "Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing" (Funding Opportunity Number FR 6200 N 44) under CFDA 14.913, with HUD as the issuing agency. Eligible applicants include federally recognized Native American tribal governments and Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments. The funding instrument is a grant, categorized under housing. The award ceiling is up to $1,000,000 per award, and HUD anticipated making about 12 awards. The posting information shows a creation date of June 25, 2019, with an original closing date of August 9, 2019, and electronic applications due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline date.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Healthy Homes Production Grant Program for Tribal Housing" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.913.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 25, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 09, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).

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