HUD recently announced a new application round for the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants. Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants support the implementation of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans that are expected to achieve the following three core goals:
- Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
- People: Improve educational outcomes and intergenerational mobility for youth with services and supports delivered directly to youth and their families; and
- Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community.
Eligible applicants are Public Housing Authorities (PHAs), local governments, for-profit entities, nonprofit entities and tribal entities. A unit of local government must be either the Lead Applicant or the Co-Applicant in all applications. For-profit and nonprofit entities that apply must own the target housing.
Applications are due on February 9, 2015. HUD expects to make three awards during this cycle. This funding is subject to increase if there is an FY2015 appropriation.
