HUD and EPA Grant Opportunities

The Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) administers three grant programs that help communities around the country achieve its mission of creating strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy.

FY2011 Grants

Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities
Link: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/sustainable_housing_communities/capacity-building
This program, jointly funded by HUD and EPA, will identify intermediaries to provide additional assistance to the recipients of Sustainable Communities assistance from the two grant programs below.

Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants
Link: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/sustainable_housing_communities/sustainable_communities_regional_planning_grants
This program provides grants to help improve regional planning efforts that integrate housing and transportation decisions, and increase state, regional, and local capacity to incorporate livability, sustainability, and social equity values into land use plans and zoning. The program supports metropolitan and multi-jurisdictional planning efforts through a consortium-based model that brings together numerous groups to inform the planning process.

OSHC staff will hold a webcast on August 12th from 1-2pm EDT to give an overview of the FY2011 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant NOFA. There will be opportunity for questions following the presentation. Please visit www.hud.gov/sustainability on that day for a link to the webcast.

Community Challenge Grants
Link: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/sustainable_housing_communities/HUD-DOT_Community_Challenge_Grants
The program provides grants to enable communities in fostering reform and reducing barriers to achieving affordable, economically vital, and sustainable communities. Such efforts may include amending or replacing local master plans, zoning codes, and building codes, either on a jurisdiction-wide basis or in a specific neighborhood, district, corridor, or sector to promote mixed-use development, affordable housing, the reuse of older buildings and structures for new purposes, and similar activities with the goal of promoting sustainability at the local or neighborhood level. This Program also supports the development of affordable housing through the development and adoption of inclusionary zoning ordinances and other activities such as acquisition of land for affordable housing projects.

OSHC staff will hold a webcast on August 11th from 3:30-4:30pm EDT to give an overview of the FY2011 Community Challenge Planning Grant NOFA. There will be opportunity for questions following the presentation. Please visit www.hud.gov/sustainability on that day for a link to the webcast.