HUD's FY 2011 Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Notice of Funding Availability

Summary:  Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS - Grants funded under this initiative will advance HUD’s implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). HUD’s FY 2011 NOFA also addresses the Department’s Fiscal Year 2010-2015 Strategic Plan and the Opening Doors Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. These actions address goals to: prevent and end homelessness; increase the supply of affordable housing; and increase the coordination of mainstream housing resources and other health and human services. This NOFA announces funds available for projects that address both: (1) direct housing assistance and service delivery to low income persons and families living with HIV/AIDS, including homeless individuals and families; and (2) comprehensive planning and coordination of local resources in meeting housing and service needs of the population. As a result of project efforts, communities will be assisted in the development and use of an Integrated HIV/AIDS Housing Plan (IHHP) to be issued at the end of the third year of operation. The IHHP is an administrative function and should demonstrate local system changes in the delivery of housing and services. Grantees are expected to provide housing assistance to eligible persons in their communities while concurrently examining and comprehensively integrating local services for coordinating and streamlining where possible the delivery of those services in their community.

States, units of general local government, including Public Housing Authorities, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.  The estimated total funding in this NOFA is $9.1 billion, with a grant award ceiling of  $1.375 billion. These resources will allow States and localities for forge new partnerships, including involving Public Housing Authorities, to devise place-based comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of low-income persons with HIV/AIDS. Grant recipients will conduct comprehensive planning for the integration of housing and non-medical supportive services into wider local planning efforts. The results of these efforts will be published in the IHHP. The IHHP is envisioned as a collaborative process that will to improve the systematic delivery of housing and services to low-income individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS in your community and serves as a model for similar communities across the U.S. Grant recipients must plan to sustain of their project through coordinated local and regional planning efforts.

Date of Publication:  May 18, 2011

Application Submission Date:  August 02, 2011  

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