Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (Mainstream Program)
HUD has established a Mainstream Housing
Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Program (Mainstream Program) to
provide vouchers to enable persons with disabilities (elderly or non-elderly)
to access affordable private housing of their choice. The Mainstream Program
will assist PHAs and nonprofit disability organizations in providing housing
choice vouchers to a segment of the population recognized by HUD's housing
research as having one of the worst housing needs of any group in the United
States; i.e., very low-income households with adults with disabilities. In addition, the Mainstream Program
will assist persons with disabilities who often face difficulties in locating
suitable and accessible housing on the private market.
Only a disabled family that is income
eligible under 24 CFR 982.201(b)(1), as well as otherwise eligible under the
regulations at 24 CFR 982.201(b), may receive a voucher awarded under the
Mainstream Program. Disabled
family means a family whose head, spouse, or sole member is a person with
disabilities. It may include two
or more persons with disabilities living together, or one or more persons with
disabilities living with one or more live-in aides.
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Funding Category: |
Housing
choice vouchers for persons with disabilities. |
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Target Population: |
Very low-income disabled persons (elderly or non-elderly). |
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Funding Available: |
Approximately $53.9 million in five-year budget authority, derived from Section 811 funding, for approximately 1,900 vouchers is available to public housing agencies (PHAs) and nonprofit disability organizations. HUD will supplement the $53.9 million of five-year budget authority with additional funding of up to as much as $40 million in one-year budget authority initially earmarked for (1) housing choice vouchers for non-elderly disabled families in support of designated housing plans, and (2) non-elderly disabled families who are not currently receiving housing assistance in certain Section 8 project-based developments due to the owners establishing preferences for the admission of elderly families, or non-elderly disabled families not being housed in certain section 202, section 221(d)(3) and section 236 developments (or portions thereof) where the owners have restricted occupancy to elderly families. Only PHAs are eligible to apply for the one-year budget authority funding that may be available under this funding announcement. |
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Application Information: |
HUD SuperNOFA, NOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929 |
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Contact: |
Prior to the application due date, you may contact George C. Hendrickson, Housing Program Specialist, Room 4216, Office of Public and Assisted Housing Delivery, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; telephone (202) 708-1872, ext. 4064. Subsequent to application submission, you may contact the Grants Management Center at (202) 358-0221. (These are not toll-free numbers.) Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access these numbers via TTY (text telephone) by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 (this is a toll-free number). |
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