Deadline: 6-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issues this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications from eligible applicants for providing housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.
The Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) program was enacted to provide states and localities with the resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of low-income persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and their families. Stable housing has been a major issue facing many persons living with HIV since the beginning of the epidemic. Achieving and maintaining stable housing can be a powerful structural intervention in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination add additional barriers to accessing and maintaining housing. To end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, persons living with HIV must have access to high-quality and culturally competent services including housing and supportive services that are non-stigmatizing, non-discriminatory, inclusive, and responsive to their needs.
Each successful applicant under this NOFO will received a one-time, non-renewable grant to fund housing assistance and supportive services for eligible beneficiaries, coordination and planning activities, and grants management and administration.
Objectives
Each project must be designed for the Grantee to achieve the following six required project objectives:
- Implement and document housing and services models for low-income persons living with HIV and their families that are innovative and replicable in other similar localities or nationally;
- Increase alignment with new or existing local initiatives or strategies to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by elevating housing as an effective structural intervention;
- Improve coordination among local housing and service providers and use of available community resources;
- Increase the amount of quality data collected and used for data-driven decision making with an emphasis on stable housing, positive health outcomes, and racial equity;
- Assess and document replicable practices that ensure equitable access and culturally competent approaches to providing housing and services for populations of persons living with HIV experiencing service gaps; and
- Prioritize sustainable, effective, and equitable approaches to providing housing and services to persons living with HIV and their families that can be continued past the funded project’s period of performance.
Award Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $ 41,000,000
- Minimum Award Amount: $ 300,000 Per Project Period
- Maximum Award Amount: $ 2,250,000 Per Project Period
- Estimated Project Start Date: 03/01/2022
- Estimated Project End Date: 03/01/2025
- Length of Periods Explanation of Other: The Period of Performance and Budget Period for each grant will be a 36-month project period with a 36-month budget period.
- HUD expects to make approximately 18 awards from the funds available
Eligibility Information
Eligible applicants for funding under this NOFO are
- States,
- Units of General Local Government, and
- Non-profit Organizations.
To be eligible, nonprofit organizations must meet the definition of an eligible non-profit organization; under the HOPWA program found regulations at 24 CFR 574.3.
Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332870