Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing)

Jessie Handforth Kome
202.708.3587
CDBG-PROHousing@hud.gov

PRO Housing grants provide funding to state and local government entities to identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation. Funds may be used to develop, evaluate, and implement housing policy plans, improve housing strategies, and facilitate affordable housing production and preservation.

Program goals include:

• Elevate and enable promising practices dedicated to identifying and removing barriers to affordable housing production and preservation, while preventing displacement
• Institutionalize state and local analysis and implementation of effective, equitable, and resilient approaches to affordable housing production and preservation
• Affirmatively further fair housing by addressing and removing barriers that perpetuate segregation, barriers that inhibit access to well-resourced areas of opportunity for protected class groups and vulnerable populations, and barriers that concentrate affordable housing in under-resourced areas
• Provide technical assistance to help communities better fulfill the Consolidated Plan's requirement of identifying barriers to affordable housing and implementing solutions to address those barriers
• Facilitate collaboration and harness innovative approaches from jurisdictions, researchers, advocates, and stakeholders

Priority is given to projects that demonstrate:

• Commitment to overcoming local barriers to facilitate the increase in affordable housing production and preservation
• Acute demand for housing affordable to households with incomes below 100 percent of the area median income
• Promotion of desegregation through affordable housing
• Expansion of affordable housing in well-resourced areas of opportunity for protected class groups that have systematically been denied equitable access to such areas
• Deconcentration of affordable housing and increasing housing choice

Eligible applicants include:

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)
• Multijurisdictional entities

Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Award floor: $10,000,000
Project period: 6 years
Estimated number of awards: 20
Estimated total program funding: $85,000,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.

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