A wide variety of funding opportunities, including grants, loans, tax credits, and rebates, across federal agencies are available to PHAs for green energy, climate resiliency, and disaster recovery at their properties. Click here for information about key green funding programs.
PHAs Can Apply Through Non-Profit Arms or Government Partnerships
HUD has opened a new funding opportunity which offers $225 million in competitive grant funding for the preservation and revitalization of manufactured housing and eligible manufactured housing communities. PHAs can apply through their non-profit arms or apply as part of a partnership with a state or local government. The application deadline is June 5, 2024. Eligible applicants include:
This program is called the Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) and uses the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) statutory and regulatory framework. This new NOFO is one of a wide range of recent actions taken by the Biden-Harris Administration to Boost Housing Supply. PRICE funding will support low- and moderate-income homeowners with manufactured housing units and manufactured housing communities with critical investments such as repairs, infrastructure improvements, upgrades to increase resilience, services like eviction prevention and housing counseling, and planning activities such as those needed to transition to resident-managed communities. HUD is providing a series of webinars with a specific focus on the PRICE NOFO and application requirements. These one-hour webinars are designed for interested PRICE applicants. The first webinar will be a PRICE NOFO Walkthrough on March 6, 2024 at 3:00 pm ET. Relatedly, FHA is publishing a draft Mortgagee Letter that, once finalized, will create a new program to preserve affordability for existing residents of manufactured housing communities. Under the new program, resident cooperatives and other mission-oriented borrowers will be permitted to use FHA 223(f) multifamily loans to acquire or refinance communities. This is designed to complement the PRICE grant program.
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Applications Due February 1
The Department of Labor has posted a Notice of Funding Opportunity for PHAs; state, city, county, and local governments; independent school districts and others to apply for funding to provide pre-apprentice services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to youth, ages 16 to 24, who are performing meaningful work and service to their communities. Approximately 75 grants will be awarded. Individual grants will range from $700,000 to $1.5 million. Applications are due February 1, 2024.
Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), DOL will award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to opportunity youth, ages 16 to 24, who are performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model prepares participants for quality jobs in a variety of careers, in diverse industry sectors, particularly in infrastructure sectors, and includes wrap-around services such as mentoring, trauma-informed care, personal counseling, transportation supports, and employment preparation - all key strategies for addressing violence in communities. YouthBuild applicants must include construction skills training and may include occupational skills training in other in-demand industries. This expansion into additional in-demand industries is the Construction Plus component. Eligible applicants for these grants are public or private non-profit agencies or organizations, including consortia of such agencies or organizations. These organizations include rural, urban, or Native American/Tribal entities that have previously served opportunity youth in a YouthBuild or other similar program. DOL will fund approximately 75 projects across the country. Individual grants will range from $700,000 to $1.5 million and require a 25 percent match from applicants, using sources other than federal funding. This FOA features a matching waiver for Tribal entities and U.S. insular areas which allows these entities to not include a match commitment in their applications. The grant period of performance for this FOA is 40 months, including a four-month planning period and a twelve-month follow-up period. Questions regarding this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) may be emailed to YB_FOA-ETA-24-36@dol.gov.
A new funding opportunity provides up to $1 billion for states and “units of local government with the authority to adopt building energy codes to adopt and implement the latest building energy codes, zero energy building codes, or equivalent codes or standards.” The funding is the latest tranche being released from the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. Details on the funding opportunity are available on CLPHA’s Green Funding Clearinghouse.
This opportunity assists eligible entities in further decarbonizing their buildings through the adoption of the latest national model building energy codes, zero energy codes, other codes that deliver equivalent or greater energy savings, including innovative approaches to decarbonize existing buildings through certain measurable and enforceable requirements.
Of the nearly $1 billion total, $330 million is available to adopt and implement the latest building energy code that meets or exceeds the energy savings in the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) for residential buildings and the ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1–2019 for commercial buildings, while $670 million is available to adopt and implement a building energy code that meets or exceeds the zero energy provisions in the 2021 IECC code or an equivalent stretch code. Individual awards may vary between $1 million and $20 million.
The funding is available through the Department of Energy’s Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP). Interested applicants can register with and submit application materials through the Infrastructure eXCHANGE, which is SCEP’s online application portal.
First Round Concept Papers are due February 9, 2024, and First Round Full Applications are due April 30, 2024. Pending the continued availability of funding, Concept Papers for the Second Round will be due in September 2024, Second Round Full Applications will be due in November 2024, along with a Third Round in 2025.
- View the FOA and apply on the Infrastructure eXCHANGE
- View the press release and overview