HUD Research: Affordable Housing, Community/Economic Development, Environmental and Energy, Fair Housing, Homeownership, Rental Assistance, Supportive Housing, Disaster Recovery - accepted anytime

Sponsor Deadline: 

Dec 31, 2020

Sponsor: 

Housing and Urban Development HUD

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development discretionary funding for unsolicited proposals: Affordable Housing Development and Preservation, Community and Economic Development, Environment and Energy, Fair Housing, Homelessness, Homeownership, Rental Assistance, and Supportive Housing and Services.
Opportunity title:  Authority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnership Notice
 FR-6300-N-USP
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/spm/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/fundingopps/f...
PDF to program  https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/SPM/documents/FY2019_UnsolicitedProposa...

NOTE: the research proposals must be submitted by eligible applicants and provide cost sharing for at least 50 percent of total project cost from philanthropic entities or Federal, state or local government agencies.

DATES: Proposals may be submitted at any time and will be evaluated as they are received. Available funds will be awarded as proposals are received, evaluated, and approved, until funds are exhausted. Closing date Dec. 31, 2020 

HUD is interested in research that will help the Department serve as a catalyst in the revitalization of our communities. Under each objective are examples of potentially useful research:
1. Promote economic opportunity – studies on effective and efficient ways to deliver services: improve HUD’s Section 3 and other programs that incentivize mobility and enable achievement of economic self-sufficiency for HUD-subsidized tenants; improve and innovate self-sufficiency programs; and the impact of place-based initiatives and anchor institutions.

2. Enhance rental assistance – studies on how to best simplify and streamline rental assistance for PHAs, residents and owners; studies on incentives and barriers to work and program exit.

3. Reduce the average length of homelessness – studies on effective strategies for challenged populations, areas with high unsheltered populations, and rural areas.

4. Support sustainable homeownership and financial viability – studies on initiatives that promote sustainable homeownership, strengthen housing programs, and reform and modernize housing finance systems.

5. Remove lead hazards from homes – research into existing and emerging lead health hazards and strategies to mitigate or eliminate them. The research must not focus on the prevalence, evaluation, or control of lead exposures from lead in paint, dust, or soil (because that research is covered by a separate statutory authority than the one that authorizes this Notice). a. Examples of lead research under this objective include the prevalence, evaluation, or housing-based control of lead exposures from residential water, industrial emissions and wastes (e.g., at Superfund and state-equivalently-designated sites), or lead in housing products used in rehabilitation; factors inhibiting, and effective low-cost methods of increasing, blood lead screening and testing rates among young children in public housing in high-risk states or communities; factors inhibiting, and effective low-cost methods of increasing, availability of certified lead professionals and firms in high-risk states or communities; and, modeling of the geographic, socioeconomic and other distributions of factors correlated with high expected risk of increased blood lead levels in children.

6. Provide effective disaster recovery – Although not articulated as a strategic objective under Rethinking American Communities, HUD’s growing role in disaster recovery creates an additional need for research into ideas to more quickly deliver disaster recovery funds to communities and property owners, and to enhance the resilience of communities and homes to mitigate the risk and effects of disasters, pestilence, and energy shocks.

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