Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

Objective

Community Compass brings together technical assistance funding appropriations from across HUD program offices, including the offices of Community Planning and Development, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Housing, Public and Indian Housing, and Policy Development and Research. This cross-funding approach recognizes that HUD’s grantees, subgrantees, and other customers often interact with a variety of HUD programs as they deliver housing or community development services. Community Compass allows for holistic technical assistance to address the program and policy implementation deficiencies and skill gaps of grantees and subgrantees across multiple HUD programs, often within the same engagement.

Who Can Apply

• U.S. State Government (including the District of Columbia)
• County Government (inclusive of boroughs in Alaska, parishes and other governmental entities with geographic regional control and authority)
• Municipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages)
• Other Special Disctrict Government
• Other
• Tribally Designated Housing Authority
• Public Housing Authority
• Nonprofit Organization
• Not-for-Profit Organization
• U.S. Territory (or Possession) Government (including freely-associated states)

Award recipients tasked to provide technical assistance to PHAs must have at least one staff, subcontractor, or consultant that has at least five years of demonstrated Public Housing programs experience, including agency operations, voucher programs, property management operations, and capital investment programs including capital improvements and various methods of housing development. In addition, award recipients tasked to provide technical assistance to PHAs must have at least one staff, subcontractor, or consultant that has at least two years of demonstrated finance and underwriting experience related to RAD conversions. Funds may only be used to assist organizations to improve their ability to manage HUD funds. Funds may not be used to assist individuals or families.

Who Benefits

• U.S. Territories
• State
• Local
• Sponsored organization
• Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
• Public nonprofit institution/organization

Selected award recipients will be deployed as HUD deems most necessary across the country to assist organizations receiving HUD funds to improve performance and management of HUD funds.

Assistance Types

• Cooperative Agreement

Program Contact

Stephanie.V.Stone@hud.gov
(202) 402-7418