Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants

Objective

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants provide funds to implement comprehensive plans for community revitalization centered on redeveloping severely distressed public housing and/or HUD-assisted housing. The program aims to transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable mixed-income neighborhoods by revitalizing a target housing projects and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood, including commercial and retail development, recreational amenities, social services and improved educational opportunities.

Who Can Apply

• Local (includes State-designated lndian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals
• Profit organization
• Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)

For Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, the local government of jurisdiction must be either the Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant. The Lead Applicant can be either a Public Housing Agency (PHA), local government, or tribal entity. A Co-Applicant can be a local government, PHA, tribal entity, or the owner of the target HUD-assisted housing (e.g., nonprofit or for-profit developer).

Who Benefits

• Private nonprofit institution/organization
• Anyone/general public
• Local
• Moderate Income
• Low Income

For Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, the ultimate beneficiaries are residents of the severely distressed public and/or assisted housing projects and residents of the surrounding community.

Assistance Types

• Project Grants

Program Contact

choiceneighborhoods@hud.gov
(202) 402-4190