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Opportunity Summary:

The Section 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) Program is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant opportunity designed to help states expand and sustain integrated, affordable housing options for extremely low-income people with disabilities who also need access to long-term services and supports. The central goal is to encourage state-level systems change by strengthening partnerships between housing agencies and health and human services systems, especially Medicaid, so that housing and supportive services work together in a stable, coordinated way. Rather than funding short-term pilots, the program is aimed at identifying, stimulating, and supporting approaches that can be maintained over time and that measurably increase the supply of permanent housing linked to appropriate services.

Funding under this Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) is strictly for project-based rental assistance, meaning the subsidy is attached to specific units within existing or new multifamily rental properties rather than provided to an individual household to use anywhere. The assisted units must be integrated within larger multifamily developments and set aside for eligible tenants with disabilities. The program is explicitly not a voucher program, so applicants should expect requirements and operations consistent with project-based assistance (for example, unit set-asides, property-level coordination, and ongoing compliance tied to the participating developments). Grant funds may also cover certain administrative costs as defined in the NOFA, but the core purpose remains subsidizing rents in specific units.

A defining feature of the Section 811 PRA model is the target population and the required service connection. Assisted households must be extremely low income persons with disabilities who are eligible for community-based long-term care services and supports delivered through a state Medicaid program or a comparable long-term services program. In practice, that means the housing side is expected to work in tandem with Medicaid or the relevant health and human services agency to ensure tenants can access the services that help them live independently in the community. The emphasis is on community-based supports rather than institutional settings, aligning the housing assistance with broader disability policy goals focused on integration and independent living.

The opportunity is offered as a discretionary grant with a cooperative agreement funding instrument. Cooperative agreements typically indicate that HUD anticipates substantial involvement in the funded work beyond a simple pass-through grant, often including oversight, technical engagement, or coordination expectations. The funding activity category is Housing, and the CFDA number listed is 14.326 (Project Rental Assistance Demonstration (PRA Demo) Program of Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities). The estimated total funding available under this particular competition is $120,000,000, with an expected 12 awards. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which can lower barriers for public agencies that may have limited capacity to provide local match, although applicants still generally need to demonstrate strong leveraging and coordination across housing and service systems to be competitive.

Eligible applicants are housing agencies with key roles in affordable housing finance and administration, particularly those connected to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program or the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Specifically, eligibility includes any housing agency currently allocating LIHTC under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986, and any state housing or state community development agency allocating and overseeing HOME funds (or a similar federal or state program). The NOFA also allows applications from state, regional, or local housing agencies, as well as partnerships or collaborations among state and local or regional housing agencies. A required condition of eligibility is a formal partnership with the State Health and Human Services and/or Medicaid agencies, reflecting the program’s intent to link housing with service eligibility pathways and to build durable cross-agency infrastructure.

From a practical standpoint, this program supports state partnership models that increase the number of permanent, integrated supportive housing opportunities by embedding a set-aside of units for eligible people with disabilities within standard multifamily developments. This integration focus aims to avoid isolating residents in disability-only buildings while still ensuring the units remain accessible and affordable. Because the assistance is project-based, states and housing agencies can strategically place units in areas with access to transportation, healthcare, and community resources, and can coordinate with service providers so that tenancy is not contingent on participation in services while still making services readily available. The overarching policy intent is to transform how states combine housing finance, rental assistance, and Medicaid-supported services to expand community living options.

Key administrative details for this specific posting include a Funding Opportunity Number of FR 5700 N 28 and a posted date of March 4, 2014. The original application closing date was May 5, 2014, later updated to a current closing date of May 14, 2014, with an archive date of May 25, 2014. The application is accessed through Grants.gov, and the listed contact for program requirement questions is Lessie Powell Evans in HUD’s Office of Housing Assistance and Grant Administration (email referenced in the source).

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