Department of Housing and Urban Development – Housing Counseling Grant Program

This department is offering the Housing Counseling Grant Program to support various counseling services for homebuyers, homeowners, low- to moderate-income renters, and the homeless. The program aims to enhance financial literacy, broaden homeownership opportunities, improve access to affordable housing, and preserve homeownership. Counseling services include guidance on improving housing conditions, meeting tenancy and homeownership responsibilities, preventing mortgage delinquency and foreclosure, loan modifications, refinancing, and addressing mortgage scams. Applicants can receive funding under different categories totaling $40,050,000. Applications are accepted until January 12, 2012.

Opportunity ID: 132413

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General Information

Document Type::	Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number::	FR-5600-N-25
Funding Opportunity Title::	Housing Counseling Program
Opportunity Category::	Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation::	CategoryExplanation
Funding Instrument Type::
Category of Funding Activity::	Community Development
Category Explanation::
Expected Number of Awards::	40050000
Assistance Listings Number(s)::	14.169 — Housing Counseling Assistance Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement::	No
Version::	Synopsis 1
Posted Date::	Dec 01, 2011
Last Updated Date::
Original Closing Date for Applications::	Jan 12, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications::	Jan 12, 2012
Archive Date::	Jan 19, 2012
Estimated Total Program Funding::
Award Ceiling::	$
Award Floor::	$

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants::

Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)

Additional Information on Eligibility::

Eligible applicants for Comprehensive Counseling grants include: HUD-approved Local Housing Counseling Agencies (LHCAs); HUD-approved national and regional intermediaries (Intermediaries); State Housing Finance Agencies (SHFAs); and HUD-approved Multi-State Organizations (MSOs). Grantees and sub-grantees that were previously awarded HUD MMMSA counseling funds for FY 2012 are also eligible for FY 2012 funding through this NOFA covering the same period of performance.

Additional Information

Agency Name::	Department of Housing and Urban Development
Description::	This program supports the delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, low- to moderate-income renters, and the homeless. The primary objectives of the program are to improve financial literacy, expand homeownership opportunities, improve access to affordable housing and preserve homeownership. Counselors provide guidance and advice to help families and individuals improve their housing conditions and meet the responsibilities of tenancy and homeownership. Additionally, counselors may provide counseling services to homeowners to prevent or resolve mortgage delinquency, default, and foreclosure, with the primary objective to preserve homeownership. Counselors provide guidance and advice to help families and individuals meet the responsibilities of homeownership and modify or refinance their loans. Counselors also help borrowers avoid inflated appraisals, unreasonably high interest rates, unaffordable repayment terms, and other conditions that can result in a loss of equity, increased debt, default, and eventually foreclosure. Counselors can also assist homeowners with inquiries related to mortgage scams, and reporting instances of potential mortgage scam victimization. Applicants funded through this program may also provide Reverse Mortgage Counseling to senior homeowners who seek to convert equity in their homes into income that can be used to pay for home improvements, medical costs, living expenses, or other expenses. FUNDING: Housing counseling funding is distributed over four applicant categories Local Housing Counseling Agencies $10,250,000, Intermediaries $25,800,000, State Housing Finance Agencies $2,800,000, and Multi-State Organizations $1,200,000.
Link to Additional Information::
Grantor Contact Information::	If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Version History

Version	Modification Description	Updated Date
Synopsis 1

Package Status

Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:

Package No: 1

Assistance Listings:	14.169
Competition ID:	HC-25-LHCA
Competition Title:	Housing Counseling (LHCA)
Opportunity Package ID:	PKG00087010
Opening Date:	Dec 01, 2011
Closing Date:	Jan 12, 2012
Agency Contact Information::	Technical Assistance and Programmatic Information. For program related information, LHCAs, MSOs and SHFAs should contact the HOC serving their area, as indicated below. Intermediaries should contact HUD Headquarters, Program Support Division at 202 708-0317 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing and speech challenged persons may access the telephone numbers listed below by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 800 877-8339. See Section VII. AGENCY CONTACT(S) of the NOFA telephone numbers for the HOCs.
Who Can Apply::	Organization Applicants
mendatory_forms	Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) [V2.1] HUD Facsimile Transmittal [V1.1] HUD Detailed Budget Form [V1.1]
optional_forms	HUD Applicant-Recipient Disclosure Report [V1.1] Faith Based EEO Survey [V1.2] Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) [V1.1] Attachments [V1.1]

Package No: 2