Fair Housing Initiatives Program - HUD

For Fiscal Year 2012, $42,500,000 is appropriated for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP). This appropriated amount may be supplemented by recaptured FHIP funds awarded in previous years. Of this amount, approximately $41,180,000 is being made available on a competitive basis to eligible organizations.

HUD expects to award a cost reimbursable cooperative agreement or grant agreement to each applicant selected for award. The type of funding instrument HUD may offer a successful applicant which sets forth the relationship between HUD and the awardee will be a grant or cooperative agreement, where the principal purpose is the transfer of funds, property, services, or anything of value to the awardee to accomplish an eligible public purpose.

The agreement will identify the eligible activities to be undertaken, financial controls, and special conditions, including sanctions for violations of the agreement, reporting requirements including sub-recipient reporting requirements under the Federal Financial Assistance Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, and integrity requirements under Section 872 of the Duncan Hunter Defense Authorization Act of 2009. HUD will determine the type of instrument under which the award will be made and monitor progress to ensure that the awardee has achieved the objectives set out in the agreement. Failure to meet such objectives may be the basis for HUD determining the awardee to be in default of the grant or cooperative agreement and for exercising available sanctions, including suspension, termination, and/or recapture of funds. Also, HUD may refer violations or suspected violations to enforcement offices within HUD, the Department of Justice, or other enforcement authorities.

If funds are provided subject to a Cooperative Agreement, HUD will also exercise the right to have substantial involvement by conducting monitoring reviews, requesting quarterly reports, approval of all proposed deliverables documented in the applicant’s Work Plan or Statement of Work (SOW), and determining whether the agency meets all certification and assurance requirements.

For planning purposes, HUD will require a start date of May 31, 2012. Applicants should adjust their budgets, staffing, and SOWs to adhere to this mandatory start date.

Eligible applicants are Qualified Fair Housing Enforcement Organizations (QFHOs) and Fair Housing Enforcement Organizations (FHOs), see 24 CFR 125.103; public or private not-for-profit organizations or institutions, and other public or private entities that are formulating or carrying out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices; agencies of State or local governments; and agencies that participate in the Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP).

The application deadline is 11:59:59 p.m. eastern time on March 16, 2012.