Section 811 Project Rental Assistance for Persons with Disabilities | FR 6700 N 53

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The Section 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) for Persons with Disabilities is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to expand and strengthen permanent supportive housing options for extremely low-income people with disabilities. The central goal is not just to create more affordable housing, but to do it in a way that increases access to appropriate voluntary services and supports, helping people with disabilities live in stable, integrated housing in the community rather than in segregated or institutional settings. HUD is using this program to spotlight and scale state-level approaches that are already working, while also encouraging more states to build the kind of cross-agency partnerships needed to make supportive housing feasible and sustainable.

A major emphasis of this opportunity is collaboration between state housing agencies and state health and human service systems, including Medicaid agencies. HUD is specifically looking for coordinated strategies where rental assistance is paired with access to services, recognizing that housing stability for many individuals with disabilities often depends on both affordability and service availability. The notice frames this as a way to transform systems: instead of treating housing and services as separate tracks, states are encouraged to align policies, financing, and administration so that people can access affordable units and the supports they need at the same time. HUD signals that many states have already begun building these partnerships, and the program is meant both to reinforce those efforts and to motivate additional states to develop similar models.

The assistance supported through Section 811 PRA is focused on increasing access to affordable permanent supportive housing units, including both new and existing units. In practice, this means states can use the funding to create long-term rental assistance arrangements tied to eligible properties, helping ensure units remain affordable to extremely low-income households with disabilities. The program is structured to give states flexibility in how they design and run the rental assistance component, so long as the approach meaningfully addresses the shortage of affordable, integrated housing for the target population. This flexibility is important because housing markets, service systems, and administrative structures vary widely from state to state, and HUD is looking for workable approaches that can operate at scale within real-world state systems.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity allows a state housing agency to manage the rental assistance contracts directly or to contract with other qualified entities to administer the long-term rental assistance contracts. That design acknowledges that some states have centralized capacity in the housing agency, while others may rely on intermediaries or specialized partners. The funding instrument is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates ongoing federal involvement beyond a simple pass-through award, often including coordination, oversight, and performance expectations as the program is implemented.

Key funding details from the opportunity announcement include a funding opportunity number of FR 6700 N 53 and a CFDA number of 14.326, with HUD listed as the awarding agency. The award ceiling is $8,000,000, and HUD expects to make about 13 awards. Eligible applicants are primarily state governments, with additional eligibility details referenced in the official notice. The opportunity was created on October 12, 2023, and the original application closing date was February 12, 2024, with a deadline of 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time on the closing date. Overall, the grant is positioned as a way for states to expand affordable, community-based supportive housing for extremely low-income people with disabilities by aligning housing resources with health and service systems, especially Medicaid-related supports, through coordinated state-level strategies.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Section 811 Project Rental Assistance for Persons with Disabilities" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.326.
• This funding opportunity was created on Oct 12, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 12, 2024 The application deadline is 115959 PM Eastern time on. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $8,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 13 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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