Annual Appropriations: FY2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 117-328)
The Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with severely distressed public and/or HUD- assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and other stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD- assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood.
Choice Neighborhoods offers Planning Grants and Implementation Grants:
- Planning Grants assist communities in developing a successful neighborhood transformation plan and building support necessary for that plan to be successfully implemented.
- Implementation Grants support those communities that have undergone a comprehensive local planning process and are ready to implement their “Transformation Plan” to redevelop the neighborhood.
As part of this neighborhood revitalization, Choice Neighborhoods strongly encourages grantees to increase broadband connectivity. Implementation grantees are required to build the infrastructure to support broadband internet in all new units. These grantees can also use a portion of their funds to install broadband in these units and for coordinating efforts to increase target housing resident’s access to internet, devices, and digital literacy.
14.889
Discretionary
Application on grants.gov when published; NOFO also posted on www.hud.gov/cn
Initial
Not Applicable
Total Amount: $350 Million
Amount Available Towards Broadband (if specified):
Yes.
If yes, what is the matching requirement: 5%
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Public Housing Authorities
Not Applicable
Choice Neighborhoods Community
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
ChoiceNeighborhoods.gov
March 2023