Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Competitive Grant: Housing Interventions (HINT) to End the HIV Epidemic | FR 6700 N 11

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The FY 2023 Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Competitive Grant, Housing Interventions (HINT) to End the HIV Epidemic, is a discretionary grant opportunity from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to help communities launch and document new, place-based housing projects that support the national goal of ending the HIV epidemic. The funding is offered under HOPWA Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) authority in the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act, and it is intentionally geared toward projects that treat housing as a core structural intervention that improves health outcomes, strengthens engagement in care, and reduces inequities for people living with HIV.

HUD is looking for proposals that stand out for being both innovative and practical to replicate in other communities. Priority is placed on approaches that use Housing First principles, meaning programs should be low-barrier and focused on quickly connecting people to stable housing without imposing unnecessary preconditions. Beyond simply providing housing assistance, funded projects are expected to show strong community-level coordination, make thoughtful use of local housing and health resources, and center equity for underserved communities. The NOFO also emphasizes cultural humility, signaling that applicants should demonstrate how services will be delivered in ways that are responsive to community needs, reduce stigma, and address service gaps that affect particular populations of people with HIV.

Each project funded under this NOFO must be built to achieve six required objectives. First, grantees must implement and document a low-barrier, Housing First model for low-income people with HIV and their families, and the model must be designed to be innovative and replicable locally or nationally. Second, projects must align with existing or emerging local initiatives to end the HIV epidemic and elevate housing as a key intervention within those strategies. Third, grantees must improve coordination across local housing and service systems, showing better alignment and use of available community resources. Fourth, projects must strengthen the amount and quality of data collected and used, with a clear emphasis on stable housing outcomes, positive health outcomes, and equity-focused decision making. Fifth, grantees must assess and document practices that promote equitable access and cultural humility, especially for populations experiencing service gaps. Sixth, the project must prioritize sustainability by demonstrating approaches that remain effective, equitable, and feasible to continue after the grant period ends.

Awards are structured as one-time, non-renewable grants that can pay for housing assistance and supportive services for eligible individuals and families, as well as coordination, planning, grant management, and administrative needs. The opportunity lists an award ceiling of $2,500,000, with an estimated 20 awards expected. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments, as well as nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and certain non-501(c)(3) nonprofits) and other eligible entity types as described in the NOFO.

A major feature of this competition is its expanded reporting and documentation requirements compared with traditional HOPWA reporting. Grantees must collect client-level data and, at the end of each operating year, produce a programmatic HIV Housing Care Continuum Model to show how housing services connect to and support care outcomes. By the end of the overall period of performance, each grantee must also produce an SPNS Grant Model that captures promising practices, implementation lessons, and what worked (or did not) when using housing as a structural intervention to end the HIV epidemic. HUD plans to share these models publicly so that the results can inform policy and program decisions nationally and help other communities adopt successful approaches.

Administrative details for this round include the Funding Opportunity Number FR 6700 N 11 and CFDA 14.241, with the NOFO posted on September 15, 2023. The original application deadline was January 31, 2024, at 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a demonstration-style investment: it funds direct housing and services while also requiring strong data, equity-centered design, and clear documentation so that effective models can be scaled and replicated beyond the grantees that receive awards.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the health, housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Competitive Grant: Housing Interventions (HINT) to End the HIV Epidemic" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.241.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 15, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 31, 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 $2,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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