Assistance program
Rural Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance
$149.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Housing Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 10.420
- What it does
- Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants provide financial assistance to qualified nonprofit organizations and public bodies that will assist very low and low-income individuals and their families build homes in rural areas by the self help method. Any State, political subdivision, private or public nonprofit corporation is eligible to apply. Section 523 Grants are typically used to pay salaries, rent, and office expenses of the nonprofit organization.
- Who benefits
- Very low and low-income rural families, usually in groups of 4 to 10 families.
- Who applies
- Must be a State or political subdivision, public nonprofit corporation or a private nonprofit corporation. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Marianas.
- Authorized by
- 42 U.S.C. § 1490c
- Program site
- http://www.rd.usda.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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