Assistance program
Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
$595.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 14.259
- What it does
- Community Compass brings together technical assistance funding appropriations from across HUD program offices, including the offices of Community Planning and Development, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Housing, Public and Indian Housing, and Policy Development and Research. This cross-funding approach recognizes that HUD’s grantees, subgrantees, and other customers often interact with a variety of HUD programs as they deliver housing or community development services. Community Compass allows for holistic technical assistance to address the program and policy implementation deficiencies and skill gaps of grantees and subgrantees across multiple HUD programs, often within the same engagement.
- Who benefits
- Selected award recipients will be deployed as HUD deems most necessary across the country to assist organizations receiving HUD funds to improve performance and management of HUD funds.
- Who applies
- Award recipients tasked to provide technical assistance to PHAs must have at least one staff, subcontractor, or consultant that has at least five years of demonstrated Public Housing programs experience, including agency operations, voucher programs, property management operations, and capital investment programs including capital improvements and various methods of housing development. In addition, award recipients tasked to provide technical assistance to PHAs must have at least one staff, subcontractor, or consultant that has at least two years of demonstrated finance and underwriting experience related to RAD conversions. Funds may only be used to assist organizations to improve their ability to manage HUD funds. Funds may not be used to assist individuals or families.
- Authorized by
- Negotiated Rulemaking Act U.S.C. § 5 USC 565(c)
- Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 U.S.C. § 25 USC 4111
- US Housing Act of 1937 U.S.C. § 42 USC 1437d(j)(3)
- Public Law 105-65
- Public Law 106-74
- McKinney-Vento Act U.S.C. § 42 USC 11361b
- McKinney-Vento Act U.S.C. § 42 USC 11408
- Public Law 113-6
- Public Law 113-76
- Public Law 113-235
- Public Law 114-113
- Public Law 115-31
- Public Law 115-123
- Public Law 115-141
- Public Law 116-6
- Public Law 116-20
- Public Law 116-94
- Public Law 116-136
- Public Law 115-271
- Public Law 117-103
- Public Law 117-43
- Public Law 117-328
- Public Law 117-169
- Public Law 118-42
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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- Committed through this program
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