Assistance program
Housing Trust Fund
$3.2 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.275
- What it does
- To expand and preserve the supply of affordable housing, particularly rental housing, for extremely low-income and very low income households.
- Who benefits
- At least 75 percent of funds must be used for extremely low-income families, or families with incomes at or below the poverty line (whichever is greater), unless the allocation is below $1 billion, at which point 100 percent of the funds must be used for extremely low-income families.
- Who applies
- States as defined in 24 CFR 93.2 are eligible to receive formula allocations. Insular areas also may receive formula funds.
- Authorized by
- The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- Program site
- http://www.hudexchange.info/programs/htf/ ↗
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.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments