Assistance program
Project Rental Assistance Program of the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (811 PRA).
$168.5 Million committed in FY2020–FY2026
- Agency
- Asst Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.326
- What it does
- The Project Rental Assistance (PRA) provides funding to state housing agencies for project-based rental operating assistance for extremely low-income persons with disabilties. The primary purpose is to identify, stimulate, and support innovate state-level strategies that will transform and increase housing for low-income persons with disabilities while also making available appropriate support and services.
- Who benefits
- Extremely low-income non-elderly (18-62 years of age) persons with disabilities that are eligible for community-based, long-term care as provided through Medicaid waivers, Medicaid state plan options or other appropriate services. Eligible applicants will provide these PRA project-based rental assistance funds to not more than 25% of the units in multifamily developments for extremely low-income persons with disabilities which are the beneficiaries.
- Who applies
- Any housing agency currently allocating Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) under IRS Section 42 or any housing or Community Development Agency currently allocating and overseeing in good standing HOME Funds or the Section 8 Program or a similar program are eligible applicants, and only one housing agency per state is eligible. Only states that are developing partnerships or that have existing partnerships with State Health Care and Human Service Agency or agencies and the state Medicaid Agency for supportive services are eligible.
- Authorized by
- Section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, Public Law 101-625, as amended by the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act , Public Law 111-374.
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
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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
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments