Assistance program
General Research and Technology Activity
$57.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Provision of Specialized Services
- CFDA number
- 14.506
- What it does
- Objectives vary by program – refer to each program NOFO for more detail on program-specific objectives. Primary objectives of the multiple NOFOs under this assistance listing number include: developing knowledge that has the potential of increasing the supply of affordable housing; adopting or scaling effective interventions; contributing to knowledge about the housing affordability crisis in the United States; generating actionable insights and evidence that can inform policy decisions to address the housing affordability crisis in the short-term.
- Who benefits
- Researchers, philanthropic organizations, research organizations, State and local governments, academic institutions, public and/or private profit and nonprofit organizations which have authority and capacity to carry out projects.
- Who applies
- Researchers, philanthropic organizations research organizations, State and local governments, academic institutions, public and/or private profit and nonprofit organizations which have tribal authority and capacity to carry out projects.
- Authorized by
- Title V of Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970
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