Assistance program
Eviction Protection Grant Program
$73.2 Million committed in FY2022–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 14.537
- What it does
- The overall purpose of the Eviction Protection Grant Program is to support experienced legal service providers, not limited to legal service corporations, in providing legal assistance at no cost to low-income tenants at risk of or subject to eviction. This grant program plays an integral role in helping individuals and families, including people of color who are disproportionately represented among those evicted, people with limited English proficiency and people with disabilities, avoid eviction or minimize the disruption and damage caused by the eviction process.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- • A State or local Public Defenders Office • Public Defenders association • A clinical law program at an accredited law school • A State bar association
- Authorized by
- Funding for HUD's Eviction Protection Grant Program was first provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division L, Title II - HUD Appropriations Act, 2021, provision on legal services regarding evictions (Pub. L. No. 116-260, approved December 27, 2020), and subsequ…
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* 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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