Assistance program
Indian Housing Block Grants
$8.8 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.867
- What it does
- The Indian Housing Block Grants (IHBG) program is authorized under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. §4101 et seq.) (NAHASDA). Regulations for the program, which are found at 24 CFR Part 1000, were written by HUD in negotiation with Tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs). The grants, which are awarded based on a formula to Tribes and TDHEs, fund a range of affordable housing activities that primarily benefit low-income American Indian and Alaska Native families living in Indian Country and include activities that: 1) assist and promote affordable housing activities to develop, maintain, and operate affordable housing in safe and healthy environments on Indian reservations and in other Indian areas for occupancy by low-income Indian families; 2) coordinate activities to provide housing for Indian tribes and their members and to promote self-sufficiency and their members; 3) plan for and integrate infrastructure resources for Indian tribes with housing development for Indian tribes.
- Who benefits
- The primary beneficiaries of funds are families that meet the criteria of NAHASDA and 24 CFR 1000.104.
- Who applies
- Indian tribes (as defined under section 4(13) of NAHASDA); Tribally Designated Housing Entity (TDHE) (as defined under 4(22) of NAHASDA)
- Authorized by
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024
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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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments