Assistance program
Public Housing Capital Fund
$27.1 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.872
- What it does
- The Capital Fund provides funds annually to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management activities, including modernization and development of public housing. The Capital fund also permits PHAs to use Capital Funds for financing activities, including payments of debt service and customary financing costs, in standard PHA developments and in mixed-finance developments which include Public Housing.
- Who benefits
- Low-income public housing residents.
- Who applies
- The PHA must demonstrate that it has the legal authority to develop, own, modernize and operate a public housing development in accordance with United States Housing Act of 1937.
- Authorized by
- Housing Act of 1937, as amended
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 116-260
- Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998
- Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
- Public Law 117-328
- Consolidated Appropriation 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.
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