Assistance program
Jobs-Plus Pilot Initiative
$112.6 Million committed in FY2019–FY2025
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.895
- What it does
- The Jobs Plus program develops locally based, job-driven approaches that increase earnings and advance employment outcomes through work readiness, employer linkages, job placement, educational advancement, technology skills, and financial literacy for residents of public housing. The place-based Jobs Plus program addresses poverty among public housing residents by incentivizing and enabling employment through earned income disregards for working residents and a set of services designed to support work including employer linkages, job placement and counseling, educational advancement, and financial counseling. Ideally, these incentives will saturate the target public housing development, building a culture of work and making working residents the norm. The Jobs Plus program model comprises these three core components: Employment-Related Services; Financial/Rent Incentive – Jobs Plus Earned Income Disregard (JPEID); and Community Supports for Work.
- Who benefits
- Individuals and families who are residents of public housing are the beneficiaries of the Job Plus program, unless otherwise stated in the current Fiscal Year’s NOFO.
- Who applies
- Public Housing Authorities (PHA) are the only eligible applicants, unless otherwise stated in the current Fiscal Year’s Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
- Authorized by
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
- Consolidated Appropriation Act, 2024
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