OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program
This grant funds housing and support for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims via governments and organizations.
This grant was recently cancelled by Office on Violence Against Women
Funder: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)
Due Dates: June 9, 2025 (SF-424 submission) | June 11, 2025 (Full application submission)
Funding Amounts: Up to $500,000 for housing and support services or housing alone; up to $400,000 for support services only; awards cover 36 months.
Summary: Provides grants to Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations for transitional housing and support services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking who are homeless or in need of housing assistance.
Key Information: Applicants must provide both transitional housing and voluntary support services; current FY 2023/2024 grantees are ineligible as lead applicants; no cost sharing required.
Description
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Fiscal Year 2025 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants program funds transitional housing and related support services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The program targets victims who are homeless or in need of transitional or other housing assistance due to their victimization, especially when emergency shelter or crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient.
Purpose Areas:
- Transitional Housing: Operating expenses for new or existing transitional housing lasting 6 to 24 months, helping victims move toward permanent housing. This includes scattered site, clustered site, or communal living models.
- Short-term Housing Assistance: Rental or utility payments, security deposits, and relocation costs related to transitional housing.
- Support Services: Voluntary services such as housing advocacy, employment counseling, case management, childcare, transportation, and counseling to help victims secure permanent housing, employment, and community integration. Support services must be provided alongside housing assistance and may continue for 3 to 12 months after permanent housing is secured.
Applicants must provide both housing and support services, either funded by OVW or through documented alternative funding sources.
Statutory Priorities:
- Projects serving underserved populations.
- Initiatives addressing human trafficking and transnational crime victims.
- Services in rural, remote, Tribal, and small-town areas.
- Special consideration for projects supporting victims of non-intimate partner sexual assault.
Program Requirements:
- Participation in OVW training and technical assistance.
- Reporting performance indicators.
- Involvement of victim service providers in program implementation.
- Staff training on working with victims.
- Compliance with confidentiality and voluntary services models.
- Legal assistance allowed up to 10% of project costs under specific conditions.
Unallowable Activities:
- Requiring victims to participate in services as a condition of housing.
- Background or credit checks on victims.
- Mental health evaluations or drug/alcohol screenings.
- Use of waitlists or requiring police reports/restraining orders.
- Research projects, prevention activities, family violence unrelated to domestic violence, and foreclosure prevention.
- Lobbying, fundraising, purchase of real property, and construction.
- Activities violating federal laws or executive orders.
