Healthy Homes Production Grant Program
This grant funds efforts to identify and fix health and safety hazards in low-income homes, especially for vulnerable residents, while supporting education, workforce development, and collaboration with local programs.
Funder: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2026 (Full application deadline, electronically submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET)
Funding Amounts: $1,500,000–$4,000,000 per award; total program funding ~$85,000,000; ~20 awards expected.
Summary: Supports projects that identify, remediate, and prevent housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing, with a focus on protecting vulnerable populations.
Key Information: Cost sharing/matching is required; FY2024 awardees are ineligible for FY2026.
Description
This program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is part of the Healthy Homes Initiative. It aims to address multiple childhood diseases and injuries by targeting housing-related hazards through comprehensive, coordinated interventions. The program builds on HUD’s Lead Hazard Control programs to expand efforts against a range of environmental health and safety hazards in low- and very low-income housing.
Awardees are expected to:
- Maximize the number of vulnerable residents (children, older adults, persons with disabilities) protected from housing-related health and safety hazards.
- Identify and remediate hazards in privately owned, low-income rental and/or owner-occupied housing.
- Promote cost-effective, sustainable healthy home methods.
- Support public education and outreach on housing-related health and safety.
- Build local capacity for sustainable healthy homes programs and workforce development.
- Integrate healthy homes with housing rehab, maintenance, weatherization, lead hazard control, and energy efficiency programs.
- Foster collaboration and data sharing between health and housing agencies.
- Direct economic opportunities generated by the grant to low- and very-low-income individuals and businesses in the project area.
