Rural Housing Service — Federal Assistance Programs

To provide affordable funding either through loans or grants to develop essential community facility projects in rural communities to nonprofits, public bodies, and federally recognized tribes.…

To assist qualified recipients to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided by…

To provide decent, safe, and sanitary low-rent housing and related facilities for domestic farm laborers.

Provide grant funds to qualified private and public nonprofit (NP) agencies to provide technical assistance to other qualified organizations to obtain loans and grants for the…

Provides grants to qualified nonprofits (NP) and public housing authorities (PHA) which will in turn provide technical assistance to RHS MFH borrowers and applicants to facilitate…

To develop the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and community development organizations, low-income rural communities and/or federally recognized Indian tribes to undertake projects…

The Rural Housing Voucher Demonstration program is designed to provide rental housing assistance vouchers to tenants in properties that pay off their Rural Development mortgage. The…

To assist very low- and low-income rural residents individual homeowners, rental property owners (single/multi-unit) or by providing the consumer cooperative housing projects (co-ops) the necessary assistance…

To assist public or private nonprofit organizations interested in providing sites for housing; to acquire and develop land in rural areas to be subdivided as adequate…

To preserve and revitalize existing rural rental housing and farm labor housing projects financed by RHS under Section 515 and Sections 514/516 of the Housing Act…

To reduce the tenant contribution paid by low-income families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing (RRH), Rural Cooperative Housing (RCH), and Farm Labor Housing (LH) projects financed…

To reduce the tenant contribution paid by low-income families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing (RRH), Rural Cooperative Housing (RCH), and Farm Labor Housing (LH) projects financed…

To provide economically designed and constructed rental and cooperative housing and related facilities suited for rural residents.

Improve the quality of life for income-eligible individuals and their families by providing assistance to build homes in rural areas by the self help method.

This program has been designed to increase the supply of affordable multifamily housing in rural areas through partnerships between Rural Development and major lending sources, as…

To support private and public non-profit organizations in utilizing funds to develop affordable building sites for sale to low- and moderate-income families, leveraging USDA’s Single Family…

To assist very low, low-income, and moderate-income households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas.

Improve quality of life for very low-income owner-occupants in rural areas.