Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants

The Choice Neighborhoods program transforms severely distressed public housing and the surrounding area. Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants provide funding to carry out locally driven “Transformation Plans.” The Transformation Plan is a comprehensive revitalization strategy for an identified “target housing” project(s) and “target neighborhood.” Implementation Grantees use the grant funds, plus other public and private money, to redevelop the target public housing project(s), help residents become self-sufficient, and revitalize neighborhoods. The program has three main goals:

Housing: Redevelop severely distressed public housing into good quality, mixed-income housing that meets residents’ needs and helps revitalize the community

People: Help residents in the public housing improve their lives through upward mobility, employment, and self-sufficiency

Neighborhood: Revitalize distressed neighborhoods by attracting long-term reinvestment from private and other public sources, leading to economic development better amenities, services, and job opportunities for residents

For Local (includes State-designated Native American Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals, Profit organization,
Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)

As of FY25, only local governments and public housing agencies that previously received a Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant are eligible to apply for an Implementation Grant. The local government of jurisdiction must be either the Lead Applicant or Co-Applicant. The Lead Applicant can be either a local government or public housing agencies. Prior NOFOs allowed tribal entities, developers, and owners of HUD-assisted housing to apply. Prospective applicants should carefully review the eligibility criteria for Choice Neighborhoods under each NOFO.

For Private nonprofit institution/organization, Anyone/general public, Local, Moderate Income, Low Income

For Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, the ultimate beneficiaries are residents of the severely distressed public housing projects and residents of the surrounding community.

HUD will issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), as provided by annual appropriations, via the Grants.gov website. HUD headquarters will coordinate reviews of each eligible application for threshold compliance, assigns rating points to applications that pass all thresholds, and the highest rated applications are notified that they have been selected to participate in the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant program. A virtual or in-person site visit may be required as part of HUD’s application review.

Approximately 180 days following the grant application deadline established by each NOFO. Please refer to each NOFO for application deadlines.