New Grant to support Main Street, Housing, & Job Readiness

A new grant is available that will support Main Street efforts to redevelop abandoned properties while helping citizens prepare for employment.

FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa09/hopevimainstsec.pdf
DEADLINE: Jan. 20, 2010

From the NOFA:
The objectives of the program are to:
1. Redevelop Main Street areas;
2. Preserve historic or traditional architecture or design features in Main Street areas;
3. Enhance economic development efforts in Main Street areas; and
4. Provide affordable housing in Main Street areas.

Community and Supportive Services (“CSS”) means services provided to residents of the
project that may include, but are not limited to:
a. Homeownership counseling that is scheduled to begin promptly after grant award so that, to the maximum extent possible, qualified residents will be ready to purchase new homeownership units when they are completed;
b. Educational life skills, job readiness and retention, employment training, and other activities as described on HUD’s HOPE VI website at
http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/hope6/css/; and
c. Coordination with fair housing groups to educate the HOPE VI Main Street affordable housing project’s targeted population on its fair housing rights.