The awards are part of $1.5 million in Partnership and Special Enforcement Effort funds provided through the CARES Act. In June, HUD awarded approximately $1 million of this funding to 19 FHAP organizations.
“These organizations are extremely knowledgeable about the communities they serve and how COVID-19 is affecting housing choices, but they need financial resources to address the issues they are seeing,” Anna María Farías, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, said in a news release. “The funds being provided today will allow them to provide additional COVID-19 related fair housing outreach and purchase the equipment and technology they need and to conduct the wide-ranging types of activities, which will ensure that families have equal access to housing during this challenging period.”
Partnership funds allow FHAP agencies to utilize the services of individuals and/or public, private, for-profit or not-for-profit organizations that have expertise in enforcing federal, state, and local fair housing laws. Similarly, Special Enforcement Effort funds enhance the fair housing enforcement activities of FHAP agencies.
FHAP agencies that will receive the funding are:
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