Funding-Limited Submission –Healthy Homes
Production Program; October 12, 2010
The Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) has announced the availability of
funding for approximately $10 million for HUD’s Healthy Homes Production Program
for FY2010 to prevent and correct significant housing-related health and safety
hazards in low-income housing.
Funds will be awarded to applicants that will accomplish the
following objectives:
a.
Maximize both the number of vulnerable residents (children,
elderly) protected from housing-related environmental health and safety hazards
and the number of housing units where these hazards are controlled;
b.
Identify and remediate priority (significant) housing-related health
and safety hazards in at risk target housing, especially in those where
children and elderly in low-income and minority families reside, and where
housing-related health and safety hazards may contribute to illness, injury or
other adverse health outcomes;
c.
Promote cost-effective and efficient healthy home methods and
approaches that can be replicated and sustained;
d.
Support public education and outreach that furthers the goal of
protecting children and other vulnerable populations from housing-related health
and safety hazards;
e.
Build local capacity to operate sustainable programs that will
prevent and control housing-related environmental health and safety hazards in
low- and very low-income residences and develop a professional workforce that
is trained in healthy homes assessment and remediation principles;
f.
Promote integration of this grant program with housing
rehabilitation, property maintenance, weatherization, green and healthy homes
initiatives, other lead-based paint hazard control programs, and energy
improvement activities and programs;
g.
Affirmatively further fair housing;
h.
Mobilize public and private resources, involving cooperation
among all levels of government, the private sector, and grassroots
community-based, nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations,
to develop the most promising, cost-effective methods for identifying and
controlling key housing-related environmental health and safety hazards;
i.
Promote collaboration, data sharing, and targeting between
health and housing departments;
j.
Establish a system or process that will facilitate remediated
units to be affirmatively marketed to families with young children; and,
k.
To the greatest extent feasible, ensure job training,
employment, and other economic opportunities generated by this grant will be
directed to low- and very-low income persons, particularly those who are
recipients of government assistance for housing, and to business concerns that
provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income persons in the area
in which the project is located.
l.
Further environmental justice, the fair treatment and meaningful
involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income
with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental
laws, regulations, and policies.
The
full announcement can be accessed at: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=58134
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on Full Announcement at the top of the page.
Only one application will be accepted from
any given organization for a given project under this grant program.
Because HUD allows only one application for any given organization under
this program, the University of Kentucky has established
an internal selection process. Individuals interested in submitting to this
program are to submit
the following material electronically to the Office of the Vice President for
Research at vpr@email.uky.edu
and
a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, October 12, 2010:
The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee
to review this material and make a recommendation. HUD’s deadline is November
8, 2010.
Questions about the
submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice
President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu
or 257-1663).