Funding-Limited Submission – U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - Healthy Homes Production Program; April 29, 2011

 

The Healthy Homes Production Program (HHP) is part of HUD’s overall Healthy Homes Initiative launched in 1999. The program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The program builds upon HUD’s successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand the Department’s efforts to address a variety of high-priority environmental health and safety hazards.

 

Funds would be awarded to applicants who 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 privately owned, low income rental or owner occupied housing, especially in units and/or buildings where children and elderly 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 efficiency improvement activities and programs;

g)    Affirmatively further fair housing (please refer to the FY2011 General Section and Section V.A.3.d(2) in this NOFA for additional guidance on this requirement);

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, contracting, 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. For more information, see 24 CFR Part 135.

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. (See http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/environment/review/justice.cfm and related pages, including a discussion of Executive Order 12898, “Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-income Populations”).

 

The full announcement can be accessed at:  http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=86573

Click 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. The maximum grant award is $1,000,000 for up to 36 months. A minimum match of 10% is required.

 

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 Friday, April 29, 2011:

• Planned title and location of the project
• Names and departments of the Principal Investigator(s), project personnel, collaborating institutions and/or other partners
• Budget, including the required 10% match and potential source of funds. Note:  Because of existing commitments, the Office of the Vice President for Research is unable to provide matching funds.
• Narrative (4 pages) containing
  • Project Objectives and
  • Project Description

 

The Vice President for Research will appoint a committee to review this material and make a recommendation.  All applicants will be notified.  The external deadline is June 9, 2011.

 

Questions about the submission process may be sent to Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (mailto:alevan4@email.uky.edu. or 257-1663).