Federal Housing Programs

Buying a home is often the most significant investment that a person may make in his lifetime. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, in addition to offering a variety of mortgage insurance programs, supports numerous programs sponsored by state and local governments and nonprofit organizations across the country.

Many of these offerings provide assistance to first time home buyers.

HUD also offers excellent advice for making the home buying process as stress-free and rewarding as prossible. Check out their advice on Ninety Nine Questions Answered about Buying Your First Home.

What follows is a listing of all the programs supporting home purchase and home improvements from the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program Special Allocations (Recovery Act Funded)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To make payments to existing owners of project-based Section 8 housing for 12 month periods. To reduce claims on the Department"s insurance fund by
aiding projects with FHA-insured or Secretary-...more

Equal Opportunity in Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide fair housing throughout the United States and an administrative enforcement system which is subject to judicial review....more

Fair Housing Assistance Program_State and Local
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide assistance to State and local fair housing enforcement agencies to support complaint processing, training, technical assistance, education and outreach, data and information systems and oth...more

Fair Housing Initiatives Program
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To develop, implement, carry out, or coordinate programs and/or activities to educate the public about, as well as provide enforcement of, fair housing rights under the Fair Housing Act; 42 U.S.C. 360...more

Fair Housing Organizaiton Initiatives
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To assist in the organizing of fair housing enforcement in order to develop, implement, carry out, or coordinate programs and/or activities that provide enforcement of, fair housing rights under the F...more



Fair Housing Initiatives Program Enforcement Testing Technical Assistance
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To assist private and tax exempt fair housing enforcement organizations in the investigation and enforcement of all alleged violations. To develop, and implement tester training, and enforcement under...more

Public and Indian Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide and operate cost-effective, decent, safe and affordable dwellings for lower income families through an authorized local Public Housing Agency (PHA)....more

Lower Income Housing Assistance Program_Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To aid very low income families in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary rental housing....more

Public and Indian Housing_Indian Loan Guarantee Program
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide homeownership opportunities to Native Americans, Tribes, Indian Housing Authorities including Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs), and Indian Housing Authorities on Indian land, th...more






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