2024 Fair Housing Initiatives Program - Education and Outreach Initiative
The Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) provides funding to eligible non-profits and other fair housing organizations through competitive grants under several initiatives to carry out education and outreach and enforcement activities to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices and to inform individuals of their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The Initiatives are the Fair Housing Organizations Initiative (FHOI), the Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI), and the Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI).
This EOI NOFO makes available approximately $8,350,000 to develop, implement, carry out, and coordinate education and outreach programs designed to inform members of the public concerning their rights and obligations under the FHA. Under this EOI NOFO, activities are divided into five components:
EOI National – National Media Campaign Component
The national fair housing media campaign will focus on advancing racial equity and access to housing opportunities, especially in underserved communities. The campaign will include addressing barriers that may arise when people exercise their fair housing rights to expand housing choice. The campaign will also focus on educating the public about the forms of inequities based on race and national origin that can occur in real estate related transactions. The campaign must provide for meaningful language access for persons of Limited English Proficiency and alternative forms of communication for individuals with disabilities. The campaign will provide information on how to file a housing discrimination complaint through HUD.
EOI - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Component
This NOFO includes funding for fair housing organizations to create and/or update and disseminate fair housing materials to reflect the clarification that after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock decision (Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020)), the FHA bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
EOI - Advancing Racial Equity Component
This component will fund local and community-based education and outreach projects to promote racial desegregation, equity and justice in housing, and to address barriers that may arise when people protected under the FHA exercise their fair housing rights to expand their housing choice, consistent with the purpose of the FHA. These barriers include but are not limited to opposition to the creation and/or location of affordable housing, neighbor harassment based on race, and obstruction of persons who are seeking to enforce their fair housing rights.
EOI - Targeted Fair Housing Component
This component targets organizations that demonstrate a need in their geographic area to work directly with populations of persons with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) to ensure they are aware of and understand their rights under the FHA. Funding may also be used for targeted education and outreach activities including fair housing services to underserved communities and underserved populations.
EOI - General Component
This component provides funding for general fair housing education and outreach activities to inform people of their rights and responsibilities under the FHA. The Department encourages proposals which target antisemitic and Islamophobic discrimination, among other forms of housing discrimination.
Preference Points: This NOFO offers preference points: Environmental Justice (2 pts), Minority Serving Institutions (2 Pts), and Promise Zones(2pts).
Program Office: Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Funding Opportunity Title: 2024 Fair Housing Initiatives Program -Education and Outreach Initiative
Assistance Listing Number: 14.416
Funding Opportunity Number: FR-6800-N-21-A
OMB Approval Numbers: 2529-0033
Estimated Opening Date: 09/20/2024
Estimated Deadline Date: 11/19/2024
Agency Contact: Stephanie Thomas, 202-402-6938, Email: Stephanie.W.Thomas@hud.gov