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    National Best Practice Webinars

    2024

    Highlights of Urban Indian Housing Projects (April 15, 2024)

    2023

    Webinar Series on Manufactured Housing HUD sponsored a four-part webinar series with information about the upcoming PRICE competitive grant program. It featured presentations from both experts and experienced grantees to help increase understanding of how manufactured housing can be a sustainable solution to meeting a community’s affordable housing needs.  

    Manufactured Housing and Tribal Communities (December 6, 2023)

    Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Tallawhalt II Section 184 Homeownership Project (March 28, 2023)

    Section 184 Skilled Workers Demonstration Program for Tribes and TDHEs (April 6, 2023)

    Chickasaw Nation Construction-Related Employment and Training Programs (October 5, 2022)

    Minnesota Tribal Collaborative to Prevent and End Homelessness (January 28, 2021)

    Blackfeet Housing's Glacier Heights Tribal HUD-VASH and Homeownership Development (March 4, 2020)

    Housing Authority of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's Service Coordination Model (September 25, 2019)

    Bering Strait's Regional Housing Authority's Title VI construction project in Savoonga, AK (May 23, 2019)

    San Felipe Pueblo's Black Mesa Subdivision, a 150-unit homeownership subdivision. (December 6, 2018)

    Lummi Nation Housing Authority's Sche’Lang’En (Our Way of Life) Village, a 45-unit gated Transformational Housing with supportive services located in Bellingham, WA. (September 18, 2018)

    Joint Agency Webinars

    ONAP Joint Webinar on Federal Resources for Tribal Economic Development In Partnership with Administration for Native Americans, Department of Interior Office of Economic Development, and the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. (June 2, 2022)

    Administration for Children and Families and ONAP Joint Webinar on Partnerships Serving Homeless American Indian and Alaska Native Youth featuring Dena'Ina House (Anchorage, AK) and SHÉIYI XAAT HÍT (Juneau, AK) (March 10, 2022)

    Opportunity Zones

    Opportunity Zones 101 (February 20, 2020)

    IHBG-CARES

    National Best Practice Webinar on IHBG-CARES featuring the Spokane Indian Housing Authority, Omaha Nation Housing Authority, and National Center for Indian Enterprise Development (August 27, 2020)

    CDC Eviction Moratorium

    CDC Eviction Moratorium and Eviction Prevention Resources webinar (June 17, 2021)

    Best Practice by Region

    Alaska

    Tribal Housing for Elders to Age in Place in Yukon-Koyukuk region of Alaska

    Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium

    Assisted Living for Elders

    For complete project summary, click here.
     

     
    Chickaloon Native Village Alaska

    Chickaloon Native Village

    Rental Housing Development

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Tagiugmiullu Nunamiullu Housing Authority

    Tagiugmiullu Nunamiullu Housing Authority

    Sustainable Northern Shelter

    For complete project summary, click here.


    Eastern Woodlands

    Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Housing Authority

    Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Housing Authority

    Infrastructure Development

    For complete project summary, click  here.


    Northwest

    Rental unit housing for elders and families

    Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

    Rental unit housing for elders and families

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
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    Spokane Tribe of Indians Housing Authority

    Rental Housing Development/Rehabilitation, Community Facility

    For complete project summary, click here.


    Southwest

    Gila River Indian Community

    Rental Housing Development

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Rental Housing Development

    Karuk Tribe

    Rental Housing Development

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Yavapai-Apache Nation

    Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Yavapai-Apache Nation

    Rental Housing Development

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Housing Rehab

    San Carlos Apache Tribe

    Housing Rehab

    For complete project summary, click here.

     

    Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

    Infrastructure and Rental Housing Development

    For complete project summary, click here.


    Southern Plains

    Brownfields Clean-Up Site

    Absentee Shawnee Tribe (AST)

    Brownfields Clean-Up Site

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    Student Design Competition

    Absentee Shawnee Tribe (AST)

    Student Design Competition

    For complete project summary, click here

     
    Purchasing of Excess Government Equipment

    Absentee Shawnee Tribe (AST)

    Purchasing of Excess Government Equipment

    For complete project summary, click here

     
    Small Business Incubator

    Cherokee Nation

    Small business incubator

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Environmental Practices and Historic Homes

    Cherokee Nation

    Environmental Practices / Historic Homes

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Chikasha House

    Chickasaw Nation

    Chikasha House hospitality house for family members/caregivers traveling with patients at Chickasaw Nation Medical Center (CNMC)

    For complete project summary, click here

     
    Sick Child Care Center

    Chickasaw Nation

    Sick Child Care Center

    For complete project summary, click here

     
    The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas traditional Wickiups-inspired homes.

    Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas

    Rental Housing and Community Facilities

    For complete project summary, click here.

     
    Apartment Housing

    Sac and Fox of Oklahoma Housing Authority

    Apartment Housing

    For complete project summary, click here.

    Additional Best Practices

    The links below provide additional best practice information. ONAP provides these resources for public benefit and is not responsible for the content.


    EM Newsletter Front CoverPD&R’s latest publication explores housing issues in Indian Country with a focus on tribal self-determination.

    Evidence Matters | Transforming Knowledge Into Housing and Community Development Policy, Spring 2015 - Report explores housing issues in Indian Country with a focus on tribal self-determination. Includes articles on the development and implementation of federal policies that empower tribal self-determination in housing policy, federal and tribal initiatives to improve data concerning Native American populations and examines how tribal communities have addressed unique barriers to homeownership. Featured tribal communities include: the Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Native Village of Kwinhagak, Navajo Nation Housing Authority, Thunder Valley Development Corporation of South Dakota, the Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation, and the Lumbee Tribe.

    In this Issue:


    Tribal HousingBest Practices in Tribal Housing – Case Studies 2013
    A Report by the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, an initiative of Enterprise Community Partners.

     

     

     


    PD&R Best Practices Website

    HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) developed the Sustainable Construction in Indian Country Initiative.  The Initiative seeks to promote and support sustainable construction practices in Native communities, helping tribes to provide their members with healthier, more comfortable, and more resource-efficient homes. The related website contains best practices, case studies, and videos of different sustainable building practices and projects throughout Indian Country.


    Best Practice ImagePD&R’s Final Report Sustainable Construction in Indian Country Initiative May 2011-May 2013.  

    Tribal HUD-VASH