Main Street Grants Notice of Funding Availability

Overview

Main Street area revitalization efforts seek to rejuvenate older, downtown business districts while retaining the area's traditional and Historic character. The purpose of the HOPE VI Main Street Program is to provide assistance to smaller communities in the development of affordable housing that is undertaken in connection with a Main Street revitalization effort. Obsolete commercial offices or buildings can be reconfigured into rent producing affordable housing.

In December, 2003, the American Dream Downpayment Act became law. This Act amended the statute that controls the HOPE VI program. Part of the Act set aside a portion of all future HOPE VI funds for grants to small communities that have Main Street rejuvenation projects. The Act limited the size of communities that are eligible for these grants to a population of 50,000, and 100 or less physical public housing units. Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers do not affect the number of public housing units.

HOPE VI Main Street Grants Notice of Funding Availability

HUD published the FY2009-2010 HOPE VI Main Street NOFA on November 11, 2009. The application deadline date was March 3, 2010. The total amount awarded through the NOFA was $5,496,500.

As in the past, only Units of General Local Government were eligible to submit an application. The funds in the NOFA must be used to assist Units of Local Government that have existing Main Street area rejuvenation projects and have the population and public housing unit limits stated above. These funds are to be used to develop initially affordable housing in the Main Street redevelopment area.

Note that the NOFA includes, by reference, the General Section of HUD's FY 2009 SuperNOFA. The General Section can be obtained at HUD's Grant Funds Available website. There are some very important requirements in the General Section that, if not addressed in an application, may have caused the application to be rejected without being rated or ranked. If this Main Street NOFA and the General Section contain conflicting information, this Main Street NOFA prevails.

Applications had to be submitted electronically to Grants.gov, and applicants had to register or renew their registration before the application deadline. Registration may take up to three weeks. Detailed registration instructions are included in HUD's General Section, which is updated each year.

When a HOPE VI Main Street NOFA is available for application, the NOFA, and related forms and guidance, will be available through links at www.grants.gov and through links on this website. Also, a few weeks after publication, there are often changes and corrections to NOFAs. Throughout the period before the application submission deadline date, this site posts Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that clarify specific parts of the NOFA.

A list of the grant recipients and their award amounts can be seen using the link below.

Main Street Program Summaries

Most Recent NOFA

	FY-2009 HOPE VI Main Street NOFA
	Applicants for the FY-2009 NOFA
	Grant Recipients from the FY 2009-10 NOFA

General Guidance

Financial Guidance