Provider
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Application Deadline
August 3, 2026
Summary
The PRO Housing program’s primary purpose is to identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation.
HUD has four goals for this competition:
- Decrease the cost and increase the supply of affordable housing, especially in Opportunity Zones and rural communities.
- Remove barriers to affordable housing, removal of which will lead to constructing or rehabilitating more units, reducing time to produce units, and unlocking land that can be used for affordable housing units.
- Reward jurisdictions that have enacted laws and regulations that will lead to more affordable housing production and preservation.
- Increase opportunities for affordable homeownership by reducing administrative and structural barriers.
HUD shall select applicants that demonstrate: (1) progress and a commitment to eliminating local barriers to facilitate the increase in affordable housing production and preservation, through enactment or implementation of less restrictive zoning, land use, or permitting laws and regulations; (2) an acute need for housing affordable to households with incomes below 100 percent of the area median income; and (3) a commitment to create new homeownership units before the expiration of the funding performance period.
The program follows the CDBG framework and there is $50,000,000 available in funding for the FY26 round. HUD expects to make approximately 10 awards of between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 each from funds available. This Program does not require cost sharing or matching but provides points based on financial leverage. Eligible applicants include counties, municipalities, MPOs, and multijurisdictional entities.
Common Eligible Projects
Eligible activities may include, but are not limited to, the following examples listed below. These examples are organized into general categories.
- Development activities including new construction of affordable housing and mixed income housing to the greatest extent possible.
- Infrastructure activities directly related to new housing development.
- Housing preservation activities, which includes rehabilitation of existing housing.
- Planning supporting affordable housing. Grantees may use PRO Housing funds to further develop, evaluate, and implement existing housing policy plans and to improve housing strategies if it also directly results in actual affordable housing units constructed or preserved during the performance period. Up to 10 percent of funding can be used for planning and administration. For states, planning and administration can account for $100,000 plus up to three percent of the grant award, and any amount above $100,000 must be matched. Grantees may not fund the general conduct of government. Please note that while planning and policy activities are eligible activities with FY 2026 PRO Housing funds, applications that only include planning activities will likely not score high enough to be funded.
More Information
https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/502d76b6-a7e0-4b7a-b9c0-833e8cdf00b5
