The U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently posted a Notice of Funding Availability for the six entities that were named finalists to receive the first implementation grant funding through HUD’s new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI). A list of the six finalists is available through the HUD website. These finalists will be ranked and rated on how well their vision addresses Choice Neighborhoods’ three core goals:
- Housing: Transform distressed public and assisted housing into energy efficient, mixed-income housing that is physically and financially viable over the long-term;
- People: Support positive outcomes for families who live in the distressed and soon to be transformed development(s) and the surrounding neighborhood, particularly outcomes related to residents’ health, safety, employment, mobility, and education; and
- Neighborhood: Transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
