Buying a home is often the most significant investment that a person may make in his lifetime. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, in addition to offering a variety of mortgage insurance programs, supports numerous programs sponsored by state and local governments and nonprofit organizations across the country.

Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To provide for supportive housing for very low-income persons with disabilities....more

Housing Finance Agencies (HFA) Risk Sharing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Under Section 542(c), HUD provides credit enhancement for mortgages for multifamily housing projects whose loans are underwritten, processed, serviced, and disposed of by Housing Finance Agencies (HFA...more

Multifamily Housing Service Coordinators
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To link elderly, especially frail and disabled, or disabled non-elderly assisted housing and neighborhood residents to supportive service in the general community; to prevent premature and unnecessary...more

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program_Special Allocations
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To reduce claims on the Department's insurance fund by aiding projects with FHA-insured or Secretary-held mortgages that have immediate or potentially serious financial difficulties....more

Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act
Department of Housing and Urban Development
To retain critical affordable housing resources represented by the supply of FHA-insured Section 8 assisted housing and maintain it in good physical and financial condition while, at the same time, re...more

Community Development Block Grants/Special Purpose Grants/Insular Areas
Department of Housing and Urban Development

To provide community development assistance to the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean....more

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Supportive Housing Program
Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Supportive Housing Program is designed to promote the development of supportive housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons in the transition from homelessness and to enable them to...more

HOME Investment Partnerships Program
Department of Housing and Urban Development

(1) To expand the supply of affordable housing, particularly rental housing, for low and very low income Americans; (2) to strengthen the abilities of State and local governments to design and impleme...more

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
Department of Housing and Urban Development

To provide States and localities with the resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of persons with AIDS or related diseases and their familie...more

Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program
Department of Housing and Urban Development

To facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities through the provision of self-help housing where the homebuyer contributes a significant amount of sweat equity toward the constructi...more