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Expanding HUD’s Eviction
Protection Grant Program
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) announced
$20 million in new grants for its Eviction Protection Grant Program, doubling
the amount originally allocated for the launch of the Program in November 2021.
Through HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), these
competitive grants were made available to non-profit and governmental legal
service providers serving or expanding services in areas with high rates of
eviction or prospective evictions, including rural areas. The first cohort of 10
grantees funded by the Program are implementing a total of seven
statewide programs (Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Massachusetts, Missouri,
Montana, and Utah) as well as two regional (Northwestern Ohio and Western New
York) and three local (Albany, Atlanta, and Las Vegas) programs. This expansion
will support 11 additional statewide, regional, and local programs across the
Northeast, Southern, and Western United States. The objective of the Eviction
Protection Grant Program is to help individuals and families – including people
of color who are disproportionately represented among those evicted, people with
limited English proficiency, and people with disabilities – avoid eviction or
minimize the disruption and damage caused by the eviction process. Grantees will
also participate in research conducted by PD&R and will be expected to collect
and submit data on services provided and associated outcomes. The Eviction
Protection Grant Program is part of HUD’s continued work, as part of a whole of
government approach, to support families recovering from the public health and
economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information about
the extent and impacts of evictions and best practices for addressing them,
please see the following:
As a result of the Administration’s efforts to support
and advance eviction diversion programs across the country, the Eviction Lab estimates
that millions of renters avoided the threat of eviction in 2021.
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