Comprehensive Housing Counseling (CHC) and the Housing Counseling Training (HCT) NOFO (FY2026)
Status: Open
Posted date: April 22, 2026
Opportunity ID: 362014
Opportunity number: HSG-2600-DC-0033
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Agency code: HUD
Award floor: $1
Award ceiling: $3,000,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Housing
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others
- State governments
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:hud
- category_of_funding_activity:housing
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:nonprofits_having_a_501_c_3_status_with_the_irs_other_than_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:open
The purpose of HUD’s Housing Counseling Grant Program is to provide funds to HUD-approved housing counseling agencies that provide counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, with respect to property maintenance, financial management and literacy, and other matters as may be appropriate to assist program clients in improving their housing conditions, meeting their financial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership. This NOFO plays an integral role in helping individuals and families obtain housing and stay in their homes through sustainable homeownership or affordable rental housing. Housing counseling agencies are an important safeguard in the prevention of housing scams and discrimination and serve as an important gateway to local, state, federal and private housing assistance and resources.