description outlined in the 2017 Program Areas, the Rural and Native Select grant American Initiative is specifically focused on: recipients will be required to Activities to create and cultivate a development team who will participate in a PSH undertake a permanent supportive housing project. peer to peer network. Efforts in creating permanent supportive housing (PSH), as well as resident services/programming; the development of new and innovative tools or integrated housing initiatives; and development of and/or refining of strategies to both efficiently connect homeless households to quality, permanent housing and keep those households stably housed post-placement. CDCs, CHDOs, THAs, or TDHEs partnering with healthcare providers to improve the physical health of their buildings, for example, to upgrade their buildings with an eye toward asthma mitigation, or to bring services to their properties, for example, a part-time nurse practitioner who sees residents on-site CDCs looking outward and making external connection with healthcare providers, health insurers, or coordinated healthcare systems to create mutually beneficial relationships (e.g., a CDC partnering with a health insurer to better coordinate health care and health care funding for residents). Affordable Housing Production and Preservation Program Area: Rural & Native American - Affordable Housing Production and Geographic Priority Additional Criteria Preservation Enterprise Rural and Native American Initiative is focused on ensuring the Enterprise will award up to long-term sustainability of affordable-housing developers and owners, as well The Rural and Native $50,000 to 2-5 as existing affordable-housing portfolios. In addition to the program American Initiative organizations description outlined in the 2017 Program Areas, the Rural and Native will serve CDCs and working on American Initiative also supports: CHDOs located affordable housing across the nation. Furthering early predevelopment on underutilized sites or work on production and complicated preservation transactions, in particular, acquisition of preservation. distressed affordable housing portfolios or recapitalizing aging affordable housing stock under existing ownership including 515 Grantees may be projects and year 15 LIHTC projects. required to document and Community revitalization efforts at the neighborhood or regional level share best that support the piloting of new models or strategies to create new or practices and preserve existing affordable housing units. lessons learned The development or preservation of farmworker or migrant and and to recommend seasonal workers housing. innovative changes to address Undertaking activities to address housing needs in Colonias. challenges in today's resource constrained
description outlined in the 2017 Program Areas, the Rural and Native American Initiative is specifically focused on: Activities to create and cultivate a development team who will undertake a permanent supportive housing project. Efforts in creating permanent supportive housing (PSH), as well as resident services/programming; the development of new and innovative tools or integrated housing initiatives; and development of and/or refining of strategies to both efficiently connect homeless households to quality, permanent housing and keep those households stably housed post-placement. CDCs, CHDOs, THAs, or TDHEs partnering with healthcare providers to improve the physical health of their buildings, for example, to upgrade their buildings with an eye toward asthma mitigation, or to bring services to their properties, for example, a part-time nurse practitioner who sees residents on-site CDCs looking outward and making external connection with healthcare providers, health insurers, or coordinated healthcare systems to create mutually beneficial relationships (e.g., a CDC partnering with a health insurer to better coordinate health care and health care funding for residents). Select grant recipients will be required to participate in a PSH peer to peer network. Affordable Housing Production and Preservation Program Area: Rural & Native American - Affordable Housing Production and Preservation Geographic Priority Additional Criteria Enterprise Rural and Native American Initiative is focused on ensuring the long-term sustainability of affordable-housing developers and owners, as well as existing affordable-housing portfolios. In addition to the program description outlined in the 2017 Program Areas, the Rural and Native American Initiative also supports: Furthering early predevelopment on underutilized sites or work on complicated preservation transactions, in particular, acquisition of distressed affordable housing portfolios or recapitalizing aging affordable housing stock under existing ownership including 515 projects and year 15 LIHTC projects. Community revitalization efforts at the neighborhood or regional level that support the piloting of new models or strategies to create new or preserve existing affordable housing units. The development or preservation of farmworker or migrant and seasonal workers housing. Undertaking activities to address housing needs in Colonias. The Rural and Native American Initiative will serve CDCs and CHDOs located across the nation. Enterprise will award up to $50,000 to 2-5 organizations working on affordable housing production and preservation. Grantees may be required to document and share best practices and lessons learned and to recommend innovative changes to address challenges in today's resource constrained