# Presentation: 721832

## Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS

**Competition Overview**
**May 28, 2008**
**Presented by **
**Office of HIV/AIDS Housing **
**Benjamin Ayers**

- 2008 HOPWA Grant Competition

## HOPWA Program Purpose

**  ****To provide states and localities with the resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing and related supportive service needs of low-income persons with HIV/AIDS**

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## HOPWA Client Outcomes

**  ****Assist HOPWA Clients in establishing or maintaining stable housing, reduce risks of homelessness and improve access to care**

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## Application Package & Instructions

**Down load 2 packages from **_[www.grants.gov](http://www.grants.gov/)_
**Instructions-required HOPWA application forms and NOFA**
** ****Application Package- SF 424**

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## Application Submission Date

**Validated by grants.gov by 11:59:59 PM, Eastern Time on **
**	****July 18, 2008**
**72 hour validation period**

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## Other Available Funding

**Formula Grants in 127 St/local: $267,417,000**
**National Technical Assistance: **
-    **$820,000**
**This Competition: after funding renewals Approx $8,000,000**

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## Definitions

**Chronically homeless **
**Lease or occupancy agreement**
**Non-profit organization**

**Permanent supportive housing**
**Transitional housing**

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## Award Information  

**Projects awarded announced by 09/31/2008 **
**Max. grant ****	****	****$1,430,000**
**+ROI $30,000           ****$1,460,000**
**Min. grant     ****	****          $500,000**
**Average award      $1,200,000**

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## Eligibility

**Long-term: **
**States & units of general local government (non-formula) **
**Balance of state areas: Units of general local government (not a formula grantee) **

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## Eligibility

**Special Project of National Significance (SPNS)**
**States, units of general local government, & nonprofits**

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## Program Requirements (12)

**General provisions**
**General section provisions apply**
**Section III.C.**
**National Environmental Policy Act **
**Facility project can’t commit or spend HUD or local funds **
**Tenant based rental assistance supportive services, operating costs and administrative costs excluded**

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**Notes:**
Section III.C. Other Requirements and Procedures Applicable to All Programs.

## Program Requirements

**Performance goals**
**Planned Yearly outputs & outcomes**
**80% Housing stability, reduced risk of homelessness, increasing access to care**
**Optional local project goals**

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## Performance Goals - Outputs

**Measure actual achievements against anticipated achievements, & report on housing outputs & outcomes**
**# of units or households assisted TBRA, STRMU, & Facilities**
**#of house holds that achieved outcomes**

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## Performance Goals-Outcomes

**HOPWA Outcomes**
**housing stability, reduced risks of homelessness, & improved access to care**
**Annual client assessment**
**Status in ongoing arrangements, stable, temporary or other results**

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## Program Requirements

**Use of *****drop down***** logic model**
**HOPWA facility use period**
**Acquisition, new construction & signification rehab 10 years **
**Non significant rehab 3 years**

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## Program Requirements

**Disbursement of funds**
**3 years spend**
**5 years recapture**
**Execution of grant agreement & obligation of awards**
**Selected applicants 6 months**

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## Program Requirements

**Site control in 1 year**
**Acquisition or leasing**
**Rehabilitation or new construction**
**Begin 18 months**
**Complete by end of agreement**

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## Program Requirements

**Project operations**
**Drawdown w/ 6months**
**Proportionate to operating period**
**Delays & loss of funding**

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## Program Requirements

**Section 3-Housing Urban Development ACT of 1968**
**New construction & rehabilitation**
**Employment & economic opportunities **
**Address number in narrative**
**Report in annual reporting**

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## Program Requirements

**Executive Order 13166**
**Limited English Proficiency (LEP)**
**General Section IV**
**Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing**
**General Section III**

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## Eligible Activities

**Proposed project activities**
**Activities & budget amounts tied to housing outputs and outcomes**

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## Eligible Activities

**Housing Assistance**
**Main focus of housing**
**Permanent housing w. legal right to continue in unit **
**Transitional with linkages to Permanent w/ 24 months**

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## Eligible Activities

**Housing Assistance**
**Leasing including master leasing**
**Tenant Based Rental assistance (TBRA) scattered site vs. project based**
**Short-term Rent Mortgage & Utility assistance (STRMU)**

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## Eligible Activities

**Supportive Services**
**Enhance access to mainstream**
**No more than 35% of budget**
**No services-only facilities**
**No funds for medications (may be shown as leveraging)**
**Appropriate for client **

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## Eligible Activities

**Permanent Housing Placement**
**Include application fees, credit reviews, & reasonable security deposits **_**not**_** exceeding 2 months**
**Does **_**not**_** include other move-in items e.g. furniture, minor repairs (may be shown as leveraging)**

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## Eligible Activities

**Housing Information**
**Disseminating local housing resource information to potential clients**

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## Eligible Activities

**Other **
**Subject to HUD’s approval**
**Address expected beneficial housing impact w/ performance outputs & client outcomes**
**Based on a Need not addressed by HOPWA Activities**

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## Eligible Activities

**New: Soliciting Return on Investment (ROI) cost analysis methodologies**
**Cost comparison on effectiveness & efficiency**
**Dollars saved per dollars invested, benefits per dollars invested, or both**
**Result in effective ROI, equal ROI, and a less than effective ROI**

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## Eligible Activities

**(ROI) cost comparison **
**Direct HOPWA housing activity & outcome**
**Supportive service activity & outcome**
**Both & outcome**
**Delineate the investment & the return**

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## Eligible Activities

**Dollars saved per dollars invested:**** ****TBRA vs. long-term institutional care **
**Investment (cost of supportive housing); **
**return (cost savings for maintaining the client in the community)**

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## Eligible Activities

**Benefit per dollars invested:  TBRA compared to possible institutional placement**
** **
**Improved quality of life measured by households**

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## Eligible Activities

**Benefit/result (achieving better relative health, greater family stability, and improved life outcomes)**
** **
**investment (cost of improved quality of life) **

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## Eligible Activities

**ROI Methodologies address**
**Cost saving related to other public and private systems of housing care and related support.**
**Greater efficiencies in service delivery for types and levels of support.**

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## Eligible Activities

**(ROI) cost analysis methodologies**
**One time funding up to $30,000 (justify request)**
**Earn up to 5 points under rating factor 5 achieving new results**

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## Eligible Activities

**Resource Identification**
**Establish, coordinate, & develop housing assistance resources in your community**

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## Application & Submission

**NOFA Copies & application forms **_[http://](http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13003&mode=VIEW)__[www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId](http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13003&mode=VIEW)__[=13003&mode=VIEW](http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13003&mode=VIEW)__** **_
**Download Adobe Reader 8.1.2 & pure edge viewer from grants.gov for use of Adobe formatted program forms**

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## Application & Submission

**New Fax Numbers **
**800-894-4047  **
** ****215-825-8796**
**Third party letters, certifications & other required documentation**
**Help at **_**support@grants.gov**_**  or**
**   ****(800) 518-4726**

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## Application Forms

**SF-424 & equal opportunity Survey**
**HUD 96010 Logic model **
**HUD 2990 Cert on RC/EZ/EC-II, if applicable**
**HUD 2880 Applicant/receipt disclosure/update report**
**SFLLL Disclosures & lobbying**

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## Application Forms

**HUD 40110-B HOPWA Application Budget (3-part form)**
**HUD 27300 HUD communities Initiative Form (Reg Barrier) **
**must provide backup citation**
**HUD-2991 Certification of consistency w/consolidation plan**

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## Application Content

**Proof of Nonprofit status of applicants & sponsors & AIDS purpose**
**Documentation of leveraging**
**Commitment letters on file**
**Narratives for each section**

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## Application Content

**Executive summary**
**Brief overview of project  **
**Capacity of applicant & sponsors & narrative **
**relevant organizational experience to proposed activities**

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## Application Content

**Need/extent problem narrative**
**Unmet need description**
**Relevant statistical data**
**Compliments existing projects**
**Responds to community planning processes**

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## Application Content

**Soundness of approach: **
**Model qualities  **
**Responsiveness**
**Coordination narrative**
**Public Policy priorities**

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## Application Content

**Achieving results & program evaluation narrative**
**Logic Model & supplemental narrative**
**ROI:  description of cost effectiveness and efficiency analysis plan**

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## Application & Submission

**Submitted, received & validated electronically by Grants.gov**
**No later than July 18, 2008**
**  ****11:59:59 PM Eastern time**

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## Funding Restrictions

**Program activities directly benefiting eligible persons at least $500,000 & not more than $1,300,000**
**ROI activities additional funding maximum of $30,000**

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## Funding Restrictions

**Grant administrative costs for grantee a maximum of 3%**
**Grant administrative costs of project sponsors- a maximum of 7%**
**Grantees **_**cannot**_** add the 7% for project sponsors if carrying out activities w/o project sponsor**

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## Funding Restrictions

**Supportive Services budget line item can be no more than 35%**

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## Funding Restrictions

**Total maximum grant amount**
**	**
**	****$1,430,000 **
_**+     $30,000 ROI**_** **
**  ****$1,460,000**

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## Funding Restrictions

**Three-year use period**
**No proposals dependent on prospective Determinations**

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## Ineligible Activities

**Grooming**
**Clothing**
**Pets**

**Financial assistance**
**Consumer credit payments**
**Entertainment activities**

**No funding for personal items:**

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## Ineligible Activities

**Property taxes**
**Personal vehicle maintenance & repairs**

**Condominium fees**
**Other non-housing-related costs**

**No funding for personal items:**

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## Ineligible Activities

**Data collection on project outcomes**

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## Other Submission Requirements

**Electronic Submission**
**Waivers to electronic submission (see General Section IV F 3)**

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## Other Submission Requirements

**If electronic submission waived, paper applications due by **
**July 18, 2008, 11:59:59 PM EST**
_**No**_** 15 day grace period** **on receipt**
_**No**_** proof of timely submission as alternative**

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## Application Selection

**Five Rating Factors**:
**Capacity**
**Need/Extent of Problem **
**Soundness of Approach **
**Leveraging**
**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation**

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## Rating Factor 1 

**Capacity (20 Points)**
**Minimum of 14 points required for funding eligibility**

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## Rating Factor 1

**Capacity-Past Experience & Knowledge **
**Proposed activities **
**Serving individuals & households w/ HIV/AIDS**
**Monitoring & evaluating programs**
**Fiscal responsibility**

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## Rating Factor 2

**Need/Extent of the Problem **
**(15 points) **
**5 points awarded based on AIDS cases & per capita AIDS incidence **
**10 points:  Description of unmet housing need**

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## Rating Factor 2

**Need/Extent of the Problem**
**Housing need not addressed by other projects in the area**
**Unresolved or emerging issues/need for alternative forms of assistance**

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## Rating Factor 2

**Need/Extent of the Problem**
**project’s enhancement to community’s Consolidated Plan & other planning processes**
**Prove need & Subpopulation targets:  statistics & data sources**

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## Rating Factor 3

**Soundness of Approach (45pts.)**
**15 for responsiveness**
-   **5 for coordination**
-   **7 for public policy priorities**
_**18**_** for model qualities**
-    **45**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach 

**Responsiveness (15 points)**
**Response to unmet need Persons served by each activity for each year**
**Housing units provided by type & year**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness**
**Roles, responsibilities **
**Organizations providing leveraged resources **
**How leveraged resources are used**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness- Housing Activities**
**Access to permanent supportive housing**
**Use of permanent housing placement**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness- Housing Activities**
**Description of housing site**
**Development & operations plan**
**Operational procedures**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness- Supportive Service Activities**
**Plan for delivering supportive services **

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness- Supportive Service Activities**
**How agreements provide access to mainstream programs**
**How project plans ensure client participation**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Responsiveness- Other approvable activities**
**  ****Not at 24 CFR 574.300**
**  ****Only approved by HUD**
**  ****Describe the need**
**  ****Describe the benefits**
** ****	**** ****Report annually**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Coordination (5 points)**
**Coordination of activities with other organizations prior to application submission**
**Developed project through consultation w/ other stakeholders**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Coordination w/ other HUD-funded programs & programs outside of Con. Plan**
**Coordinated client assistance w/ mainstream resources**
**All parties aware of service delivery & each others roles in stabilizing the clients**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Public Policy Priorities (7pts.) **
**1pt describe use of universal design & visitablility**
**1pt participation of non-profit grassroots community-based (including faith-based)**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Public Policy Priorities **
**1pt promote energy efficiency & energy star products**
**2pt completion of regulatory barriers policy questionnaire**
**2pt target of chronically homeless **

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Model Qualities (18 Points)**
**Meet HUD policy priorities**
**Method of project management & oversight**
**Your evaluation plan:  What you measure & how **

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Model Qualities **
**Exemplary service delivery & management connected to other HOPWA funded projects**
**Activities expand knowledge in serving eligible persons**

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## Rating Factor 3 Soundness of Approach

**Model Qualities-descriptive budget**
**How funding is used & the related use of leveraging**
**How BLIs relate to planned activities**
**Clarity & completeness of summary statement**

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## Rating Factor 4

**Leverage (5 Points)**
**Minimum of 1 point for funding eligibility**
**Address:  secure community resources, achieve program purposes & ensure sustainability of housing efforts**

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## Rating Factor 4

**Leverage**
**Committed at the time of application submission**
**Points based on amount of commitments**

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## Rating Factor 4

**Organizations name & address**
**Type of commitment**
**Dollar value**

**Date of letter**
**Authorized representative**
**Contact information**

_**Leveraging Chart/List**_

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation(15 points)**
**Logic Model 10 pts.**
**ROI methodology 5 pts**

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation- Logic Model (HUD-96010)**
**Measure actual achievements against anticipated achievements**
**Commitment to obtaining goals**
**Commitment to ensuring performance assessment**

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation- ROI Methodology**
**1 pt description of methodology & rational **
**1 pt identify service to be addressed & why**
**1 pt description of expected benefit / outcome**

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation- ROI Methodology**
**1 pt submission of data collection & analysis plan**
**1 pt description of capacity to conduct ROI**

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation- ****Top scoring**
**HOPWA housing output measures**
** **
**HOPWA client outcome goals**
**Increase housing stability**

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## Rating Factor 5

**Achieving Results & Program Evaluation- ****Top scoring **
**Reduce risks of homelessness**
**Improve access to care**
**ROI activities**

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## Application Review

**HUD reviewers- CPD staff at Headquarters & in Field Offices**
**Reviews & Selection Process**
**Threshold reviews (Field Office)**
**Substantive reviews (headquarters)**

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## Application Review

**Rating & Selection process**
**HUD rates applicants in rank & order according to rating factors**
**Total of 100 points w/ 2 bonus points for completing HUD-2990 (RC/EZ/EC-II) form**

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## Rating & Selection Process

**Expiring renewal projects funded first **
**(CPD Notice 08-03)**
**applicants selected by rank & order**

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## Rating & Selection Process

**HUD will **_**not**_** fund applications**
**Scored below 75 points **
**Capacity scored below 14 **
**Leveraging score of** **zero**
**Conditional Selection**

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## Rating & Selection Process

**Tie breaker score higher in the following order:**** **
**Factor 3-responsiveness **
**Factor 1-capacity **
**Factor 2-need **
**Factor 5-evaluation**
**Factor 4-leveraging**

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## Application Review

**Estimated**** ****Announcement of Awards**
**September 30, 2008**

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## Award Administration

**Applicant Notification **
**Award modifications **
**Applicant Debriefing**
**30 days after announcements for 120 days**

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## Agency Contacts

**Technical assistance for downloading application package **
**	****	****800-518-Grants   or **
**	****	**_[support@grants.gov](mailto:support@grants.gov)_
**Program information contact your area HUD field office-  see listings** _[www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm](http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm)_

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## For More Information

**Office of HIV/AIDS Housing**
- _[HOPWA@HUD.GOV](mailto:HOPWA@HUD.GOV)_
**HUD Website for**** ****AIDS Housing**
**  **_[http://](http://www.hud.gov/cpd/offices/)__[www.hud.gov/cpd/offices/](http://www.hud.gov/cpd/offices/)__**aidshousing**_**  **
**For area formula programs see**
**       ****local/index.cfm**

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## Helpful Hints

**Read & study the NOFA **
**Clarity in your presentations**
**Check consistency, completeness of plans, accuracy of budgets & leveraged documentation**
**Keep within program limits**
**Don’t be late**

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