2016-04627. Tribal HUD-VA Supportive Housing Program Awards, Fiscal Year 2015

AGENCY:

Office of Native American Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD.

ACTION:

Announcement of funding awards.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department under the Tribal HUD-VA Supportive Housing Program (Tribal HUD-VASH) for Fiscal Year 2015. This announcement contains the names of the grantees and amounts of the awards made available by HUD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Randall R. Akers, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW., Room 4126, Washington, DC 20410-5000, telephone, [phone] (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235, approved December 16, 2014) (“2015 Appropriations Act”), authorizes funding for a demonstration program in order to expand the HUD-VA Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) into Indian Country. The Tribal HUD-VASH Program does this by combining Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) rental assistance with Case Management and clinical services provided by or through the VA through Veterans Administration Medical Centers to Native American veterans that are Homeless or At Risk of Homelessness living on or near a reservation or other Indian areas. The program was announced by a notice posted on HUD's Web site on October 19, 2015, and published in the Federal Register on October 21, 2015 (80 FR 63822). The notice announced $4 million allowed for Tribal HUD-VASH awards; however, additional funds became available and awarded. Applicants were invited to apply for the demonstration program, and were evaluated based on the criteria contained in the notice.

For Fiscal Year 2015, 26 awards totaling $5,878,516 were awarded to 26 tribes/tribally designated housing entities nationwide. In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names of the grantees and the amounts of the awards in Appendix A to this document.

Dated: February 17, 2016.

Lourdes Castro Ramirez,

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing.

Appendix A—Fiscal Year 2015 Tribal HUD VA Supportive Housing Awards

Recipient	City	State	Amount ($)
Cook Inlet Housing Authority	Anchorage	Alaska	313,058
Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority	Juneau	Alaska	324,749
The Association of Village Council Presidents Regional Housing Authority	Bethel	Alaska	391,740
Navajo Housing Authority	Window Rock	Arizona	268,835
Hopi Housing Authority	Polacca	Arizona	210,432
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona	San Carlos	Arizona	233,100
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona	Sells	Arizona	302,936
Leech Lake Housing Authority	Cass Lake	Minnesota	159,022
White Earth Reservation Housing Authority	White Earth	Minnesota	142,980
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana	Browning	Montana	229,171
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico	Zuni	New Mexico	123,288
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina	Pembroke	North Carolina	185,604
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians	Belcourt	North Dakota	173,942
Standing Rock Housing Authority	Fort Yates	North Dakota	234,178
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma	Tahlequah	Oklahoma	194,405
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes	Concho	Oklahoma	272,016
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma	Hugo	Oklahoma	246,992
Osage Nation of Oklahoma	Pawhuska	Oklahoma	265,438
Muscogee(Creek) Nation, Oklahoma	Okmulgee	Oklahoma	216,566
Warm Springs Housing Authority	Warm Springs	Oregon	240,237
Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota	Pine Ridge	South Dakota	190,898
Sicangu Wicoti Awayankapi Corporation	Rosebud	South Dakota	183,011
Yakama Nation Housing Authority	Wapato	Washington	145,283
Spokane Indian Housing Authority	Spokane	Washington	245,809
Colville Indian Housing Authority	Nespelem	Washington	179,892
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin	Oneida	Wisconsin	204,934