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USDA grants available to improve housing for farmworkers

Grantees will help prepare loan application packages

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[September 12, 2012]  CHAMPAIGN -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday that USDA is accepting applications for technical assistance grants to develop domestic and migrant farm labor housing.

"These grants will help public and private nonprofit organizations submit quality applications to increase their chances of getting funding to build much-needed affordable housing for farmworkers," Vilsack said. "Increasing the supply of affordable housing in rural communities not only helps the residents, it helps the entire community."

The technical assistance grants are available to organizations that will help housing authorities, state and local governments, Indian tribes, nonprofit organizations, and community- and faith-based groups apply for loans and grants to build farmworker housing. The purpose of the grants is to increase the number of high-quality applications USDA receives. Vilsack announced on July 18 the Notice of Funding Availability for loans and grants to build or preserve affordable rental farmworker housing. This technical assistance funding is for organizations that assist potential borrowers under that notice.

Technical assistance grantees must have the knowledge, ability, expertise or practical experience necessary to develop and package farm labor housing loan and grant applications. They also will be required to assist eligible nonprofit groups with a minimum number of applications to USDA, based on their location.

For additional information, see Page 54877 of the Sept. 6 Federal Register,
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
FR-2012-09-06/html/2012-21885.htm
.

The deadline for submitting applications is Nov. 5.

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Visit USDA Rural Development’s new interactive Web map featuring program funding and success stories for fiscal years 2009-2011. The data is available at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/
RDSuccessStories.html
.

USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has an active portfolio of more than $172 billion in loans and loan guarantees. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers, and to improve the quality of life in rural America.

[Text from file received from USDA Rural Development, Illinois]

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