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Supportive Housing Grants (2026)

Supportive housing funding pairs a stable place to live with the services people need to keep it — case management, behavioral health, and employment support. These grants back permanent supportive housing and transitional housing for people exiting homelessness, incarceration, or treatment, where the housing and the services are funded together.

12 open housing grants — supportive housing and related

12 grants worth up to $73.3M match your search

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Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP)

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Department of Housing and Urban Development

This NOFO solicits applications for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP). This grant awards funds to eligible national and regional nonprofit organizations and consortia to purchase home sites and develop or improve the infrastructure needed to set the stage for sweat equity and volunteer-based homeownership programs. The SHOP program is a tool to promote the production of affordable housing for low-income persons and families, including first-responders, veterans, and persons with disabilities, while fostering safe, stable neighborhoods in communities nationwide.The SHOP grant program provides competitive awards to national and regional nonprofit organizations and consortia to purchase home sites and develop or improve the infrastructure needed to set the stage for sweat equity and volunteer-based homeownership programs and to promote the production of affordable housing for low-income persons and families, including veterans, homeless persons , first responders, and persons with disabilities . The SHOP units must:Be sold to homebuyers at below market prices;Homebuyers must be low-income and contribute a significant amount of sweat equity towards the development of their SHOP home; andSHOP homes must be non-luxury units that comply with state and local codes, ordinances, and zoning requirements, and with all other SHOP requirements.Applicants must also:Propose to use a significant amount of SHOP grant funds in at least two states.Use the SHOP grant funds for only land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, and reasonable and necessary planning and administration costs (not to exceed 10 percent).The average SHOP expense for the combined cost of land acquisition and infrastructure improvements cannot exceed $25,000 per SHOP unit.Applicants must leverage other public and private funds to pay for the construction or rehabilitation costs of every SHOP unit.Leveraged funds may also be used for other program costs not covered by SHOP grant funds.All communications between HUD, SHOP applicants, SHOP awardees, and SHOP beneficiaries must be in English. The application must be received through Grants.gov in English.This NOFO makes available $24,000,000 ($12,000,000 in FY2025 and $12,000,000 in FY2024) to carry out eligible activities of the SHOP program.

$1.1M – $12M
2026-07-15
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Supportive Housing grant FAQ

Who can apply for supportive housing grants?

Nonprofits, community development corporations, supportive and transitional housing providers, homeless services agencies, and housing rehab programs apply for different programs. Some funding flows through states and local governments that re-grant it to nonprofit subrecipients; other programs accept direct applications. The right fit depends on your organization type and where you work.

What do supportive housing grants pay for?

Supportive housing funding pairs a stable place to live with the services people need to keep it — case management, behavioral health, and employment support. These grants back permanent supportive housing and transitional housing for people exiting homelessness, incarceration, or treatment, where the housing and the services are funded together.

When are supportive housing grant applications due?

Deadlines vary by program — federal NOFO cycles, state funding rounds, and rolling local programs run on different calendars. The open opportunities above show current deadlines, or run your organization's profile through FindGrants to see every housing grant you qualify for right now.

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