Fair housing assistance program state and local

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity awarded $167,300 to the City of Austin Office of Civil Rights under the Fair Housing Assistance Program (CFDA 14.401) on October 1, 2025, in the form of a formula grant for complaint processing support.

The City of Austin Office of Civil Rights processes fair housing discrimination complaints and logs each case into HUD's Enforcement Management System (HEMS) for performance evaluation by the FHEO Regional Office. Funding is distributed based on the number of complaints the agency acceptably processed during a specifically identified 12-month period, as determined by the FHEO Regional Office against performance standards set forth in 24 CFR 115.206 and the cooperative agreement between HUD and the agency.

The award covers the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. Place of performance is Austin, TX 78702. The assistance type is a formula grant with a lump-sum payment method. FHAP provides support to state and local government agencies certified by HUD as providing substantially equivalent fair housing enforcement as the Fair Housing Act, enabling them to investigate and enforce housing discrimination claims through complaint processing, training, technical assistance, education and outreach, and information systems development.