Fair housing assistance program state and local

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity awarded $180,455.60 to the Washington State Human Rights Commission on October 1, 2025, under the Fair Housing Assistance Program (CFDA 14.401).

The award funds housing discrimination investigation and enforcement, civil rights training and outreach, data system maintenance, and fair housing compliance infrastructure development within Washington State. The recipient processes housing discrimination complaints, delivers civil rights education to state residents and stakeholders, conducts fair housing outreach activities, and maintains systems supporting fair housing enforcement capacity. Work is performed in Olympia, Washington, with performance running through September 30, 2026.

The Fair Housing Assistance Program provides assistance to state and local fair housing enforcement agencies for complaint processing, training, technical assistance, education and outreach, data and information systems, and other activities furthering fair housing. Eligible applicants must be state or local government agencies administering fair housing laws certified by HUD as providing substantially equivalent rights and remedies as those under the Fair Housing Act and holding executed formal written agreements with HUD to process housing discrimination complaints. The funding is structured as a formula grant, a reimbursement program in which funds are obligated after regional monitors review processed complaints and the cooperative agreement package receives sign-off from the agency and HUD's Regional Director.