Under the FY2023 fhip PEI multi-year… (FPEI230090) – Project Grant to National Fair Housing Alliance

Activities: Nfha's proposed grant activities will address all of these barriers to fair housing. The complaint-based and systemic investigations proposed under this project will serve as the basis for enforcement actions under the fair housing act (FHA) through HUD, state or local fair housing assistance programs, the U.S. Department of justice, and federal court. Enforcement actions will eliminate discrimination and remedy the harm through affirmative relief. Nfha will also continue to develop at least 4 systemic investigations and 8 pending enforcement actions initiated under previous fhip awards. Nfha will also conduct comprehensive education and outreach regarding the FHA in both metro areas as IT implements its investigations. Education and outreach will include speaking with organizations such as housing counseling centers, religious institutions and coalitions, universities, disability rights groups, community development corporations, youth service and family service organizations, and environmental justice organizations, among others. Nfha's robust education and outreach in these two metro areas will address severely lacking knowledge and understanding of fair housing laws and rights, and its extensive experience in conducting broad-based fair housing investigations and enforcement will eliminate discriminatory barriers for all people protected by the fair housing act. Activities to be performed (up to 4,900 character limit) under this project, nfha will implement a full-service and broad-based project that includes complaint intake and referral, education and outreach, and systemic investigations in rental, real estate sales, mortgage lending and redlining, design and construction, and insurance. Nfha will investigate FHA complaints to challenge discrimination in jackson, MS, and kansas city, KS/MO, which are underserved. Nfha will conduct at least 366 rental, sales, mortgage lending, design and construction, and insurance tests and 60 redlining investigations during the grant period. Nfha's project has five related testing and investigation activities designed to provide a strategic, systemic approach to challenging illegal activities by landlords and rental management firms, real estate firms, homeowners insurance companies, mortgage lenders, banks, builders, developers, and architects. Nfha will implement innovative testing investigations into housing market third-party service providers that use data in a discriminatory way or otherwise discriminate in the provision of services. Nfha will also conduct complaint intake and investigate complaints of discrimination and support pending investigations and enforcement actions. Nfha will recruit and train rental, sales, and lending testers to conduct the investigations, partner with the hispanic-serving institution, donnelly college in kansas city, KS, and will meet with local stakeholders to identify companies and issues for investigations. The total budget for the proposed three-year project is $1,741,066, and nfha is applying for $1,2000,000 in HUD funding: a. Year one: the total budget is $566,794 and the fhip portion is $400,000. Nfha will conduct 62 rental test parts; 40 complex test parts (to include real estate sales and mortgage lending test parts); 12 design and construction investigations; and 8 insurance test parts. Nfha will conduct non-testing investigations to include reviewing home mortgage disclosure act (hmda) data for 20 lenders to conduct redlining disparity analysis and creating 20 market peer groups for more detailed redlining analysis. Nfha will recruit and train 12 rental testers and 8 testers for complex testing (to include real estate sales, mortgage lending, and/or homeowners insurance testing). Nfha will attend or convene 24 community engagements across grant cities. Nfha will file meritorious FHA complaints and issue news releases about allegations of FHA violations. Nfha will also distribute information to public officials, local governments, and community, neighborhood, and faith-based groups in the grant cities about violations of the FHA, enforcement actions, and settlements of fair housing cases. B. Year two: the total budget is $580,221 and the fhip portion is $400,000. Nfha will conduct 62 rental test parts; 40 complex test parts (to include real estate sales and mortgage lending test parts); 12 design and construction investigations; and 8 insurance test parts. Nfha will conduct non-testing investigations to include reviewing home mortgage disclosure act (hmda) data for 20 lenders to conduct redlining disparity analysis and creating 20 market peer groups for more detailed redlining analysis. Nfha will recruit and train 12 rental testers and 8 testers for complex testing (to include real estate sales, mortgage lending, and/or homeowners insurance testing). Nfha will attend or convene 24 community engagements across grant cities. Nfha will file meritorious FHA complaints and issue news releases about allegations of FHA violations. Nfha will also distribute information to public officials, local governments, and community, neighborhood, and faith-based groups in the grant cities about violations of the FHA, enforcement actions, and settlements of fair housing cases. Year three: the total budget is $594,051 and the fhip portion is $400,000. Nfha will conduct 62 rental test parts; 40 complex test parts (to include real estate sales and mortgage lending test parts); 12 design and construction investigations; and 8 insurance test parts. Nfha will conduct non-testing investigations to include reviewing home mortgage disclosure act (hmda) data for 20 lenders to conduct redlining disparity analysis and creating 20 market peer groups for more detailed redlining analysis. Nfha will recruit and train 12 rental testers and 8 testers for complex testing (to include real estate sales, mortgage lending, and/or homeowners insurance testing). Nfha will attend or convene 24 community engagements across grant cities. Nfha will file meritorious FHA complaints and issue news releases about allegations of FHA violations. Nfha will also distribute information to public officials, local governments, and community, neighborhood, and faith-based groups in the grant cities about violations of the FHA, enforcement actions, and settlements of fair housing cases.
Expected outcomes: Expected outcomes (up to 4,900 character limit) under this nofo, nfha proposes to implement a full-service project and conduct broad-based fair housing complaint intake, community engagement, and investigations in two underserved metro areas in each year of the 36-month project: the kansas city, MO-KS metro area and the jackson, MS, metro area. Nfha will also implement design and construction investigations of newly constructed multi-family housing, redlining investigations of mortgage lenders, and investigations into entities involved in the provision of housing-related insurance in those metro areas and other underserves metro area in response to preliminary assessments of need. The quantifiable outputs that measure progress and performance in the SOW for each year are: number of instances of community engagement and the number of people and entities reached; the number of testers recruited and trained; the number of rental test parts conducted; the number of real estate sales test parts conducted; the number of mortgage lending test parts conducted; the number of design & construction test parts conducted; the number of insurance parts conducted; and, the number of lenders investigated for redlining. These outputs will result in impactful outcomes that align with HUD's goals and objectives in its strategic plan. Measurable outcomes will include number of housing units favorably impacted, number of people/households favorably impacted, number of entities enjoined from discriminating in violation of the FHA, number of entities trained on the fair housing act, monetary amounts of community reinvestment funding deployed, and more. Additional public interest outcomes include the elimination of discriminatory policies and practices, bolstered fair housing training and education of housing providers, community reinvestment in black and hispanic communities, and investment in housing and housing-related opportunities to assist victims of housing discrimination. Nfha will measure these outputs and outcomes in the form of community engagement data, intake data, tester data, testing data, and other investigative data. These data will be captured, monitored, and analyzed by the usage of the following technological tools: nfha's online complaint portal, cloud-based platforms and file sharing sites such as diversalink, salesforce, onedrive, and dropbox; excel spreadsheets; analytical software programs such as lendingpatterns® for hmda data analysis and arcgis for mapping capabilities; and more. Intended beneficiaries (up to 3,600 character limit) all federally protected classes under the fair housing act will be targeted through the grant award activities that nfha proposes in this grant. This includes persons who experience housing discrimination because of their race, color, national origin, religion, SEX, familial status, and/or disability. Grant activities will also address complex forms of discrimination, such as discrimination because of one's sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or criminal background / criminal history, within the lens of the FHA's federally protected classes. Nfha will target these protected classes through its grant activities, which include fair housing investigations and testing, community outreach and education, and broad-based fair housing complaint intake. Fair housing investigations include rental, real estate sales, mortgage lending and redlining, design and construction, and insurance tests/investigations.
Intended beneficiaries: Beneficiaries of these grant activities include victims of housing discrimination, residents of the kansas city, MO/KS and jackson, MS metro areas, and the general public. Beneficiaries also include community groups such as housing counseling centers, religious institutions and coalitions, universities, cultural organizations, disability rights groups, community development corporations, youth and family service organizations, environmental justice organizations, and more. Finally, beneficiaries also include members of the housing industry, including landlords, property management companies, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and homeowners insurance providers, among others. Subrecipient activities or indicate "none" (up to 1,000 character limit)

Action	Obligated	Date
Amendment	$400,000	Aug 26, 2026
Amendment Private enforcement initiatives	$400,000	Jul 28, 2025
Original award	$400,000	Jul 1, 2024

Under the FY2023 fhip PEI multi-year component to conduct at least 426 rental, real estate sales, mortgage lending and redlining, design and construction, and insurance tests/investigations

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