Rural housing preservation grants

The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service awarded $152,334 to Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency on July 29, 2026, under the Rural Housing Preservation Grants program (CFDA 10.433) to repair and rehabilitate substandard rural dwellings in nonmetropolitan areas of Tennessee. The award funds housing preservation activities for very low- and low-income rural residents through August 29, 2027. Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency, a state government entity headquartered in Dunlap, Tennessee, delivers transit operations, housing assistance, nutrition programs, and homelessness services across rural and urban Southeast Tennessee as both a prime grant recipient and sub-recipient. The program supports individual homeowners, rental property owners, and consumer cooperative housing projects in eligible rural areas with concentrations of substandard housing and very low- and low-income populations. Grant recipients must demonstrate administrative capacity in housing rehabilitation, limit administrative expenses to less than twenty percent of grant funds, and prioritize assistance to very low-income persons.