EPA-R-HQ-SFA-23-01 - Residential Distributed Solar Resources.xlsx
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This document provides an overview of federal resources available to support the development and implementation of low-income and disadvantaged community residential distributed solar programs.
The spreadsheet lists technical assistance tools, reports, case studies and other resources organized by project development phase from multiple federal agencies including the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Department of the Treasury. Resources cover topics such as program design, community engagement, project financing options, siting and permitting, and operations and maintenance. The document aims to support applicants and awardees of the EPA Solar for All funding opportunity under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Section 134(a)(1) program, which provides grants to deploy zero emission technologies including distributed solar projects serving low-income communities. Overall, the resource compilation seeks to facilitate use of existing federal guidance and best practices for entities developing residential solar access for underserved populations.
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Overview
| Legend | |
| Resource mentioned earlier in list | |
| Main heading | |
| Sub heading 1 | |
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| Blue text | Resource forthcoming |
| Acronyms | |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| NREL | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| HUD | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Treasury | U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| HHS | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Introduction:
Last updated: 28 JUNE, 2023
The purpose of this spreadsheet is to provide a short list of interagency toolkits, reports, and other digitally-available resources for optional use by Solar for All applicants in drafting their applications. This resource should also prove helpful to eventual Solar for All awardees in implementing their Solar for All programs.
This spreadsheet outlines existing resources funded by the federal government, organized by categories reflective of the various stages of solar program design and deployment. In this spreadsheet, you can find links to guidance on program design, community engagement, project implementation, and more.
Please also note that many of the resources in this spreadsheet include guidance on solar projects in and for the benefit of Low- to Moderate-Income (LMI) communities. EPA staff have determined that these resources also apply to low-income and disadvantaged communities, as defined in the Solar for All Notice of Funding Opportunity.
This resource does NOT provide a comprehensive list of all useful and applicable federal resources, but rather provides a selection of those resources EPA staff have determined particularly applicable to Solar for All applicants.
EPA welcomes feedback on this resource via ggrf@epa.gov.
Resources
Low-income and Disadvantaged Community Residential Distributed Solar Resource List
| Resource Name | Resource Summary | Source | Brief Summary | Link |
| Overview of Distributed Solar Deployment - Introductory Materials | ||||
| A Guide to Community Shared Solar: Utility, Private, and Nonprofit Project Development | Guide to utility, private, and nonprofit community solar development | NREL | This guide is a resource for those who want to develop community shared solar projects, from community organizers or solar energy advocates to government officials or utility managers. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54570.pdf |
| Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low- and Moderate-Income Customers | LMI community solar program design | NREL | This report draws from the literature and from interviews with representatives from LMI solar developers and state LMI community solar programs to provide experience on LMI community solar design. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/71652.pdf |
| Homeowner’s Guide to Going Solar | Residential solar 101 for homeowners | DOE | This webpage outlines questions to for homeowners to consider before going solar. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/homeowners-guide-going-solar |
| Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool | LMI housing and energy characteristics | DOE | This tool was created to help stakeholders understand housing and energy characteristics for low- and moderate-income households. Using data, maps, and graphs from the LEAD Tool, stakeholders can make data-driven decisions when planning for their energy goals. | https://www.energy.gov/scep/slsc/low-income-energy-affordability-data-lead-tool |
| Municipal Utility Community Solar Workbook | Guide to developing community solar as a municipal utility | American Public Power Association | This guidebook walks utilities through the processes, materials, and considerations for exploring community solar projects from a public power perspective. Utilities can also review the additional considerations necessary for establishing community solar programs that reach or support customers with low to moderate incomes and prioritize equity. This workbook was developed as a part of the NCSP Municipal Utility Collaborative, which ran from 2020-2021 and included representatives from 7 municipal utilities, the Department of Energy, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. | https://www.publicpower.org/resource/municipal-utility-community-solar-workbook |
| Solar Power in Your Community | Local government solar deployment guide | DOE | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | |
| Policy Landscape & Low-Income Program Design | ||||
| Addressing Regulatory Challenges to Tribal Solar Deployment | Regulatory challenges to Tribal solar deployment | NREL | This paper, largely excerpted from a comprehensive (draft) guidebook released by NREL and MTERA, provides an overview of 13 key regulatory barriers identified through this research, as well as potential short- and long-term solutions. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82725.pdf |
| Community Solar and HUD Subsidized Housing: An Overview of Current Policies, Programs and Practices and the Impact to Tenant Utility Allowances and Income | Community solar in HUD Subsidized Housing | Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future | This paper discusses the opportunity to expand solar access to renters living in subsidized affordable housing. | Community Solar and HUD Subsidized Housing: An Overview of Current Policies, Programs and Practices and the Impact to Tenant Utility Allowances and Income | SAHF (sahfnet.org) |
| Community Solar Barriers, Project Models, |
and Considerations for Multifamily
| Affordable Housing | Community solar for multifamily affordable housing | NREL | This issue brief summarizes the current Multifamily | |||
| Affordable Housing (MFAH) market and challenges to community solar adoption, followed by a discussion of four community solar project models that address solar adoption barriers faced by MFAH providers and households. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82966.pdf | |||||
| Community Solar Policy Screening Workbook for Multifamily Affordable Housing Building Portfolios | Community solar for multifamily affordable housing - workbook | NREL | This workbook provides a framework to help Multifamily Affordable Housing (MFAH) housing providers evaluate state-level policy landscapes as they relate to MFAH community solar development. | https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/191 | ||
| Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low and Moderate Income Consumers | LMI community solar program design | NREL | This report draws from the literature and from interviews with representatives from LMI solar developers and state LMI community solar programs to provide experience on LMI community solar design. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/71652.pdf | ||
| Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low and Moderate Income Consumers; Section 3.2 How are LMI Customers Billed and Credited for their Subscriptions? | LMI customer billing and crediting | NREL | This report draws from the literature and from interviews with representatives from LMI solar developers and state LMI community solar programs to provide experience on LMI community solar design. LMI customer billing and crediting arrangements depend in part on whether the customer has an individual meter or lives in a master-metered building. Another issue is whether payment for the community solar project is processed through the utility or made to a third party. The primary options are outlined. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/71652.pdf | ||
| Focusing the Sun: State Considerations for Designing Community Solar Policy | State policy design considerations for community solar | NREL | This report summarizes outcomes from the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) State Best Practices working group by identifying key differences in state policies that enable community solar and illustrating how various policy design approaches may impact the market. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70663.pdf | ||
| Low Income Community Solar: Utility Return Considerations for Electric Cooperatives | Electric co-ops and low-income community solar | NREL | This short report identifies project structures that make low-income community solar projects more cost-effective, replicable, and scalable, for electric cooperative and municipal utilities. This report explores the tradeoffs between providing energy bill savings for low-income subscribers and utility project returns, as well as some of the key lessons learned from existing successful low-income community solar pilot projects. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70536.pdf | ||
| Multifamily Affordable Housing Collaborative | Multifamily affordable housing collaborative | DOE | This webpage describes the Multifamily Affordable Housing (MFAH) Collaborative, convened by the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) in 2020 with the aim of expanding access to solar energy for MFAH residents nationwide by working with providers to identify and overcome barriers to community solar deployment. | https://www.energy.gov/communitysolar/multifamily-affordable-housing-collaborative | ||
| Solar Power in Your Community; Sections 2 and 3 | Updating local policies and processes; Solar financing including for LMI households | DOE | This guide was designed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to assist local government officials and stakeholders in boosting solar deployment. It includes details on updating local policy and solar financing. | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | ||
| State Policies and Programs for Community Solar | Community solar state policies | NREL | This datasetsummarizes current community solar policies and low-income stipulations by the state in the United States as of December 2022. | https://data.nrel.gov/submissions/215 | ||
| Treatment of Community Solar Credits on Tenant Utility Bills | Utility bills for HUD multifamily housing tenants with community solar | HUD | This notice is meant to provide guidance to HUD Multifamily Housing (MFH) field staff, owners, and management agents on the treatment of on-bill virtual net energy metering credits that commonly result from a resident’s participation in a community solar program. | https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/Housing/documents/MF_Memo_Community_Solar_Credits_signed.pdf | ||
| Twelve Community-Solar Pricing Strategies From Utilities in the U.S. | Community solar pricing strategies | Community Solar Value Project | This table is an illustrative round-up of strategies from utilities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Iowa, Minnesota and Texas. | https://www.communitysolarvalueproject.com/uploads/2/7/0/3/27034867/2017_09_29_csvp_pricing_matrix_1_.pdf | ||
| Understanding Third-Party Ownership Financing Structures for Renewable Energy | Ownership structures | EPA | This webpage helps readers understand third-party ownership financing structures as a means to facilitate solar project development. | https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/understanding-third-party-ownership-financing-structures-renewable-energy | ||
| Unlocking Solar for Low- and Moderate-Income Residents: A Matrix of Financing Options by Resident, Provider, and Housing Type | LMI solar financing options for state policymakers | NREL | This report intends to identify the most promising strategies state policymakers might consider using to finance PV for LMI Consumers across three housing types: single family, multifamily, and manufactured housing. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70477.pdf | ||
| Community Engagement | ||||||
| Best Practices Guide for Inclusive Solar Energy Communications | Communications strategies best practices | DOE | This best practices guide, developed based off of the winners of the 2022 Inclusive Solar Outreach Awards, offers examples of best practices that can help guide other communications professionals in their solar energy campaigns. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/best-practices-guide-inclusive-solar-energy-communications | ||
| Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) Toolkit | Community benefits agreements | DOE | This toolkit outlines the benefits of CBAs. CBAs are strategic vehicles for community improvement, while benefiting private sector developers and both state and local governments. They are legal agreements between community benefit groups and developers, stipulating the benefits a developer agrees to fund or furnish, in exchange for community support of a project. | https://www.energy.gov/diversity/community-benefit-agreement-cba-toolkit | ||
| Community Engagement Planning Tool for Public Health Work | Community engagement planning | CDC | This tool is a flexible document that guides thoughtful planning and implementation of community engagement across the phases of public health work. A Community Engagement Plan may be as detailed as you prefer, or it can be a very basic plan that defines the following factors across each phase of engagement for the site team and other partners and stakeholders. | https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ceplaybook/docs/ce-planning-tool-form-508.pdf | ||
| Community Solar Subscription Tool (forthcoming) | Community solar for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) recipients | DOE/HHS | This webpage details how this Tool will connect LIHEAP recipients with low-income-focused community solar subscriptions to reduce the cost of customer acquisition, reduce low-income household energy bills, and increase the deployment of community solar projects. | https://www.energy.gov/communitysolar/community-solar-subscription-tool | ||
| Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low and Moderate Income Customers; Section 5 | LMI customer outreach | NREL | This report draws from the literature and from interviews with representatives from LMI solar developers and state LMI community solar programs to provide experience on LMI community solar design. This section discusses outreach challenges. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/71652.pdf | ||
| Expanding Access to Community Solar for Affordable Housing Residents: Three Tips for Resident Engagement | Tips for Resident Engagement in Community Solar for Multifamily Affordable Housing | SAHF | This guide provides tips for increasing the number of multifamily residents subscribing to programs that issue direct bill credits. | https://sahfnet.org/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/ncsp_resident_tip_sheet_-_winter_2022.pdf | ||
| National Community Solar Partnership | Stakeholder information sharing | DOE | This fact sheet describes the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP), which is a coalition of community solar stakeholders working to expand access to affordable community solar to every American household by 2025. The NCSP also has a States Collaborative, where member States agree to develop community solar deployment goals and track and report on their progress towards these goals. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/fact-sheet-national-community-solar-partnership |
States Collaborative: https://www.energy.gov/communitysolar/states-collaborative-and-engagement
| Solar Power in Your Community; Section 1 | Organizing and strategizing with community members in beginning design stages | DOE | This guide was designed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to assist local government officials and stakeholders in boosting solar deployment. This section introduces activities that have proven effective in the early planning stages of designing a local solar energy strategy. | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | ||
| Solar Power in Your Community; Section 4 | Developing local workforce training and education programs | DOE | This guide was designed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to assist local government officials and stakeholders in boosting solar deployment. This section covers solar installer training, education at the K–12 level and higher, and broader workforce development issues. | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | ||
| Solar Project Deployment | ||||||
| Project Financing | ||||||
| Are You Philanthropy-Ready? How to Work with Foundations on Mission-Aligned Community Solar | Explore collaborations with philanthropy | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | This guide aims to help community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and mission-aligned community solar developers seeking philanthropic funding become 'philanthropy-ready'. The guide provides an overview of how foundations work, gives tips on what they seek in a fundable project, and provides guidance on crafting effective proposals. | https://emp.lbl.gov/publications/are-you-philanthropy-ready-how-work | ||
| Clean Energy Financing Toolkit for Decisionmakers | Clean energy financing programs | EPA | This toolkit provides profiles of about a dozen types of clean energy financing programs that state and local governments are pursuing to catalyze investment in clean energy, including energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation, and efficient electrification. This introductory information is intended to help decisionmakers understand the basics of a range of financing programs across multiple sectors, view examples from state and local jurisdictions, and access additional resources to learn more. | https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy/clean-energy-financing-toolkit-decisionmakers | ||
| Community Solar Business Case Tool | Business case for community solar for developer and subscriber | Elevate Energy | This tool provides a flexible financial model that projects the costs and benefits to the system developer and subscriber of a single community solar project. It has been developed using the panel purchase or panel lease price as a basis for project costs. | https://www.elevatenp.org/publications/community-solar-business-case-tool/ | ||
| Community Solar Scenario Tool (CSST) | Community solar project economics for consumers and utilities | NREL | This tool allows users to see how various inputs, such as system size, location, and project costs, impact the economics of a project from both a potential consumer's perspective as well as the sponsoring utility. | https://www.nrel.gov/energy-solutions/csst.html | ||
| Distributed Generation Market Demand Market Demand Tool | Estimating Market Demand | NREL | This model simulates customer adoption of distributed energy resources for residential, commercial, and industrial entities in the United States or other countries through 2050. | https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/dgen/ | ||
| Homeowner’s Guide to the Federal Tax Credit for Solar Photovoltaics | Solar tax credit | DOE | This webpage describes how the federal residential solar energy credit is a tax credit that can be claimed on federal income taxes for a percentage of the cost of a solar PV system paid for by the taxpayer. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/homeowners-guide-federal-tax-credit-solar-photovoltaics | ||
| Lift Solar Everywhere | Analysis of community solar project financing | Groundswell | This report shares trends and observations of community solar financing from several states, organizational | |||
| business models, and regulatory environments. | https://groundswell-web-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/lift-solar/case-study/Groundswell+LIFT+finance+Report_v2.pdf | |||||
| Request for Proposal Template for Grid-Tied Solar Photovoltaic Systems for State, City, and Other Entities | Conduct an RFP for design/build | NREL | This word document is a template for local governments seeking to develop solar energy resources on their facilities (buildings and land) through utility-interactive PV systems. | https://www.nrel.gov/state-local-tribal/assets/docs/rfp-template-grid-tied-pv-state-city.docx | ||
| Solar Consumer Protection | Solar consumer protection | NREL | This webpage outines the existing solar consumer protection landscape and implementation considerations. | https://www.nrel.gov/state-local-tribal/solar-consumer-protection.html | ||
| Solar Power in Your Community; Section 1 | Understand scope of relevant technical assistance resources | DOE | This guide was designed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to assist local government officials and stakeholders in boosting solar deployment. This section provides a table that highlights some opportunities for technical assistance as of 2021. | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | ||
| Solar Power Purchase Agreements | Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) | EPA | This webpage explains solar PPAs. | https://www.epa.gov/green-power-markets/solar-power-purchase-agreements | ||
| System Advisor Model | Build financial models | NREL | This model is a free techno-economic software model that facilitates decision-making for people in the renewable energy industry. | https://sam.nrel.gov/ | ||
| Where Do I Sign? Understanding Your Rooftop Solar Energy Contract | Rooftop solar contracts | DOE | This article explains rooftop solar contracts. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/where-do-i-sign-understanding-your-rooftop-solar-energy-contract | ||
| Siting, Interconnection, & Permitting | ||||||
| Community Planning and Development (CPD) Renewable Energy Toolkit | Installing renewable energy on federally assisted housing | HUD | This toolkit is aimed to enable recipients of HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) grants to integrate renewable energies into their affordable housing development programs under the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Housing Opportunities for People with AIDs (HOPWA), or Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) programs. | CPD Renewable Energy Toolkit - HUD Exchange | ||
| Community Solar: An Opportunity to Enhance Sustainable Development on Landfills and Other Contaminated Site | Contaminated site opportunities | EPA | The paper presents: The market context for community solar; a business case for community solar on RE-Powering sites; challenges to developing REPowering sites for community solar; discussion questions to help unlock community solar potential; and a bibliography, glossary, and additional reference material. | https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-12/documents/epa_repowering_community_solar_discussion_paper_final_120716_508.pdf | ||
| i2X: The Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange | Investigate interconnection options | DOE | This webpage describes the Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X), which enables a simpler, faster, and fairer interconnection of clean energy resources all while enhancing the reliability, resiliency, and security of our electric grid. | https://www.energy.gov/eere/i2x/interconnection-innovation-e-xchange | ||
| Interconnection: Plugging Re-Powering Sites into the Electric Grid; Appendix A: Interconnection Queue Information for Selected U.S. Wholesale Electricity Markets | Execute interconnection agreement | EPA | This report, focused on REpowering sites, includes region-specific data on queues to interconnect generators to wholesale electricity markets. | https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-10/documents/interconnection_plugging_re_powering_sites_into_the_electric_grid_oct2019_508.pdf | ||
| National Community Solar Partnership |
Multifamily Affordable Housing Portfolio
| Screening Approach | Multifamily affordable housing site selection | NREL | This report outlines a portfolio screening approach for MFAH providers to evaluate their multi-state building portfolios for community solar project viability and associated screening workbook which provides a framework to help Multifamily Affordable Housing (MFAH) housing providers evaluate state-level policy landscapes as they relate to MFAH community solar development. | https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81206.pdf | |
| Renew300 Solar Site Selection Guide | Installing renewable energy on federally assisted housing. | HUD | This guide is one of a series of technical |
resources provided to assist organizations with increasing organizational capacity and installing
| renewable energy on federally assisted housing. | Renew300: Solar Site Selection Guide (hudexchange.info) | |||||
| Renewable Energy Ready Home (RERH) Solar Site Assessment Tool | Home solar assessment | ENERGY STAR | This tool is intended to guide home builders in assessing whether a new home has the proper physical orientation to support a future installation of a solar energy system. | https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/residential_new/rerh/rerh_solar_site_assessment_tool | ||
| REopt | Define system and other technical specifications/determine project size and dispatch strategy | NREL | This tool is a free techno-economic optimization model that determines DER sizes and dispatch strategies that minimize the life cycle cost of energy at a site. | https://reopt.nrel.gov/tool | ||
| reV: The Renewable Energy Potential Model | Site solar potential | NREL | This model is a first-of-its-kind detailed spatio-temporal modeling assessment tool that empowers users to calculate renewable energy capacity, generation, and cost based on geospatial intersection with grid infrastructure and land-use characteristics. | https://www.nrel.gov/gis/renewable-energy-potential.html | ||
| Rooftop Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States | Rooftop solar technical potential | NREL | This data submission contains a workbook with data, and three sets of shapefiles that correspond to that data. This data is separated into small, medium, and large buildings. | https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1575064 | ||
| Solar Power in Your Community; Section 6 | Solar installation on local lands & buildings | DOE | This guide was designed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to assist local government officials and stakeholders in boosting solar deployment. This section discusses opportunities for siting distributed solar locally. | https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Solar_Power_in_Your_Community_Guidebook_March2023.pdf | ||
| SolarAPP+ | Complete permitting and inspection requirements | NREL | This website provides details on SolarAPP+. In 2021, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory launched a collaborative effort with key code officials, authorities having jurisdiction, and the solar industry to develop standardized plan review software that can run compliance checks and process building permit approvals for eligible rooftop solar systems. | https://solarapp.nrel.gov/ | ||
| SolSmart | Local government solar siting assistance | SolSmart (DOE) | This webpage details how SolSmart's no-cost technical assistance team helps local governments and regional organizations accelerate the growth of clean, affordable solar energy in their jurisdictions. | https://solsmart.org/ | ||
| Construction & O&M | ||||||
| Community Power Accelerator Learning Lab | Community Solar Development | University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy | This webpage indicates that Center for Impact Finance at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy is offering free online training for non-profit organizations, cooperatives, and mission-driven organizations interested in building out a business line to develop community solar projects. | https://carsey.unh.edu/center-for-impact-finance/education-and-trainings/community-power-accelerator-learning-lab | ||
| Income Verification | ||||||
| Community Solar and Low-Income Utility Allowances | Guidance for residents in HUD-assisted housing / low-income utility allowances | DOE | This guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) enables residents of HUD-assisted housing to access cost-saving community solar subscriptions without inducing a rent increase or utility allowance adjustment. | https://www.energy.gov/communitysolar/community-solar-and-low-income-utility-allowances | ||
| Income Verification | Income verification | Treasury | This webpage outlines income verification approaches and supporting documents. | https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistance-for-state-local-and-tribal-governments/homeowner-assistance-fund/program-service-design/income-verification |
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