Aurora Housing Authority

Aurora Housing Authority, a tax-exempt non-profit public housing agency based in Aurora, Illinois, receives operating, capital, and supportive-services grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office to administer and maintain its low-income public housing portfolio. Aurora Housing Authority operates exclusively as a grant recipient (100% of the 60 awards in source data) with no subcontract or sub-recipient role; the authority's relationship to federal agencies is uni-directional recipient of formula and project grants under HUD programs serving low-income families, elderly residents, and persons with disabilities in Aurora.

All sixty recent awards derive from a single customer — HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office — which allocates formula grants to housing authorities nationwide based on inventory characteristics maintained in HUD's Information Management System and Public Housing Information Center. Aurora Housing Authority's funding streams consist of three principal federal grant programs. The Public Housing Operating Fund (CFDA 14.850) provides day-to-day operational and maintenance subsidies; recent awards include $939,830 (January 2026, period through December 2032) and $921,066 (January 2026, period through December 2032) for management, routine and preventative maintenance, anti-crime and security activities, energy costs, resident supportive services, insurance, debt service, and administrative expenses. The Public Housing Capital Fund (CFDA 14.872) finances modernization, development, and management improvements to the public housing inventory; the most recent award of $2,152,293 (April 2026, period through March 2030) supports capital activities specified in Aurora's approved five-year action plan. The Family Self-Sufficiency Program (CFDA 14.896) funds FSS coordinator salaries and fringe benefits to serve participating families; the most recent award of $123,555 (January 2026, period through December 2026) supports enrollment, training-plan development, and employer partnerships for residents of public housing and Housing Choice Voucher properties. Aurora Housing Authority also participates in the Jobs-Plus Pilot Initiative (award date June 2025, period through May 2028), a project grant focused on employment outcomes for public housing residents.

Award activity has remained modest and consistent — three to four awards annually from 2022 through 2024, rising to five awards in 2025 and four awards in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all sixty awards total $70 million. Six awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, posing renewal windows for the operating and capital formula grants that cycle annually or biennially. Work is performed in Aurora, Illinois, serving low-income families, elderly individuals, and persons with disabilities in the authority's public housing inventory. As a non-profit public housing authority, Aurora Housing Authority does not compete for federal contracts, sit on government-wide acquisition vehicles, or serve as a subcontractor; its federal footprint consists entirely of formula and project grants distributed by HUD to approximately 2,770 public housing agencies serving nearly one million units nationwide.