Braintree Housing Authority

Braintree Housing Authority, a Massachusetts public housing authority based in Braintree, acts as the sole recipient of federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office, funding salary and fringe benefits for Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program coordinators under Section 23 of the 1937 Housing Act.

Braintree Housing Authority is a U.S. government entity and housing authority with no federal contract awards and no role as a subcontractor to federal prime contractors. The vendor's entire federal footprint consists of annual project grants from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office to support FSS coordinator positions. Under these grants, Braintree hires and retains full-time equivalent FSS coordinators who enroll and maintain families in the program, prepare individual training and services plans, and build partnerships with local employers and service providers. Participating families served by Braintree's FSS coordinators work toward employment goals and wage improvement over a five- to seven-year period; the authority must maintain a minimum of at least 25 participating families per funded coordinator position in the calendar year following appropriation, with that minimum increasing by 50 families for each additional funded coordinator.

All eleven awards in the source data are grants to Braintree as the prime recipient, with no subrecipient activity. The combined dollars obligated across all awards total $837 thousand over the period since 2016. Annual grant awards have been consistent at one award per year from 2022 through 2026, with five consecutive single-year FSS project grants awarded on January 1 of each year (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), each with an ultimate completion date of December 31 of the award year. One award (the 2026 grant) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and thus faces recompete.