Chatham County Housing Authority

Chatham County Housing Authority, a North Carolina county housing authority, receives federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fund Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program coordination and housing counseling assistance for low-income residents; the authority operates exclusively as a grant recipient and holds no federal prime contracts or IDVs.

Chatham County Housing Authority is a local government entity structured as a housing authority public agency, headquartered in Siler City, North Carolina. The authority's federal grant footprint consists entirely of HUD funding across two program lines. The Family Self-Sufficiency Program, governed by Section 23 of the Housing Act and Section 306 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, represents the dominant share of HUD awards. Under FSS grants, Chatham County receives funding to hire and retain full-time equivalent FSS coordinators responsible for enrolling families, preparing individual training and services plans, and partnering with employers and service providers; the authority must serve a minimum of 25 participating families for the first funded coordinator position, with that minimum increasing by 50 families for each additional coordinator. The authority received FSS grants in calendar years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 (the most recent award dated January 1, 2026, with completion on December 31, 2026), all from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office. Chatham County also received a Housing Counseling Assistance Program grant from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner (award date October 1, 2022, completion September 30, 2023).

Customer concentration sits entirely with HUD: the Public and Indian Housing Office accounts for 11 awards and the Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner accounts for 7 awards, together spanning 100% of the authority's recent federal award portfolio. Combined obligated dollars across all eighteen federal grants total $780 thousand. Award volume has declined year over year—two grants in 2022 falling to one grant per year in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026—with one award facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (the FSS grant completing December 31, 2026). The authority does not subcontract on federal awards and does not serve as a subgrantee on federal grant programs; all work is performed directly as the named recipient under HUD grant vehicles.