Brookings County Housing & Redeve

Brookings County Housing Redevelopment Commission, a local government housing authority in Brookings, South Dakota, is a recipient of federal housing grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office, funding the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program to support low-income families in public housing and housing choice voucher programs. The commission operates as a child entity of the County of Brookings and has received consecutive annual FSS grants since 2022, with the most recent award covering calendar year 2026 (January 1 – December 31, 2026).

The commission's federal grant footprint centers exclusively on FSS funding under Section 23 of the 1937 Housing Act and Section 306 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. FSS grants fund the salaries and fringe benefits of Family Self-Sufficiency Program coordinators, who enroll and maintain families in the program, develop individual training and services plans, and build partnerships with employers and community service providers. The commission must hire and retain one full-time equivalent FSS coordinator for each funded position and maintain a minimum of 25 participating families for the first coordinator position, with the minimum increasing by 50 families for each additional coordinator. Over five to seven years of program participation, families are expected to achieve employment improvements and wage gains while meeting individual self-sufficiency goals.

The commission received eleven prime federal grants and one sub-award (a 2024 LEMPG24 grant passed through the County of Brookings) totaling $559 thousand across a twelve-award footprint spanning 2015 to 2026. All prime awards derive from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office, with annual grants awarded on January 1 of each year (2022 through 2026 in the recent record). One award reaches completion within the next twenty-four months. Activity volume remains modest and flat — one award annually in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the renewal-focused structure of FSS awards, where statute prioritizes existing grantees for continuation funding. The commission operates with a 92% prime award posture and no federal contract prime positions; federal contracting opportunities are not available to the organization under its current housing authority designation.