Housing Authority Of New Orleans

Housing Authority Of New Orleans is a U.S. government entity and public housing authority headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, operating as a prime recipient of federal grant funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office. The organization does not hold federal contracts and has no subcontracting footprint; all 723 awards in its recent footprint are formula and project grants, with the authority functioning exclusively as a grant recipient rather than a contractor or subcontractor.

HANO's federal grant portfolio centers on three core HUD programs. The Public Housing Operating Fund (CFDA 14.850) dominates the award count, providing recurring annual operating subsidies to support day-to-day management, maintenance, security, energy costs, resident services, insurance, and debt service across HANO's portfolio of approximately 22,000 public housing units serving low-income families, elderly residents, and persons with disabilities. The Public Housing Capital Fund (CFDA 14.872) delivers formula grants for capital modernization, development, infrastructure improvements, and emergency repairs to HANO's housing stock. The Family Self-Sufficiency Program (CFDA 14.896) awards project grants to fund FSS coordinator salaries and fringe benefits; coordinators enroll and maintain participating families in employment and economic mobility services, developing individualized training and services plans and building employer partnerships to help residents increase earned income and reduce welfare dependency over five to seven year participation periods. HANO also participates in the JOBS-PLUS Pilot Initiative and Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, both project awards supporting workforce development and neighborhood revitalization. A single Safety and Security Emergency grant (CFDA 14.872 emergency set-aside) awarded in August 2024 provides one-time assistance for safety and security capital needs.

Customer concentration is singular and non-negotiable: the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office accounts for 719 of 723 awards (99.4%). Two additional project grants (0.3%) flow through HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, and one emergency assistance award (0.1%) routes through the Department of Homeland Security. This concentration reflects HANO's statutory role as a public housing authority within the HUD funding ecosystem; the authority competes for formula allocations based on standardized HUD Operating Fund calculation methodologies and applies selectively for discretionary project grants within HUD's notice of funding opportunity process.

Activity has remained stable across recent years, averaging approximately 41–44 awards annually between 2022 and 2026. Forty-four awards are scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing HANO's annual recompete and renewal cycles under the recurring formula grant structure. Most Public Housing Operating Fund awards carry completion dates of December 31, 2026 through December 31, 2032, creating rolling recompete windows as formula calculations and allocations are recalculated and reissued on annual or multi-year schedules. The $6.073 million Public Housing Capital Fund formula grant awarded April 1, 2026, runs through March 31, 2030 and supports capital and management activities consistent with HANO's five-year action plan.

HANO operates as a parent entity; the corporate structure lists Housing Authority Of The Town Of Gibsland, a separate local government housing authority, as a named subsidiary. This subsidiary relationship does not appear in the recent award footprint, indicating minimal or no current federal grant activity routed through the subsidiary.

Federal grant funding obligated across the entire award portfolio totals $667.7 million, with the vast majority allocated to recurring Public Housing Operating Fund subsidies distributed across dozens of individual formula grants over seven-year or longer performance periods. As a housing authority and U.S. government entity, HANO competes in no set-aside categories and pursues no contracts; its relationship with the federal government is that of a recipient agency administering formula-distributed and discretionary grant funding in service of its housing mission.