Martin Housing Authority (")

Martin Housing Authority, a U.S. local government housing authority based in Martin, Tennessee, serves as a federal grant recipient and fiscal administrator for community substance-use prevention coalitions and public housing modernization programs, operating as a prime recipient on grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Martin Housing Authority holds primary responsibility on 48 awards (79% of its recent footprint) as a grant recipient, with the remainder distributed across 13 sub-award positions where it performs as a subordinate recipient under the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services on state-administered SAMHSA coalitions programs. The authority competes in the non-set-aside federal grant space, operating across housing and behavioral-health missions without SBA or other small-business set-aside designations.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office, which anchors 42 of the authority's 60 total awards — approximately 70% of the award count — through recurring formula grants for Public Housing Capital Fund modernization, development, and management activities (CFDA 14.871), and through the Resident Opportunity and Supportive Services program funding a service coordinator (CFDA 14.870, $256,736, award date June 1, 2026, performance through May 31, 2029). The Department of Health and Human Services accounts for the remaining material share of awards, split among SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (11 awards as prime recipient, 3 awards as sub recipient, and 2 additional SAMHSA line items) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2 awards). The CDC awarded Martin Housing Authority $125,000 under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (CFDA 93.276, July 1, 2026, five-year period through June 30, 2031) to support the Weakley County Prevention Coalition's youth substance-use prevention work addressing documented public health challenges including chronic school absenteeism, elevated youth mental health distress, and early nicotine and alcohol initiation in rural Weakley County, Tennessee. SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention awarded $1,239,089 under the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.492, September 30, 2025, performance through September 29, 2030) to deliver evidence-based community substance-use prevention services serving 32,901 residents with focus on youth aged 12–25 and parents, incorporating strategic prevention framework infrastructure, trauma-informed practices, and behavioral health linkages.

Award activity has grown incrementally in recent years — from 2 awards in 2022 to 7 awards in both 2024 and 2025 — with combined obligated dollars totaling $29.9 million across all 61 awards spanning twenty years of federal engagement. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure relative to the authority's longer-lived multi-year grant cycle. As a sub recipient, Martin Housing Authority acts under the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services on multiple coalitions programs addressing opioid response (SOR III and SOR IV), marijuana prevention (ARPA Coalitions), and overdose prevention, with sub-award dates spanning November 2023 through May 2026.