New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority

New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, doing business as New Hampshire Housing, is a U.S. state government housing authority based in Bedford, New Hampshire that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The organization does not hold federal contracts and does not serve as a subcontractor on federal contract awards; it operates entirely within the federal grant space, with 98% of recent awards as a prime grant recipient and 2% as a sub-recipient under state-level federal grants.

New Hampshire Housing's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated within HUD. The organization has received 40 awards since 2006, with combined potential value of $250 million and $76.7 million in obligated dollars across the portfolio. HUD accounts for 95% of awards by count, split across three HUD program offices: the Assistant Secretary for Housing / Federal Housing Commissioner (19 awards), the Public and Indian Housing Office (11 awards), and the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (6 awards). The Environmental Protection Agency contributed one sub-grant award under the Solar for All program, awarded to New Hampshire Housing as a sub-recipient from the Executive Office of the State of New Hampshire.

The concrete work New Hampshire Housing performs centers on three federal grant programs. Under the Family Self-Sufficiency Program (CFDA 14.896), awarded by HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office, the organization funds and deploys FSS Coordinators who enroll and maintain low-income families in economic mobility and employment services across public housing, Housing Choice Voucher, and project-based rental assistance properties, with individual family participation spanning five to seven years. Recent awards include grants issued January 1, 2026 (funding through December 31, 2026, $283,164), January 1, 2025 (through December 31, 2025), January 1, 2024 (through December 31, 2024), and January 1, 2023 (through December 31, 2023). Under the Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Program (CFDA 14.326), awarded by HUD's Office of Multifamily Housing, New Hampshire Housing administers rental assistance payments to extremely low-income persons with disabilities in multifamily housing through either direct administration or third-party contracted administration, with cooperative agreements structured as minimum twenty-year commitments; the most recent award, dated December 19, 2025, carries a five-year initial funding period running through December 19, 2045, valued at $287,584. Under HUD's Comprehensive Housing Counseling Grant (CFDA 14.566), the organization delivers pre-purchase homebuying counseling, delinquency prevention, and foreclosure assistance to consumers, with awards issued October 1, 2024 (through September 30, 2025) and October 1, 2023 (through March 31, 2025). New Hampshire Housing also holds a Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction grant from HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (awarded November 15, 2024, extending through November 15, 2028), which funds lead hazard identification and remediation in pre-1960 housing units where children under age six reside, with optional healthy-homes supplemental funding for other housing hazards.

Award frequency has remained stable at two to three per year over the past five years, with one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization's single sub-recipient role involves enhancing solar energy access to economically eligible communities under the EPA Solar for All grant, awarded June 25, 2025, with the Executive Office of the State of New Hampshire as the prime grantee.