Norwood Housing Authority

Norwood Housing Authority, a U.S. local government entity (housing authority) headquartered in Mountain Grove, Missouri, is a federal grant recipient that receives formula grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office to administer public housing operations, capital improvements, and modernization across its portfolio.

Norwood Housing Authority is a municipal housing authority with no federal contracting footprint and operates exclusively as a grant recipient under HUD's Public and Indian Housing program. The authority does not hold federal contracts, IDVs, or serve as a federal contractor. All federal funding flows through two primary HUD formula grant programs: the Public Housing Operating Fund (PH OpFund) and the Public Housing Capital Fund (CFP).

Over the past several years, Norwood has received ten federal grants, all from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office. Representative awards include a Public Housing Capital Fund grant awarded May 13, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of May 12, 2029, a Public Housing Operating Fund grant awarded January 1, 2026, extending through December 31, 2032, and a Public Housing Capital Fund grant awarded May 6, 2024, completing May 5, 2028. Operating funds support day-to-day operational expenses including management, routine and preventative maintenance, anti-crime and security activities, energy costs, resident supportive services, insurance, and administrative program implementation. Capital funds finance public housing development, modernization, management improvements, and other eligible activities described in 24 CFR Part 905, including construction and acquisition of additional public housing units as specified in the authority's approved five-year action plan.

The authority's federal funding is entirely concentrated with a single grantor agency — the Department of Housing and Urban Development — accounting for 100% of grants. Activity has remained consistent at two grants per year across 2022 through 2026. Combined dollars obligated across the entire forty-grant portfolio total $2.2 million. Two grants face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, triggering formula grant recompete cycles. Norwood Housing Authority is structured as a pure grant recipient with no subcontracting activity and no engagement with federal contracting vehicles, making it relevant to business-development professionals only in the context of teaming opportunities with prime contractors bidding to supply goods or services to the authority as an operational customer, not as a federal vendor relationship.