Virginia Housing Alliance

Virginia Housing Alliance, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, operates as a federal grant recipient focused on housing insecurity and homelessness prevention, with work split between prime grant awards (38% of recent awards) and sub-awards under state-agency grantees (62%). The organization serves as a prime recipient under the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program and as a sub-recipient under multiple Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) grants, delivering training, technical assistance, and professional development to housing and homelessness service providers across Virginia.

Virginia Housing Alliance's customer concentration reflects its positioning within Virginia's homelessness and housing-supportive-services ecosystem. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration accounts for four of eight total awards; the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management holds two awards, including the most recent prime grant; and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development holds one. All four distinct funding agencies are accounted for across the eight-award footprint. The organization operates exclusively as a grant recipient — it holds no federal contracts and sits on no IDIQs or GWACs.

As a prime recipient, Virginia Housing Alliance was awarded a $163,917.76 Project Grant under AmeriCorps VISTA (CFDA 94.013) on June 28, 2026, with support funds of $17,231 and an ultimate completion date of June 26, 2027. The award funds full-time volunteer deployment to expand housing and supportive services programs targeting low-income communities in Virginia. In its more frequent sub-recipient role, Virginia Housing Alliance partners with DBHDS to deliver training and technical assistance on evidence-based housing practices, particularly Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). Representative sub-award work includes planning and execution of the Housing Virginia's Most Vulnerable Conference (most recent award June 16, 2026), a statewide professional development convening for housing and homelessness professionals, local government officials, nonprofit providers, healthcare and behavioral health partners, and individuals with lived experience of homelessness. The organization also delivers webinar-based professional development to PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) service providers, covering topics including credit restoration, fair housing, reasonable accommodations for individuals with serious mental illness, criminal background screening, and cultural competency.

Activity remains modest and episodic — one award in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined obligated dollars across all awards totaling $3.3 million. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization's footprint reflects its mission as a technical-assistance and professional-development provider embedded in Virginia's state-level housing and behavioral health infrastructure, with minimal direct federal prime work.