Impact of RAD on Children in HUD Assisted Households | FR 6400 N 66

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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offered a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Impact of RAD on Children in HUD Assisted Households" (Funding Opportunity Number FR 6400 N 66). The grant was designed to support research on how participation in RAD, HUDs Rental Assistance Demonstration program, affects children living in HUD-assisted housing. In practical terms, the opportunity focuses on studying child outcomes connected to housing assistance that is being converted or repositioned under RAD, a HUD initiative that shifts certain public housing or HUD-assisted properties to more stable, long-term subsidy platforms in order to attract capital for repairs and preservation. The central theme of the competition is understanding what those changes in housing conditions, management, neighborhood context, and stability mean for childrens well-being and development.

The funding mechanism for this opportunity is a cooperative agreement, which usually signals that HUD expects to have an active role during the project period rather than simply issuing a check and receiving a final report. Cooperative agreements often involve ongoing coordination with the agency, shared expectations about research design and deliverables, and periodic check-ins or technical collaboration. The activity category is listed as housing, reinforcing that this is a housing policy and housing outcomes study even though the outcomes of interest center on children.

HUD indicated an award ceiling of $750,000, with an expectation of making two awards. That implies a competitive selection with enough funding to support robust empirical work, such as assembling administrative datasets, conducting surveys or interviews, carrying out longitudinal analyses, or using quasi-experimental approaches to isolate RAD-related effects. The total number of anticipated awards also suggests HUD was looking for a small set of high-quality projects rather than many smaller ones.

Eligibility was broad and included multiple levels of government (state, county, city or township, and special district governments), independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status, for-profit organizations (including small businesses), and public or state-controlled higher education institutions. This wide eligibility pool suggests HUD was open to proposals from academic researchers, policy research firms, housing agencies with in-house research capacity, and cross-sector partnerships that combine housing providers with child-serving systems or education partners.

The opportunity was posted on May 26, 2020, with an original application closing date of July 30, 2020. The deadline was set at 11:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on the closing date, indicating a standard end-of-day electronic submission cutoff. Overall, the grant can be understood as HUDs effort to build evidence on whether and how RAD-related housing changes translate into measurable differences for children in assisted households, information that can guide future housing policy decisions, program design, and targeted supports for families during and after RAD conversions.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Impact of RAD on Children in HUD Assisted Households" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.536.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 26, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 30, 2020 The application deadline is 115959 pm Eastern Standard time on. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.

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