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Service Area: Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
Colville Indian Housing Authority wins the 2012 Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award
Friday, May 25, 2012
Colville Indian Housing Authority wins the 2012 Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award for the most outstanding Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) property in the Rural category. Read more about the Colville Homes II project here.
Puyallup Tribal Housing Authority ARRA-funded Longhouse dedication
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The LEED Platinum project utilized $3.8M of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants. The entire project, which included refurbishing a gym, and building a new community center and maintenance building, created 46 jobs. Read complete Project Profile.
ONAP Program Guidance Published - HUD Form 718
Monday, April 16, 2012
This Form clarifies the instructions for using the form HUD-718 (05/2004), Funds Commitment Form, when committing funds for the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program. Click for PDF copy of guidance and Microsoft Word version of the form.
HUD and Tribal Leaders Consultations Scheduled
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be conducting a series of consultations between HUD officials and tribal leaders on the HUD study, “Assessment of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs” (Housing Needs Study)". During this consultation, Tribal Leaders will have an opportunity to comment on the scope and design of the pending study.
For details and to register, visit http://www.huduser.org/portal/consultations/index.html. Click here for flyer.
April 25 |
Southwest |
Albuquerque, NM |
April 27 |
Alaska |
Anchorage, AK |
May 10 |
Northern Plains |
Denver, CO |
May 20 |
Eastern Woodlands |
Marksville, LA |
May 24 |
Northwest |
Lincoln City, OR |
June 17 |
NCAI |
Lincoln, NE (National Congress of
American Indians Mid-Year Conference) |
July 9 |
Southern Plains |
Durant, Oklahoma |
ONAP's Proposed Training and Technical Assistance (NOFA)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
HUD intends to competitively award training and technical assistance contracts to national and regional nonprofit and for-profit entities with demonstrated experience and expertise in the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA).
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is soliciting public comments, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, on the information and data collection requirements for ONAP’s proposed Training and Technical Assistance Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). The data required includes pre-award application materials required to be submitted, and post award requirements under the cooperative agreement including technical budgets and reports on financial and task progress.
Comments are due May 21, 2012. Click below for pdf version of Federal Register Notice published March 20, 2012.
PDF: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-20/pdf/2012-6675.pdf
New ONAP Program Guidance Published
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
ONAP Program Guidance No. 2012-02 signed January 4, 2012, provides information on the Federal Financial Report – Standard Form 425.
Coeur d’Alene Tribal Housing Authority dedicates 18 straw bale constructed units
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The Gathering Place, an three-building,18-unit affordable, sustainable housing complex built on a two-acre site once used as Tribal headquarters about five miles west of the community of Plummer, Idaho. The $4 million project was funded by the Tribe and HUD under the Native American Housing and Self Determination Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read More...
Colville and Kalispell Tribes win total of more than $1 million in funds to promote economic development
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $240,970 to the Kalispell Tribe in Usk, Washington and $799,750 to the Colville Confederated Tribes in Nespelem, Washington under to promote “entrepreneurial approach‟ to economic development in rural and tribal communities.
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville will use its $799,750 Economic Development and Entrepreneurship to purchase heavy equipment needed to start a for-profit woody biomass business to be called Fuel Enterprises that is expected to have 16 employees who will harvest woody biomass and deliver it to local cogeneration facilities where it will be converted into electricity.
The Kalispell Tribe of Indians will use its $240,970 Economic Development and Entrepreneurship grant to build a nursery to cultivate native plants, including over 3,000 trees from locally sourced plant stock, restore lost habitat on the reservation, fund wetland restoration and link these efforts with the initiation/development of a forestry apprenticeship.
Read the summaries for all 46 Rural Innovation Fund grants awarded today.
Contact Information
Northwest Office of Native American Programs
909 1st Avenue, Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98104-1000
Telephone: (206) 220-5270
FAX: (206) 220-5234