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Rural Housing Site Loans and Self Help Housing Land Development Loans

Program Information

Popular name

(Section 523 and 524 Site Loans)

Program Number

10.411

Program objective

To assist public or private nonprofit organizations interested in providing sites for housing; to acquire and develop land in rural areas to be subdivided as adequate building sites and sold on a cost development basis to families eligible for low and very low income loans, cooperatives, and broadly based nonprofit rural rental housing applicants.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    A $113,300 loan was made for the development and infrastructure of .46 acres to create 4 affordable building lots for very low and moderate-income homeowners.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

RD Instruction 444.8, "Rural Housing Site Loan Policies, Procedures, and Authorizations"; 7 CFR 1822.261-1822.278; PA-1131.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Individual/Family
  • Low Income
  • Moderate Income
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural

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