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Housing Counseling Program Homeownership Initiative

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

14.022

Program objective

The Homeownership Initiative (HI) helps to bridge the homeownership gap by increasing homeownership rates among historically underserved borrowers. HUD-approved Intermediaries, Multi-State Organizations, and State Housing Finance Agencies will receive fixed amount awards to provide culturally sensitive linguistically appropriate pre-purchase and post-purchase counseling that results in home purchase.

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

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.

  1. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended., Title Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C 1701x), Part 214, Section 106.