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Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS

Program Information

Popular name

HOPWA

Program Number

14.241

Program objective

To provide States, units of local government, or nonprofit organizations with the resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the supportive housing needs of low-income persons and their families living with HIV/AIDS in order to promote positive health outcomes, prevent homelessness, and sustain housing stability for HOPWA program beneficiaries.

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. 2016

    It is estimated that 47,441 households will receive housing assistance and 101,390 will receive supportive services. In FY16, 53,108 households received housing assistance and 106,415 received supportive services.

  2. 2017

    In FY17, an estimated 52,00 households will receive housing assistance and 104,000 will receive supportive services.

  3. 2018

    In FY18, 50,310 households received housing assistance and 103,249 received supportive services.

  4. 2019

    In FY19, It is estimated that 50,100 households will receive housing assistance and 103,000 will receive supportive services.

  5. 2022

    Formula and competitive HOPWA funds provided housing subsidy assistance to a total of 45,740 households in FY22. This includes 22,656 in permanent housing including Tenant-based Rent Assistance. 17,958 households received Short Term Rent Mortgage and Utility assistance. Additionally, 106,611 households received HOPWA-funded supportive services in FY22.

  6. 2023

    Household Assisted with HOPWA funds: • Housing Assistance – 4,345 • Short Term/Transitional Housing – 2,829 • Permanent Housing Placement - 858 • Housing Development – 8 • Supportive Services - 10,550 • Housing Information Services – 2,591 Information provided above is from the HOPWA Performance Profiles represent data as reported by HOPWA grantees annually through their HOPWA performance reports. Significant changes to the HOPWA reporting forms and methodology occurred in FY23. As a result, some data elements might appear to have large swings from FY22 to FY23. Some of these swings are a result of the data reporting changes and do not actually represent large differences in activities conducted or households served.

  7. 2024

    In the FY24 fiscal year, the HOPWA program anticipates to serve 46,000 households with household assistance and provide support services to 62,000 households annually. Of the household served, 9 out of the 10 families are extremely low or very low income.

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.

The program regulations can be found at 24 CFR Part 574. Program guidance can be found at https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/hopwa.

  1. 24, 574, AIDS Housing Opportunity Act, 42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.