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Eviction Protection Grant Program

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

14.537

Program objective

The overall purpose of the Eviction Protection Grant Program is to support experienced legal service providers, not limited to legal service corporations, in providing legal assistance at no cost to low-income tenants at risk of or subject to eviction. This grant program plays an integral role in helping individuals and families, including people of color who are disproportionately represented among those evicted, people with limited English proficiency and people with disabilities, avoid eviction or minimize the disruption and damage caused by the eviction process.

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. 2022

    For more information about the program’s grantees, funded partners, services areas, tenant and grantee experiences, and associated research and evidence, please visit https://www.huduser.gov/portal/eviction-protection-grant.html.

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.

Applicants will respond to competitive requirements contained in a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) published in the Federal Register and available on Grants.gov.

  1. The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021, approved December 27, 2020 (Public Law 116-260), Funding for HUD's Eviction Protection Grant Program was first provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Division L, Title II - HUD Appropriations Act, 2021, provision on legal services regarding evictions (Pub. L. No. 116-260, approved December 27, 2020), and subsequently in the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act and 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act.