HUD Thriving Communities Program Links Transportation Projects and Housing
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Thriving Communities Technical Assistance (TCTA) program is designed to support local governments receiving federal transportation infrastructure funds, directly or through state pass through grants.
TCTA can provide local government staff with skills and tools to enable them to address critical housing needs while supporting equitable economic development through community engagement.
Local governments will receive Technical Assistance that focuses on one or more of the following areas:
- Identifying and using vacant, abandoned, or underutilized government and/or private land located on or near transportation projects that is suitable for housing development.
- Preserving affordable housing and protecting residents and businesses from displacement as new infrastructure is deployed.
- Identifying and implementing regulatory and procedural reforms to reduce unnecessary barriers to location-efficient housing that impede housing production and increase development costs.
- Improving coordination among public entities (for example, local housing, transportation, planning, and community development departments) and between public entities and state recipients of infrastructure funding; transit authorities and other quasi-public entities; the private sector; and locally based organizations, to support a holistic and regional approach to housing and transportation.
Requests Reviewed as Received on Rolling Basis Starting: March 15, 2023
