Home Improvement Grant and Loan Programs
Home ownership is one of the keys to healthy and vibrant communities. Helping homeowners improve their homes, make them safe and energy effiicient is the focus of a number of federal and state programs.
Start Here to Get Started with home improvement assistance programs.
In addition The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Outlines all Government Programs related to Home Improvement. Many of the programs offer Grants for Home Improvement, particularly with regard to increasing energy efficiency.
Rural Development
Office Of Community Planning And Development
Office Of Community Planning And Development
The overall CDBG program objective is to develop viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for perso...more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To provide community development assistance to the
Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands,
and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Insular CDBG-R program fu...more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for p...more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To conduct an Energy Efficient Mortgage Innovation pilot program targeted to the single family housing market....more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To provide federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes....more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To provide housing assistance to low-income Native Hawaiian families who are eligible to reside on Hawaiian Home Lands....more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To provide assistance for Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages in the development of viable Indian communities....more
Office Of Community Planning And Development
To provide federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes....more
Social Entrepreneurship
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Prisons and Social Enterprise
Getting Out and Staying Out, co-founded by Tony Smith of the VSA Consulting Group, works to reduce recidivism rate among men at Rikers Island, New York City. The recidivism rate significantly dropped from 60-plus percent to under 20 percent, with more than a thousand men over a span of eight years.
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