[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR125.501]

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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
    CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, 
               DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 125_FAIR HOUSING INITIATIVES PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 125.501  Fair Housing Organizations Initiative.

    (a) The Fair Housing Organizations Initiative of the FHIP provides 
funding

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to develop or expand the ability of existing eligible organizations to 
provide fair housing enforcement, and to establish, on a single-year or 
multi-year basis contingent upon annual performance reviews and annual 
appropriations, new fair housing enforcement organizations.
    (b) Continued development of existing organizations--(1) Eligible 
applicants. Eligible for funding under this component of the Fair 
Housing Organizations Initiative are:
    (i) Qualified fair housing enforcement organizations;
    (ii) Fair housing enforcement organizations; and
    (iii) Nonprofit groups organizing to build their capacity to provide 
fair housing enforcement.
    (2) Operating budget limitation. (i) Funding under this component of 
the Fair Housing Organizations Initiative may not be used to provide 
more than 50 percent of the operating budget of a recipient organization 
for any one year.
    (ii) For purposes of the limitation in this paragraph, operating 
budget means the applicant's total planned budget expenditures from all 
sources, including the value of in-kind and monetary contributions, in 
the year for which funding is sought.
    (c) Establishing new organizations--(1) Eligible applicants. 
Eligible for funding under this component of the Fair Housing 
Organizations Initiative are:
    (i) Qualified fair housing enforcement organizations;
    (ii) Fair housing enforcement organizations; and
    (iii) Organizations with at least three years of experience in 
complaint intake, complaint investigation, and enforcement of 
meritorious claims involving the use of testing evidence.
    (2) Targeted areas. FHIP Notices of Funding Availability may 
identify target areas of the country that may receive priority for 
funding under this component of the Fair Housing Organizations 
Initiative. An applicant may also seek funding to establish a new 
organization in a locality not identified as a target area, but in such 
a case, the applicant must submit sufficient evidence to establish the 
proposed area as being currently underserved by fair housing enforcement 
organizations or as containing large concentrations of protected 
classes.

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