[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

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 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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