Tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico are among the just over 30 grantees receiving new federal funding for a wide variety of affordable housing construction and rehabilitation projects.
The funding is coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and will go to projects in some 16 states representing 535 residential units.
“There continues to be a substantial need in Native communities where Tribes face complex issues and unique challenges to constructing new affordable housing,” Richard Monocchio, deputy secretary for HUD’s public and Indian housing, said in a statement.
This latest round of Indian Housing Block Grant funding, continued Monocchio, is regarded as an “important resource to help tribes provide housing solutions that best serve their communities.”
In Arizona, some $3.4 million is going to the building of eight housing units under the auspices of the Colorado River Residential Management Corporation. Exactly $6 million is targeting the building of fifteen single family homes by the Tohono O’odham Ki:Ki Association.
A third project in the Grand Canyon State is seeing $6 million going to the White Mountain Apache Housing Authority for the building of eleven housing units.
In New Mexico, Indian Housing Block Grant funding of $5 million will support the building of fifteen modular homes belonging to the Santa Clara Pueblo Housing Authority.
Launched in 1996, the Indian House Block Grant program is the single federal source of Indian housing assistance. The grants are distributed annually and primarily cover both the construction of new housing, as well as the rehabilitation of existing structures.
January 30, 2025
By Garry Boulard
