U.S. Territories Turn Down Millions in Affordable Housing Funds
Published Date: 12/8/2025
Notice
Summary
For Fiscal Year 2025, HUD is handing out Housing Trust Fund money to help states and territories build and keep affordable homes for very low-income families. Most places accepted their share, but American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands said no, so they won’t get funds this year. This means more cash is going to the other grantees to support rental housing and homeownership for those who need it most.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
FY2025 HTF Funding and State Shares
HUD is making $223,024,239.90 available for the Fiscal Year 2025 Housing Trust Fund and lists an allocation amount for each eligible grantee in Appendix A. For example, California is allocated $23,448,689.68, New York $14,344,327.16, Texas $9,611,392.27, Florida $8,528,463.49, and Puerto Rico $688,461.35.
Who HTF Is Intended To Help
The Housing Trust Fund is intended to increase and preserve rental housing for extremely low-income families (incomes 0–30 percent of area median income) and very low-income families (incomes 30–50 percent of area median income), including homeless families, and to increase homeownership for those same groups.
Four Territories Declined Their Grants
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands declined their FY2025 HTF grant allocations, and Appendix A shows each of those grantees with an allocation of $0 for FY2025.
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