PRO Housing Priority Geography Search

<p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial;'>Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, or PRO Housing, is a competitive grant program being administered by HUD. PRO Housing seeks to identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation.</p><p style='margin-bottom:0in; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial;'>Under the Need rating factor, applicants will be awarded ten (10) p<span style='background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial;'>o</span>ints if their application primarily serves a ‘priority geography’. Priority geography means a geography that has an affordable housing need greater than a threshold calculation for one of three measures. The threshold calculation is determined by the need of the 90th-percentile jurisdiction (top 10%) for each factor as computed comparing only jurisdictions with greater than 50,000 population. Threshold calculations are done at the county and place level and applied respectively to county and place applicants. An application can also quality as a priority geography if it serves a geography that scores in the top 5% of its State for the same three measures. The measures are as follows: </p><ul><li>Affordable housing not keeping pace, measured as (change in population 2019-2009 divided by 2009 population) – (change in number of units affordable and available to households at 80% HUD Area Median Family Income (HAMFI) 2019-2009 divided by units affordable and available at 80% HAMFI 2009).</li><li>Insufficient affordable housing, measured as number of households at 80% HAMFI divided by number of affordable and available units for households at 80% HAMFI. </li><li>Widespread housing cost burden or substandard housing, measured as number of households with housing problems at 100% HAMFI divided by number of households at 100% HAMFI. Housing problems is defined as: cost burden of at least 50%, overcrowding, or substandard housing.</li></ul><div>Applicants may use this web application to search for priority geographies.</div><p>For more information on Pro Housing, please visit: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/pro_housing</p>