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A -- HUD'S PD&R SMALL AWARD COMPETITION FOR RESEARCH ON SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ASSISTED HOUSING SOL 001-01-0001 DUE 030497 POC Point of contact -- Kathy Faliski, (703)934-3773, ICF Incorporated WEB: HUD PD&R website, http://www.huduser.org/comp.htm. E-MAIL: ICF's email address for people with questions about the competition, hudpd&spatial@icfkaiser.com. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) plans to fund 10 -- 15 grants up to $50,000 each, by September 1997, to conduct research focusing on the spatial patterns of federally-assisted housing and innovative applications of geographic information systems. These grants will support short-term research to expand knowledge about the characteristics of neighborhoods in which federally-assisted housing is located and how these characteristics affect the residents. Grants will be awarded on a one-time basis. A final report for each project will be required within one year of the award date. Interested parties are invited to submit abstracts, as specified below. Selected candidates will be invited to submit full-length proposals. Funding will be awarded to persons or groups who submit the best proposals. Abstracts must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 4, 1997. HUD*s PD&R office has developed national data files that provide location and occupancy characteristics of nearly five million federally-assisted rental housing units, including public housing, privately-owned subsidized rental projects, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Project Based Certificates, Moderate Rehabilitation, Section 236, Section 202, New Construction, and Section 8 Certificates and Voucher recipients. The data set summarizes information on subsidized housing for the United States, individual states, state and local housing agencies, neighborhoods (Census tracts data), and individual federally-assisted housing projects. This data set, called "Picture of Subsidized Households in the U.S.," has not been released Web Home Page (http://www.huduser.org). Documentation describing the content of the data is currently available on this site. Researchers are encouraged but not required to use any of HUD*s data sources. Proposals may rely on HUD data sets, other data sets, and/or other data sets. The following list illustrates possible grant topics: location of housing developed by assisted housing programs, location criteria for building affordable housing, mobility and section 8 portability, assisted housing rent levels impact on the rental market, environmental justice, assisted housing and crime, potential benefits of scattered site public housing programs, and fair housing. These topics are not exhaustive; proposals may investigate other topics related to the location of assisted housing. Potential grant applicants can obtain more information about this small grant competition and a submission packet via the HUD PD&R website (http://www.huduser.org). Applicants may also request a submission packet by calling the grants hotline at 703-934-3773 or by sending an E-Mail to ICF Incorporated, which is administering the grants program for HUD, at hudpd&rspatial@icfkaiser.com. (0027)

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