14.198: Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program
Alternate Name: GNND
Overview
Program Number
14.198
Status
Active
Last Modified
Aug. 11, 2022
Date Posted
Aug. 11, 2022
Objective
The purpose of the Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program is to improve the quality of life in distressed urban communities. This is to be accomplished by encouraging law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians,
to purchase and live in homes that are located in the same communities where they perform their daily responsibilities and duties.
Type of Assistance
H - Sale, Exchange, or Donation of Property and Goods
Applicant Eligibility
Eligible law enforcement officer must be (a) Employed full-time by a law enforcement agency of the federal government, a state, a unit of general local government, or an Indian tribal government ; and (b) In carrying out such full-time employment, the person is sworn to uphold, and make arrests for violations of, Federal, state, county, or municipal law in the jurisdiction where the property is located in. A firefighter/EMT must be employed full-time as a firefighter or emergency medical technician by a fire department or emergency medical services responder unit of the federal government, a state, unit of general local government, or an Indian tribal government serving the revitalization area where the home is located. A teacher qualifies for the purposes of the GNND Sales Program if the person is: (a) Employed as a full-time teacher by a state-accredited public school or private school that provides direct services to students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12; and (b) The public or private school where the person is employed as a teacher serves students from the area where the home is located in the normal course of business. The school is located in the same revitalization area as the property. Fifty percent or more of the students that attend the school live in the revitalization area.
Beneficiary Eligibility
Law enforcement officers, firefighters, teachers, and EMTs purchasing a HUD-owned home in a designated revitalization area for use as their sole residence.
Additional Information
Grant Awards
Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program direct grants
Grant Opportunities