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All Programs

Grants for Rural and Native Alaskan Villages

This program helps remote Alaskan villages provide safe, reliable drinking water and waste disposal systems for households and businesses.

Individual Water & Wastewater Grants

This program provides funds to households in an area recognized as a Colonia before October 1, 1989.

Intermediary Relending Program

This program provides 1 percent low-interest loans to local lenders or “intermediaries” that re-lend to businesses to improve economic conditions and create jobs in rural communities.

Multifamily Housing Loan Guarantees

The program works with qualified private-sector lenders to provide financing to qualified borrowers to increase the supply of affordable rental housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and families in eligible rural areas and towns.

Multifamily Housing Rental Assistance

This program provides payments to owners of USDA-financed Rural Rental Housing or Farm Labor Housing projects on behalf of low-income tenants unable to pay their full rent.

Multifamily Tenant Voucher Program

This program provides vouchers to protect eligible tenants in Multifamily Direct Loan properties who may face hardship when the loan on the property is prepaid, or the property is foreclosed.

Mutual Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance Grants

This program provides grants to qualified organizations to help them carry out local self-help housing construction projects.

On-Farm Labor Housing Loans

It provides affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers.

Persistent Poverty One Percent Loan Program for Distressed Communities

What does this program do?

Rural Business Investment Program

This program provides a Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) license to newly formed developmental capital organizations to help meet the equity capital investment needs in rural communities.

Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Programs

This program provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.

Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans

The program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.

Rural Energy Savings Program

The Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP) provides loans to rural utilities and other companies who provide energy efficiency loans to qualified consumers to implement durable cost-effective energy efficiency measures.

Rural Housing Site Loans

This program provides two types of loans to purchase and develop housing sites for low- and moderate-income families - Section 523 and Section 524.

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program

This program provides loans and grants to Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs); To help microenterprises startup and grow and provide training and technical assistance to microloan borrowers and micro entrepreneurs.