Housing Assistance: An Inventory of Fiscal Year 2010 Programs, Tax Expenditures, and Other Activities

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Administering Agency/Entity	Department of Labor
Short Description	Provides funding through competition to community-based organizations to ensure that housing supportive services are provided to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers with the greatest housing assistance need. Housing assistance includes direct payments for emergency and temporary housing and for direct investments in housing assistance for migrant and seasonal farmworkers at their home base. Other indirect assistance includes leveraging services to increase or maintain housing stock available to farmworkers and housing development designed to improve living conditions for underserved farmworker communities.
Primary Purpose	Rental assistance for tenants
Type of Housing Supported	Rental Housing
Type of Assistance	Grant
Fiscal Year 2010 Obligations	$5,700,000; obligations represent allocations for housing activities in program year 2010.