Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Program – Fiscal Year 2025 | FR 6900 N 05

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The Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Program for Fiscal Year 2025 is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) focused on helping residents in Public Housing and Indian Housing move toward economic and housing self-sufficiency. The program is built around the idea that many households face practical barriers that keep them from stabilizing and advancing, including gaps in education, employment readiness, health supports, and access to local services. In HUDs framing, self-sufficiency is the ability to support a household while maintaining financial stability, stable housing, and personal or family stability. Progress is viewed as a continuum: residents move toward greater independence as they achieve specific education, career, and health-related goals.

The main way the program works is by funding eligible applicants to hire a Service Coordinator. This coordinator plays a hands-on, connecting role rather than directly delivering every service in-house. The coordinator assesses resident needs, develops or supports goal planning, and links residents to local training, employment and workforce services, education programs, health resources, and other supportive services that can remove obstacles and help residents advance toward stability. For elderly residents and residents with disabilities, the coordinator also connects people to congregate services and other supports that help them age in place or remain in their homes safely, while still making sure they can access the broader set of opportunities offered to other residents (such as training and supportive services).

Beyond staffing a coordinator position, the ROSS-SC grant also includes funding intended for direct services that strengthen the coordinators work and help achieve the overall ROSS goals. In practice, this means awardees are not limited to salary and administrative coordination alone; the grant is also designed to support practical interventions that make service coordination more effective and that directly assist residents in overcoming barriers tied to work, learning, health, and stability.

Eligible applicants are specifically defined and include several housing-related entities and community-based groups connected to assisted housing. Resident Associations (RAs) may apply as long as they are properly organized as nonprofits, either through locally incorporated nonprofit status (typically at the state level) or IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) status. Multifamily Owners are also eligible, and there is an important condition for owners applying to serve residents in RAD PBRA settings: the applicant must be the entity that holds the legal right to lease units in the PBRA project or projects that will be served. Federally recognized Indian Tribes, as defined in Section 4(13) of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4103), can apply, and Tribally-Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs), as defined in Section 4(22) of NAHASDA, are eligible as well. For Tribes, HUD notes a limitation tied to scale: the number of ROSS-SC positions a Tribe can request is based on the number of occupied units in the projects to be served that receive NAHASDA rental assistance as of the application deadline. The notice also makes clear that individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorships are not eligible to apply or receive awards under this opportunity.

From a grant listing standpoint, this opportunity is a HUD discretionary grant (Funding Opportunity Number FR 6900 N 05) and is associated with CFDA 14.870. It aligns with multiple policy and service areas, including community development, education, employment and workforce training, health, and housing. HUD lists an expected 114 awards, with an award ceiling of $816,750. The opportunity was created on September 26, 2025, and the original application closing date is December 2, 2025.

• The Department of Housing and Urban Development in the community development, education, employment, labor and training, health, housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) Program – Fiscal Year 2025" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.870.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-09-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-12-02. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $816,750.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 114 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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