Full Application and Award Process

Description:

The Colonia Fund - Construction (CFC) provides eligible applicants with grants to fund water and wastewater improvements, housing rehabilitation for low- to moderate-income households, the payment of assessments levied against properties owned and occupied by persons of low and moderate income to recover the capital cost for a public improvement and other improvements including street paving and drainage

Eligible Applicants:

• any identifiable unincoprorated community within 150 miles of the United States-Mexico border, not including any standard metropolital statistical area with a population exceeding 1,000,000;
• the community is determined to be a colonia on the basis of criteria including lack of potable water supply, lack of adequate sewage systems, and a lack of decent, safe, and sanitary housing;
• the community was in existence as a colonia before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (November 28, 1990)

Award Amounts

Community Application (Phase 2) Deadline: May 15, 2026 (INVITE ONLY)

2026 CFC Community Application (Phase 1) Guidance 

2026 CFC Project Application (Phase 2) Guidance

Appendix C - TDA-GO Instructions

2026 Colonia Fund Scoring

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