Community Controlled Affordable Housing (CCAH) Program

The Housing Trust Fund Corporation (“HTFC”) as part of New York State Homes and Community Renewal (“HCR”) invites eligible applicants to apply to the Community Controlled Affordable Housing (“CCAH”) Program, an initiative to support local communities with planning, predevelopment and/or acquisition grants to advance resident governance and long-term affordability. This Request for Applications (“RFA”) describes the purpose for which the available funds may be used and the methodology for award selection.  

In Chapter 53 of the 2024 Laws of New York, a $1,000,000 appropriation was made available for the development of community controlled affordable housing.

HTFC defines “community controlled affordable housing” as resident autonomy over housing decisions. Below are types of activities that may be funded under this initiative:

1. Community Ownership: may include, but is not limited to, a change in the ownership structure of affordable housing, such as mutual housing, cooperatives, and community land trusts and/or acquisition of a site that will utilize community controlled housing practices.

2. Community Revitalization: may include, but is not limited to, the preservation of affordable housing of which is already within the control of residents, such as the pre-development activities of renovation of a cooperative building, a tenant owned manufactured home park, or scattered site homes within a community land trust.
    
3. Community Building: may include, but is not limited to, the creation or reinforcement of resident-led governance structures, such as the formalization of tenant associations, intentional community organizations, cohousing groups, eviction free zones, ecovillages, or other types of resident-governance not listed here.

Affordable housing may be either naturally occurring, or government regulated, and should not cost burden the residents benefiting from the CCAH project.