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Agency Budget Summary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- The Drug Elimination Grant program is scored as 100% drug-related.
III. Program Summary
- The Office of Public and Indian Housing awards competitive grants and provides technical assistance and training to Public Housing Authorities and Tribally Designated Housing Entities. Included within the total funding for the Drug Elimination Grants Program (DEG) are funds for Operation Safe Home (OSH), a federal program to deal with drug-related activity in public and assisted housing. OSH brings together a coalition of forces, to include residents, managers, and various federal and local law enforcement agencies, to combat illegal drug activity in public housing.
- Also included is the New Approach Anti-Drug (NAAD) Program, which provides grants to assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of drug-related activity in and around the vicinity of low-income housing. Such low-income housing consists of federally assisted multifamily housing developments, or other multifamily housing developments for low-income families.
- HUD also provides for enforcement support, including the reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies and additional security and protective services, and drug related prevention activities, including making residents the focal point of services as participants in drug abuse solutions. Activities also may include resident patrols, neighborhood watches, or other drug related prevention efforts; youth initiatives, such as providing coaches in recreational programs, peer mentors, and training, education and substance abuse education and prevention activities; and residents services programs, including job training, educational programs, and treatment or other social services which address the contributing factors of drug abuse.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- In the Office of Public and Indian Housing, $310.0 million is requested to award competitive grants and to provide technical assistance and training to Public Housing Authorities and Tribally Designated Housing Entities. Of this amount, approximately $245.0 million is being made available to fund grants. Of that amount, $20.0 million would fund Operation Safe Home, a federal program to deal with drug-related activity in public and assisted housing, and $20.0 million is included for the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, a program designed to assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of drug-related activities in and around low-income housing.
- The FY 1999 base includes $139.5 million for prevention activities which support Goal 1 of the Strategy; $148.8 million for prevention activities which support Goal 2; and $21.7 million for prevention activities which support Goal 3.
2000 Request
- The total drug control FY 2000 budget request is $310.0 million, the same as the FY 1999 enacted level. The FY 2000 base includes $139.5 million for prevention activities to support Goal 1 including $100 million for a new Youth Anti-Drug Diversion program to provide youths living in public and assisted housing with access to mentoring, after school and family strengthening programs such as crisis intervention. In addition, $148.8 million is for prevention activities which supports Goal 2 and $21.7 million for prevention activities to support Goal 3.
V. Program Accomplishments
- In FY 1998, HUD received approximately 1,146 applications and made 933 awards, an increase of 400 grant awards as compared to the 533 awards made in FY 1997. The average grant award in FY 1998 was $288,563.
- From 1989 through 1998, the Department awarded over 4,900 DEG grants worth approximately $1.7 billion.
- HUD entered into an interagency agreement on October 15, 1997 with the National Institute of Justice to develop and establish research partnerships to evaluate DEG supported programs and to establish a standardized semi-annual reporting process that will measure the reduction of drug-related activities.
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