2026 National Housing Trust Fund State Allocations Now Available After Delay from OMB
Aug 17, 2026
By Kim Johnson, NLIHC Senior Policy Director and Libby O’Neill, NLIHC Senior Policy Analyst
The 2026 National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations for each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories are now available. A total of $255 million in HTF funds is available for 2026, a slight increase from the 2025 HTF total of $223 million.
HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development updated its program allocation spreadsheet on August 3 to include amounts for the HTF. The previously published program allocation omitted the HTF without any explanation. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), who led the legislative efforts to create the HTF in 2008, led a campaign demanding that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) release the funds, including a letter in June signed by Senator Reed and 22 other Senators. Senator Reed celebrated the apportionment of funds in a press release.
When it was established in 2008, the HTF was the first new housing resource since 1974 targeted to building, preserving, rehabilitating, and operating rental housing for extremely low-income people. Starting in 2000, NLIHC, its members, and other stakeholders played a critical role in the creation of the fund and continue to advocate for increases to annual HTF funding. The first HTF grants were allocated to states in 2016.
Read Senator Reed’s Press Release here.
Read NLIHC’s Advocates’ Guide on the HTF here.
Read NLIHC’s reports and resources on the HTF here.
The 2026 HTF allocations, along with CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA allocations are at https://www.hud.gov/hud-partners/community-budget-26.