Provides affordable housing and services. Offers one and two bedroom apartments and onsite supportive services.

Subsidized housing for families. Offers 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Applicants will be placed on a waiting list.

A permanent supportive housing program that assists those who are chronically homeless and also have either a substance abuse issue, mental health diagnosis and/or has been diagnosed with having HIV/AIDS. SNAP provides rental assistance for homeless persons with disabilities in connection with supportive services funded from sources throughout the community through other agencies and programs.

Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation provides Section 8 vouchers for persons in Decorah. Section 8 Rental Assistance is HUD's federally funded program to provide rental assistance to low-income families to secure decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing in a non-discriminatory manner from the private rental market.

Renter assistance through a grant funded program. Based on available funding, meeting eligible criteria, and documentation requirements. Some assistance may be available for small amounts of rent due. Other grant sources may be able to assist for longer time periods those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Public housing.

Permanent supportive housing rental units for single men and male veterans. Free housing units for Life Changing, 12 step recovery, and vocational work program clients.

Housing includes all meals, utilities, furnishings, and a land line telephone. Other building and unit amenities available.

Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program provides monthly rent subsidy for eligible individuals and families. Housing Rehabilitation: Financial assistance to home owners and landlords for emergency rehabilitation to property and home ownership down payment assistance program. Housing & Redevelopment initiatives involving City participation. Must apply at http://www.cedar-rapids.org/residents/housing_services/index.php

Provides Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers to low-income individuals needing help to live in safe, decent, affordable housing.

Once a family has been on a rental assistance program, they can apply for the Section 8 Homeownership Program. This program allows families to use their vouchers to help make a mortgage payment instead of a rental payment.

Offers a Family Self-Sufficiency Program for families to increase their earned income and learn about financial literacy. This program is beneficial for families seeking financial independence, as well as to prepare for home ownership.

Subsidized housing for seniors 62 and older or persons with a disability.

Provides housing for low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities. Participants in the program pay a minimum of 30% of their adjusted income toward rent and utilities or $50, whichever is greater.

Income-based apartments serving elderly, disabled, individuals, and families.

Subsidy also offered to lower income families renting from private landlords through the Housing Choice Voucher Program.

Loan provider in rural areas.

Business and Industry Loan Guarantees are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate.

Community Facilities Direct and Guaranteed Loans and Grants are available for community service facilities in rural areas such as libraries, clinics, fire and rescue buildings and equipment, etc.

Cooperative Services helps rural residents form new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improve operations of existing cooperatives in rural areas.

Direct and Guaranteed Home Ownership provides loans to purchase or construct single family homes in rural areas for very low/low/moderate income households.

Direct Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants provide housing and related facilities in rural areas for domestic farm laborers.

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants provide for technology equipment and facilities for linking rural schools within regions, linking schools to other educational institutions, utilizing rural libraries as distance learning centers, linking rural hospitals and medical clinics to major medical centers, interactive video, and distance rural health training.

Energy Efficiency Improvements and Renewable Energy Systems provide grant assistance in development of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement projects. Renewable systems include wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. Energy efficiency improvements include energy improvements to business facility including insulation, windows, doors, HVAC, refrigeration, lighting, pumping/air/motor systems, etc.

Housing Preservation Grants offers funding to selected recipient organization to develop program to help repair individual housing, rental properties or coops in rural areas owned and/or occupied by very low and low-income households.

Intermediary Re-Lending Program provides loans to ultimate recipients for community development projects, establishment and expansion of businesses, and creating and/or saving jobs in rural areas.

Rural Cooperative Development Grants establish and operate cooperative development centers in rural areas primarily to improve economic conditions of rural areas via development of new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improving existing co-ops' operations.

Rural Business Development Grants are competitive grants designed to support targeted technical assistance, training, and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas that have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in gross revenues.

Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants provide for a wide range of rural economic development projects in rural areas such as business expansion and start-up, community development, etc.

Rural Home Repair Loans and Grants assist homeowners, occupying dwellings in rural areas, to complete necessary repairs to their homes.

Rural Housing Site Loans provide loans in rural areas to purchase land and develop sites for very low/low/moderate-income housing.

Solid Waste Management Grants are used to reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

Technical Assistance and Training Grants are used to identify and evaluate solutions to water and wastewater problems of associations in rural areas relating to water source, storage, treatment and distribution; and waste collection, treatment and disposal.

Value-Added Producer Grants help eligible producers of agricultural commodities in rural areas to develop business plans for viable marketing opportunities and develop strategies to create marketing opportunities in emerging markets.

Water and Waste Dispos

Low income housing for the elderly and disabled.

Builds safe, decent, affordable homes with the help of homeowner/partner and then sells the home to partner at no profit and financed with affordable no interest loan, assuming no down payment.