The launch of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) will distribute two-thirds of the $150 million in grant money Congress allocated in the 2010 budget for the Obama administration's interagency, Partnership for Sustainable Communities.

With OSHC's grant programs, HUD will provide funding to a wide variety of multi-jurisdictional and multi-sector partnerships and consortia, from Metropolitan Planning Organizations and State governments, to non-profit and philanthropic organizations. These grants will be designed to encourage regions to build their capacity to integrate economic development, land use, transportation, and water infrastructure investments, and to integrate workforce development with transit-oriented development. Accordingly, OSHCs grants will be coordinated closely with the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

To demonstrate HUD's commitment to listening and learning, Secretary Shaun Donovan also announced that a description of the future grant program is available for comment, including through an interactive wiki, on HUD's Web site.

Read more about OSHC's launch on HUD's Web site.

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