25 CFR § 256.5 - What is the Housing Improvement Program?

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title: "25 CFR § 256.5 - What is the Housing Improvement Program?"
title_number: 25
title_name: "Indians"
section_number: "256.5"
section_name: "What is the Housing Improvement Program?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "K"
subchapter_name: "HOUSING"
part_number: "256"
part_name: "HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HIP)"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "25 U.S.C. 13, 5 U.S.C. 301, 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9, and 43 U.S.C. 1457."
regulatory_source: "80 FR 69596, Nov. 10, 2015, unless otherwise noted."
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# 256.5 What is the Housing Improvement Program?

The HIP is a safety-net program that provides grants for the cost of services to repair, renovate, or replace existing housing and/or provide housing. The program provides grants to the neediest of the needy Indian families who:

(a) Live in substandard housing or are homeless; and

(b) Have no other resource for assistance.