Navajo Housing Authority

NHA is the largest Indian housing authority in the country, and is nearly the eighth largest public housing authority in the United States. NHA manages over 8,500 housing units including an additional 2,000 units NHA funded through sub-recipients. Since 1963, NHA has been providing public housing for the Navajo Nation, the largest Indian tribe in the country. The Navajo Nation has a land base the size of West Virginia, sprawled across three states (AZ, NM and UT), and a population of over 300,000 tribal members. From 1963 to 1996, NHA has offered public housing assistance under the Mutual Help housing program and the Public Rental program under the provisions of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937. Beginning in 1996, all federal Indian housing programs were consolidated under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act (NAHASDA). Tribes now receive an annual Indian Housing Block Grant to address their housing needs based on formula funding. NHA receives $80 to $90 million a year from NAHASDA. NHA has spent over $1 billion under the NAHASDA program.

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