The Rural Housing Service Single Family Housing (SFH) Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants programs provide grants to qualified organizations to help carry out local self-help housing construction projects. Grant recipients supervise groups of very-low- and low-income individuals and families as they construct their own homes in rural areas. The group members provide most of the construction labor on each other’s homes, with technical assistance from the organization overseeing the project. Eligible applicants include government nonprofit organizations, federally recognized Tribes, and private nonprofit organizations.  

Consistent with the Agency's goal to deliver programs efficiently, effectively, with integrity, and with a focus on positive customer experience, the SFH program has identified improvements that are intended to streamline and simplify SFH requirements to reduce paperwork and result in process improvement.