FORECAST · COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
Distressed Cities Technical Assistance (DCTA) Program for Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027
Department of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development
- Expected deadline
- Not stated
- Who can apply
- Small businesses
- Award range
- $400,000 to $3.0 million
- Expected awards
- 6
- Total program funding
- $5.0 million
- Your own money required
- No cost sharing or matching required
- Opportunity number
- PDR-2700-DC-0054
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Assistance listing
- 14.259
More on who can apply
Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
What it funds
The Distressed Cities Technical Assistance (DCTA) Program competitively awards funding to eligible applicants. If selected through this NOFO, you will deliver technical assistance (TA) to Units of General Local Government (UGLG) that serve communities of 50,000 or fewer people facing economic hardship. As an awardee, you will work in close consultation with HUD, and in coordination with other awardees, to help UGLG officials and staff better meet the needs of their communities. You should have the capacity to either:Deliver TA across HUD's jurisdiction (Category N), orDeliver TA to specific areas as defined by this NOFO (Category L).
Open the official notice on Grants.gov ↗What to do next
- This is a forecast: the agency expects to post the full notice later. Open it on Grants.gov and subscribe there to be told when it posts.
- Get your SAM.gov registration ("all awards") and Grants.gov account active now; both take time.
- Use the forecast's award range and eligibility to decide whether to prepare.
- Watch for the notice; the dates here are estimates and can change.
New to this? Applying for a federal grant, step by step · Register to apply · How to read the notice · Write the narrative · Build the budget · Agency contact: distressedcities@hud.gov
From Grants.gov's official daily extract of Oct 25, 2026. The notice on Grants.gov and its attachments are what count. UX Contract is independent and not a government website.