{"id":13459,"date":"2026-03-04T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:18:01","slug":"public-notice-housing-innovation-pilot-program-hipp-application-period-and-information-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2026\/03\/04\/public-notice-housing-innovation-pilot-program-hipp-application-period-and-information-session\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC NOTICE: Housing Innovation Pilot Program (HIPP) \u2013 Application Period and Information Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), through its Community Development Administration (CDA), is announcing the opening of the Housing Innovation Pilot Program (HIPP) funding round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Housing Innovation Pilot Program provides low- or no-interest loans to support innovative housing solutions that increase the supply of housing in Maryland. Funding may support partnerships between county governments, local housing authorities, and housing developers, including projects that acquire existing housing to expand affordable housing opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A total of $5 million in funding is available in Fiscal Year 2026, and DHCD will select up to three projects located in different jurisdictions through a competitive application process.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Application Deadline<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications must be submitted <\/span><b>no later than 12:00 p.m. on Friday, May 18, 2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Request for Proposals (RFP), scoring criteria, and application materials are available in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/HousingDevelopment\/pages\/mflibrary.aspx\"><b>DHCD Multifamily Library<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/pages\/default.aspx\"><b>Department\u2019s website.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Virtual Information Session<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DHCD will host a virtual information session to provide an overview of the program and answer questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/rcn-itzx-opn\"><b>Meeting Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Date:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Wednesday, March 11, 2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><b>Time:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 12:00 p.m.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><b>Join by Phone:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> +1 678-632-5961<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><b>PIN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 556 879 685#<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions may be submitted in advance by emailing:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><b>dhcd.cda@maryland.gov<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), through its Community Development Administration (CDA), is announcing the opening of the Housing Innovation Pilot Program (HIPP) funding round. The Housing Innovation Pilot Program provides low- or no-interest loans to support innovative housing solutions that increase the supply of housing in Maryland. Funding may support partnerships<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2026\/03\/04\/public-notice-housing-innovation-pilot-program-hipp-application-period-and-information-session\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":11497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-development","category-legal-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}