NSP Technical Assistance
Direct Technical Assistance for Minnesota NSP Recipients
-- On-call help & TA for Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Grantees --
NSP Obligations are Looming...
Running out of time? Worried about losing funds?
For any and all NSP-related questions, let us help!
-- CALL 651-925-5559 --
Minnesota NSP recipients can now receive direct technical assistance (TA) and "On-call" TA.
Call 651-925-5559 and within one working-day receive an answer to program questions from Minnesota Housing Partnership, a National Technical Assistance Provider for NSP (Neighborhood Stabilization Program).
This phone assistance is part of new TA services--under grants from The St. Paul Foundation and the F. R. Bigelow Foundation--that include:
- Direct TA to CDCs (Community Development Corporations)
- "On-Line" Phone TA
- Short informal meetings to assist with NSP-related questions or concerns
Assisting Government Agencies Address Foreclosures
Through a cooperative agreement with the national U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office, the Minnesota Housing Partnership Consortium (Consortium) has been providing technical assistance and capacity building resources for Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Grantees, and their housing development partners to address vacant, abandoned and foreclosed properties in their communities.
Receiving assignments directly through the national HUD office, the Consortium conducts a needs assessment of the NSP Grantee by gathering information from the Grantee, its development partners and the local HUD Field Office. The needs assessment identifies specific areas, activities and/or issues that the Grantee and/or its development partners will need assistance to successfully comply with the NSP rules and requirements. The national NSP Team and the local HUD office decide if additional technical assistance is warranted. If affirmative, the national HUD office assigns a NSP TA provider to develop the NSP TA Work Plan. The Work plan outlines specific on-site and/or remote technical assistance tasks that will be provided, along with an estimated timeframe to complete each activity. The Consortium, the Grantee, and HUD must all agree with the activities identified in the Work Plan before any technical assistance is provided.
Over the past three years, the Consortium staff has successfully provided NSP technical assistance for the State of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Oklahoma along with their subrecipients and housing development partners and has participated as NSP experts at many of the NSP clinics
