---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 256.5"
title: "25"
number: "256.5"
heading: "What is the Housing Improvement Program?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/256.5"
---

# §256.5. What is the Housing Improvement Program?


The HIP is a safety-net program that provides grants for the cost of services to repair, renovate, or replace existing housing and/or provide housing. The program provides grants to the neediest of the needy Indian families who:

- (a) Live in substandard housing or are homeless; and
- (b) **Have no other resource for assistance.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 13, 5 U.S.C. 301, 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9, and 43 U.S.C. 1457.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 69596, Nov. 10, 2015, unless otherwise noted.