The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) released the Fiscal Year 2026 Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF) Request for Proposal (RFP) on Friday, September 5. The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. on October 3, and the funding is anticipated to be announced on November 7. Applicants may apply for up to $3 million per project. Any previously submitted applications must be resubmitted.
This application process will be a competitive process. All applications will undergo a threshold review process. The projects that satisfy the threshold review will then proceed to a scored review. A final list of projects ranked by score will be submitted to the DCA Commissioner, who will have the final determination of which projects will receive AHTF funding. The FY26 AHTF RFP Guide is located in the DCA’s application portal, SAGE.
A webinar on the AHTF RFP will be held on September 11, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The webinar will review the FY26 AHTF RFP, including the application process, timeline, and process for submitting RFP related questions. The State will be unable to answer questions while the RFP is open. However, applicants can submit questions via email at AHTF@dca.nj.gov , and answers to questions will be posted on the DCA Affordable Housing Trust Fund website in the form of FAQs.
Contacts: Mike Cerra, Executive Director, mcerra@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x120, or Sadayah Q. DuRant-Brown, Legislative Counsel, sdurantbrown@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x137.