The Affordable Housing Incentive Fund (AHIF) provides capital financing to create or preserve long-term affordable housing units throughout Hennepin County for very low-income households. Applicants may include government agencies, nonprofit organizations, housing developers or lenders. Financing may support acquisition, rehabilitation and new construction activities.
Coordinated affordable housing development RFP
Hennepin County offers several capital funding opportunities to support housing development projects throughout the county. To maximize county resources and make the application process more efficient for those seeking funding, the county solicits an annual coordinated affordable housing development request for proposals (RFP) every year. Programs that may be included in the annual RFP are listed below with more information.
Coordinated Affordable Housing Development RFPs
Funds typically available in the annual RFP include:
- Supportive housing strategy capital funds to create and preserve supportive housing.
- Affordable Housing Incentive fund (AHIF), which funds multifamily housing development proposals across Hennepin County.
- HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), which can fund multifamily or single-family affordable housing developments, with some geographic restrictions.
- Hennepin Homeownership Assistance Fund, which supports the creation of affordable homeownership opportunities through new construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, and other activities.
Hennepin County’s 2025 coordinated affordable housing development request for proposals (RFP) is now closed. The 2025 RFP materials are provided below for reference only.
2025 Coordinated rental housing RFP (PDF)
Coordinated RFP Program Manuals
Please see the following program manuals for more information on the county's capital funding programs.
Affordable Housing Incentive Fund (AHIF) program manual (PDF)
Supportive housing strategy program manual (PDF)
HOME Investment Partnerships program manual (PDF)
Hennepin Homeownership Assistance Fund program manual (PDF)
Anticipated 2026 Coordinated RFP timeline
- RFP release: December 2025
- Proposals due: late January 2026
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Hennepin County created the supportive housing strategy to invest additional capital, operating, and service funding to support Hennepin County’s most vulnerable residents, including those with a combination of extremely low-incomes and other conditions or challenges to stable housing.
The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) is a flexible federal grant program that allows Hennepin County to fund affordable housing activities for very low and low-income families or individuals, homeless families, and persons with special needs.
Current HOME funded projects are listed in the annual Consolidated Action Plan. Recently completed projects are listed in the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Reports (CAPER).
Learn more about federal housing programs at Hennepin County.
Launched in 2023, the Hennepin Homeownership Assistance Fund (HHAF) supports the creation of homeownership opportunities through new construction, homebuyer assistance, and other activities. The RFP for HHAF includes a portion of this fund for capital to support the creation of new homeownership opportunities.
Learn more about the Hennepin Homeownership Assistance Fund.