The Eviction Protection Grant Program is a relatively new program administered by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) that funds experienced legal service organizations to provide legal assistance at no cost to low-income tenants at risk of, or subject to, eviction. Since the program’s inception in 2021, PD&R has awarded $40 million in funding to 21 grantees in 19 states, with plans to award an additional $20 million in FY23 funds and $20 million in FY24 funds to subsequent cohorts of grantees. HUD’s evaluation of the program focuses on the initial 21 grantees and comprises an implementation evaluation to understand successes and challenges to program implementation and an outcome evaluation to document outcomes and analyze potential associations between outcomes, household characteristics, and services provided. The Interim Report presents early findings from the implementation evaluation.

The preview of the Final Report summarizes key findings from both the implementation evaluation and outcome evaluation. The Final Report presents comprehensive findings from the two-year evaluation, which aimed to (1) describe the characteristics of grantees, subrecipients, and other community partners, (2) understand how grantees worked with other social service providers to deliver assistance, (3) document the services offered, service take-up, the types of households served, and program outcomes, and (4) understand the successes and challenges that grantees faced in program implementation and how they addressed these challenges.

The evaluation draws on two key data sources: (1) documents submitted by grant recipients as part of their applications and grant reporting activities, and (2) data collected through two rounds of interviews with HUD program staff, staff from all 21 grantees and a subset of their subrecipients, and a nonrandom sample of tenant households that received services funded through the grant.