Treasury has provided best practice materials to assist recipients in making the most efficient, effective, and equitable use of SLFRF funds. These resources include tools to assist recipients in using funds in priority areas, such as housing and workforce needs, where SLFRF can have the most transformative long-term impact on communities.
EQUITY AND OUTCOMES RESOURCE GUIDE
The SLFRF Equity and Outcomes Resource Guide provides examples of approaches and tools recipients are using in the areas of equity, community engagement, evidence-based investments, and performance management.
SLFRF Equity and Outcomes Resource Guide
Resources for Affordable Housing
Treasury has provided a variety of resources to assist recipients in using SLFRF funds to develop and preserve affordable housing, including ways to use SLFRF to fully finance long-term affordable housing loans.
Resources for Workforce
SLFRF funds can play an important role in supporting the workforce by ensuring that local economies and the public sector have the skilled workers that they need to catalyze robust economic growth.
Resources for Evidence & Evaluation
Treasury encourages the use of performance metrics and evaluation. Recipients with populations over 250,000 have specific requirements in these areas (see Recovery Plan Performance Report section of the Compliance and Reporting Guidance for details).
Reports on SLFRF Impact
Treasury has released a variety of resources that highlight the impactful ways that SLFRF funds are being used across the country.
Resources for Equity
Equity is at the heart of the SLFRF program and helps to ensure that resources go to communities and households most in need of assistance.
Research and Evaluation
Treasury has an Economic Recovery Learning Agenda focused on research about the impact of current programs and how to apply lessons learned to future economic crises. To that end, Treasury is interested in collaborating with researchers to conduct additional evaluations.
- Research Priorities: Economic Recovery Learning Agenda
- Collaboration: Interested in research collaboration on the evaluations in the learning agenda? Email OSPPI@Treasury.gov
- Evaluation: Understanding and improving Tribal governments’ and non-entitlement units’ experiences with the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program
- Evaluations and Tools: Low-cost Interventions to Increase Timely Reporting by Local Governments
KEY LINKS
- 2022 Final Rule
- Overview of the 2022 Final Rule
- SLFRF FAQs
- 2023 Interim Final Rule
- Obligation Interim Final Rule
- Obligation Interim Final Rule Quick Reference Guide
- Overview of the 2023 Interim Final Rule
- Guidance on Distribution of Funds to Non-entitlement Units of Local Government
- List of Local Governments
- Non-entitlement Unit of Local Government Definitional and Data Methodology
- Overview of NEU Distribution Guidance (Webinar Deck for State Governments)
- Interim Final Rule FAQs (Main)
- FAQs (on Distribution of Funds to NEUs)
- Non-entitlement Unit of Local Government Checklist for Requesting Initial Payment
- Award Terms and Conditions for Non-entitlement Units of Local Government
- Assurances of Compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Status of Payments to States for Distribution to Non-entitlement Units of Local Government
- Compliance and Reporting Guidance
- Update on Interpretation for the 75 Percent Budget Cap Calculation (NEUs) (06/30/21)