HUD AWARDS DWT $8.3M TO DEVELOP MANUFACTURED AFFORDABLE
HOUSING IN LINDALE TEXAS
Dance With Todd Inc (DWT) is overjoyed to announce the award of $8.3M in PRICE grantfunds to redevelop an existing mobile home community in Lindale, Texas for long termaffordable housing for both seniors and families. On January 17, 2025, representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment (HUD) as well as the DWT team gathered in Lindale for the official award
presentation.
HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development awarded $225 million in Preservationand Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) competition. PRICE provideshistoric first-time federal grants to support communities in their efforts to maintain, protect,replace, and stabilize manufactured housing and manufactured housing communities. HUDannounced 17 winners with proposed activities benefiting communities across 26 statesincluding rural, suburban, urban, tribal and disaster impacted areas. The PRICE competition wasgreatly oversubscribed. HUD received more than 175 applications for projects across 44 Statesincluding Tribal communities. Local governments, states, Tribes, nonprofits, and other eligibleentities applied. For every $1 available in funding, $14 was requested from applicants. The Cottages at Lindale is an existing mobile home community, located at 18957 Hwy 69N justnorth of the Lindale city limits, is currently comprised of mostly obsolete mobile homes withaging infrastructure. Under the PRICE grant, DWT will acquire the property, relocate theexisting families, install new infrastructure including upgraded water and sewer services,upgraded electrical service, paved roadways, security lighting and fencing, as part of thedevelopment of a new 35 unit affordable tiny home manufactured cottage community for seniorhousing and offer homeownership opportunities to another 20 families as well on the site. DWTis excited to partner with multiple local service providers to bring on-site supportive services tothe residents and do its part to address the affordable housing crisis in our country with 55 newaffordable housing units for the Lindale community. The project is expected to commence in early 2025 and be complete by 2028.
Dance With Todd Inc is a 501c3 non-profit developer of affordable housing founded by SherriSengsouvanna in honor of her son Todd. Ms. Sengsouvanna brings her extensive 35 years ofexperience in affordable housing industry to lead this project and has assembled an outstandingexperienced team of housing experts to assist in the areas of construction, property managementand resident services as well.
