Applications are now open for the 2026 NYCHA Resident Climate Action Grants, which will fund sustainability projects in the city’s public housing projects. Past winners scored money for community gardens, composting programs and environmentally focused art workshops.
Do you have a climate-friendly idea for NYCHA?
The New York Climate Exchange and the Public Housing Community Fund are now accepting applications to fund resident-led projects that advance climate solutions in the city’s public housing – part of an annual initiative, now in its fourth year, to support things like public gardens and composting.
Residents have until February 12 to submit their ideas for the first step for this year’s NYCHA Resident Climate Action Grants. Approved applicants are then invited to apply for one of three levels of funding, ranging from $1,500 or less for one-time or initial initiatives, to as much as $15,000 for existing projects or organizations that have already had an impact.
The funding has previously been used for things like recycling education and outreach, environmentally focused art workshops and expanding community gardens. Subsidies were awarded in 2025 17 projects throughout the city, including a campaign to address dog poop in the Gowanus Houses, the installation of solar lighting and upgrades to public spaces in the Manhattanville Houses, and for cooking and planting classes in the Stapleton Houses.
“Residents have a deep understanding of their community and this program allows them to turn their innovative ideas for sustainability into reality,” NYCHA CEO Lisa Bova-Hiatt said in a statement last week.
Find more information and apply here.
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