NYCHA lost out on funding for more security cameras at housing developments because the application was bungled. NYCHA lost out on hundreds of thousands of federal dollars for security cameras because it bungled filling out the proper paperwork, the NY Daily News has learned.

Early this year, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department offered $3 million in “emergency safety and security grants” to housing authorities.

More than 330 agencies nationwide applied, but NYCHA officials sent in an application that “was not complete and did not meet the minimum threshold requirements,” according to a HUD document obtained by The News.

As a result, the city Housing Authority got nothing, while 13 other applicants —including public housing agencies in Floyd County, KY., and Yazoo City, MS.— did the job correctly and landed grants averaging $240,000.

That’s enough to install cameras at a needy NYCHA development. Cameras are now up in half of NYCHA’s 334 developments, where crime has risen 31% since 1995.

“It’s an error NYCHA regrets,” said authority spokeswoman Joan Lebow.

Tenant advocates were furious, arguing that the desperate need for security was made glaringly obvious after two children were stabbed in June — one of them fatally — at the Boulevard Houses in Brooklyn.

NYCHA had been awarded $500,000 for cameras at Boulevard a year earlier, but the installation had stalled. After the tragedy, an angry Mayor de Blasio called the delay unacceptable.