To receive a CDBG grant, a grantee must develop and submit to HUD its Consolidated Plan. The Plan is a jurisdiction's comprehensive planning document and application for funding under the following Community Planning and Development formula grant programs: CDBG, HOME Investment Partnerships, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG). Each state and locality chooses its own program year start date (for all Community and Development Programs: CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA) and plans are due 45 days before that date. Plans must be submitted between November 15 and August 16 annually. Example: if a grantee has a July 1 start date for 2009, it will submit its plan by May 15.
This Federal funding assists entitled metropolitan cities and urban counties meet their housing and community development needs. HUD provides annual grants on a formula basis to entitled communities to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and improved community facilities and services. Entitlement communities develop their own programs and funding priorities and consult with local residents before making final decisions. All CDBG activities must meet one of the following national objectives: (1) benefit low- and moderate-income persons; (2) aid in the prevention or elimination of slums and blight; or (3) meet certain community development needs having a particular urgency. Some of the activities that can be carried out with community development block grant funds include: (1) the acquisition of real property; (2) rehabilitation of residential and nonresidential properties; (3) provision of public facilities and improvements (such as water and sewer, streets, and neighborhood centers); (4) public services; (5) the clearance, demolition, and removal of buildings; (6) homeownership assistance; and (7) assistance to for-profit businesses for economic development activities. No less than 70% of the funds expended over a period specified by the grantee, not to exceed 3 years, must be used for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons. Generally, the following types of activities are ineligible: acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of buildings for the general conduct of government; political activities; certain income payments; and construction of new housing by units of general local government.
A list of previous fiscal year Community Planning and Development Program Formula Allocations are available at www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/budget/. The program is authorized under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383, as amended; 42 U.S.C.-5301 et seq.
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Local agencies interested in participating in their local CDBG should contact the appropriate representative as listed at www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/contacts/.
Name: Steve Johnson
Department: Entitlement Communities Division
Street: 451 7th Street SW
Room 7282
City: Washington
Zip: 20410
Email: Steve_Johnson@hud.gov
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