Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Funded by HUD
The CDBG program works to ensure decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, and to create jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses. CDBG is an important tool for helping local governments tackle serious challenges facing their communities. The CDBG program has made a difference in the lives of millions of people and their communities across the Nation.
The national objectives to be met are to:
- Provide direct benefit to low and moderate income persons
- Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight
- Meet urgent community needs which pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community when no other financial resources are available.
Some of the eligible housing activities are:
- Acquisition
- Infrastructure
- Clearance and demolition
- Homeownership assistance
- Rehabilitation activities
- Code enforcement
- Historic preservation
- Lead-based paint testing and abatement
There are also activities related to economic development, public services, community based development organizations and planning and administration.
The annual CDBG appropriation is allocated between States and local jurisdictions called "non-entitlement" and "entitlement" communities respectively. Entitlement communities are comprised of central cities of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs); metropolitan cities with populations of at least 50,000; and qualified urban counties with a population of 200,000 or more (excluding the populations of entitlement cities). States distribute CDBG funds to non-entitlement localities not qualified as entitlement communities.
HUD determines the amount of each grant by using a formula comprised of several measures of community need, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing, and population growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas.
CDBG is allocated as follows for Federal Fiscal Year 2006 in Idaho:
City of Boise -$1.3 million
Contact: Roxanna Hames at (208) 384-4158 Ext 104 - rhames@cityofboise.org - www.cityofboise.org/pds/housing
City of Idaho Falls- $418,000
Contact: Grant Administrator at (208) 612-8323 - www.ci.idaho-falls.id.us
City of Lewiston - $275,000
Contact: Grant Administrator at (208) 746-1318 - www.cityoflewiston.org
City of Nampa - $537,000
Contact: Jennifer Nye at (208) 468-5419 - nyej@ci.nampa.id.us - www.ci.nampa.id.us
City of Pocatello - $515,000
Contact: Grant Administrator at (208) 234-6186 – www.pocatello.us
State of Idaho - $9.1 million which is administered by the Department of Commerce http://community.idaho.gov/- due September and November 2006
Contacts are:
Northern Idaho and North Central Idaho – Dennis Porter at (208) 334-2470 Ext 2145
South Western and South Central Idaho - Susan Davidson at (208) 334-2470 Ext 2146
South Eastern and Eastern Idaho - Andrea Lindberg at (208) 334-2470 Ext 2173
Program Manager - Dianna Clough at (208) 334-2470 Ext 2140
A grantee must develop and follow a detailed plan that provides for and encourages citizen participation. This integral process emphasizes participation by persons of low or moderate income, particularly residents of predominantly low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, slum or blighted areas, and areas in which the grantee proposes to use CDBG funds. The plan must provide citizens with the following: reasonable and timely access to local meetings; an opportunity to review proposed activities and program performance; provide for timely written answers to written complaints and grievances; and identify how the needs of non-English speaking residents will be met in the case of public hearings where a significant number of non-English speaking residents can be reasonably expected to participate. This needs to be updated every year and submitted to HUD and approved by HUD before HUD will sign an agreement with the grantee for funding. |
