Community Planning and Development Programs
The Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) seeks to develop viable communities by promoting integrated approaches that provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities for low and moderate income persons. The primary means towards this end is the development of partnerships among all levels of government and the private sector, including for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Consistent with these objectives, the Office of Community Planning and Development has developed a set of underlying principles that are used in carrying out its mission.
- Community building begins with job creation, employment, and creation of safe, decent and affordable housing.
- Planning and execution of community development initiatives must be bottom up and community driven.
- Complex problems require coordinated, comprehensive, and sustainable solutions.
- Government must be streamlined to be made more efficient and effective.
- Citizen participation in Federal, State and local government can be increased through communication and better access to information.
CPD seeks to encourage empowerment of local residents by helping to give them a voice in the future of their neighborhoods; stimulate the creation of community based organizations; and enhance the management skills of existing organizations so they can achieve greater production capacity. Housing and community development are not viewed as separate programs, but rather as among the myriad elements that make up a comprehensive vision of community development. These groups are at the heart of a bottom-up housing and community development strategy.
Community Development Block Grant
Summary
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program national objectives 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
Type of Assistance
The majority of the funding awarded from an entitlement community to a sub recipient is in the form of a grant.
The Federal Fiscal Year 2009 CDBG allocation in Idaho is: |
| City of Boise -$1.3 million |
City of Nampa - $542,000 |
| City of Idaho Falls - $407,000 |
City of Pocatello - $502,000 |
| City of Lewiston - $268,000 |
State of Idaho - $8.6 million |
Eligible Activities
- 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.
Eligible Applicants
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 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.
AMI Requirements
Area Benefit is an activity that benefits all residents in a particular area, where at least 51% of the residents are low (80% AMI) or moderate (100% AMI) persons.
Limited Clientele activities benefit a limited number of persons as long as at least 51% of those served are low income persons (≤80% AMI).
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City of Boise
James Birdsall, Manager
Boise Housing & Community Development
1025 S. Capitol Blvd.
Boise, ID 83706-3000
Phone: (208) 384-4158 ext.102 |
City of Idaho Falls
Jan Blickenstaff, Grant Administrator
Division of Planning and Building
P.O. Box 50220
Idaho Falls, ID 83405-0220
Phone: (208) 612-8323 |
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City of Lewiston
Ms. Laura Von Tersch, Director
Department of Community Development
215 D Street
P.O. Box 617
Lewiston, ID 83501-1930
Phone: (208) 746-1318 x 268 |
City of Meridian
Emily Kane
Deputy City Attorney
33 East Broadway Avenue
Phone: (208) 898-5506 |
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City of Nampa
Jennifer Nye-Yost,
Community Development Program Manager
City of Nampa
411 3rd St. South
Nampa, ID 83651
Phone: (208) 468-5419 |
City of Pocatello
Mr. Tim Tingey, Division Manager
Neighborhood and Housing Services
Planning and Development Services Department
911 North 7th Avenue
Pocatello, ID 83205
Phone: (208) 234-6188 |
Visit http://www.hud.gov/local/id/community/cdbg/index.cfm#state for more information on Idaho Entitlement Cities.
CDBG for the balance of the State of Idaho as administered by the Department of Commerce & Labor
http://commerce.idaho.gov/communities/
Contact is:
Dennis Porter, Community Development Manager
Department of Rural and Community Development
Idaho Department of Commerce and Labor
700 West State Street
Boise, ID 83720-0093
Phone: (208) 334-2650 x2145
Fax: (208) 334-2631
dennis.porter@community.idaho.gov
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