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Community and Economic Development and Housing Community Development Block Grant
Total Funding Available: $1 billion
According to HUD, Massachusetts shall receive a total of $29 million, $20 million of which would be forwarded directly to the 36 entitlement communities.
Overview
CDBG funds may be used to provide affordable housing, services, and jobs for the most vulnerable in our communities. Generally, appropriations are allocated to states and local jurisdictions. Entitlement communities are comprised of central cities of metropolitan statistical areas; 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.
Not less than 70 percent of CDBG funds must be used for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons. In addition, each activity must meet one of the following objectives: benefit low- and moderate-income persons, prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or address community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community for which other funding is not available.
Special Factors
Funds will remain available until September 30, 2009. Recipients must give priority to contracts based on bids within 120 days from the date the funds are made available to the recipient. Funds must supplement other funding sources, not supplant. The HUD Secretary will establish requirements to expedite use of funds.
How to Access Funding
Funds will be distributed under the same CDBG formula used in 2008. See 42 U.S.C. § 5301 et seq.
Federal Contact
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Development Block Grant Program
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs
State Contact
Department of Housing and Community Development
Division of Community Services
Mark Siegenthaler, (617) 573-1400
www.mass.gov/dhcd
Community Development-Grant and Funding Programs – CDBG
MMA Staff Contact
Matthew G. Feher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (617) 426-7272
Community and Economic Development and Housing Community Development Block Grant
Community Development Block Grant
Total Funding Available: $1 billion
According to HUD, Massachusetts shall receive a total of $29 million, $20 million of which would be forwarded directly to the 36 entitlement communities.
Overview
CDBG funds may be used to provide affordable housing, services, and jobs for the most vulnerable in our communities. Generally, appropriations are allocated to states and local jurisdictions. Entitlement communities are comprised of central cities of metropolitan statistical areas; 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.
Not less than 70 percent of CDBG funds must be used for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons. In addition, each activity must meet one of the following objectives: benefit low- and moderate-income persons, prevention or elimination of slums or blight, or address community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community for which other funding is not available.
Special Factors
Funds will remain available until September 30, 2009. Recipients must give priority to contracts based on bids within 120 days from the date the funds are made available to the recipient. Funds must supplement other funding sources, not supplant. The HUD Secretary will establish requirements to expedite use of funds.
How to Access Funding
Funds will be distributed under the same CDBG formula used in 2008. See 42 U.S.C. § 5301 et seq.
Federal Contact
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Development Block Grant Program
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs
State Contact
Department of Housing and Community Development
Division of Community Services
Mark Siegenthaler, (617) 573-1400
www.mass.gov/dhcd
Community Development-Grant and Funding Programs – CDBG
MMA Staff Contact
Matthew G. Feher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (617) 426-7272
Last Updated on March 23, 2009
