Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
HUD established the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program to ensure decent affordable housing for all, and to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, to create jobs and expand business opportunities. The CDBG program is broken down into several smaller parts, Entitlement Communities, Non-Entitlement Communities, (which includes both the State Administered CDBG Program and the HUD Small Cities Program) and Insular Areas.
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annual appropriation for CDBG is split between states and local jurisdictions
called "entitlement communities". Entitlement communities are central
cities of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs); other metropolitan cities with
populations of at least 50,000; and qualified urban counties with populations
of at least 200,000 (excluding the population of entitled cities). States
distribute the funds to localities that do not qualify as entitlement
communities.
HUD
determines the amount of each grant by a formula which uses several objective
measures of community needs, including the extent of poverty, population,
housing overcrowding, age of housing and population growth lag in relationship
to other metropolitan areas. Over a 1, 2, or 3-year period selected by the
grantee, not less than 70% of the CDBG funds must be used for activities that
benefit low- and moderate-income persons. All activities must meet one of the
following national objectives for the program: benefit low- and moderate-income
persons, prevention or elimination of slums or blight, community development
needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and
immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community.
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Funding Category: |
Funds for the prevention or elimination of slums or blight and to provide services, create jobs and business opportunities for residents of predominantly low-and moderate-income neighborhoods. |
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Target Population: |
Low- and moderate-income persons |
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Funding Available: |
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FY 2002, total CDBG funding allocation was $5.0 billion. CDBG Entitlement
Communities received $3.0387 billion; Non-Entitlement Communities received
$1.3023 billion. |
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Application Information: |
Instructions
for Urban County Qualification for Participation in the CDBG Program for FY
2003-2005 |
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