The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is a flexible program that provides federal funding and resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs.
Donor Name: Town of Cary
State: North Carolina
Town: Cary
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/25/2022
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The CDBG program works to provide decent affordable housing and services to the most vulnerable in their communities, and to create jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses. CDBG is an important tool for helping local governments like Cary tackle serious challenges facing their communities. For individual 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.
Grant Period
- Under the Town’s 2022-2023 CDBG program application process, eligible entities are invited to submit applications for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding to carry out community development activities for the period July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023.
List of Eligible CDBG Activities
In addition to meeting a National Objective, each project must be an Eligible Activity. Such projects include:
- Public facilities and improvements including acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities, streets, neighborhood centers, and the conversion of buildings for eligible purposes. Also improvements of sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, publicly owned utilities and public buildings. Maintenance is not permitted.
- Removal of architectural barriers inhibiting handicap accessibility.
- Clearance, demolition, and removal of buildings.
- Rehabilitation and preservation of privately owned buildings; low-income housing; publicly or commercially owned buildings; non-profit owned non-residential buildings; or historic preservation, including rehabilitation, preservation or restoration of publicly and privately-owned historic properties.
- Housing development support for construction of new permanent residential structures may be eligible under certain circumstances.
- Acquisition of real property by purchase, long-term lease, or donation.
- Housing development support for construction of new permanent residential structures may be eligible under certain circumstances.
- Home ownership assistance to low to moderate-income households and housing services, including housing counseling, loan processing, inspections, and homebuyer down-payment assistance.
- Economic development activities such as:
- Programs that provide assistance to private for-profit business including but not limited to grants, loans, technical assistance and other forms of support, for any activity where the assistance and other forms of assistance is appropriate for carrying out an economic development project.
- Programs that provide economic development services including but not limited to outreach efforts to market forms of assistance, screening of applicants, reviewing and underwriting applications for assistance, preparation of necessary agreements, management of assisted activities, and screening, referral and placement of applicants for employment in CDBG eligible economic development activities, including training for persons filling positions.
- Programs that provide assistance through a public or private organization or agency to facilitate economic development to microenterprises or persons developing microenterprises by providing credit or financial support, technical assistance or advice, or general support, including but not limited to peer support, counselling, childcare transportation and similar services.
For more information, visit Community Development Block Grant.
