New Jersey Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program provides funds for economic development, housing rehabilitation, community revitalization and public facilities designated to benefit people of low and moderate-income or prevent or eliminate slums and blight or to address recent local needs for which no other source of funding is available.
Donor Name: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
State: New Jersey
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $400,000
Details:
State Program Objectives
The program objectives are as follows:
- Support housing rehabilitation programs that maintain the supply of safe, decent, and affordable housing.
- Support and encourage efficient patterns of community development, redevelopment, and capital funding by giving priority to proposals that address documented health and safety concerns.
- Encourage innovative proposals that improve housing, and other eligible activities to renew designated revitalization areas.
- Encourage the development of facilities needed to support welfare to work programs such as job training and child and elder care.
- Support and encourage neighborhood revitalization efforts identified in locally developed plans and strategies.
- Improve the availability and adequacy of essential public facilities, and remedy serious deficiencies in areas that principally serve people of low or moderate income.
- Ensure that municipalities have the capacity to implement community development programs and maintain community development improvements.
- To support community development projects of urgency where existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community, and where other financial resources are unavailable.
Funds
- Public Facilities Fund: This funding category assists units of local government to construct or improve essential public facilities that will primarily benefit people of low and moderate income. The maximum grant awarded in this category will be $400,000. However, this maximum may be exceeded if compelling reasons are presented and accepted by the DCA. Estimate 13 awards.
- Housing Rehabilitation Fund: This funding category assist units of local government improve the condition of affordable housing within their jurisdiction. County-managed programs may be awarded up to $400,000. Multijurisdictional programs may receive grants of up to $300,000. Awards to programs serving only one municipality may not exceed $200,000. This fund is limited to rehabilitate single-family owner occupied housing. Estimate 6 awards.
- Emergency Housing Repair Fund: The Emergency Housing Repair Fund (HRF) has been established to correct emergency conditions in owner-occupied housing where the owner is income-eligible and unable to obtain assistance from any other public or private source. $20,000 is set aside within the HRF for this activity should it be necessary. The maximum grant award in this category will be $10,000. However, the DCA will consider exceeding this ceiling if the applicant presents a compelling reason. Prospective applicants are required to contact the Small Cities CDBG Program prior to applying for assistance.
- Innovative Development Fund – Economic Activities, Property Buyouts $1,000,000 This funding category assist units of local government to fund new, innovative, and/or timely community development projects that fall outside the traditional funding categories of housing rehabilitation or public facility (improvement) projects; Grants may not exceed $400,000. Estimate 3 awards.
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