The City of Annapolis is inviting housing and community development organizations to submit applications for projects for FY 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
Donor Name: City of Annapolis
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The primary objective of the CDBG Program is the development of viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate-income.
In Fiscal Year 2025, which begins July 1, 2024, the City expects to receive approximately $306,000 in CDBG funds.
National Objectives
To qualify for CDBG funds, a project must meet the Low and Moderate Income (LMI) Benefit National Objective. This means that an activity must benefit LMI persons or households. This is accomplished by:
- Serving individuals or households that earn 80 percent of area median income (AMI), or
- Serving persons presumed to be LMI such as those with special needs, persons with disabilities, homeless persons and the elderly, or
- The project must be located in an area predominantly inhabited by LMI residents.
Eligible Activities
HUD regulations also specify categories of activities that are eligible for CDBG funding. Generally, the two types of projects are:
- Public Service Activities (e.g. operating expenses for human services). The City is restricted by law to spending no more than 15% of its funds on public service activities.
- Capital Projects (e.g., construction, rehabilitation, acquisition, demolition, clearance, etc.).
According to federal CDBG regulations outlined at 24 CFR 570, the basic eligible activities include a variety of uses including homeownership activities, rental housing activities, public facilities, and public services. The following list includes possible activities that organizations may implement with CDBG dollars:
- Provision of public services, including but not limited to those concerned with crime prevention, drug abuse, education, homebuyer down payment assistance, energy conservation, and recreational needs.
- Acquisition of real property by purchase, long-term lease, or donation.
- Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities, streets, neighborhood centers, and the conversion of school buildings for eligible purposes.
- Clearance, demolition, and removal of buildings and improvements.
- Repairs to sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, publicly owned utilities and public buildings (in areas showing physical deterioration).
- Relocation payments and other assistance for permanently and temporarily relocated individuals, families, businesses, non-profit organizations, and farm operations.
- Housing services, housing counseling, loan processing, and inspections
- Direct homeownership assistance to low or moderate-income households.
- Rehabilitation and Preservation of privately owned buildings, low-income public housing, publicly or commercially owned industrial buildings, non-profit owned non-residential buildings, and manufactured housing.
- Code enforcement, including costs incurred for inspection for code violations and enforcement of codes in deteriorating or deteriorated areas.
- Historic preservation, including rehabilitation, preservation, or restoration of publicly and privately owned historic properties.
- Economic Development Activities including the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or installation of commercial or industrial buildings or real property; the provision of assistance (such as loans, grants, and technical assistance) to private non-profit business; microenterprise assistance to facilitate economic development, including financial support (such as grants and loans), technical assistance, and counseling.
- Activities by Community-Based Development Organizations (CBDOs) as grants or loans to any CDBO qualified to carry out neighborhood revitalization, community economic development, or energy conservation projects. CBDOs qualifying under HUD criteria are organizations organized under state or local laws to engage in community development activities in specific geographic areas within communities. The complete list of HUD criteria for qualifying as a CBDO can be found at 24 CFR 570.204.
- Planning, Urban Environmental Design and Policy-Planning-Management Capacity Building Activities including planning activities which consist of data gathering, studies, analysis, preparation of plans and the identification of actions that will implement such plans.
- Policy-planning-management-capacity building activities that enable a recipient to determine its needs, set goals and objectives, and devise, evaluate, and carry out projects and activities.
Program Requirements for the Use of CDBG Funds
HUD requires that the activities funded with CDBG funds meet the following criteria:
- The project must meet a HUD National Objective.
- The project must meet local goals and objectives as outlined in the City’s Consolidated Housing and Community Plan.
- The project must be eligible based on HUD’s definition.
- Eligible organizations must be nonprofit 501 (c) (3) agencies serving Annapolis residents. Organizations based outside the City may be eligible as long as the majority of the proposed beneficiaries are City of Annapolis residents.
- All proposed projects must be located in the City and benefit primarily Annapolis citizens. If the project is not located in the City, please provide documentation that shows the project serves primarily Annapolis residents.
Ineligible Activities
- Acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of buildings for the general conduct of government, general government expenses, political activities.
- Purchase of construction equipment, fire protection equipment, furnishings and personal properties, operating, and maintenance expenses.
- Income payments.
- Construction of new housing.
For more information, visit City of Annapolis.
