The City of Bangor is pleased to announce that applications for 2024 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds will be accepted from eligible organizations.
Donor Name: City of Bangor
State: Maine
City: Bangor
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The CDBG Entitlement Program, established in 1974 and administered by HUD, provides metropolitan cities and urban counties with funds to assist in achieving their goals of neighborhood revitalization, improved community facilities, prevention and elimination of slums and blight, and assistance to low and moderate-income persons. An appropriation amount is determined by a statutory formula which uses measurements of need. The City of Bangor has participated as an entitlement city under this program since 1987 and receives a yearly grant.
To qualify for CDBG funding, the applicant must meet one of the three national objectives:
- Benefit to low- and moderate-income persons as defined HUD; or
- Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; or
- Meet a community development need having a particular urgency where existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community, and no other funding sources are available.
Program Priorities
- Prevent and alleviate homelessness and their related health and social effects.
- Assist low to moderate income persons in need of food, shelter, clothing, health care and/or safety.
- Prevent and divert at-risk youth from homelessness
- Address the housing, health care, accessibility and service needs of underserved populations such as, but not limited to: elderly and persons with mental, physical, emotional and developmental disabilities and/or diseases.
- Support Landlords and tenants through Eviction Prevention and Housing Navigation Programs.
- Support and develop social services that offer short-term case management for tenants at risk of eviction, to find and negotiate leases, and to mediate landlord/tenant issues.
- Encourage programs and services which support housing providers with education and assist with communication barriers with rental assistance programs.
- Support and encourage programs to reduce costs of leasing assisted units.
- Provide affordable housing.
- Develop and support programs and projects to increase the supply of affordable housing for low to moderate income persons.
- Maintain and upgrade existing low to moderate income neighborhoods and preserve the affordable housing stock.
- Provide rehabilitation services that will assist low to moderate income homeowners and renters to continue living in their homes safely.
- Revitalize existing neighborhoods.
- Revitalize existing neighborhoods in low to moderate income areas by increasing services such as supportive social services, and upgrading public infrastructure, such as street lighting, improved sidewalks, parks, and recreational public facilities.
Funding Information
The City has been estimated of its annual federal allocation for Fiscal Year 2024, and expects to make approximately $300,000 in CDBG funds available through this application cycle.
Eligible Activities
- Acquisition or disposition of real property
- Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or installation of public facilities and improvements
- Site improvements
- Privately-owned utilities
- Clearance, demolition, removal of buildings and improvements, and/or movement of structures to other sites
- Interim assistance in areas exhibiting physical deterioration where immediate action is necessary to arrest deterioration and permanent improvements will be conducted as soon as practicable
- Removal of architectural barriers, ADA improvements
- Housing rehabilitation
- Code enforcement
- Historic preservation
- Commercial or industrial rehabilitation
- Special activities by subrecipients
- Public services
- General program administration.
Requirements
To receive its annual CDBG entitlement grant, the City – and all grantees – must develop and submit to HUD a five-year Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan. This document is a grantee’s comprehensive planning document, and application, for funding under the following Community Planning and Development formula grant programs: CDBG and the HOME Investment and Partnerships Program (HOME). In the Consolidated Plan, the grantee must identify its overall goals and its strategies for achieving those goals. The stated goals serve as the criteria against which HUD will evaluate the grantee’s Consolidated Plan, each of the Annual Action Plans, and its performance under the Consolidated Plan.
For more information, visit City of Bangor.
