The Delaware County Council is seeking applications for its Community Development Block Grant Program to create viable urban communities; by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities principally for persons of low- and moderate-income.
Donor Name: Delaware County Council
State: Pennsylvania
County: Delaware County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/06/2023
Details:
Delaware County Council has initiated planning for development of the County’s Program Year (PY) 2023 Housing and Community Development (HCD) Action Plan, which includes the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The County anticipates receiving approximately $3.0 million in CDBG funds in the upcoming program year, which is scheduled to begin on July 1, 2023.
Objectives
- Benefit an area with at least 48.91% low- and moderate-income residents.
- Objective Low- and Moderate- Income Benefit in an Area Basis and your community’s low/moderate income map. The supporting narrative and documentation must address all the following:
- A written Determination of the service area, including the source used to determine the service area (e.g. ACS 2011-2015 data).
- A Narrative describing the impacted area and the affected population, including evidence that the area is primarily residential with at least 48.91% low- and moderate – income residents.
- Areas of Low and Moderate-Income Concentration Map showing the boundaries of the above-defined service area.
- Objective Low- and Moderate- Income Benefit in an Area Basis and your community’s low/moderate income map. The supporting narrative and documentation must address all the following:
- Benefit a limited clientele where at least 51% are low- and moderate-income.
- The supporting narrative must include a description of the target population. In addition, the applicant must provide documentation demonstrating that the activity will meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements:
- Activities that exclusively serve a clientele who are generally presumed to be low-and moderate- income (e.g. elderly, severely disabled adults, battered spouses, abused children, homeless persons, illiterate adults, persons living with AIDS, and migrant farm workers).
- The proposed program has income eligibility requirements limiting the activity exclusively to low- and moderate income persons
- Require information on family size and income so that it is evident that at least 51% of the clientele are persons whose family income qualifies as low- and moderate-income.
- The supporting narrative must include a description of the target population. In addition, the applicant must provide documentation demonstrating that the activity will meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements:
- Aid in the prevention or elimination of slum or blight on an area basis.
- The supporting narrative must address all the following:
- An official Designation within the last 10 years of the area as slum or blighted under state or local law with a description of the boundaries.
- Demonstration that a substantial portion of buildings and/or infrastructure is deteriorating.
- A Description of how proposal activity(s) will address one or more conditions, which contributed to the area deterioration.
- The supporting narrative must address all the following:
- Eliminate specific conditions of blight on a spot basis.
- The supporting narrative must include a description of the specific condition(s) of blight or physical decay and how the activity addresses the condition(s) and will eliminate conditions detrimental to public health and safety.
- Eliminate specific conditions of blight in a designated urban renewal area.
- The supporting narrative must address all the following:
- A map and description of the urban renewal or Neighborhood Development Program area.
- Documentation showing the activity is necessary to complete the urban renewal area plan.
- The supporting narrative must address all the following:
- Planning activities such as data gathering, analysis, and preparation of plans.
- The supporting narrative must address the following:
- Description of the proposed planning process/methodology
- Description of the final product and anticipated benefit.
- The supporting narrative must address the following:
Eligible Activities
- Public Facilities and Improvements, including construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation (including the removal of architectural barriers to accessibility), or installation.
- NOTE: Applicants must complete the Public Facility and Improvement Attachment.
- Acquisition/Disposition of real property.
- NOTE: Applicants must contact OHCD staff prior to submitting an application for Acquisition activities.
- Public Services including BUT NOT LIMITED TO employment, services to the homeless or elderly, childcare, health, drug abuse, education, fair housing counseling, energy conservation, welfare, or recreational needs.
- NOTE: Applicants must complete the Public Service and Non-Profit Attachments (if applicable).
- Code Enforcement concentrated in deteriorated or deteriorating neighborhoods where such enforcement, together with public or private improvements or services, is expected to arrest the decline of the area.
- Planning Activities which consist of data gathering, analysis and preparation of plans.
- Historic Preservation of sites or structures that are either listed on or determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, designated as a State or local landmark or historic district by appropriate law or ordinance.
- NOTE: Applicants must complete the Public Facility and Infrastructure Attachment.
- Clearance and Remediation, including Brownfields. NOTE: Applicants must complete the Public Facility and Infrastructure Attachment.
For more information, visit Delaware County Council.
