The City of Hemet is pleased to announce the release of its 2024/2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).
Donor Name: City of Hemet
State: California
City: Hemet
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/11/2023
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of the CDBG program is to enhance and maintain viable urban communities through the provision of decent affordable housing, a suitable living environment and the expansion of economic opportunities; principally for low and moderate income persons. CDBG is an important tool for assisting local government agencies to tackle serious challenges facing their communities. The CDBG program has made a difference in the lives of millions of people and their communities across the nation.
The goal of the City of Hemet, with funding from CDBG, is to increase self-sufficiency and economic opportunity for lower-income residents and individuals with special needs so that they can achieve a reasonable standard of living. Specifically, from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2025 the City has established the following priority needs and subsequent goals as a guide for allocating CDBG funding:
- Housing
- Enhance affordable home ownership through education, preservation and rehabilitation
- Annually fund fair housing services including first time home buyer education
- Annually fund code compliance services
- Annually fund housing rehabilitation activity
- Enhance affordable rental housing through education and preservation
- Annually fund landlord tenant services
- Public Facilities & Infrastructure
- Improve existing infrastructure, community and public facilities
- Annually fund infrastructure or facility projects (engineering, fire, public works and/or non-profit)
- Economic Development
- Retain and expand economic opportunities through enhancement of public facilities
- Fund, as available, infrastructure projects that encourage or support Economic Development
- Homeless
- Support the local Continuum of Care strategy to aid Homeless persons and families, and to end chronic Homelessness
- Allocate CDBG staff time to actively participate in CoC
- Allocate CDBG staff time to collaborate with local Homeless providers
- Fund as available innovative activities to prevent or reduce Homelessness and increase self sufficiency
- Non-Housing Special Needs
- Provide supportive services for persons with special needs, including youth, elderly, and persons with disabilities
- Fund as available innovative public service activities.
National Objectives
In order for an activity or program to be eligible for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding it must qualify as meeting one or more of the following Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) three National Objectives:
- Activities benefiting low and moderate income persons/household
- Activities which aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight
- Activities designed to meet community development needs having a particular urgency
Funding Information
To ensure efficient administration of CDBG funding the minimum project allocation will be $10,000.
Eligible Activities
- Acquisition of real property
- Disposition of real property
- Acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or installation of public facilities and improvements, such as:
- Parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities
- Senior centers
- Neighborhood Facilities
- Fire protection equipment
- Parking facilities
- Street improvements
- Flood, drainage, or sewer facilities
- Clearance, demolition and removal of buildings and improvements
- Public services, within certain limits
- Interim assistance necessary to arrest deterioration or alleviate emergency conditions threatening the public health and safety
- Housing services
- Privately owned utilities
- Construction of housing
- Homeownership assistance
- Provision of assistance to carry out economic development and job creation/retention activities
- Rehabilitation and preservation of residential and non-residential structures, both publicly and privately owned
- Activities relating to energy conservation and renewable energy resources
Criteria
Non-profit agencies and City of Hemet departments interested in receiving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds must submit a complete project application.
For more information, visit City of Hemet.
