Do you have a project that will address or improve public infrastructure, housing rehabilitation, property acquisition, economic development activities, public services, and eliminating slums and blight in the community? If yes, then this grant is for you!
Donor Name: City of Lewiston
State: Idaho
City: Lewiston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The City of Lewiston’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It provides communities with resources to address various unique community development needs.
The City’s CDBG program aims to assist low and moderate-income residents and individuals with special needs in the Lewiston community.
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program provides annual funding on a formula basis to entitled cities and counties to develop viable urban communities. The program’s principal beneficiaries are low-income households. The goals of the program are to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing, provide a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities.
Goal
The proposed activity meets which of the following goals (select only one):
- Goal #1 – Creates a suitable living environment
- This objective relates to activities that are designed to benefit communities, families, or individuals by addressing issues in their living environment (such as poor-quality infrastructure) to social issues such as crime prevention, literacy or elderly health services.
- Goal #2 – Provides decent housing
- This objective focuses on housing programs where the purpose of the program is to meet individual, family, or community needs and not programs where housing is an element of a larger effort, since such programs would be more appropriately reported under suitable living environment.
- Goal #3 – Creates economic opportunities
- This objective applies to the types of activities related to economic development, commercial revitalization, or job creation.
Objectives
Select the most appropriate objective for the proposed activity.
- Improve availability/accessibility
- This category applies to activities that make services, infrastructure, public facilities, housing or shelters available or accessible to low/moderate income persons, including persons with disabilities. In this category, accessibility does not refer only to physical barriers, but also to making the affordable basics of daily living available and accessible to low/moderate income people where they live.
- Improve affordability
- This category applies to activities that provide affordability in a variety of ways in the lives of low/moderate income persons. It can include the creation or maintenance of affordable housing, basic infrastructure hook-ups, or services such as transportation or day care.
- Improve sustainability
- This category applies to projects where the activity or activities are aimed at improving communities or neighborhoods, helping to make them livable or viable by providing benefit to persons of low/moderate income or by removing or eliminating slums or blighted areas through multiple activities or services that sustain communities or neighborhoods.
Funding Information
The 2024 CDBG Allocation for the City of Lewiston has yet to be determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the past, the City has received anywhere from $113,000 to $240,000.
Eligible Activities
The following are all the activities that are currently eligible provided such an activity meets a national objective of the CDBG program:
- Housing Rehabilitation
- Public Facilities and Public Improvements directly benefitting low-income persons
- Property Acquisition benefitting low-income persons
- Demolition and Clearance of blighted properties
- Historic Preservation: Residential
- Facilities or the Removal of Architectural Barriers for the elderly or handicapped adults
- Public Service projects must be either a new service or quantifiable increase in the level of service, which support the community development effort (15% cap of the City’s CDBG allocation) directly benefiting low-income persons.
- Administrative and Planning costs for CDBG program management (20% cap)
- Other projects in compliance with 24 CFR Part 570 for CDBG.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible recipients, known as subrecipients, include non-profit corporations, neighborhood preservation organizations, economic development agencies, and health or job development agencies.
For more information, visit City of Lewiston.
