The City of Redwood City is pleased to announce the availability of Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), and Human Services Financial Assistance (HSFA) program funds for eligible projects.
Donor Name: City of Redwood City
State: California
City: Redwood City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The City of Redwood City receives annual entitlements (grant funds) of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The CDBG program provides resources to address a wide range of community development needs principally for low-income households. CDBG is used to produce and/or preserve decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in the community, and to create jobs through the expansion and retention of businesses.
Proposals for these grant fund sources will be accepted from organizations providing assistance to low‐income households (households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income {AMI} for San Mateo County) residing within Redwood City and meeting one or more of the City’s Consolidated Plan priorities related to affordable housing, homeless services, human services, public facilities, economic development and fair housing.
Funding Priorities and Funding Criteria
CDBG, HOME and HSFA funds will be used to support organizations who utilize partnerships and collaborations to support the needs of low, very low income and extremely low income households (households with incomes at or below 80% of the median income for San Mateo County).
The Housing and Human Concerns Committee (HHCC) will make funding recommendations to the City Council for 2024‐2025 based on the following funding criteria. The HHCC will be looking for projects which make the best use of the City’s funds. Emphasis will be made on effective use of funds and collaboration with other organizations to maximize the resources available to those in need.
- Consistency of proposed projects to Consolidated Plan priorities and goals. Greater consideration will be given to activities that respond to more than one priority
- Effective leveraging of CDBG and HOME funds with non‐federal funds.
- Affirmative marketing of programs to Redwood City residents and other service providers to achieve a balance that reflects the actual ethnic diversity of the City in relationship to the service provided.
- Effectiveness of the program and the organization implementing the program. This will include an evaluation of the performance of organizations funded in the last program year.
- Timeliness of expenditure of funds ‐ Agencies who can leverage and expend allocated CDBG, HOME, or HSFA funds within the contract term.
- Extent to which proposed projects respond to the Funding Criteria in the three program areas listed below:
CDBG
CDBG funds can be used to support projects that provide assistance to low and moderate income households (households with incomes at or below 80% of AMI), eliminate slum and blight, or to meet an urgent need. For this NOFA, CDBG funds can be used to support the following programs and activities:
- Affordable Housing: Acquisition of sites for affordable housing, conversion of existing housing to affordable, acquisition, and rehabilitation of housing (includes special needs housing).
- Homeless Assistance Activities: provision of legal intervention to prevent homelessness, provision of operation funds for shared housing, emergency shelter and transitional housing and related services for homeless and those at risk of homelessness, youth and single persons.
- Human Services: Provision of fair housing counseling services and basic human needs are activities that are vital for survival and not just an improvement to the quality of life, regardless of income. For example, emergency food programs are essential to survival. Coordination of a volunteer program is an improvement to the quality of life.
- Public Facility Improvements (Non‐Housing Community Development): Removal of architectural barriers in public facilities for persons with disabilities, development of public facilities, or preservation and rehabilitation of public facilities.
- Economic Development: Job creation, intervention programs that create actual jobs for low income residents, and microenterprise assistance.
HOME
HOME funds can be used to support projects that provide assistance primarily to very low income households (households with incomes at or below 50% of the AMI). For this NOFA HOME funds can be used to support the following programs and activities:
- Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO): This set aside of HOMF funding must be used by a designated CHDO. CHDO must act as the owner, developer, or sponsor of a project that is an eligible set‐aside activity. Eligible set‐aside activities include: the acquisition and/or rehabilitation of rental housing; new construction of rental housing; acquisition and/or rehabilitation of homebuyer properties; new construction of homebuyer properties; and direct financial assistance to purchasers of HOME‐assisted housing that has been developed with HOME funds by the CHDO.
HSFA
- HSFA funds can be used to support basic human needs services that provide assistance to persons or households in Redwood City. Basic human needs are activities that are vital for survival and not just an improvement to the quality of life, regardless of income. For example, emergency food programs are essential to survival. Coordination of a volunteer program is an improvement to the quality of life.
Funding Information
- CDBG
- Fair Housing
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2026
- $15,000
- Public Services
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2026
- $101,018
- Economic Development
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2026
- $50,000
- Housing ‐ Minor rehabilitation programs
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2026
- $100,000
- Public Facilities and Housing ‐ Capital Projects
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2026
- $495,788
- Fair Housing
- HOME
- CHDO Set‐aside (includes PY21‐22, 22‐23 and 23‐24 carryover)
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2025
- $189,617
- CHDO Set‐aside (includes PY21‐22, 22‐23 and 23‐24 carryover)
- HSFA
- Basic Human Needs Services
- July 1, 2024‐June 30, 2025
- $100,000
- Basic Human Needs Services
Eligible Activities
- Acquisition/disposition/clearance activities of real property.
- Public facilities and improvements ‐ acquisition, construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation of public facilities and improvements including:
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- Community and senior centers
- Recreation facilities
- Facilities for persons with disabilities and removal of architectural barriers
- Childcare facilities
- Facilities serving presumed benefit populations
- Public service activities (limited to 15% of annual entitlement) relating to:
- Employment
- Crime prevention
- Childcare
- Health
- Drug abuse
- Education
- Fair housing counseling
- Energy conservation
- Homebuyer down payment assistance
- Recreational needs
- Interim and emergency assistance relating to health and safety.
- Relocation assistance triggered by federally funded activities.
- Homeownership Assistance which allows direct CDBG assistance for low and moderate income homebuyers in the form of:
- Interest rate subsidies
- Financing the acquisition of owner‐occupied housing
- Purchase of guarantees for mortgage financing for lower and moderate income homebuyers
- Payments of 50% of any required down payments and reasonable closing costs
- Microenterprise assistance to facilitate economic development.
- Technical assistance to increase capacity of public or non‐profit entities to carry out:
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Economic development activities
- Assistance to Institutes of Higher Education (eligible under Public Services).
- Rehabilitation and preservation:
- Code enforcement
- Historic preservation
- Lead based paint hazard evaluation and reduction
- Renovation of closed buildings for housing
- Special Economic Development Activities:
- Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of commercial buildings
- Provision of financial assistance to private businesses (in limited circumstances)
- Economic development related to employment opportunities for low income persons
- Special Activities by Community Based Development Organizations (CDBO) to carry out:
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Community economic development
- Energy conservation project
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be formally incorporated non‐profit entities based in Redwood City or agencies that provide services throughout the County of San Mateo who can demonstrate a significant Redwood City client base.
- All applicants must provide a service that is not a duplication of an existing public sector program, OR if the service is duplicated, the applicant must show why it is not an unnecessary duplication of service.
- No more than 15% of City funds granted can be used for administrative costs.
- The amount of funds requested cannot represent more than 20% of cost of the program for which funding is being requested.
- Minimum application and funding award amount is $10,000.
- All recipients agree to actively participate in City efforts to coordinate and improve human services within the City.
- The program described must respond to a basic human need.
For more information, visit City of Redwood City.
