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: 01/05/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Delaware County anticipates receiving approximately $3.5 million in CDBG funds in Program Year (PY) 2024. Of the total anticipated Entitlement, approximately $2.2 million will be awarded to public improvement, planning and public service activities through the PY 2024 application process
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.
