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Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides financial assistance to States, cities, and counties in support of a variety of housing, community, and economic development projects. The CDBG program works largely without fanfare or recognition to ensure decent affordable housing and provides services to the most vulnerable in our communities. The program creates and retains jobs and expands business opportunities.

HUD determines the amount of each grant by a formula comprised of several measures of community need, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing, and population growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas.

Eligible Activities

Not less than 70% of the CDBG funds must be used for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons. All activities must meet one of the following three national objectives of the program:

Benefit low- and moderate-income persons

Prevent or eliminate slums or blight

Address community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community and for which other funding is not available.

	Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB Closeout Instructions for Community Development Block Grant Programs (CDBG)
	Reporting Requirements for the State Performance and Evaluation Report
	Instructions for Urban County Qualification for Participation in the CDBG Program for FYs 2012-2014
	Additional Allocations and Waivers Granted to and Alternative Requirements for 2010 CDBG Disaster Recovery Grantees
	Guidelines for Administering the State CDBG Colonias Set-Aside
	Housing Counseling under CDBG and NSP
	Allocations and Common Application and Reporting Waivers Granted to and Alternative Requirements for CDBG
	Announcement of Funding Awards for the Community Development Technical Assistance Programs Fiscal Year 2009
	Timely Distribution of State CDBG Funds
	'Basically CDBG' Course Training Manual

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