The 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, which includes the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing and population growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas.
