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Housing & Development
How to Contact
Housing and Development
925 Laney Walker Blvd
Augusta, Georgia 30901
Phone: (706) 821-1797
Fax: (706) 821-1784
Augusta
Housing & Community Development
Community Development Block Grant Program
The Community Block Grants (CDBG) Program is the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Department’s primary program for promoting community revitalization throughout the country.
NATURE OF PROGRAM
Grants are awarded to entitlement communities to carry out a wide range of
community development activities directed toward neighborhood revitalization,
economic development and the provision of improved community facilities and
services. Communities develop their own programs and funding priorities. However,
Grantees must give maximum feasible priority to activities which either benefit
low – and moderate-income persons, aid in the prevention or elimination
of slums and blight or activities designed to meet other community development
needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious
and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community where other
financial resources are not available to meet such needs. At least 70% of the
total CDBG allocation must be used for activities that benefit low –and
moderate-income persons. At least 51% of the beneficiaries of individual activities
designed to benefit low – and moderate-income persons must be shown to
be of low- and moderate-income.
GRANTEE (Cities) Eligibility
Central cities of Metropolitan Statistical Areas; other metropolitan cities
with populations of at least 50,000; & qualified urban counties with populations
of at least 200,000 (excluding the population of entitled cities) are entitled
to receive annual grants. The amount of each entitlement grant is determined
by statutory formula which uses several objective measures of community need,
including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, and age
of housing and population growth.
Requirements to Receive CDBG Funds
To receive the funds, each city must develop and submit to HUD a Consolidated
Strategic Plan (CSP), which is a comprehensive planning document and application
for CDBG, HOME Investment Partnership, Housing Opportunities for Persons With
Aids, and Emergency Shelter Grant funds.
Eligible Activities that can be carried out with block grant funds include but are not limited to: