Community Development Block Grants Competitive Cycle

Community Facilities

Eligibility requirements: 

• Applications that prove a need for the facility to serve a large portion of the public and implement a variety of services and programs will receive consideration.
• Education and health/well-being programs are priorities.  The facility must establish its ability to sustain the operation long after construction is complete. The Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credit Program and USDA Rural Development are programs where CDBG funds may match a larger project.
• At least 51% of the population of the beneficiaries served must be low to moderate-income persons.

Eligible Uses:

Community facilities, including senior centers, day care centers, community centers, youth centers, 911 services, rural health clinics (facilities without state funding), telecommunications, and others designed to provide a service or group of services from one central location for a prescribed area of residents or users.  This may include the infrastructure necessary to support the facility, as well.  A local government or non-profit agency must own the facility.  It is the responsibility of the city/county applicant to ensure the non-profit status of the entity seeking assistance.  The non-profit organization must have adequate operating funds and management structure to successfully operate the facility. 

Funding Limits:

Current limit is $500,000 or $5,000 per benefitting household. 

General Infrastructure

Program Benefits/Eligible Uses:
Grants may be used for construction for publicly owned infrastructure. Operation and maintenance activities are not eligible.

Funding Limits:
The maximum amount any applicant can apply for is $500,000 or $5,000 per household. 

Demolition

Eligibility Criteria: 
Communities participating in this activity must, at a minimum, determine blighted structures by applying existing dangerous building ordinance, building code level of violation or applicable occupancy or habitability designation or code violation in a manner consistent with their ordinance.

Program Benefits/Eligible Uses: 
Eligible uses of the funds are demolition, plus necessary professional services such as asbestos inspection and demolition inspection. 

Funding Limits: 
Current limit is $200,000 for residential only and $300,000 including commercial.

LMI National Objective

Any community attempting to qualify a project under the LMI Area Benefit (LMA) National Objective by Census must use the FY 2023 ACS 5-Year 2011-2015 Low- and Moderate-Income Summary Data, available on HUD’s website (accessed here).  Data may be accessed on the right hand column of the website by selecting “Local Government Summaries” for municipal- and county-level data, or one of the other dataset links for other defined Census geographies. 

**Please note that, at this time, HUD has not updated its LMI Mapping Tool with FY23 data so this should not be used to determine your project’s eligibility.

FY23 Income Limits

HUD has published the new income limits for any local income surveys.