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The CDBG program was enacted in 1974 by President Gerald Ford through the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and took effect in January 1975. Most directly, the law was a response to the Nixon administration's 1973 funding moratorium on many Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs.
Community Development Block Grants. HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides yearly funding not to borrowers or lenders, but to cities, counties and states. The grants ...
Eighteen community development block grant programs were consolidated into one Commerce Department program. [15] In 2009, Carl Stenberg wrote that block grants "could contribute a greater degree of flexibility to the intergovernmental system, but their potential [was] often overstated and difficult to realize."
Permanently authorizes and funds the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR): CDBG-DR funds are critical to filling the gap ...
HUD's programs include the Community Development Block Grant Program and the HOME program. One of the office's main functions is dispersing the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) as it does not directly provide full-fledged services, but instead aims to build partnerships with the public sector with the private sector, regardless if they ...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development would also receive $12 billion for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery, and negotiators say more than $3 billion would go to the ...
It’s important to keep in mind that this isn’t the only money for the disaster relief fund, said Stan Gimont, a senior adviser for community recovery at Hagerty Consulting. He used to run the community development block grant program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides federal funding for Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and other programs that seek to address poverty at the community level. Like other block grants, CSBG funds are allocated to the states and other jurisdictions (including tribes, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and ...