The City of Eau Claire Housing Division is accepting applications for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding to agencies and programs throughout the community for the 2022 grant year (August 1, 2022-July 31, 2023).
Donor Name: City of Eau Claire
State: Wisconsin
City: Eau Claire
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/04/2022
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
CDBG funds are distributed to eligible governmental units in two ways:
- Entitlement grants directly to cities and counties, and;
- Grants to states, which conduct annual competitions for non-entitlement communities.
Goals
- Create Suitable Living Environments → applies to programs that benefit communities, families, or individuals by addressing issues in their environment, including social and physical barriers.
- Provide Decent Affordable Housing → applies to programs that involve meeting individual, family, or neighborhood housing needs, rather than community-wide housing needs.
- Expand Economic Opportunity → applies to programs that promoted community economic development, including business expansion, commercial revitalization, or job creation.
Objectives
- Improve availability/accessibility: This category applies to activities that make services, infrastructure, public facilities, housing, or shelters available or accessible to low/moderate income people, including persons with disabilities. In this category, accessibility does not refer only to physical barriers, but also to making the affordable basics of daily living available and accessible to low/moderate income people where they live.
- Improve affordability: This category applies to activities that provide affordability in a variety of ways in the lives of low/moderate income people. It can include the creation or maintenance of affordable housing, basic infrastructure hook-ups, or services such as transportation or day care.
- Improve Sustainability: This category applies to projects where the activity or activities are aimed at improving communities or neighborhoods, helping to make them livable or viable by providing benefit to persons of low/moderate income or by removing or eliminating slums or blighted areas through multiple activities or services that sustain communities or neighborhoods.
Eligibility Criteria
The following are all the activities that are currently eligible provided such an activity meets a national objective of the CDBG program:
- Housing Rehabilitation
- Public Facilities and Public Improvements directly benefiting low-income people
- Property Acquisition benefiting low-income people
- Demolition and Clearance of blighted properties
- Historic Preservation: Residential
- Housing Code Enforcement
- Facilities or the Removal of Architectural Barriers for the elderly or handicapped adults
- Public Service programs which support the community development effort (15% cap) directly benefiting low income people.
- Administrative and Planning costs for program management (20% cap)
- Other projects in compliance with 24 CFR Part 570 for the Community Development Grant
For more information, visit Community Development Block Grant.