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The Consolidated Plan for Housing & Community Development serves four
separate but integrated functions:
- It is a community-based planning document
for the City;
- It is the application to the U.S. Department of Housing &
Urban Development for the City's formula-based
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnership Act
(HOME)
funds;
- It describes the strategies the City will follow in carrying out its CDBG and
HOME programs for the period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2008; and
- It
includes an annual action plan against which performance can be measured.
The basic goals of the CDBG and HOME programs (as defined by federal statute)
are:
- Assist the homeless to obtain appropriate
housing
- Assist those threatened with homelessness
- Retain the affordable
housing stock
- Make available permanent housing that is affordable to
low-income residents without discrimination
- Increase the supply of supportive
housing for persons with special needs
- Improve the safety and
livability of neighborhoods
- Increase access to quality facilities and
services
- Reduce isolation of income groups within an area through
decentralization of housing opportunities and revitalization of deteriorating
neighborhoods
- Restore and preserve properties of special value for historic,
architectural or aesthetic reasons
- Conserve energy resources
- Create jobs accessible to low-income persons
- Provide access to capital and credit for development activities that
promote the long-term economic and social viability of the community
- Establish, stabilize and expand small businesses
- Empower low-income persons
to achieve self-sufficiency to reduce generations of poverty in federally
assisted public housing
Page last updated May 13, 2003
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