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Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)

Description

              • Details how communities can utilize CDBG funds to promote historic preservation and heritage tourism in their localities.
              • The guide helps state officials, local officials, and others understand how historic preservation and heritage tourism projects can be accomplished through various eligible activities under the CDBG program.  The CDBG program under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 provides resources and flexibility to local officials for determining development in their communities.
              • Describes eligible activities that can be used and includes examples of historic preservation and heritage tourism projects.

      How to Use This Tool

              • Check with your local city planning or community development office to see what type of CDBG funds are being used in your community.  The CDBG program provides annual grants on a formula basis to many different types of grantees through several programs, including: Entitlement Communities, State Administered CDBG, Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program, HUD Administered Small Cities, and Empowerment Zones.  The annual appropriation for CDBG is split between states and local jurisdictions called "entitlement communities". http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/index.cfm

Limitations

              • All CDBG assisted historic preservation and heritage tourism activities must meet a national objective.  The activity must benefit low and moderate-income persons; prevent or eliminate blight; or be designed to meet a community development need having an urgent need.

Examples

  • The preservation of a commercial building that results in the creation of jobs where at least 51 percent are held by low and moderate-income persons.
  • The preservation of a building used for a community center that serves residents in an area that is 51 percent low and moderate income.
  • An entitlement community that has used historic preservation activities in a designated blighted area.

Contact

  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410
    Telephone: (202) 708-1112 TTY: (202) 708-1455