Accessibility

CDBG Funds can be used to create accessible infrastructure, like this curb cutout, to ensure that individuals with disabilities are able to move throughout their community.

Museum

A museum may be assisted with CDBG funds to make facility improvements, facilitate economic development, and preserve historic structures. These museums can serve as a cultural anchor, fostering community identity, economic vitality, and heritage preservation.

Main Street Businesses

Small businesses, which can be supported by CDBG funds, benefit from economic development activities to revitalize commercial areas and support local economies.

Community Kitchen

CDBG funds can be used to further economic development in low- and moderate-income communities. Community kitchens, like this one, make affordable and nutritious food accessible to community members.

Farmers' Market

CDBG funds are used to support this farmer's market, which benefits from microenterprise assistance and economic development activities to provide fresh produce and stimulate local economies.

Broadband/Telecom

Access to fast and reliable internet is crucial for American communities. CDBG funds can help low- to moderate-income communities with broadband infrastructure and services.

Parks

Low- to moderate-income neighborhood enhancements, like this park, are bolstered by CDBG funds to uplift communities and improve quality of life for residents.

CDBG in Action!

Midland, TX created a target area program to focus its CDBG efforts on revitalization tailored to the individual needs of its most vulnerable neighborhoods. A citizen advisory committee recommended the target areas in five neighborhoods. The transformational improvements in the target areas include new or enhanced parks, upgraded streets, curbs and sidewalks, housing rehab and reconstruction, and infill housing development.

Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure projects, which are eligible uses of CDBG funds, promote sustainable development and environmental resilience, enhancing the overall livability and health of communities.

Public Art

Creating murals not only helps to beautify the community but it also leads to civic engagement, public service, and job training by using CDBG funding to support employment, mentoring, and training for artists and youth involved in the project.

Housing Rehabilitation

CDBG funds can be used for housing rehabilitation activities aimed at improving living conditions for low- and moderate-income residents.

Trails

Trails, eligible for support through CDBG funds, promote recreational opportunities and community connectivity, enriching the quality of life for residents in the area.

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels, a public service that can be supported by CDBG funds, provides essential meal services ensuring that vulnerable residents receive nutritious food and care.

Recovery Housing

The Recovery Housing Program, built on the CDBG framework, provides stable, transitional housing for individuals in recovery from a substance-use disorder.

Aging in Place

CDBG funds can be used for housing rehabilitation and to make accessibility improvements, which allows low- and moderate-income seniors to age in place.

Street Lights

Lights, eligible for support under the CDBG program, illuminate pathways and public spaces, enhancing safety and accessibility for community members.

Microlending/Revolving Loan Fund

The microlending/revolving loan fund, eligible for support through CDBG, empowers local entrepreneurs and small businesses to thrive, fostering economic growth and sustainability in underserved communities.

Community Participation

State and local governments that receive CDBG funds are required to engage their residents when determining how to use the funding. Community members have the opportunity to advocate for various community projects in local meetings, public hearings, and through written comments.

Energy

CDBG funds can be used to assist low- and moderate-income households with energy efficiency upgrades that would significantly save costs and help households with energy conservation.

Health Care

Access to health centers are crucial to the wellbeing of a community. CDBG funds can be used to support facility upgrades to ensure that patients can receive the care they need.

CDBG In Action!

The Sequoia Mental Health Services Office in Washington County, OR was destroyed by a fire. CDBG funds were used to pay for project related soft costs and the construction costs of a new clinical office and administrative building for the agency. The public facilities and improvement project benefited over 500 low-to-moderate-income people that receive treatment from the office.

Job Training

To assist people with job training, job search, and career counseling services, it is important to a have a designated space to a provide such resources. CDBG funding can be used towards public facilities and provide the funds necessary to create a workforce development center including resource rooms, workshop areas, and seminar spaces.

Manufactured Housing

Under the new Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) grant program, $235 million in funding is available to help low- and moderate-income households living in manufactured housing communities with critical investments such as repairs, infrastructure improvements, upgrades to increase resilience, and to receive housing counseling.

Meal Programs

CDBG in Action!

The Indio Senior Center, located in Indio, CA, administers a Senior Dinner Meal Program as a public service that provides two free meals to qualified seniors each Friday afternoon. Up to 80 seniors are fed each week.

Single Family Housing

CDBG funds can be used to revitalize communities. Single family housing, like the homes here, can be redeveloped and restored to prevent blight and provide housing to low- and moderate-income persons.

CDBG in Action!

In 1997, North Philadelphia leveraged over $22 million CDBG funds to create nearly 300 new units of affordable housing and establish the Cecil B. Moore Homeownership Zone, helping the community decrease its vacancy rate by more than 54%.

Playgrounds

Low- to moderate-income neighborhood enhancements like this community playground are bolstered by CDBG funds to uplift communities and improve quality of life for residents.

Food Bank

Construction of facilities, like this food bank, help provide crucial services to a community and are available to be assisted with CDBG funds.

CDBG In Action!

The Clark County Food Bank in Washington used CDBG funds to acquire a new warehouse that solved the community's lack of food storage issue. At the time, 28% of Clark County was food insecure; the project helped reached 120,000 individuals in Clark County.

Homeless Shelters

Homeless shelters, eligible under various CDBG activities including acquisition and substantial rehab, facility improvements, and planned permanent supportive housing, receive vital support to address homelessness in distressed areas, thanks to CDBG funding.

Community Garden

CDBG funds can be used to acquire property to develop a community garden that serves low- and moderate- income communities.

Education

CDBG in Action!

In 2011, Joplin, MO was struck with a devastating EF-5 tornado that destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, including Joplin School District's educational facilities. As part of Joplin's long-term recovery plan, CDBG funds were utilized to build a new state of art 38,000 square foot Joplin Early Childhood Center to accommodate approximately 400 children as a public facilities and improvement project. This project benefited children and low-to-moderate-income persons.

Urban Greening

CDBG funds can be used to plant trees, which can beautify urban areas and provide resilience against extreme heat.

Clean Electricity

Solar power installation costs pose a barrier for low income persons seeking to use renewable energy in their homes. CDBG funds can be used to assist with installation costs, allowing low- and moderate-income households to save on utility bills and be early adopters of solar power.

Public Safety

Public safety, eligible as public facilities or public services under CDBG funds, bolster community resilience and well-being by enhancing essential infrastructure and services to ensure the safety and security of residents.

Waterfront Housing

CDBG supports infrastructure development and acquisition to make properties, like this waterfront housing, more accessible to low- and moderate-income residents, while also ensuring that this community is not vulnerable to the environmental risk associated with living near water.

Section 108

The Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program allows CDBG grantees to leverage their annual grant to support larger, transformational projects that spur economic development, provide housing, or build public facilities and infrastructure.

CDBG in Action!

The Section 108 Program assisted in the construction of a 9-story, 180,000 square foot, LEED-certified office building with an attached art house theatre. This transit-oriented development created almost 400 full-time jobs, of which a majority are made available to low- or moderate-income people.

Waste & Wastewater

Wastewater treatment centers, like this one, can be acquired, constructed, and upgraded with CDBG funds in order to meet community development needs.