Title
Public Hearing to Consider Approving the Housing and Community Development Needs Statement for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2022-23. (Community Development 20361841)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As an entitlement recipient of CDBG funds, the City of Alameda (City) receives approximately $1.15 million per year from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
As a condition of funding eligibility, CDBG regulations require that two public hearings be held: (1) determine housing and community development needs/decide on local projects and priorities that would benefit from funding; and (2) development of proposed activities/review of program performance. This public hearing is designed to obtain residents' views and respond to questions concerning o housing and community development needs relating to the action plan (Action Plan) described below for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 CDBG Annual Plan, which will be presented to City Council in May 2022. In 2020, the City prepared its Five-Year Consolidated Plan (Consolidated Plan), a planning document required by HUD, which is designed to assist the City with assessing its affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions so that it may make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. The Consolidated Plan identified the following priorities: affordable housing, homelessness, reducing housing discrimination, other special needs, and non-housing community development (public services, economic development, and public facilities).
BACKGROUND
The City is an entitlement recipient of CDBG funds from HUD. Each year the City receives an entitlement allocation of approximately $1.15 million of CDBG funding. CDBG funds finance programs and activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons and households while helping prevent or eliminate slums and blight. To receive CDBG funding...
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