Area benefit activities. An activity, the benefits of which are available to all the residents in a particular area, where at least 51 percent of the residents are low and moderate income persons. Such an area need not be coterminous with census tracts or other officially recognized boundaries but must be the entire area served by the activity. An activity that serves an area that is not primarily residential in character shall not qualify under this criterion.
Area benefit activities. (i) An activ- ity, the benefits of which are available to all the residents in a particular area, where at least 51 percent of the residents are low and moderate income persons. Such an area need not be co- terminous with census tracts or other officially recognized boundaries but must be the entire area served by the activity. Units of general local govern- ment may, at the discretion of the state, use either HUD-provided data comparing census data with appro- priate low and moderate income levels or survey data that is methodologi- cally sound. An activity that serves an area that is not primarily residential in character shall not qualify under this criterion.
(ii) An activity, where the assistance is to a public improvement that pro- vides benefits to all the residents of an area, that is limited to paying special assessments levied against residential properties owned and occupied by per- sons of low and moderate income.
(A) An activity to develop, estab- lish and operate (not to exceed two years after establishment), a uniform emergency telephone number system serving an area having less than 51 per- cent of low and moderate income resi- dents, when the system has not been made operational before the receipt of CDBG funds, provided a prior written determination is obtained from HUD. XXX’s determination will be based upon certifications by the State that:
(1) The system will contribute sig- nificantly to the safety of the residents of the area. The unit of general local government must provide the state a list of jurisdictions and unincorporated areas to be served by the system and a list of the emergency services that will participate in the emergency telephone number system;
(2) At least 51 percent of the use of the system will be by low and moderate income persons. The state’s certifi- cation may be based upon information which identifies the total number of calls actually received over the pre- ceding twelve-month period for each of the emergency services to be covered by the emergency telephone number system and relates those calls to the geographic segment (expressed as near- ly as possible in terms of census tracts, enumeration districts, block groups, or combinations thereof that are con- tained within the segment) of the serv- ice area from which the calls were gen- erated. In analyzing this data to meet the requirements of this section, the state will assume that the distribution of income among callers generally re- flects the income charac...
Area benefit activities. (i) An activity, the benefits of which are available to all the residents in a particular area, where at least 51 percent of the residents are low and moderate income persons. Such an area need not be coterminous with census tracts or other officially recognized boundaries but must be the entire area served by the activity. An activity that serves an area that is not primarily residential in character shall not qualify under this criterion.
(ii) For metropolitan cities and urban counties, an activity that would otherwise qualify under § 570.208(a)(1)(i), except that the area served contains less than 51 percent low- and moderate-income residents, will also be considered to meet the objective of benefiting low- and moderate-income persons where the proportion of such persons in the area is within the highest quartile of all areas in the recipient's jurisdiction in terms of the degree of concentration of such persons. This exception is inapplicable to non-entitlement CDBG grants in Hawaii. In applying this exception, HUD will determine the lowest proportion a recipient may use to qualify an area for this purpose, as follows:
(A) All census block groups in the recipient's jurisdiction shall be rank ordered from the block group of highest proportion of low and moderate income persons to the block group with the lowest. For urban counties, the rank ordering shall cover the entire area constituting the urban county and shall not be done separately for each participating unit of general local government.
(B) In any case where the total number of a recipient's block groups does not divide evenly by four, the block group which would be fractionally divided between the highest and second quartiles shall be considered to be part of the highest quartile.
(C) The proportion of low and moderate income persons in the last census block group in the highest quartile shall be identified. Any service area located within the recipient's jurisdiction and having a proportion of low and moderate income persons at or above this level shall be considered to be within the highest quartile.
(D) If block group data are not available for the entire jurisdiction, other data acceptable to the Secretary may be used in the above calculations.
(iii) An activity to develop, establish, and operate for up to two years after the establishment of, a uniform emergency telephone number system serving an area having less than the percentage of low- and moderate-income residents required under para...
Area benefit activities. Benefiting all the residents of a primarily residential area in which at least 51% of the residents have incomes at or below 120% of area median income. • Limited Clientele Activities: Serving a limited clientele whose incomes are at or below 120% of area median income. NSP grantees develop their own programs and funding priorities. However, grantees must use at least 25% of the funds appropriated to house individuals or families whose incomes do not exceed 50% of the area median income. Activities may not qualify under NSP using the CDBG "prevent or eliminate slums and blight" or "address urgent community development needs" national objectives. Web link: xxxx://xxxxxx.xxx.xxx/hudportal/HUD?src/programogices/commplanning/affordablehousing/programs/home/ The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) provides formula grants to States and localities that communities use - often in partnership with local nonprofit groups - to fund a wide range of activities including building, buying, and/or rehabilitating affordable housing for rent or homeownership or providing direct rental assistance to low-income people. HOME is the largest Federal block grant to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households. HOME funds are awarded annually as formula grants to participating jurisdictions (PJs).The program's flexibility allows States and local governments to use HOME funds for grants, direct loans, loan guarantees or other forms of credit enhancements, or rental assistance or security deposits. Participating jurisdictions may choose among a broad range of eligible activities, using HOME funds to provide home purchase or rehabilitation financing assistance to eligible homeowners and new homebuyers; build or rehabilitate housing for rent or ownership; or for "other reasonable and necessary expenses related to the development of non-luxury housing," including site acquisition or improvement, demolition of dilapidated housing to make way for HOME-assisted development, and payment of relocation expenses. Web link: xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/program_offices/comm_planning/esg Provides grants by formula to States, metropolitan cities, urban counties and U.S. territories for eligible activities, generally including essential services related to emergency shelter, rehabilitation and conversion of buildings to be used as emergency shelters, operation of emergency shelters, and homelessness prevention services. Web link: xxxx://xxx...
