[B]SAN FRANCISCO[\/B]\u2014U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said yesterday that the Northern Marianas will receive more than $1.4 million to support community development and produce more affordable housing.\u00a0 HUD\u2019s annual funding will also help find homes for individuals and families living on the streets.<\/p>\n
The fiscal year 2011 continuing resolution significantly reduced overall funding for HUD\u2019s Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Programs compared to last year. The nation\u2019s CDBG funding was reduced by more than $600 million, or about 16.5 percent, while the HOME program funding was reduced by more than $200 million, about 11.7 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s block grant funding requires tough choices that we would not have made in better circumstances,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cAs we work under the challenges of our nation\u2019s deficit, we must also understand that these programs are absolutely essential in promoting community development, producing affordable housing, helping our homeless and even supporting long-term disaster recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
The funding announced yesterday includes:<\/p>\n
* $824,363 in Community Development Block Grant funds;
\n* $570,054 in HOME Investment Partnerships funding; and
\n* $40.642 in Emergency Shelter Grant.<\/p>\n
HUD is instituting several important program priorities this year. First, the department\u2019s consolidated planning process will be enhanced. Largely unchanged since the mid-1990s, the \u2018Con Plan\u2019 will be simplified by integrating HUD\u2019s technology systems and eliminating the need to prepare a separate annual performance report. Second, HUD\u2019s Office of Community Planning and Development is moving rapidly to implement its unified OneCPD technical assistance process, which is particularly important as many local governments continue to struggle with budgetary pressures resulting from the economic downturn. Finally, HUD is again urging grantees to consider the needs of returning veterans and their families in the design and administration of these formula programs. [B][I](HUD)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN FRANCISCO\u2014U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said yesterday that the Northern Marianas will receive more than $1.4 million to support community development and produce more affordable housing. HUD\u2019s annual funding will also help find homes for individuals and families living on the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}