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Public Comment Ends Thursday at 5PM: Have Your Voice Heard on the City's Five-Year Consolidated Plan

thomasaduda wrote 3 weeks ago: Page 160, Saint Louis City Five-Year Consolidated Plan for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban … more →

Tags: Transcendent, Five-Year Consolidated Plan, Francis Slay, HUD, Mayor Slay, St. Louis, St. Louis City, St. Louis Planning and Urban Design Agency

Community Development Technical Assistance (CD-TA) CDBG Grants

thindes57 wrote 2 months ago: Funding Source: Department of Housing and Urban Development Funding Type: Grant, Discretionary Total … more →

Tags: CAPACITY, grant, Technical Assistance, HUD, Community Development Block Grant, Community Development

PAIA, WAILUKU AND LANAI BUDGET MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Wendy Osher wrote 2 months ago: A series of community meetings on the Mayor’s proposed budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year continue … more →

Tags: General, Wendy Osher, Maui News, Maui Now, maui today, Maui tv, Maui today tv, Maui video, Pacific Radio Group

Historic Desegregation/Affordable Housing Agreement Proposed in Westchester County, NY 2 comments

Patty Salkin wrote 3 months ago: County Legislators have until September 25, 2009 to decide whether to ratify a proposed landmark set … more →

Tags: Affordable Housing, Current Caselaw - New York, fair housing enforcement

City Hall has firmed up what it expects to seek for some 1,300 flood-disaster buyouts: $148 million in CDBG funds to go with an expected $27 million in FEMA money3 comments

Rick Smith wrote 4 months ago: The Iowa Department of Economic Development is finalizing plans for what it intends to do with the s … more →

Tags: City Hall, Floods, Buyouts, fema

City and state celebrate funding that will help put people into 177 new residences by year's end

Rick Smith wrote 4 months ago: Sometimes a city needs a dog-and-pony show. At least the case could be made for the one — for … more →

Tags: City Hall, CDBG, Jim Prosser, new housing

Flood victims in newly purchased homes may not lose their down-payment assistance after all; city looks at using local-option sales tax revenue to help

Rick Smith wrote 5 months ago: City Hall is investigating the possibility of providing targeted help to flood victims who received … more →

Tags: City Hall, Jim Prosser, Buyouts, Local Option Sales Tax

PA DCED Seeking Comment on Community Development Block Grant Recovery Funds

thindes57 wrote 5 months ago: The Department of Community and Economic Development is accepting comments on its action plan and pr … more →

Tags: arra, CAPACITY, News, Community Development Block Grant, community facilities, DCED, Infrastructure, Sewer, water

Recovery CDBG Funding for Parks?

Ben wrote 6 months ago: City officials across the country are now determining which projects to fund under the Community Dev … more →

Tags: Funding, stimulus funds, federal policy

Deadline for news on huge pot of federal buyout money has passed; City Hall upbeat that good news will arrive soon 2 comments

Rick Smith wrote 7 months ago: It’s been something of the Great Waiting at City Hall. State officials who have come to Cedar Rapids … more →

Tags: City Hall, Floods, Jim Prosser, Justin Shields, Buyouts, The Cedar Rapids Flood

A gush of praise: Another top Iowa official comes to Cedar Rapids to say the city is doing a great job in disaster relief and the state is, too3 comments

Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: Two big cheeses from Iowa’s state government in Des Moines have to come to two of the last three Cit … more →

Tags: City Hall, Floods, The Cedar Rapids Flood

Cautionary letters from Army Corps and state of Iowa suggest a City Hall not in idle, but one pushing to open doors for flood-disaster help

Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: Two letters with a similar cautionary tone arrived at City Hall in the last few days. One was from t … more →

Tags: City Hall, Floods, Jim Prosser, The Cedar Rapids Flood

SUN Testimony at Common Council Hearing on CDBG Budget

organizer wrote 8 months ago: My name is Maria Johnson and I am a member of the Board of Directors of Syracuse United Neighbors (S … more →

Tags: housing

Long-in-coming help for flood-hit landlords is on the way

Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: Help is nearly here for landlords of flood-damaged properties. The City Council this evening is expe … more →

Tags: City Hall, Floods, Affordable Housing, The Cedar Rapids Flood

Federal stimulus funds can be used for parks & recreation, says NRPA

azheritage wrote 9 months ago: The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) is touting a major victory for communities acros … more →

Tags: County Parks, local parks, State Parks, NRPA

State development chief says unraveling "mystery" necessary for fair share of fed's disaster relief

Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: Michael Tramontina, director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, was in Cedar Rapids on … more →

Tags: Floods, The Cedar Rapids Flood

GREAT DEPRESSION1 comment

Ashley wrote 10 months ago: The news regarding the proposed stimulus plan is depressing.  The president has said:  “ failu … more →

Tags: Men, Random Thoughts, Politics, Democrats, Economy, Economic Recovery Package, recession, Crisis, Economist

Need your help2 comments

adambelz wrote 1 year ago: I’m writing a story about the long journey CDBG money takes from the desk of the president, wh … more →

Tags: Flood, HUD

More on the 2008 Election & Preservation1 comment

Kaitlin wrote 1 year ago: Often a noteworthy comment goes unnoticed because not everyone is able to take time to read comments … more →

Tags: News & Issues, Working, preservation education, Missy Celii, Guest Posts, Politics, obama, McCain, historic preservation and 2008 election


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