{"id":11526,"date":"2023-09-13T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:30:12","slug":"maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-more-than-5-million-in-community-development-block-grant-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2023\/09\/13\/maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-more-than-5-million-in-community-development-block-grant-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Announces More Than $5 Million in Community Development Block Grant Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funding will support 13 projects in eight counties<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>NEW CARROLLTON, MD (September 12, 2023) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day today announced that more than $5 million will be awarded through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/Communities\/Pages\/programs\/CDBG.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Development Block Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> program for Fiscal Year 2024. The federal grants will support 13 projects in eight counties, including improvements to infrastructure and community facilities and programs serving homeless persons, persons with disabilities and low- to moderate-income individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMaryland\u2019s local leaders have their finger on the pulse of their residents and communities, each with its unique needs,\u201d said Secretary Jake Day. \u201cWith the partnership of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, we\u2019re excited to be a part of helping cities, counties, and towns across Maryland support these versatile and important projects and activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The national Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG) was enacted into law by Congress as part of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Since then, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program has supported community redevelopment, affordable housing, and the expansion of economic opportunities. CDBG consists of two parts \u2014 the Entitlement Program, managed by HUD and providing federal funds directly to larger metropolitan counties and cities, and the States and Small Cities Program, providing federal funds to states which distribute assistance to more rural counties, cities and towns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than $5 million in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/Communities\/Documents\/cdbg\/FY2022-DHCD-CDBG-Awards.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fiscal Year 2024 Community Development Block Grants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was awarded to 13 projects, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renovations to a 6,000-square-foot building to provide day programming and mental health services to low-income and homeless persons in Prince Frederick (Calvert County)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sidewalk construction and replacement, ramp installation, and other accessibility improvements in Brunswick (Frederick County)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A countywide housing rehabilitation program for low and moderate income homeowners in Wicomico County<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a full list of awards, please visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/Documents\/PressReleases\/SFY24-CDBG-Awards.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/Documents\/PressReleases\/SFY24-CDBG-Awards.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding will support 13 projects in eight counties NEW CARROLLTON, MD (September 12, 2023) \u2013 Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day today announced that more than $5 million will be awarded through the Community Development Block Grant program for Fiscal Year 2024. The federal grants will support 13 projects in<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2023\/09\/13\/maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-more-than-5-million-in-community-development-block-grant-awards\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":11547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}