This week, April 5-9th, is National Community Development Week. It’s an opportunity for residents to learn more about the many ways that local governments partner with non-profits and foundations to help vulnerable individuals and families in our community overcome challenges by finding affordable places to live, improving their neighborhoods, and preventing homelessness.
Each year, the city receives approximately $5 million in federal grant funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The funds come from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) programs. In 2020-2021, the City also received additional grant funding to respond to the widespread impacts of COVID-19. The grants are designed to be flexible, giving the community the opportunity to decide locally where the funds are needed most. Each year, the City’s Community Development Division engages in a robust stakeholder process to est
This City Club program is the second in a three-part series on local housing issues.
From the City Club of Eugene:
Oregon’s Legislature took the historic step to re-legalize traditional “missing middle housing” in 2019, but the work to build housing diversity and more inclusive neighborhoods has just begun.
One promise of “missing middle housing” is that it can deliver “affordability by design” that per-unit development costs can come down when we design more efficient housing units and share land costs among multiple homes. In Portland, where the City’s missing middle housing implementation was ahead of Oregon’s new state law, some community members raised the objection that affordability was not guaranteed by the policy changes. In response, housing advocates crafted Portland’s “Deeper Affordability” code amendments: an affordable housing density bonus equivalent to a $150,000 subsidy for each project. It turns out that accomplishing affordability is abo
Verbatim: City partnership to aid homeless
The city of Fort Wayne issued the following Tuesday, December 22, 2020:
Fort Wayne, Ind. – A new partnership formed by several local organizations and the City of Fort Wayne will result in additional assistance for homeless individuals and families.
St. Joseph Missions and Just Neighbors Interfaith Homeless Network will be the lead agencies providing a warming center for homeless men, women, and families and an overnight shelter for homeless single women. The City of Fort Wayne, through federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and under the direction of the City s Community Development Division s office of Housing and Neighborhood Services, will be the fiscal agent. Additional partners include the Fort Wayne Area Planning Council, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, and several local churches.