The Community Development Block Grant Program Can be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation's Cities: Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Appropriations, United States SenateU.S. General Accounting Office, 1981 - 40 pages |
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adequate administrative weaknesses application audit reports benefits to low better targeting block grant assistance block grant funds block grant program block grant recipients block grant rehabilitation Brookings Institution budget city officials city we visited city's block grant Community Development Act Community Development Block controls over expenditures CONTROLS OVER GRANTEE deferred loan deficiencies Development Block Grant Direct loan drawdown rates effective eligible activities eligible items entitlement grantees evaluate example expenditures of block field offices financing techniques flexibility geographic targeting GRANTEE EXPENDITURES grantee performance report Housing and Community HUD area office HUD field HUD Inspector HUD issued HUD officials HUD's IG HUD's monitoring identified included loan Direct grant million moderate-income persons Nation's neighborhood non-essential October 31 percent priority problems in grantees procedures program progress questioned costs RECOMMENDATION rehabilitation needs rehabilitation programs repairs review of rehabilitation revitalization needs Southern Regional Council specific staff UNITED STATES SENATE
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Page 12 - * * * the primary objective of this title is the development of viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.
Page ix - An area designated in a community's 3-year community development and housing plan for a program of concentrated community development activities. For each neighborhood strategy area the applicant shall include in its...
Page 13 - ... as a whole shall principally benefit lowand moderate-income persons. (3) An application shall be presumed to principally benefit low- and Moderate-income persons, absent substantial evidence to the contrary, where not less than 75 percent of the program funds to be available during the three year period covered by the applicant's community development and housing plan shall be used for projects and activities which principally benefit lowand moderate-income persons under the standards in paragraph...
Page 2 - Hughes, p. 633-634 reason to suppose that more recent measurements would show that things have gotten much better. In sum, available evidence provides little cause for optimism about the not-too-distant past of more distressed cities. Over the middle seventies, people, jobs, and wealth continued to move out of these cities and into newer, more prosperous ones. By almost any reasonable measure of the prosperity of places — levels of population. Income, employment, economic activity, and concentration...
Page 13 - ... such application may be disapproved if the Secretary determines that the extent to which a primary purpose is addressed is plainly inappropriate to meeting the needs and objectives which are consistent with the community's efforts to achieve the primary objective of this title.
Page 2 - New Partnership To Conserve America's Communities: A National Urban Policy," prepared by the President's Urban and Regional Policy Group. services, adequate jobs, sound neighborhoods, good housing, and healthy environments. Our efforts should be directed, to the maximum extent possible, at helping cities help themselves. "We should help distressed cities and communities recover their financial stability and make certain that today's healthy cities do not become distressed in the future. We should...
Page 13 - ... to a greater or lesser degree than any other, except that such application may be disapproved if the Secretary determines that the extent to which a...
Page 26 - ... the need to limit eligible rehabilitation work to that which is essential to restore the housing unit to a safe, decent and sanitary condition...
Page 3 - The change to the block grant approach reflected a desire to shift the responsibility for community development from the Federal Government to the local governments, as well as to streamline the application and review process. The block grant program provides communities much more flexibility than was allowed under the categorical system to design programs which will meet the cities
Page 13 - Subpart with specific regard to the primary purposes of principally benefitting persons of low and moderate income, or aiding in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight or meeting other community development needs having a particular urgency, or with other applicable laws, or the application proposes activities which are ineligible under Subpart C.