...DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT/SMALL CITIES PROGRAM 14.219 (B) PROGRAM DESCRIPTION To assist communities in providing decent housing and a suitable living environment,...principally for persons of low and moderate income. USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS Generally, as in the case of entitlement grants, most activity previously...

...single program of community development block grants (CDBGs). The primary objective of the new law is the development of viable urban communities by...principally for persons of low and moderate income. This objective is to be achieved through elimination of slums and blight and detrimental living conditions;...

...objectives as broad and overlapping as the CDBG program. The legislation states that "the primary objective is the development of viable urban communities by...principally for persons of low and moderate income." Sec. l0l(c). The Congressional consideration of the legislation has tended to focus on three purposes...

...low and moderate incomes; in Section l0l (c), the major objective of the CDBG program was defined as: ...the development of viable urban communities, by...principally for persons of low and moderate income. This statutory intention was reinforced with similar language throughout the Act; in addition, Assurance...

...17, 1979 I. INTRODUCTION The housing and Cormuni ty Development Act states as its primary objective the development of viable urban communities, by providing...principally for persons of low- and moderate- income. The Act also requires the applicant to certify that its community development program has been developed...

...findings and purposes section where Congress stated that the primary objective of the CDBG program was "the development of viable urban communities, by providing...opportunities, principally for persons of low- and moderate-Income ." HUD currently enforces this standard by reviewing applications to see whether 75...

...needs. The sum of activities in any local program must contribute to the primary objective of developing viable urban communities by providing decent housing...opportunities, principally for persons of low- and moderateincome. The following table reflecta how 2,046 entitle granteea plan to use 1979 CDBG funds...

...DC: Government Printing Office, October 1975) pp. 25-26, 51-52, 79-80, 98-99. 114-119, and 135- 136. decent housing and a suitable living environment and...principally for persons of low and moderate income." 14 CDBG is a most tangled and complex piece of legislation, but this summary statement by Frieden and...

...objective of this title is the development of viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and suitable living environment AND EXPANDING ECONOMIC...principally for persons of low and moderate income." (Emphasis added) . Since jobs production is a major component of expanding economic opportunities,...

...Housing and Community Development Act of l974 specifies that: "* * * the primary objective of this title is the development of viable urban communities, by...principally for persons of low and moderate income." However, HUD regulations implementing the law did not contain standards regarding the degree of targeting...