REPORT TO HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Consider Draft 2017 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Action Plan
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The City must submit an Action Plan to HUD every year in order to receive federal entitlement grants from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Programs. The draft 2017 HUD Action Plan ("Action Plan") provided in Attachment 2 has been prepared in accordance with federal requirements governing the use of these entitlement grants, including the citizen participation requirements. HUD is the federal agency that administers and regulates these grants. The Action Plan sets forth the proposed uses of the CDBG and HOME funds projected to be available in the coming fiscal year, as shown in Table 1 in the Discussion section of this report. These funds may be used for eligible community development activities to meet the priority and/or unmet needs, primarily of lower-income residents, described in the City's HUD Consolidated Plan.
The City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and consider this item on May 9, 2017.
Staff recommends that the Commission recommend to City Council Alternative 1: Approve 2017 Action Plan as shown in Attachment 2.
BACKGROUND
HUD requires entitlement grantees, which include larger cities, counties and states, to submit an application, referred to as a Consolidated Plan, every five years, to maintain eligibility for CDBG and HOME Program grants. Sunnyvale's last Consolidated Plan was approved in 2015 and covers fiscal years 2015-16 through 2019-20. In addition, every year, these grantees must submit an annual "Action Plan" to HUD for its approval in order to obtain the grant for the coming fiscal year. The Action Plans describe the grantees' local needs and the projects and programs to be funded with the grant funds in the coming fiscal year. Upon HUD approval, the annual Action Plans are appended to the five-year Consolidated Pl...
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