REPORT TO HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Consider Approval of Draft 2024 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Action Plan
Report
BACKGROUND
HUD requires entitlement grantees (e.g., 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 2020 and covers fiscal years 2020/21 through 2024/25. In addition, every year entitlement grantees must submit an annual "Action Plan" to HUD for its approval to obtain the grant for the coming fiscal year. Action Plans are required to describe the grantees' local needs and the projects and programs to be funded with the grant funds in the coming fiscal year. The Action Plan is comprised of all grants and loans recommended by the City for funding for the upcoming fiscal year. Funding recommendations are made following a competitive funding application cycle, reviewed by the Housing and Human Services Commission (Commission) during the March 27, 2024 meeting. During that meeting, the Commission recommended funding the grants shown in this Action Plan (Attachment 2). Upon HUD approval, the annual Action Plans are appended to the five-year Consolidated Plan.
CDBG and HOME Programs
The CDBG program was established by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Public Law 93-383, and the HOME Program was established by the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990. These programs provide annual grants to jurisdictions to enable them to "develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for low and moderate-income persons." CDBG regulations define "low and moderate" as households earning not more than 80% of area median household income, or what the City and the State of California refer to as "lower-income households". The CDBG and HOME lower-income limits...
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