Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)

2023 - 2024 DRaft ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

The Draft 2023-2024 Annual Action Plan is now available for public review and comment.  A public comment period will begin on Saturday, June 24, 2023 and end on Monday, July 24, 2023.  A final draft will be submitted to the City Council for their review and approval following a public hearing on Monday, August 7, 2022 at 6 PM in the Howard L. Brown Public Safety Building. 

The public is encouraged to review and comment on the proposed amendments. If you cannot attend a public hearing, but would like to comment, please submit written comments to the Community Development Department at 903 W. Main Street, Blue Springs, MO 64015.

Overview of CDBG

The United States Congress reaffirmed the nation's primary housing goal "that every American family be able to afford a decent home in a suitable environment" through the passage of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act of 1990.

Goals of the Act

This Act made substantive changes to the nation's approach to providing low and moderate income families with greater opportunities toward obtaining affordable housing. The 1990 Act listed the following goals to guide the various federal housing programs covered by the Act:

  • Ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness
  • Increase the Nation's supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and increase accessibility to job opportunities
  • Improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States Help make neighborhoods safe and livable
  • Expand opportunities for home ownership
  • Provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage financing at the lowest possible interest rates
  • Encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved

CDBG Funds & Blue Springs

Beginning in 2006, the City of Blue Springs qualified as an "Entitlement Community", which means it became entitled to receive CDBG funds. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards these entitlement funds. The CDBG program is administered by Community Development Department Staff. For more information please visit the HUD CDBG Program website.

 

For more information contact Cara Elbert, Assistant Director at (816) 220-4504 or e-mail celbert@bluespringsgov.com .