Community Development Block Grant Program Request for Portsmouthva Form

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This is a story about one way local governments get funding for community development. Here's Big City. Big City is in a major metropolitan area. A lot of people live there. Big City has problems they need money to fix. Their roads are bad. One of their neighborhoods has a lot of abandoned homes. Some of the buildings downtown are deteriorating. There aren't enough jobs. Working class families have a hard time finding places to live that they can actually afford. Here's Small Town. Small Town has the exact same problems. For both Big City and Small Town, the problems are so large there just isn't any way for the local government to pay for solutions on its own. That's where Community Development Block Grant (or CDBG) funding comes in. This is money from the federal government. Of course, the government isn't giving funding away for just anything. They say CDBG must go toward community development and at least 70% has to benefit people with low or moderate incomes. The rest of the fundi