Scott PowersMay 10, 2019
4min425
'Northwest Florida’s residents are resilient, but they have waited nearly seven months.'
Tag: CDBG
Scott PowersMay 10, 2019Scott PowersApril 17, 2019
3min1014
Orange County is set to get $9.8 million overall.
A.G. GancarskiJune 27, 2017
2min173
Jacksonville is in line to receive just over $11M in money from Housing and Urban Development for FY 2017, per a letter from HUD dated Jun. 15. Over half of that sum — $5.661M — will come in through Community Development Block Grants, a category that the Donald Trump Administration has questioned. This is down significantly […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 17, 2017
6min249
The press releases promoting Jacksonville’s celebration of National Community Development Week are similar between 2015 and 2017. Both the 2015 and 2017 versions discuss how much money Duval County has derived from federal Community Development Block Grants. This year’s model says that the city has derived $393M from CDBGs since 1975; the 2015 iteration said it […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 8, 2016
2min261
In good news from HUD, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry received written notice that monitoring issues from previous mayoral administrations’ reports in 2014 and 2015 had been resolved for Community Development Block Grants and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Four problems in total have been resolved. But here’s the bad news from HUD: one of them cost […]