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CDBG
Applying for a Community Development Block Grant
Who's eligible?
CDBG applicants include: for-profit and non-profit organizations,
agencies, and individuals pursuing projects with at least
one of the following objectives:
 Improve
quality of life in the city
Ensure
renewal of blighted neighborhoods and gateways
Eliminate
vacant and uninhabitable housing units through clearance and rehabilitation
Support
Healthy Neighborhoods (link TBD) and SNAP (link TBD) initiatives
Increase
home ownership opportunities and improve home buyer education
Provide
quality, affordable rental opportunities for low-income households
Invest
in initiatives that promote public safety and curtail drug addiction
Encourage
neighborhoods to sponsor area clean-ups in concert with Baltimore
City sanitation services
Develop
strategies to improve citizens' skills and education that respond
to demands of a knowledge-based economy
Identify
quality, accessible housing units in Baltimore
Projects
must also meet one of the following national objectives, providing:
Benefit to low-and moderate- income persons Aid in the prevention
and elimination of slums and blight Meet an urgent need (usually
a national disaster -- hurricane, flood, earthquake)
What types of projects qualify?
CDBG grant recipients can pursue activities that include but are
not limited to: property acquisition, disposition, public facilities
and improvements, clearance, public services, relocation, rehabilitation,
program administration and planning.
How do I apply?
1. Download
the application packet. The application may be completed online
but cannot be submitted electronically. Please plan to
print your final application and mail, or hand deliver, to our
office.
You may also get the application in person between 8:30 AM and
4:30 PM at the CDBG Office: 417 E. Fayette Street, Room 1101,
Baltimore, MD 21202.
2. Prepare a separate proposal for each project or activity for
which CDBG funding is requested. Two copies of each proposal
submitted are required.
3. Submit all proposals via mail to:
Susan Taylor, Chief
Department of Housing and Community Development
CDBG Office
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 1101
Baltimore, MD 21202
Need more information?
For more information about CDBG, please contact:
Department of Housing and Community Development
CDBG Office
417 E. Fayette Street, Room 1101,
Baltimore, MD 21202
P:(410) 396-4207
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