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CDBG-CV Upcoming Webinars and Training Material Archive
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CDBG-CV Community Violence Intervention Quick Guide
This Quick Guide identifies evidence-based strategies to mitigate and reduce community violence and provides suggestions on how such activities could be funded with CDBG or CDBG-CV resources.
Date Published: September 2, 2021
CDBG-CV Rural Economic Development Quick Guide
This Quick Guide provides resources to help states and rural grantees support the more robust local economic development infrastructure needed for their COVID-19 pandemic recovery such as special economic development and microenterprise assistance activities.
Date Published: August 26, 2021
CDBG-CV Co-Managing Disaster Recovery and CARES Act Programs Quick Guide
This Quick Guide summarizes the key similarities and differences between the CDBG-CV and the CDBG-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs and how their allocations can be used together.
Date Published: July 20, 2021
CDBG-CV Rural Coronavirus Response Quick Guide
This Quick Guide provides resources to help states and rural grantees identify eligible activities and programs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the disruption and impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
Date Published: June 16, 2021
This Quick Guide summarizes some of the ways CDBG-CV grantees can help narrow the digital divide through the provision of broadband infrastructure and services to communities in need due to the coronavirus.
Date Published: June 16, 2021
CDBG-CV Public Facilities Quick Guide
This Quick Guide helps grantees select and implement CDBG-CV funded public facility and infrastructure projects. The Guide also describes some of the "cross-cutting" requirements of federal grants and HUD programs and explains what grantees should consider when a public facility may no longer be needed for its intended use.
Date Published: June 10, 2021
This Toolkit categorizes and organizes CDBG-CV specific and relevant tools and training resources in one location to foster quick and easy access.
Date Published: May 28, 2021
State CDBG-CV Implementation Quick Guide
This Quick Guide summarizes key components of the CARES Act (CDBG-CV) as they relate to State CDBG-CV program implementation and gives grantees an overview of the overall alternative requirements and flexibilities granted in Federal Register Notice F.R. 6218-N-01. The Guide will also identify the state-specific alternative requirements and flexibilities granted in the CDBG-CV Federal Register Notice, review alternative models for State CDBG-CV program delivery, and identify resources and technical assistance available to State CDBG-CV grantees.
Date Published: May 20, 2021
CDBG-CV PPR Tieback Flexibilities Quick Guide
This CDBG-CV PPR Tieback Flexibilities Quick Guide provides grantees with information on using CDBG and CDBG-CV funds for a range of eligible activities that prepare for, prevent, and respond to coronavirus (also known as "PPR tieback"). This quick guide helps grantees understand this approach and how to apply it.
Date Published: May 4, 2021
CDBG-CV Financial Management Quick Guide
This quick guide provides a brief overview to help grantees set up their financial management system (FMS) to comply with the requirements of the new CDBG-CV supplemental assistance award program and CDBG-CV Notice.
Date Published: April 29, 2021
CDBG-CV Economic Development Quick Guide
This quick guide provides grantees with information on using CDBG-CV funds to implement economic development and small business assistance activities.
Date Published: April 21, 2021
These FAQs provide information to CDBG and CDBG-CV grantees on using grant funds and related flexibilities provided by the CARES Act as communities work to prevent and respond to the spread of COVID-19.
Date Published: March 11, 2021
The purpose of this Notice is to provide guidance to grantees in determining whether unemployment insurance benefits received by individuals under the CARES Act, 2021 Appropriations Act, and a recent Presidential Memorandum are "income" under CDBG regulations.
Date Published: February 24, 2021
PR26 CDBG-CV Financial Summary Report Instructions
These instructions provide guidance to help users submit the PR26 Community Development Block Grant CARES (CDBG-CV) Financial Summary Report, also know as PR26 CDBG-CV. The instructions highlight key differences between PR26 CDBG-CV and the PR26 CDBG Financial Summary Report (PR26 CDBG).
Date Published: January 26, 2021
CDBG-CV Duplication of Benefits Resources
These resources provide guidance and technical assistance to grantees in preventing Duplication of Benefits.
Date Published: November 25, 2020
Methodology for Allocations of CDBG-CV Funds
These documents describe the methodology for allocating the second and third round of CDBG-CV.
Date Published: September 11, 2020
This page shows CARES Act supplemental funding for CPD funds.
Date Published: September 11, 2020
This notice describes the program rules, statutory and regulatory waivers, and alternative requirements applicable to supplemental CDBG funds made available to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus (CDBG-CV funds) and to annual formula CDBG grants awarded in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.
Date Published: August 10, 2020
Tools for Landlords with Tenants Impacted by COVID-19
This document helps landlords to engage with at-risk tenants while remaining in compliance with fair housing laws and understand the key elements of a repayment plan. The document provides links to sample rent repayment agreements.
Date Published: August 7, 2020
Tenant Guidance: Rent Repayment Plans
This document assists at-risk tenants in understanding and pursuing rent repayment agreements with their landlords. The document includes links to helpful resources and a sample script for requesting a repayment agreement from a landlord. Use of this guidance is optional and grantees and tenants are strongly cautioned to review their state and local laws as under some laws, a tenant notifying an owner of the inability to pay rent is sufficient for the owner to initiate eviction proceedings.
Date Published: August 7, 2020
CDBG CARES Act Eviction Moratorium Q&As
These Q&As provide guidance on Section 4024 of the CARES Act which imposes a temporary moratorium on evictions. The temporary eviction moratorium applies to certain dwelling units assisted by CDBG loans (including Section 108 guaranteed loans), NSP loans, and CDBG-DR loans.
Date Published: May 18, 2020
This memorandum authorizes and explains a waiver of the regulatory requirement at 24 CFR 91.520(a), that within 90-days of the end of a jurisdiction’s program year a grantee shall submit to HUD a performance report known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER).
Date Published: May 7, 2020
CARES Act Flexibilities for CDBG Funds Used to Support Coronavirus Response
This memorandum grants a waiver for plan amendments with instructions on how a grantee may submit an amendment for allocated CDBG-CV funds. The expedited process allows a grantee to incorporate CDBG-CV funds within the most recent annual action plan, including a 2019 annual action plan. The memorandum includes an attached guide which outlines the CARES Act flexibilities for CDBG grantees.
HUD urges States and localities not to wait to apply for their CDBG-CV allocations.
Date Published: April 9, 2020
CDBG Eligible Activities to Support Infectious Disease Response
This guide describes how grantees may use CDBG funds for a range of eligible activities that prevent and respond to the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
Date Published: April 6, 2020
National Briefing on CDBG Support for Infectious Disease Response Webinar
This webinar covers topics such as plan amendments, virtual hearings, timeliness considerations, and public service limitations.
Date Published: March 16, 2020
CDBG COVID-19 Q&A: Using CDBG Funds for Staff Costs and Unused and Partially Utilized Space
This Q&A describes the eligibility of the use of CDBG funds for costs associated with staff who are on leave due to the closure of the grantee or subrecipient’s office, and the costs of the grantee or subrecipient’s unused or partially utilized space in response to COVID-19.
Date Published: March 25, 2020
CDBG-DR COVID-19 Notice of Waivers, Alternative Requirements and Extensions for 2015-2019 Disasters
This notice governs Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds awarded under several appropriations. It provides additional flexibility to CDBG-DR grantees as they continue their disaster recovery efforts while also responding to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Date Published: August 17, 2020
These FAQs provide information to CDBG-DR, CDBG-NDR, and CDBG-MIT grantees on flexibilities HUD is granting on timelines, eligible activities, and citizen participation as communities work to prevent and respond to the spread of COVID-19.
Date Published: August 17, 2020
Section 108 Q&A for Borrowers Seeking Relief as a Result of Coronavirus
This document provides questions and answers describing actions that can be taken by HUD and communities to assist borrowers experiencing economic distress as a result of coronavirus.
Date Published: April 13, 2020
Contact your local CPD field office director to request technical assistance from HUD staff or a technical assistance provider.
HUD has technical assistance providers that may be available to assist grantees in their implementation of CDBG funds for activities to prevent or respond to the spread of infectious disease.
Submit questions to your local CPD field office and copy CPDQuestionsAnswered@hud.gov.