CDBG Background

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs. Beginning in 1974, the CDBG program is one of the longest continuously run programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The CDBG program provides annual grants on a formula basis to 1209 general units of local government and States.

City of Roswell CDBG Program

The City of Roswell currently qualifies as a CDBG entitlement community. Entitlement communities develop their own programs and funding priorities and give maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income persons. HUD awards annual grants to entitlement community grantees to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development, and providing improved community facilities and services.

HUD determines the amount of each entitlement grant by a statutory dual formula which uses several objective measures of community needs, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing and population growth lag in relationship to other metropolitan areas. To maintain these awards, HUD requires its CDBG entitlement grantees to submit a Five Year Consolidated Plan (also known as a Con Plan), an Annual Action Plan (AAP), a Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER), an Analysis to Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Plan (AI), and a Citizen Participation Plan (CPP). The most current versions of these documents can be found below.

 

The City of Roswell is seeking public comments on its revised Section 108 loan application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Section 108 program allows local governments to leverage portions of their Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds into federally guaranteed loans for economic and community development projects. The City’s loan funds will go to support the Roswell Housing Authority’s Phase I redevelopment of the Pelfrey Pines Apartments located at 199 Grove Way.

To ensure access to all information, drafts of the documents are available electronically in the document section below and hard copies are available at:

• City of Roswell, Grants Division
  38 Hill St., Suite 130
  Roswell, GA 30075
• East Roswell Public Library
  2301 Holcomb Bridge Road
  Roswell, GA 30076
• Housing Authority of the City of Roswell
  766 Myrtle Street
  Roswell, GA 30075
• Roswell Public Library
  115 Norcross Street
  Roswell, GA 30075

Public comments are encouraged and can be submitted in writing to the City of Roswell, Grants Division, 38 Hill Street, Suite 130, Roswell, GA 30075 or through the City's CDBG Program email, cdbg@roswellgov.com. Per the City's Citizen Participation Plan, the public comment period for the draft will run for 30 days, starting on Friday, November 1, 2024. All comments must be submitted by 12:00 PM on Monday, December 2, 2024.

No displacement will occur as a result of the activities described herein. Should displacement occur, the City of Roswell will implement the provisions as required by CFR 570.606 (Residential Anti-Displacement and Relocation Assistance). The City of Roswell does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the admission of, access to, or treatment of, or employment, the programs and activities described herein. An interpreter is available upon request to assist persons with limited English proficiency. Any requests for reasonable accommodation required by an individual to fully participate in any open meetings, programs, or activities should be directed to the Roswell Grants Division, 770-641-3727 or CDBG@roswellgov.com.

 

Download the Draft Version of the Section 108 Loan Application