Download or read book The Community Development Block Grant Program Can Be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation s Cities written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant Program Can Be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation's Cities

Download or read book The Community Development Block Grant Program Can be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation s Cities written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Community Development Block Grant Program Can be More Effective in Revitalizing the Nation s Cities written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant Program allows cities to undertake a wide variety of activities to provide decent housing, jobs, and neighborhoods for their residents. Funds can be used for the acquisition and disposition of property, street improvements, water and sewer facilities, the rehabilitation of private properties, public services and parks, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities. The program's legislative history shows that, while Congress intended communities to have great flexibility in implementing their block grant programs, cities were to design their individual programs within broad national objectives. The lack of limitations on how funds may be used is diluting the program's impact. Cities often spread funds too widely, and rehabilitation funds are spent for questionable purposes and are not always provided to persons with the greatest need. In addition, there is sometimes insufficient information to determine whether funds are properly spent for eligible activities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has taken several initiatives to encourage better targeting by communities and, in response to past reports of weaknesses in its monitoring of block grant recipients, it has modified its grantee monitoring system. The GAO review raises questions as to whether local flexibility should be tempered with more Federal guidance on the overall limits within which cities can operate their block grant programs.

Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Nation to States written by Edward T. Jennings Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the Reagan administration's "New Federalism" initiatives in 1981 impacted state government in numerous ways. One example of this new era in intergovernmental relations is the transfer of responsibility of the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to state governments. This volume provides an overview of the Small Cities CDBG program, an analysis of its politics, and an examination of the grant award processes established by the states. It concludes with an assessment of the consequences of state assumption for program activities, outcomes, and administration. Assessing the program transfer within the context of theories and practices of intergovernmental relations and policy execution, the book provides rich contextual information and a thorough comparison of implementation activities and outputs in seven states.

Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book States are Making Good Progress in Implementing the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing Community Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Federal Funds Local Choices written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Development Block Grant Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Development written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Community Development Block Grant Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Planning and Development Evaluation written by United States. Office of Community Planning and Development. Office of Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bringing communities into the 21st century written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of the Community Development Block Grant program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Development Block Grants written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides funding for housing, economic development, and other community development activities. In fiscal year 2006, Congress appropriated about $4.2 billion for the program. Administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CDBG program provides funding to metropolitan cities and urban counties, known as entitlement communities, and to states for distribution to nonentitlement communities. This report discusses (1) how recipients use CDBG funds, including the extent to which they comply with spending limits, (2) how HUD monitors recipients' use of CDBG funds, and (3) how HUD holds recipients that have not complied with CDBG program requirements accountable. To address these objectives, we visited 20 recipients, analyzed HUD data, and interviewed HUD staff.