Nature of the CDBG program

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards grants to entitlement community grantees, such as the City of Marysville, to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development, and providing improved community facilities and services.

Entitlement communities develop their own program and funding priorities. However, grantees must give maximum feasibility priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income persons. A grantee may also carry out activities which aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight. Additionally, grantees may fund activities when the grantee certifies that the activities meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community where other financial resources are not available to meet such needs. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds may not be used for activities which do not meet these broad national objectives.

Current Income Limits, as determined by HUD, can be found here. For the CDBG program, moderate income is defined at or below 80% of Area Median Income (AMI) but greater than 50% AMI; low income is defined at or below 50% of AMI.