Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.)
The CDBG Program provides annual grants on a formula basis to states and local governments, to be used for economic and community development, principally for low and moderate-income persons.
14.218 Entitlement and Nonentitled Hawaiian County CDBG, 14.225 Insular Areas CDBG, and 14.228 State CDBG
Formula
CDBG funding opportunities for broadband vary by local jurisdiction. The contact information for your local CDBG grantee can be found here: https://www.hudexchange.info/grantees/ Note: if you don't see your city or county listed, please reach out to your State CDBG grantee for more information about opportunities in rural and suburban areas.
Other (i.e. one-time funding): Annual Formula Allocation
Program year cycles vary by grantee
Total Amount: $3.3 Billion
Amount Available Towards Broadband (if specified):
No
CDBG is often treated as gap financing for projects with other public and private financing.
Economic development assistance to businesses, including broadband service providers
Not Applicable
A nonprofit can be a subrecipient of funding. Additionally, a privately owned utility and other entities may be assisted by a local government with CDBG funds.
Communities use CDBG funds for projects initiated and developed at the local level based on local needs, priorities, and benefits. There are 26 statutory eligible activities that include public facilities, infrastructure, housing, economic development, and planning. Each activity must also meet a National Objective of either: 1) benefitting low and moderate-income persons; 2) eliminating slums or blight; or 3) addressing urgent needs for community health and safety
CDBG must principally benefit for low- and moderate-income persons.
Contact your local HUD Field Office:
https://www.hud.gov/program offices/comm planning/staff#fieldoffices
- This document describes the optional use of CDBG funds for broadband, https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4891/cdbg-broadband-infrastructure-faqs/
- This document describes CDBG and HUD's Connect Home program: https://www.hudexchange.info/trainings/courses/2017-2018-connecthome-using-cdbg-for-broadband/2561/
- This document describes how broadband is addressed in a grantee's plan. Those plans also address a variety of other community development needs and are used when the grantee selects funding priorities: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/OCHCO/documents/20-04cpdn.pdf
March 2023