Resources for Developers and Contractors

CDBG provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs. Implemented in 1974, the CDBG program is one of the longest continuously run programs at HUD. Annually, the CDBG program provides 1,209 grants to local and state governments. Agencies can only receive CDBG funding by responding to a request for proposal.

ESG funds are available for five program components: street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing assistance and data collection through the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). A request for proposals is released yearly.

Often in partnership with local nonprofit groups, HOME funded activities include building, buying and/or rehabilitating affordable housing for rent or homeownership as well as providing rental assistance to low-income households. HOME is the largest federal block grant to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households. Funding under this program can be accessed through the HOME Consortium or reply to a request for proposal.

HOME can also be used to provide assistance to individual households to help them afford the housing costs of market-rate units, or "tenant-based rental assistance”. 

HOPWA is the only federal program dedicated to the housing needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Carolina's CARE Partnership is the City's programming partner for HOPWA funding. Organizations who wish to provide services under the HOPWA program can respond to a request for proposal on a yearly basis.