Community Development Block Grant/Secretary's Discretionary Fund/Special Projects

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development operates CFDA 14.232, Community Development Block Grant/Secretary's Discretionary Fund/Special Projects, which has not disbursed a grant award since April 2004—over 22 years ago.

The program's award history is extremely sparse. Only two Project Grants have been obligated under this Assistance Listing in the available record: a $222,353 Secretary-Special Projects grant awarded April 1, 2004, with completion by June 30, 2004, and a $40 thousand grant awarded July 1, 2002, with completion by September 30, 2002. Combined federal dollars obligated total $262 thousand. No grant opportunities have been posted recently, and no active solicitation is present in the source material.

The program is structured as Project Grants exclusively; both awards in the portfolio carry this assistance type. HUD's Community Planning and Development office is the sole funder. Award activity flatlined after 2004, with no recorded grants obligated in the 22-year interval through the present. The extremely limited and aged grant activity, coupled with the absence of current opportunities, signals that this program is effectively dormant. Organizations evaluating federal funding in community development should focus on other HUD vehicles—such as the broader Community Development Block Grant program (CFDA 14.218)—which remain actively funded and solicited.