Community Development Block Grants/Special Purpose Grants/Insular Areas – (Recovery Act Funded)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development administered the Community Development Block Grants/Special Purpose Grants/Insular Areas program (CFDA 14.254) under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, with the most recent grant award dated October 14, 2009.

This program is no longer active. The portfolio consists of 25 total awards distributed across 2008 and 2009, with 12 awards in 2008 and 13 in 2009. No grant awards have been disbursed since October 2009, and no recent grant opportunities are posted. The program was time-limited Recovery Act funding; pursuit is not viable.

When active, the program funded community development assistance to insular territories—American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands—with emphasis on job retention and creation, economic benefit, expedited infrastructure improvements, energy efficiency activities, and assistance to unemployed persons. The assistance-type mix was predominantly Formula Grants (22 awards, 88 percent) with a smaller share of Project Grants (3 awards, 12 percent). All funding came from HUD's Community Planning and Development office, which obligated $141.9 million in combined federal dollars.

Award magnitudes ranged from roughly $747 thousand to $19.3 million. Representative awards include Formula Grant B09DY480001 for state administrative recovery at $19.3 million (October 2008), Formula Grant B09DY060001 for state administrative recovery at $10.5 million (September 2009), and Project Grant B09SY660001 for insular recovery at $2.9 million (September 2009, completion September 30, 2009). The project grants carried short completion windows, indicating rapid-deployment recovery infrastructure work.