Triple the Community Development Block Grant program.
It's time to increase public funding for the oldest and most successful federal urban program in U.S. history, CDBG. It has been historically underfunded, but remains the most flexible and locally oriented urban program in existence.
bobhanks
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JFenner
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I also believe we need to signifiantly increase CDBG. However, we must ensure that all recipients and subp-recipients are truly "affirmatively furthering fair housing" as required. The lack of actually doing this is a serious, ongoing problem
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drew_williams-clark
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If we're going to triple the CDBG, which is a good idea, we need to help the program evolve into something that rewards grassroots innovation. Large non-profits get too much of the funding for opperations already, with which I have no problem as long as those non-profits are employing people from the communities they serve in executive-level positions.
