TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Beth Beatty, City Manager
SUBJECT:
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Resolution Approving and Authorizing the Acceptance and Implementation of a 2024 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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BACKGROUND:
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is a program that leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with severely distressed public housing and/or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and other stakeholders, such as public housing agencies, cities, schools, police, healthcare, business owners, nonprofits, architects, and private developers, come together to create and implement a Transformation Plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood. To this end, CNI is focused on three core goals:
1. Housing: Replace severely distressed public and HUD-assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood.
2. People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to income and employment, health, and education; and
3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private investment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families' choices about their community.
The first step in CNI is an application submission to HUD for a CNI Planning grant used to engage residents, partners, and community stakeholders over a two-year planning process t...
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