Consolidated Plan Improvement Library

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The following resources are provided to help improve the concept of the Consolidated Plan.

Planning

Miscellaneous Plans

• Coordinated Human Services/Transportation Plans
• The Year Plans To End Homelessness
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Plans
• The Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program
  In addition to transportation planning, the Resource Index provides useful links to topics such as Public Involvement, GIS Tools, Performance Measures, etc.
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• Strategic Planning for Economic Development
• Workforce Investment Plans

Disaster Planning

Disaster Mitigation Planning
This website contains FEMA's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning Guidance for State, local, and Indian Tribal governments that meet the requirements of the Mitigation Planning regulations under the Stafford Act and 44 CFR Part 201.
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Hazard Mitigation Resources
This website includes how-to guides that explain mitigation planning, suggestions for preparing multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plans, and how to use mitigation plans to prepare successful mitigation projects. Hazard Mitigation Plans form the foundation for a community’s long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage. State, local, and Indian Tribal governments are required to develop Hazard Mitigation Plans as a condition of receiving certain types of non-emergency disaster assistance.
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Publications

HOME and Neighborhoods: A Guide to Comprehensive Revitalization Techniques
Model Program Guide HUD-2003-20-CPD, April 2004
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Using Your HOME Dollars for Rental Production: A Planning Paper for Local Policy Makers
This paper provides a decision-making framework for housing planners and program administrators that receive allocations of federal dollars each year under the HOME Investment Partnership Program to best meet the housing needs of people in their communities.
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Targeting Housing Production Subsidies
This report examines the current literature on rental housing markets to address the questions on the most effective use of government subsidies for the production of rental housing.
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Burlington, VT Consolidated Plan for Housing & Community Development
Burlington's Consolidated Plan uses tables and charts to expand HUD priority housing need tables to include goals for new, rehabilitated, and homebuyer assisted units, and contains cross-references that link with Consolidated Plan and PHA Plan. The 2008 Action Plan identifies a series of outcome indicators and output measures that it will use to measure success.
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Minnesota Milestones

• Description of Minnesota Milestones
• Quality of Life Indicators
• Minnesota Housing Trends

Neighborhood Quality Of Life Study
Evaluates Charlotte's neighborhoods based on social, crime, economic and physical conditions and converts the individual statistical scores into three neighborhood-ranking categories ... "stable," "threatened," and "fragile" for each Neighborhood Statistical Area.
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Millennial Housing Commission
Research papers prepared for the Commission dealing with housing policy, integrated planning, and development.
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Reporting

Boston Indicators
This report tracks progress in civic health, cultural life and the arts, the economy, education, the environment, housing, public health, public safety, technology and transportation.
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• Housing Goals and Measures
• Economy Goals and Measures

City of Hartford Office of Grants Management
Demonstrates use of CPMP for Consolidated Plan and Action Plan. Also includes CAPER reports with accomplishments for CDBG, HOME, ESG, HOPWA.
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Outcomes/Performance Measures

Promising Practices in Performance Measurement
This report documents promising local practices in performance measurement, and it documents the crosscutting lessons drawn from these case studies that may be useful to other localities in implementing performance measurement systems.
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National Academy of Public Administration
Center for Improving Government Performance
The GPRA Knowledge Center contains selected outcome measures and performance measurement links.
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ICMA Performance Measurement Consortium
Provides a means for local governments to share data on a range of programs, benchmark their performance to comparable jurisdictions, and improve service delivery.
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Los Angeles City Matrix of Accomplishments
Los Angeles city example of how well project activities address priorities and strategy identified in the consolidated plan and proposed goals.
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Madison displays results
Madison, WI provides an example of how to track results and long-term goals:

• Results 1995-1999
• Results 2000-2004
• Results 2005-2009

Pierce County, WA Outcomes Catalogue
This catalogue provides a menu of program outcomes and indicators in an effort to create a standard format for outcome selection and to assist you in determining outcomes best suited for your program.
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Vital Sign Community Indicators
The Community Indicators Program, called "Vital Signs," was developed as a tool to help citizens and governments better understand their community, set priorities and goals, develop action plans, and track progress toward their visions.
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National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Project
Contains a description of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership—a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood information systems in local policymaking and community building.
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Success Measures Guidebook
Contains a series of housing and community development outcome indicators that can be used to address the changes desired for neighborhoods.
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Fairfax County, VA
Contains manuals on basic and advanced performance management, data collection, and surveys of customer satisfaction.
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