Consolidated Planning

Information by State  Print version   What's New 2012 Formula Allocations Emergency Solutions Grant Substantial Amendment This Notice advises the public of the award amounts and spending restrictions on the second allocation of FY 2011 Emergency Solutions Grants funding. more… Emergency Solutions Grant Interim regulation for the new Emergency Solutions Grants program and the corresponding amendments to the Consolidated Plan regulations. HUDHRE | Federal Register Notice Ready, SET, Go! The Webinars focus on strategies for implementing provisions of the HEARTH Act as well as the regulatory requirements that were recently published. more… Choice Neighborhoods These HUD grants transform distressed neighborhoods and public and assisted projects into viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods by linking housing improvements with appropriate services, schools, public assets, transportation, and access to jobs. more… Strong Cities, Strong Communities This is a new initiative to strengthen local capacity and spark economic growth in local communities. Under this initiative communities nationwide will be eligible to compete for comprehensive economic planning assistance through a grant competition designed to spark local innovation. more... Housing Preservation Guide Seattle Office of Housing published a comprehensive guide to preserving multifamily affordable housing that provides guidance to affordable housing project sponsors who wish to assess portfolio needs and develop preservation strategies that ensure the long-term viability of their portfolios. more… HUD Grant Funds Available Notices of funding available. more… Helpful Tools   Economic Development Toolkit   Tools and Guidance   Anti-poverty Strategies   Intergovernmental Coordination   Neighborhood Planning   Foreclosure Recovery Strategies   HOME Training Toolbox   NSP Resource Exchange   NSP Program Mapping Tool   Homelessness Resource Exchange   Out of Reach 2010   CHAS/ACS Data   CPMP   BOSMAC07   Census Bureau Fact Finder   Green Homes & Communities   Transit Oriented Development   Crosscutting Issues   Housing and Transportation Affordability Index   COSCDA Disaster Recovery Tool Kit Sustainability   Sustainable Communities Initiative This initiative outlines six guiding "livability principles" that will be used to coordinate federal housing, transportation, and environmental protection investments. HUD, DOT, and EPA plan to make planning grants available to metropolitan areas, and create mechanisms to ensure those plans are carried out through localities. more... | website   Sustainable Communities Institute This website is a clearinghouse of information and best practices from across the country that can be used by city leaders to implement sustainable practices. more...   Building Sustainable Communities This website identifies a sustainable communities as good places to live, do business, work, and raise families and outlines five program goals that describe what it takes to be a sustainable community. more… | Interactive   Local Sustainability Plans This website contains links to local sustainability plans and climate action plans. more...   Sustainability Planning Toolkit This publication provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance to develop a sustainability plan for cities, towns, and counties of all sizes. It follows a proven, straightforward, and flexible process to create a successful, long-term plan that brings together environmental, economic, and social initiatives under one holistic vision to improve the livability of communities and create lasting benefits. more….   STAR Community Index This index offers 81 sustainability goals and 10 guiding principles that collectively define community-scale sustainability. The report also presents a vision of how communities can become healthier and more prosperous across eight specific categories. more….   Greensboro Consolidated Plan The strategic plan uses the Interagency Partnership Livability Principles to define Consolidated Plan goals and strategic actions. more...   Greensboro Sustainability Action Plan Includes strategies for encourage increased density, a mix of land uses, and a combination of code changes, incentives, partnerships and education to promote green building. more...   Madison Sustainability Report This report is a survey of sustainability programs involving neighborhoods; buildings; transportation; energy, utilities and natural resources; parks, open space, and urban forestry; and food systems that are already successfully in use in cities across the United States. more...   LISC Sustainable Communities LISC defines Sustainable Communities as places that offer the positive environments needed to ensure that all residents of varied income levels are provided the opportunities and tools to build assets, to participate in their communities, and to become part of the mainstream economy. more...   Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan This plan has concrete goals and targets for tracking progress on housing, transportation, open space, education, public health, and environment. Principles | more...   Baltimore Sustainability Plan The Baltimore Sustainability Plan identified 29 goals within seven theme chapters: Cleanliness, Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, Greening, Transportation, Education & Awareness, and Green Economy. more...   Sustainable Community Projects This website provides examples of a variety of sustainability efforts that have been undertaken or are being undertaken by communities around the country. more... Related Information   Neighborhood Stabilization Program CDBG Neighborhood Stabilization Program provides emergency assistance for redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes. more...   A Strategic Approach to HOME This publication discusses the need to integrate formula grant funds into comprehensive approaches to solving community problems, and heightened interest by cities and HUD to document the outcomes of the programs. PDF   Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit This report identifies the strategies and tools is designed to help community leaders, community development corporations (CDCs) and nonprofit affordable housing developers preserve affordable housing near transit. more...   Foreclosure Recovery Strategies Illustrates how some state and local governments and organizations are addressing the impact of foreclosures on neighborhoods and communities. more...   Neighborhood Planning The following resources describe governmental and other efforts to foster neighborhood development. more...   Out of Reach 2011 National Low Income Housing Coalition Report calculates the hourly wage a worker must earn to afford the Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom home, based on the generally accepted affordability standard paying no more than 30% of income for housing costs. more...   Center for Housing Policy This research report and website identifies high-impact strategies that state and local leaders can use to expand the supply of workforce housing. Report | Website   Shared Prosperity This PolicyLink report identifies 5 actions communities take to create connected, competitive, vibrant cities. PDF   Urban Revitalization This paper offers a model of how weak market cities can build better futures through housing strategies that create neighborhoods of choice. PDF QuickLinks   FHA Mortgage Limits   2012 Formula Allocations   FY 2012 Income Limits   CDBG Program   Fair Housing   HOME Program   2011 Income Limits   2011 Rent Limits   Affordability Periods   HOPWA Program   ESG Program   IDIS   PHA Plans

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Guidelines for Consolidated Plan and Annual Performance and Evaluation Report

• Guidelines for Consolidated Plan and Annual Performance and Evaluation Report
• Guide to Consolidated Plan Narratives
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• Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (9/2/2004)
• Consolidated Plan Certifications
• Consolidated Plan State Certifications
• SF-424

Local Consolidated Plan Review Checklist

This guidance is provided as a template for the reviews of complete plans. HUD reviewers of local consolidated plan submissions will refer to this checklist to gauge the completeness of the grantee's submission.
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Guidebook for Citizen Participation

This publication, prepared in the early days of the CDBG program, describes the underlying philosophy of the citizen participation requirements that govern of the CDBG program and who should be involved. It provides guidance on techniques that foster citizen involvement in the process of developing and implementing comprehensive strategies, addressing needs, and assessing performance.
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Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing

This report, prepared by the American Planning Association with funding from HUD, examines regional planning strategies that enhance the feasibility of affordable housing development and retention. The study identifies successful and promising planning approaches, institutional structures that work best, alternative ways of providing financial assistance, and incentives for local governments to address regional housing needs.
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Strategies for Community Change

This publication highlights how the consolidated plan can be part of an approach that makes clear connections between neighborhoods, cities, and regions. It describes how the principles of human scale, diversity, and conservation can provide the framework for sustainable communities at the regional, community, and neighborhood level.
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Mapping

Mapping Your Community: Using Geographic Information

This publication identifies ways geographic information can be used during the planning process to help determine overall goals for neighborhood development and community revitalization. This publication is available from Community Connections by calling 1-800-998-9999 or by e-mail at comcon@comcon.org.

EGIS

HUD’s Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (EGIS) portal provides users with easy access to mapping tools and HUD data to support housing and community development programs at the state, county, city, and neighborhood levels.
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While the Census Bureau provides GIS boundary files for many geographic components, the CPD formula grantee boundaries require special geography for which the boundary files are not available through the Census Bureau. HUD has developed two different sets of boundary files to supplement those available from the Census Bureau.
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CPD Annual Reporting Requirements

HUD and its Community Planning and Development (CPD) formula grant program grantees transitioned to a new Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) in September 2009. All Entitlement grantees should be using the system to track disbursements and report performance on outputs and outcomes for the program year. Grantees must report on program year accomplishments, outcomes, and performance, and Field Office staff subsequently must review that performance.

Beginning January 4, 2012, each Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) or Performance and Evaluation Report (PER) should include an evaluation of progress in meeting its specific objectives for reducing and ending homelessness through: (i) reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs; (ii) addressing emergency shelter and transitional housing needs; (iii) helping homeless persons (especially persons that are chronically homeless, families with children, veterans, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living; and (iv) helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families who are likely to be discharged from publicly funded institution and systems of care or those receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social service, employment, education or youth needs.

Jurisdictions receiving funding under the Emergency Solutions Grant program must include the number of persons assisted, the types of assistance provided, and the project or program outcomes data measured under the performance standards developed in consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care.  These changes were included in the Interim Emergency Solutions Grant program rule published on December 5, 2011.

• Memo on Reporting Instructions
• Guide for Consolidated Plan Performance Report Narratives
• Priority Housing Needs and Activities - Word | PDF
• Priority Community Development Activities - Word | PDF
• Annual Housing Completion Goals - Word | PDF
• Summary of Specific Annual Objectives - Word | PDF
• Section 108 Accomplishments Memo
• Section 108 Accomplishments Report
• For HOPWA
• Section 3 Reporting
• Section 3 Guidance for CPD Grantees
• Promoting Fair Housing
• Fair Housing Examples
• Using IDIS Reports
• Guidance for Reporting CDBG Accomplishments in IDIS
• Performance Measurement Guidance
• Performance Measurement Examples

Revisions and Updates To Consolidated Plan Final Rule - February 9, 2006

24 CFR Part 91
This final rule amends the consolidated plan regulations of state and local governments to make clarifying and streamlining changes.
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Summary of changes to final rule
3-5 Year Plan PDF
Action Plan PDF

December 5, 2011 update to Consolidated Plan Rule
This file contains a copy of complete Consolidated Plan regulations (including changes made by the Interim Emergency Solutions Grant rule.
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Complete Consolidated Plan Regulation
24 CFR Part 91 (updated through February 6, 2006)
This file contains a copy of the complete consolidated plan regulations made by the February 9, 2006 final rule.
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Sources of Data

• State of the Cities Data Systems: Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) Data
  CHAS data are used by HOME and CDBG jurisdictions to prepare their consolidated plans.
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• CHAS/American Community Survey Update
  This website contains updated CHAS data for States, Counties, Cities, and Minor Civil divisions based on the American Community Survey for 2005-2007 and 2006-2008. More information about each of the CHAS tables, including a detailed data dictionary and a user's guide, is available below.
  more... | 2005-2007 Data by State | Resource page | Data Documentation | 2005-2007 Entitlement Cities Coverage
  
• American Community Survey
  The Census Bureau released the 5-year ACS data file that includes all areas in the U.S on December 14, 2010.
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• Preservation of Affordable Housing
  This website examines who is collecting data related to the preservation of affordable housing in each state, including information regarding the types of properties for which data is being collected and variables for which data is collected.
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• Industry Clusters
  This interactive database allows one to view and download selective updated economic and demographic data items for any state, metro, micro, district or county in the nation, including data for 17 industry clusters and 15 knowledge-based occupation clusters to assist the development of regional and local economic development strategies.
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• Innovation Index
  The Innovation Index provides economic developers, regional planners, government officials and businesses anywhere in the country with the ability to assess a region's competitive advantages and weaknesses based on measures of human capital, economic dynamics, productivity and employment, and economic well-being.
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• Transit Access
  This interactive mapping application presents metropolitan and neighborhood-level information on how transit connects workers to jobs in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas.
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• USDA Atlas
  The USDA Atlas aggregates data from several different federal sources and provides statistics on four broad categories of socioeconomic factors including demographics, jobs, agriculture indicators, and poverty trends.
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• New Economic and Housing Data
  HUD has unveiled a new interactive website that consolidates a wide variety of economic and housing market data at the regional, state, metropolitan area, and county levels. The new Regional and Economic Market Analysis pages uses data from the Census Bureau, Labor Department, state and local governments, housing industry sources, and research conducted by HUD's own field economists.
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• Neighborhood Stabilization Data
  This site provides data that may be useful for grantees implementing the NSP program. Data downloadable by state shows the foreclosure risk score, LMMI area benefit, address vacancy, and other information for each block group This site is updated as of October 15, 2010 to support implementation of NSP3. It includes information on foreclosure problems through June 2010.
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• National TOD Database
  The TOD Database provides information on density, demographics, occupation and transportation habits of households near 4,160 existing and proposed fixed-guideway transit stations. The new website allows users to view maps of the transit region, select stations of interest, and choose data reports from a menu. Users can click on the map to view snapshots of data, link to fuller reports standard reports with additional data, or create customized data reports.
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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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• Out of Reach
  The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC) annual report on housing affordability
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• EconData.Net
  This Web site pulls together data from a variety of different areas including employment, income, quality of life, demographics, etc. indexed by subject and provider.
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• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime Trends
  Annual crime rates and statistics are available online for States, cities and counties, and metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Crimes covered include counts and rates for violent and property offenses.
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• HMDA Data
  The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) Web site contains information on home loan values, small business lending, and other HMDA and CRA related data that is available at the census tract level.
  more... | HMDA Aggregate Reports | FFIEC Census Reports
• PD&R Data Sets
  Valuable tools that support a range of housing-related activities for researchers
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• Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) Database
  The LIHTC database contains information on nearly 31,251 projects and over 1,843,000 housing units placed in service between 1987 and 2007.
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• Low Income Housing Tax Credit Project Locator
  This website identifies qualified census tracts for Low Income Housing Tax Credit purposes and the names, locations, and number of units of Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects.
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• HIV/AIDS Data
  From the Center for Disease Control (CDC) this site lists links to HIV and AIDS related data broken down by state and metropolitan area.
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• USDA Food Environment Atlas
  This website identifies factors such as access to grocery stores across U.S. counties, as well as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics, all of which influence food choices and diet quality.
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• FHA Revitalization Areas
  FHA Revitalization areas are areas that may have high concentrations of very low income households, high rates of default or foreclosure for single family insured mortgages, or low homeownership rates.
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• Multifamily Data
  Provides access to information on Multifamily endorsements, data on HUD’s Multifamily housing's portfolio of insured and assisted properties, and apartment buildings that offer rental assistance.
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• Multifamily Assistance and Section 8 Contracts Database
  This database was created to provide HUD partners/clients with a way of measuring the potential impact of expiring project-based subsidy contracts in their communities.
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• National Housing Trust
  Provides detailed data about privately-owned, federally assisted apartment homes so policy makers and community advocates know where affordable housing is at risk.
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• AARP Public Policy Institute
  Provides detailed geo-coded data about federally subsidized affordable housing near transit that is at risk due to expiring Section 8 contracts.
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• HOPE VI Revitalization Grants
  Contains sites for HOPE VI revitalization grants awarded to over 127 housing authorities.
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• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
  Sources of housing data for development of housing plans.
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