Consolidated Planning
What is the Consolidated Plan?
The Consolidated Plan is designed to help states and local jurisdictions to assess their affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, and to make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. The consolidated planning process serves as the framework for a community-wide dialogue to identify housing and community development priorities that align and focus funding from the CPD formula block grant programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program, Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Program, Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program, and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Program. The Consolidated Plan is carried out through Annual Action Plans, which provide a concise summary of the actions, activities, and the specific federal and non-federal resources that will be used each year to address the priority needs and specific goals identified by the Consolidated Plan. Grantees report on accomplishments and progress toward Consolidated Plan goals in the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER).
More information: Consolidated Plan Process, Grant Programs, and Related HUD Programs
For more resources on smart solutions to today's energy, environmental, and sustainable development challenges, go to Green Homes and Communities and Community Resilience. For more information on incorporating consideration of broadband needs and resilience to natural hazards into the consolidated plan, go to CPD Notice 20-04 Incorporating Consideration of Broadband Needs and Resilience to Natural Hazards into the Consolidated Plan.
What is the eCon Planning Suite?
In May 2012, HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) introduced the eCon Planning Suite, including the Consolidated Plan template in IDIS OnLine and the CPD Maps website. The eCon Planning Suite is designed to support grantees and the public to assess their needs and make strategic investment decisions by providing better data and tools and by creating a seamless planning and grants management framework.
What Information Does HUD Provide?
The HUD Exchange provides a hub for the latest Consolidated Plan and eCon Planning Suite resources, updates, and information.
Other features include:
- Email Updates - To receive CPD communications about program policy, upcoming trainings, resources, reporting deadlines, technical assistance and more, sign up on the HUD Exchange Mailing List.
- Resources - To find tools and templates, news, guides, training manuals, and more, visit the Consolidated Plan page or use Advanced Search.
- Training Opportunities - For information on upcoming webinars, in-person workshops, and self-paced online training, go to Trainings or browse eCon Planning Suite courses in the Course Catalog.
- Unanswered Policy or Technical Question? - If you are an organization with a HUD policy, program, or reporting system question, submit your question and get a response through Ask a Question.
Green Homes and Communities - Consolidated Planning
The following resources are being provided to help find smart solutions to today's energy, environmental, and sustainable development challenges.
Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food System
This American Planning Association study describes how Marin County, California’s comprehensive plan; Philadelphia’s sustainability plan; San Francisco’s sustainability plan; Sacramento, California’s comprehensive plan; and Baltimore’s sustainability plan were the highest scoring plans that addressed food access policies and how to track progress in achieving the plan’s food access goals. It includes recommendations and a list of strategies that planners and other local government staff can use to integrate clear, comprehensive, and action-oriented food access goals and policies into the local plan-making process.
Green Affordable Housing Tool Kit
Enterprise Green Affordable Housing Policy Toolkit offers a roadmap for state and local governments working on green affordable housing initiatives. The toolkit describes methods to promote green affordable housing, processes for adopting new policies, and detailed guidance on implementation. The toolkit's case studies identify innovative policy from Denver, Washington, D.C., Iowa, Minnesota and Washington State.
Enterprise Green Communities
This website identifies projects funded and certified by Enterprise Green Communities which provides financial support and technical expertise that enables developers to build and rehabilitate homes that are healthier, more energy efficient and better for the environment on a cost-effective basis.
Green Development Center
This website provides examples of Green Development Projects assisted by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation ranging from greening affordable housing and charter schools to transit-oriented development and green jobs.
Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
GHHI is a national partnership between the federal government, national and local philanthropy and local partners that leverages public investments in energy efficiency and weatherization with health and safety measures to ensure a more effective and sustainable use of public and private investments in economically challenged communities. By aligning and coordinating various resources, the GHHI uses a single intervention to fix the problems of each housing unit, while ensuring the work is safe for both residents and workers.
Local Government Guide to LEED for Neighborhood Development
This guide explores how the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system can be best used by local governments to achieve sustainability goals. It includes strategies used in Las Vegas, Albuquerque, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Nashville, Portland, and other locations.
Green Cities Report
This report explores innovative approaches and strategies for financing the rehabilitation of energy efficient buildings, the development of green jobs, and improve access to transportation not just to battle climate change but to revitalize neighborhoods, improve air quality and help the local economy. Examples include a multiyear planning process for the Central Corridor transit project connecting downtown Saint Paul to eastern Minneapolis in order to make it a corridor of opportunity.
Green Building
EPA website contains basic information about green building and funding resources that are available at the national, state and local levels for homeowners, industry, government organizations and nonprofits.
Green Communities Criteria
Provides a clear, cost-effective framework for all kinds of affordable housing: new construction and rehabilitation in multifamily as well as single family buildings.
Green Buildings for Cool Cities