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The North Carolina Department of Commerce has awarded 20 Community Development Block Grant – Neighborhood Revitalization (CDBG-NR) fund requests to 20 local governments totaling $25.8 million.
The requests will provide housing and public improvements for low- and moderate-income North Carolinians.
The Town of Norwood received $1.6 million.
“This is a grant that will allow the Town to renovate owner-occupied housing for low income residents with significant deficiencies in their homes,” Norwood Town Manager Ray Allen said. “This will provide funding to renovate approximately 15 homes, almost all of whom are owned and occupied by elderly residents.”
The CDBG-NR program offers non-entitlement municipalities and counties the opportunity to tailor community development projects to address the specific and most critical needs of their communities.
Communities were awarded additional funds above the initial amount they requested if they were impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Helene. This storm damaged, and in some cases eliminated, a significant amount of housing and major infrastructure in many of our communities.
This round of funding includes 20 projects receiving CDBG-NR awards up to $4 million. Some communities impacted by the hurricane were awarded grants above the typical grant award of $950,000.
The CDBG program is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program administered in part by the N.C. Commerce Rural Economic Development Division.
Since 2017, more than $355 million CDBG grants have been awarded in North Carolina to enhance the vitality of communities by providing adequate housing, suitable living environments, infrastructure development, and expanding economic opportunities. The state must ensure that at least 70% of its CDBG grant funds are used for activities and projects that serve households of low- and moderate-income.