Community Development Agency
Housing & Community Development Department
Michelle Starratt
Housing Director
- Available Housing Check Here
- Tenant and Property Owner Resources
- MEASURE A-1 HOUSING BOND
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- UNINCORPORATED COUNTY COMMUNITY RESOURCES
- HIV/AIDS HOUSING
- HOMELESSNESS
HOMEOWNERSHIP
- RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
- HMIS USERS
- Fair Housing
- Mobile Home Park Ordinance
- Rent Mediation Services
- HUD Income and Rent Limits
- REPORTING FORMS
- DOCUMENTS & REPORTS
Application Process
Each jurisdiction in the Urban County administers its portion of the Urban County CDBG Grant.
Urban County City Programs
For each of the city members, please use the following links to determine how their CDBG programs work:
Albany | Dublin | Emeryville | Newark | Piedmont
Unincorporated County Application Process
Within the Unincorporated Alameda County, the CDBG program uses the five-year Neighborhood Plan to set priorities for funding community projects.
Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are generally released in December or January, with applications due in March or April of each year. Applications are reviewed and rated against published criteria set forth in the RFP, and then ranked in order of their scores.
The Unincorporated County CDBG Program emphasizes improvements to the built environment (Capital Projects) and typically does not fund ongoing social services. Proposals are presented to the Housing and Community Development Advisory Committee in May of each year, with contracts going before the Board of Supervisors in June for a July 1st start date.
The Neighborhood Plan sets forth priority areas and goals for the Unincorporated County Areas:
- Target funds geographically to revitalize lower income neighborhoods in the Ashland and Cherryland unincorporated areas of Alameda County. Annual consideration will be given to mobility improvement projects proposed for other unincorporated areas.
- Examples of revitalization projects include, but are not limited to, development of new community serving facilities such as day care centers, youth centers, or senior centers; park and community center construction or expansion; and handicapped accessibility improvements.
Funding will be limited to projects that are not funded under another plan or program unless gap financing is needed.
- Examples of revitalization projects include, but are not limited to, development of new community serving facilities such as day care centers, youth centers, or senior centers; park and community center construction or expansion; and handicapped accessibility improvements.
- Creatively link CDBG activities and projects with other County programs and activities.
- Unincorporated County CDBG funding decisions will consider the overlapping of other County programs having an impact in the Unincorporated areas as having a high priority.
- Create project selection criteria for evaluating competitive proposals which range from public works to public services.
- Create flexibility to fund good proposals that are outside of the established criteria when necessary. This can include infrastructure and non-traditional projects.
- Utilize the goals and objectives of the Urban County Citizen Participation Plan to promote citizen participation in the CDBG process.
- Participate in other inter-agency policy planning efforts which affect the CDBG Program.
