Description:

The Community Development fund is the largest fund category in the TxCDBG program. This fund is available on a biennial basis for funding through a competition in each of the 24 state planning regions.

Although most funds are used for public facilities (water/wastewater infrastructure, street and drainage improvements and housing activities), there are numerous other activities for which these funds may be used.

Funds are allocated to each state planning region to ensure a broad geographic distribution of funds as described in the one-year action plan. Additional funds deobligated from previous awards may be made available using the same formula. Funds allocated to a region that does not have an eligible application to fund will be reallocated to other regions to maximize the number of awards granted.

Eligible Applicants:

Eligible applicants are nonentitlement general purpose units of local government including cities and counties that are not participating or designated as eligible to participate in the entitlement portion of the federal community development block grant program (CDBG). Nonentitlement cities that are not participating in urban county programs through existing participation agreements are eligible applicants (unless the city’s population is counted towards the urban county cdbg allocation).

Nonentitlement cities are located predominately in rural areas and are cities with populations less than 50,000 thousand persons; cities that are not designated as a central city of a metropolitan statistical area; and cites that are not participating in urban county programs. Nonentitlement counties are also predominately rural in nature and are counties that generally have fewer than 200,000 persons in the nonentitlement cities and unincorporated areas located in the county.

Maximum Award Amount:

$750,000
 

Evaluation and Selection:

All applicants must refer to the community development fund application guide for complete details and information.

Community development fund scoring is governed by the provisions of the TxCDBG action plan.

Community (Phase 1) Application Deadline:  December 9, 2024

2025-2026 Community Development (CD) Application Guidance (published 1/10/25)

Appendix B - Community Application Scoring Elements

Appendix C - TDA-GO Instructions

Engineer's Certification Form

Beneficiary Documentation