Community Development Block Grants: Program Offers Recipients Flexibility but Oversight Can Be Improved
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781422309902
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Community Development Block Grants
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-13
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781976349867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides funding for housing, economic development, and other community development activities. In fiscal year 2006, Congress appropriated about $4.2 billion for the program. Administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the CDBG program provides funding to metropolitan cities and urban counties, known as entitlement communities, and to states for distribution to nonentitlement communities. This report discusses (1) how recipients use CDBG funds, including the extent to which they comply with spending limits, (2) how HUD monitors recipients' use of CDBG funds, and (3) how HUD holds recipients that have not complied with CDBG program requirements accountable. To address these objectives, we visited 20 recipients, analyzed HUD data, and interviewed HUD staff.
Community Development Block Grants
Author: William B. Shear
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1437939805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides entitlement communities (metro. cities and urban counties) and states with significant discretion in how they distribute funds for eligible activities. Entitlement communities may use a variety of processes to select individual projects, and states may also use different methods to distribute funds to non-entitlement communities. This report examines: (1) the various methods by which entitlement communities use and distribute their CDBG funds to individual projects within their jurisdictions; (2) the various methods by which states distribute CDBG funds to non-entitlement communities; and (3) HUD¿s role in overseeing these methods. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.
Census Data and Its Use in Federal Formula Funding
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic Development: Formal Monitoring Approaches Needed to Help Ensure Compliance with Restrictions on Funding Employer Relocations
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781422398555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormula Grants: Census Data are Among Several Factors That Can Affect Funding Allocations
Author: Robert Goldenkoff
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1437919022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fed. gov¿t. has annually distributed over $300 billion in fed. assistance through grant programs using formulas driven in part by census population data. The U.S. Census Bureau puts forth tremendous effort to conduct an accurate count of the nation's population, yet some error in the form of persons missed or counted more than once is inevitable. Because many fed. grant programs rely to some degree on population measures, shifts in population, inaccuracies in census counts, and methodological problems with population estimates can all affect the allocation of funds. This testimony discusses: how census data are used in the allocation of fed. formula grant funds; and how the structure of the formulas and other factors can affect those allocations. Illus.
Public Budgeting Systems
Author: Robert D. Lee Jr.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2009-11-09
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 0763790729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete and balanced reference, Public Budgeting Systems, Eighth Edition surveys the current state of budgeting throughout all levels of the United States government. The text emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making. It also stresses the use of program information, since, for decades, budget reforms have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. This updated text includes more cases studies and practical information, figures and charts to make the information more accessible, as well as additional student problems. Using this text, students will gain a first-rate understanding of methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, and how different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.
Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century
Author: Donna Fabiani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-17
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1317461266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book takes a wide-angled look at how the field of community development is evolving in an era of reduced resources, changing priorities, privatization, competition, and performance management at the federal, state, and local government levels, as well as for non-profits and private sector entities. It shows how community development organizations and programs are offering many new services, entering into new partnerships, developing extensive networks, and attracting new and alternative sources of funding - and how, in the process, these organizations are becoming more innovative, leaner in their operations, more competitive, and much more effective than ever before.Students, researchers, and policy-makers will all appreciate the numerous policy examples from the local, state, and federal levels, including a wide range of developments in housing, transportation, smart growth, education, and crime prevention. "Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century" is an invaluable source for insights into the latest developments in community development financing and performance management.
The Dragon and the Eagle
Author: Karen Eggleston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1108837077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comparative study allows decision-makers to understand and use public-private collaboration to achieve governance goals.
Contemporary American Federalism
Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780791475966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.
