Funding will support housing rehabilitation, water and sewer improvements, and community service facility enhancements
RICHMOND, VA – – – On February 6, 2025, more than $23.6 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for 33 projects across the Commonwealth were announced by the Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development. The funding will support projects that rehabilitate housing, revitalize downtown districts, and improve water and sewer infrastructure benefiting more than 10,000 low- and moderate-income Virginians.
The federally funded CDBG program has been administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development since 1982 and annually receives approximately $19 million to distribute to small cities, counties and towns. With these funds, localities can provide new or improved water and sewer systems in rural areas, rehabilitate housing in declining neighborhoods, revitalize commercial districts and provide facilities for a variety of needed services, such as health care clinics in underserved areas.
Projects that will receive funding include:
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