House panel keeps CDBG in HUD.(Community Development Block Grant, Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Nation's Cities Weekly, June, 2005 by Davis, Lance; Mohrman-Gillis, Marilyn

The National League of Cities achieved another victory in its campaign to Save CDBG last week when a House Appropriations subcommittee allocated $4.2 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in the Department of Housing and Urban Development for Fiscal Year 2006.

While this would be a reduction in funds from Fiscal Year 2005, it is a far cry from the President's proposal to consolidate CDBG with 17 other programs, cut it by $2 billion and move it to the Department of Commerce.

"The committee did not agree to the proposal to eliminate [CDBG], consolidate its functions and transfer the implementation to the Department of Commerce," according to a press release from the committee.

Representative Joe Knollenberg...

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