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Ogden Council adopts HUD five‑year consolidated plan, funds for housing rehab, down‑payment assistance and HOME‑ARP tenant aid
Summary
The Ogden City Council adopted a five‑year HUD consolidated plan and first‑year action plan setting budgets for CDBG, HOME and HOME‑ARP programs, including a housing purchase/rehab/resale program, down‑payment assistance, small business loans and a one‑time tenant‑based rental assistance program administered by the Ogden Housing Authority.
The Ogden City Council on May 13 adopted the city's 2025–2030 HUD five‑year consolidated plan and its fiscal year 2025–26 annual action plan, setting how Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME and related HUD funds will be spent.
Kathy Fuentes, senior community development coordinator, told the council the consolidated plan is the application mechanism the city uses to receive HUD entitlement funds and that, if an activity is not specified in the plan, HUD funds cannot be used for it. She said the current five‑year plan has brought the city more than $19 million in entitlement funding to date and that HUD had not announced the fiscal 2026 award at the time of the hearing; the draft action plan therefore uses the current year's dollar amounts and a contingency approach that will be updated when HUD announces the award.
The plan the council adopted would fund a range of housing and…
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