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Committee approves 2024 CAPER documenting HUD-funded activities, closes public comment
Summary
The Housing and Community Development Committee approved Evanston's 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), documenting use of HUD entitlement funds and program outcomes; members discussed program impacts from COVID, gaps in rapid rehousing funding, and outreach for the updated residential landlord-tenant ordinance.
The Housing and Community Development Committee on March 18 voted unanimously to approve the city’s 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, known as the CAPER, which documents how federal HUD entitlement funds were used during the 2024 program year and across the 2020–2024 consolidated plan period.
The CAPER details that Evanston received about $2,200,000 in HUD entitlement funds in 2024 — including $1,870,388 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding and $330,903 in HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) funds — and expended about $2,000,000 of federal funds across program years. Mary Anne (Community Development staff) said the report also accounts for prior-year program income and remnant CDBG-CV CARES Act funds that allowed continued activity despite not receiving an Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) in 2024.
The committee was asked to close the CAPER public comment period before taking up the vote; that procedural motion was approved without further public remarks. The CAPER motion then passed in a roll-call vote…
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