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Staunton updates housing strategy and adopts FY2025 CDBG annual action plan
Summary
Council heard an update on the city’s housing strategy, approved formation steps for a housing commission and condition-setting tasks, and adopted the FY2025 Community Development Block Grant annual action plan allocating $317,797 across blight removal, nonprofit services and program administration.
Staunton City Council on July 24 received a progress report on the city’s housing strategy and approved a resolution adopting the fiscal year 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) annual action plan and a substantial amendment to the consolidated plan.
City staff said the housing strategy is a starter plan focused on three goals — producing housing, preserving housing, and providing housing stability — and set an 18-month implementation window. Staff recommended forming a housing commission, conducting a housing-conditions “windshield” survey (potentially with Virginia Tech or Mary Baldwin students), and creating a consolidated resource guide for housing-stability services.
Joyce, a city staff member who led the presentation, told council the strategy grew from four public engagement sessions (two virtual, two in-person) that drew 45 people and from an online survey with 149 responses at the time…
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