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Council approves 2025–26 HUD action-plan appropriations, adds $200,000 for emergency assistance
Summary
Rochester City committees advanced a package of 2025–26 annual action plan appropriations and related program authorizations, and the council passed an amendment moving $200,000 from a council PSA line into cash capital to increase emergency assistance funding.
Rochester City committee members voted to approve a broad package of 2025–26 annual action-plan appropriations that fund housing repairs, demolition, lead-hazard control, owner-occupied rehabilitation, tenant-landlord services and other HUD-related programs, and they amended one item to add $200,000 to emergency assistance.
The package, introduced as a set of introductory items and open for public hearing on June 12, 2025, includes the city’s citizens participation plan and multiple program appropriations that staff said are funded by federal HUD formula dollars. Henry Fitz, a city staff member involved in plan outreach, said, “The postcard mailing went to 41,000 households that were targeted in our highest need census tracts, that over 70 where over 75% of the residents are, HUD eligible under that…
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