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HUD awards St. Louis nearly $7 million for zoning, infill housing and process reforms
Summary
Board bill 29 authorizes acceptance of a competitive HUD 'Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing' grant (about $6.999 million) to fund zoning overhaul, an affordable housing design book, targeted infill development in the Ville/Greater Ville, and staffing to speed approvals and increase capacity.
The Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee advanced board bill 29, an ordinance authorizing St. Louis to accept a competitive HUD grant titled Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Affordable Housing and to appropriate about $6.999 million to the Community Development Administration (CDA).
Noel Pfeffer, CDA executive director, said HUD awarded the city the full $7 million request after a 2023 application and a stronger 2024 resubmission. “We applied again, on October fifteenth of 2024, and this time, we're awarded our full $7,000,000 request,” Pfeffer said. The grant period runs from February 2025 through September 2030.
Pfeffer described three program objectives: (1) regulatory and policy updates including a zoning code overhaul and updated historic district…
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