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Garden Grove accepts HUD CAPER showing housing, anti-poverty spending for FY 2024–25
Summary
City accepted its consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for FY 2024–25 outlining CDBG/HOME-funded activities, reporting assistance to roughly 18,146 low-income residents and multiple homelessness and infrastructure efforts; council approved submission to HUD.
The Garden Grove City Council held a public hearing and accepted the city’s Fiscal Year 2024–25 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), which documents how federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funds were spent and the outcomes achieved.
Timothy Throne, staff lead, told council the CAPER showed the city assisted about 18,146 low-income individuals through federal- and city-funded programs during 2024–25. Highlights included creation and retention of 18 jobs, assistance to 12 childcare businesses, 108 families supported through childcare-related BOOST funds, micro-business technical assistance and loans for two businesses, rental assistance and supportive services to 24 homeless or at-risk households through the HEART program, outreach to 6,055 homeless individuals through the Special Resource Team (including 1,053 referrals and 67 street exits), and infrastructure work that assisted 3,100 low-income residents.
Throne said the CAPER was published in English, Spanish and Vietnamese and that public comments were included in the final submission to HUD. Councilmembers thanked staff for the format and asked that vacancy listings for city-funded affordable housing be posted and marketed; staff said they will add vacancy notices for city-subsidized properties and coordinate with countywide efforts to create a consolidated affordable-housing listing.
After opening the public hearing and receiving no public comments on the CAPER, the council voted to accept the CAPER and direct staff to transmit the report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
