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Toledo holds second public hearing on 2025–29 consolidated plan, opens 30-day comment period
Summary
City officials and consultants outlined priorities for the five-year HUD-backed consolidated plan — including affordable housing, homelessness response, infrastructure and public services — and opened a 30‑day public comment period through May 23.
The City of Toledo Department of Housing and Community Development held a second public hearing on its 2025–29 consolidated plan, a five‑year strategy for federal housing and community development funds, and opened a 30‑day public comment period that runs through May 23.
Brian Hall, president of CEW Advisors, described the consolidated plan as “a 5 year strategic plan for the utilization of federal funds through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.” Hall told attendees the plan draws on data, community meetings, focus groups and consultations to identify priority needs and to guide how the city will allocate limited federal funding over the next five years.
Hall said the plan focuses on affordable housing, homelessness response, public services, infrastructure and economic development. He told the hearing that Toledo expects roughly $9.6 million in HUD funds in a typical year and about $47.3 million over the five‑year period covered by the draft. The draft is posted on the city’s housing department web page, and Hall urged residents to review the executive summary and priority‑needs sections and submit comments.
Monica Brown, grants manager for the Department of Housing and Community Development, opened the hearing and handled logistics for public comments and submissions. City staff said written comments may be emailed to neighborhoodstoledo@oh.gov or mailed to City of Toledo, Department of Housing and Community Development, 1 Government Center, Suite 1800, Toledo, OH 43604.
Hall outlined the three primary HUD funding streams the city expects to use: the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), described as the most flexible and typically the largest annual pot; the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), intended for affordable housing development and rehabilitation and estimated at about $1.9 million a year; and the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), focused on homelessness services and estimated at about $650,000 a year. Hall emphasized that the totals are modest relative to the city’s identified needs and that the plan is intended to target limited funds to priority uses.
City staff and the CEW team said the draft consolidated plan includes an executive summary, a detailed needs assessment (including housing market analysis and lead‑hazard risk), a strategic plan, and an annual action plan for the first program year. Hall said the needs assessment highlighted severe cost burden, aging housing stock and lead hazards, and neighborhood vacancy and blight as leading drivers of demand for city investment.
The hearing concluded after presenters invited oral comments and a final reminder of the May 23 comment deadline. The city will accept oral testimony at later scheduled hearings (the next hearing was announced for May 1) and will incorporate public input into the final plan to be sent to HUD.
