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Council hears community development plans: demolition, affordable-housing, youth and social-service funding

Gary City Common Council Finance Committee · November 11, 2025
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Community Development presented demolition and housing-rehab budgets, first-time homebuyer and ESG programs, expanded summer youth programming and grants to food banks and Meals on Wheels; staff discussed constraints of HUD funding and urged strategic usage to meet deadlines.

The community development department presented a large slate of HUD- and locally-funded programs to the finance committee on Nov. 6, including demolition coordination, housing rehab, down-payment assistance and social-service grants.

Staff summarized changes to several HUD-funded accounts and said some line items were reduced because…

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