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Lafayette City approves CDBG and HOME-ARP awards to local homeless and housing programs

Lafayette City Council/Board · December 2, 2025

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Summary

City council approved multiple grants to local shelters and support programs, including CDBG awards to Greater Lafayette Family Shelter, Lafayette Urban Ministry, YWCA’s domestic violence program and LTHC, plus a $600,000 HOME-ARP services contract for Lafayette Transitional Housing Center.

Lafayette City approved a series of housing and homelessness grants Tuesday, voting to award Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to local service providers and to authorize a $600,000 HOME-ARP services contract for Lafayette Transitional Housing Center (LTHC).

Michelle Reynolds of the Lafayette Housing Authority presented the CDBG agreements. The council approved a $7,000 CDBG award to Greater Lafayette Family Shelter to cover emergency housing-related expenses and utilities. Reynolds said the funding is for program year 2025 and must be spent within the grant year (07/01/2025–06/30/2026).

Reynolds also presented a CDBG agreement with Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM) to support the shelter’s staffing; the transcript did not state the award amount for LUM. The YWCA’s domestic violence intervention and prevention program (DIP) received $13,500 in CDBG funding, and Lafayette Transitional Housing Center was approved for a $30,785 CDBG award to support homeless services and coordinated entry work for Tippecanoe County.

Reynolds then described a HOME-ARP contract for services, saying, “This contract is for $600,000.” She explained the HOME-ARP money was allocated in 2021 and that the $600,000 covers services (tenant support coordinator positions) for permanent supportive housing projects; the transcript records an earlier construction award of $2,900,000 for the McCarty Hope project that was made through the HOME consortium in 2021. Reynolds said HUD guidance requires services be available to all qualifying populations covered by the ARP contract and that the ARP funds must be spent by 2030.

Council members asked about program budgets and donations for social-service providers; Reynolds said applicants submit full program budgets and staff can provide those budgets on request. Each of the grants and the HOME-ARP services contract was approved by voice vote during the meeting.

The approvals fund emergency shelter operations, staffing and case management, and tenant support functions intended to serve people across Lafayette’s permanent supportive housing projects. While the transcript records voice approval for each item, it does not show roll-call vote tallies or named votes.