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Mayor Mendenhall presents FY2027 HUD recommendations and new local Funding Our Future awards
Summary
Mayor Mendenhall outlined the city's proposed FY2027 allocations of HUD funding (CDBG, ESG, HOME, HOPWA) and unveiled a local Funding Our Future (FOF) process to distribute municipal housing dollars alongside federal grants, prioritizing affordable housing preservation, emergency repairs and services for vulnerable populations; a public hearing on the recommendations is scheduled for March 24.
Mayor Erin Mendenhall presented the city's annual recommendations for federal HUD allocations and introduced the new Funding Our Future (FOF) awards to accompany the HUD awards.
"This year's recommendations include agency projects such as Assists Inc.'s emergency home repair and accessibility program and the city's Fix the Bricks program to strengthen unreinforced masonry housing," the mayor said, noting that the dollars support services principally targeted to low‑ and moderate‑income and historically underserved residents. He described FOF as a new companion process to the federal allocations to help cover rising housing costs.
The mayor said federal and local funds will be directed toward the goals in the city's five‑year HUD Consolidated Plan—affordable housing, homeless services, community services and workforce development—and toward the HousingSLC goals of housing stability and increasing home ownership. He thanked the resident advisory board for scoring applications and emphasized that tough tradeoffs are required because not all requests can be funded.
Council members were told the public hearing on these recommendations is scheduled for March 24 and that staff will return with details. Council did not take final action at this meeting; the mayor's presentation initiated the statutorily required public‑comment window.
