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Community development manager details projects, funding and risks to CDBG/HOME/ESG funding
Summary
Community Development Manager Ashley Miller reviewed the division’s accomplishments, including neighborhood investments and supportive housing projects, highlighted strong timeliness performance, and warned members that the president’s 2027 initial budget proposal would zero CDBG and HOME without Congressional action.
At a commission meeting, Community Development Manager Ashley Miller presented a year-in-review of DuPage County’s Community Development Division covering the program year from April 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026, outlining completed neighborhood-investment projects, public-service awards, and several housing developments under construction or in closing.
Miller emphasized the program’s timeliness performance under HUD rules: the county must hold no more than 1.5 times its annual allocation in its treasury at the program-year end, and Miller said the timeliness ratio was at 1%, about 0.5% better than the benchmark—an outcome she described as a testament to staff, municipal partners and nonprofit partners helping move projects to completion.
Completed neighborhood-investment projects Miller named included work in Bensenville (roadway and water improvements), Addison (Janice Lane water/street work), Glendale Heights (Cambridge Lane and Westchester Drive water-main work), and West Chicago (Bishop Street water-main rehab and new street lighting). Total project costs in these examples…
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