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Neighborhood Development details housing programs, application dates and ARPA spending plan
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Neighborhood Development Senior Director Jamie Roberts told the council the city will open applications April 7 for critical roof repairs, explained HUD-funded CDBG/HOME/ESG programs and outlined ARPA-backed subdivision and multifamily projects with timelines and outstanding approvals.
Jamie Roberts, Neighborhood Development Senior Director, told the Mobile City Council that the city’s community housing programs are restarting key application windows and moving multiple ARPA- and HUD-funded projects toward completion.
Roberts outlined the city’s federal grant portfolio — Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) — and said the neighborhood development office is managing those funds to avoid regulatory pitfalls and to prevent returning money to federal agencies. “The main primary missions … includes administering the grant funds so that it’s not a liability to the city,” Roberts said.
The director announced an application opening for the critical repair roofing program: “We’ll be taking applications on April 7th starting at 8:00 a.m. at 110 North Lafayette, the Von Mancy Center,” Roberts said, and added that an average roof replacement runs about $10,000. Under typical HUD funding the program replaces roughly 50–60 roofs per year; in a high-ARPA year the city completed about 151 roofs.
Roberts described the HOME program, which provides funding to developers to…
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