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Committee readies data and a regional pitch for federal rehab funding under 21st Century Road to Housing Act
Summary
Members said the federal 21st Century Road to Housing Act is an enabling law requiring funding; the committee circulated a short survey to map existing municipal rehab programs and said Yarmouth currently runs a rehab program funded roughly $125,000 per year.
Committee members said the 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed at the federal level as an enabling statute, and that the next step is identifying funding opportunities and pilot jurisdictions.
"That act was passed the federal level, and that, was, an enabling act," a committee member said, and members agreed to assemble data on which Cape towns run rehab programs, how much they spend and what funding sources they use to position the region for pilot funding. The committee circulated a one-question survey intended to collect that information from Cape towns.
Members reported that Yarmouth's local rehabilitation program has historically been funded in part by CDBG and later by Community Preservation funds; one member said the town's rehab allocation has been "about a 125,000, per year, for probably about 6 years." The committee noted the federal HOME/CDBG programs have strict regulations but can be useful to seed new initiatives.
