{ "accessLevel": "public", "accessURL": "http://docs.huduser.org/gis/FGDB/HudGrantees.gdb.zipx", "bureauCode": ["025:06"], "contactPoint": "Jon Sperling", "dataDictionary": "http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/gis/spatial.html", "description": "The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is a flexible program that provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique", "community development needs. Beginning in 1974, the CDBG program is one of the longest continuously run programs at HUD. The CDBG program provides": "annual grants on a formula basis to of local and state governments. The annual CDBG appropriation is allocated between States and local jurisdictions called", "non - entitlement and entitlement communities respectively. Entitlement communities are comprised of the principal cities of Metropolitan Statistical Areas;": "metropolitan cities with populations of at least 50,000; and qualified urban counties with a population of 200,000 or more (excluding the populations of entitlement", "cities). States distribute CDBG funds to non-entitlement localities not qualified as entitlement communities. HUD determines the amount of each grant by using a": "formula comprised of several measures of community need, including the extent of poverty, population, housing overcrowding, age of housing, and population growth lag", "in relationship to other metropolitan areas.": "format": "application/octet-stream", "identifier": "HUD093", "keyword": [ "polygon", "boundaries", "society", "housing", "poverty", "population", "housing overcrowding", "age of housing", "population growth", "Community Development Block Grant", "CDBG", "United States", "Puerto Rico", "2012" ], "license": "public domain", "mbox": "Jon.Sperling@hud.gov", "modified": "2012", "programCode": ["025:002"], "publisher": "US Department of Housing and Urban Development", "spatial": "USA", "temporal": null, "title": "CDBG Grantee Areas", "webService": "http://egis.hud.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/public/HudGrantees/MapServer/1" }