Community Development Block Grant Equity Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Community Development Block Grant Equity Act changes how HUD allocates CDBG funds. For metropolitan cities, urban counties, and states, the bill replaces the existing formula with weighted ratios based on poverty rates for families and elderly households, female-headed households with children under 18, old housing occupied by poor households, and overcrowded housing. The formula uses different weights for metropolitan cities, urban counties, and state allocations. It also amends the authorization of appropriations for CDBG, setting fiscal year 2026 at $3.425 billion plus CPI adjustment and carrying the adjusted authorization through fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
Who Benefits and How
High-poverty metropolitan cities benefit if the new formula directs more CDBG money toward local poverty and housing distress. Urban counties with female-headed households, old poor housing, or overcrowding may benefit from higher relative allocation shares. States with higher measured distress may gain a formula share that better reflects need. Low-income residents benefit if funds shift toward housing, infrastructure, and community-development activities in distressed areas.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HUD formula administrators must recalculate allocation shares, update data sources, publish allocations, and explain changes to grantees. Jurisdictions that do not score as highly under the new poverty and housing variables could receive smaller shares. Metropolitan cities, urban counties, and states must adjust planning around changed grant amounts. Federal taxpayers bear the cost of the $3.425 billion authorization plus inflation adjustments.
Key Provisions
- Adds weighted CDBG allocation formulas for metropolitan cities, urban counties, and states.
- Requires HUD to use poverty, female-headed household, poor old housing, and overcrowding measures when calculating relative allocation shares.
- Authorizes $3.425 billion for CDBG assistance for fiscal year 2026 with CPI adjustment.
- Extends the inflation-adjusted authorization through fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Rewrites the Community Development Block Grant formula for metropolitan cities, urban counties, and states, emphasizing poverty, female-headed households with children, old housing in poverty, and overcrowding, and authorizes $3.425 billion plus CPI growth for fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Community Development, HUD, Federal Grants
Primary Purpose
Rewrites the Community Development Block Grant formula for metropolitan cities, urban counties, and states, emphasizing poverty, female-headed households with children, old housing in poverty, and overcrowding, and authorizes $3.425 billion plus CPI growth for fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- High-poverty metropolitan cities
- Urban counties
- State community development agencies
- Low-income residents
- Housing program beneficiaries
Identified Costs
- HUD formula administrators
- Metropolitan city staff
- Urban county staff
- State grant agencies
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Cohen introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
CDBG grantees, High-poverty metropolitan cities, Lower-need jurisdictions
Positive-direction: CDBG grantees, High-poverty metropolitan cities
Negative-direction: Lower-need jurisdictions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "HUD"
- → Department of Housing and Urban Development
- "CDBG"
- → Community Development Block Grant
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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