“To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to expand new home construction, and for other purposes.”
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This section adds a new eligible activity under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program—construction of new residential housing for low- and moderate-income persons, with or without assistance from neighborhood-based nonprofit organizations or other private or public nonprofit organizations—for metropolitan cities, urban counties, states, units of general local government, insular areas, or tribal entities receiving CDBG funds under section 106. (As background, the CDBG program provides formula block grants to state and local governments for community and economic development activities that principally benefit low- and moderate-income persons; thus, this change authorizes the use of such funds for new housing construction, which was previously ineligible.)