# Presentation: 323592

## Slide 1

## Colonia Fund
Non-Border Colonia Fund
Community Development Fund
Community Development Supplemental Fund
Disaster Relief/Urgent Need Fund
Microenterprise Loan Fund
Section 108 Loan Guarantee Pilot Program
Small Business Loan Fund
Texas Capital Fund
Texas STEP Fund
Planning and Capacity Building Fund

- Non-Border Colonia Fund
- Community Development Fund
- Community Development Supplemental Fund
- Disaster Relief/Urgent Need Fund
- Microenterprise Loan Fund
- Section 108 Loan Guarantee Pilot Program
- Small Business Loan Fund
- Texas Capital Fund
- Texas STEP Fund
- Planning and Capacity Building Fund

**Texas Community Development Program**
**Total State 2005 Allocation: $82,305,507**

**Notes:**
Texas’ total 2004 allocation from HUD for the TCDP was $86.7 million.
These dollars are divided among TCDPs 11 funds:
	- Colonia Fund
	- Community Development Fund
	- Community development Supplemental Fund
	- Disaster Relief/Urgent Need Fund
	- Housing Funds
	- Microenterprise Loan Fund
	- Section 108 Loan Guarantee Pilot Program
	- Small Business Loan Fund
	- Texas Capital Fund
	- Texas STEP Fund
	- Planning and Capacity Building Fund

**12.5%**

**Texas Community Development Program**
**Texas Colonia Fund**

**Presidio County**

**Notes:**
The Texas Colonia Fund receives 12.5% of the total TCDP funding.

The Colonia Fund awards planning and construction grants on a competitive basis for community development projects such as:
	- Housing rehabilitation;
	- Sewer; and
	- Water.

Eligible awardees include county applicants for projects in unincorporated “eligible colonia” areas.

An "eligible colonia" is defined as any identifiable unincorporated community lacking potable water supply, adequate sewage systems, and decent, safe and sanitary housing

## Colonia Construction Fund
Colonia Economically Distressed
	Areas Program
Colonia Planning Fund
	(Area and Comprehensive Planning)
Colonia Self-Help Centers Fund

- Colonia Economically Distressed
- 	Areas Program
- Colonia Planning Fund
- 	(Area and Comprehensive Planning)
- Colonia Self-Help Centers Fund

**Texas Community Development Program**
**Texas Colonia Fund**

**Notes:**
The Colonia Fund supports four separate fund categories:
	1) Colonia Construction Fund
	2) Colonia Economically Distressed Areas Program (EDAP)
	3) Colonia Planning Fund (Area and Comprehensive Planning)
	4) Colonia Self-Help Centers Fund

Competitive grant awards for planning and construction

## Texas Community Development Program

**Eligible projects must be:**
**Within 150 miles of the Texas-Mexico border, and**
**Located outside counties that are part of a Metropolitan area containing more than  1 million residents**

**Texas Community Development Program**
**Texas Colonia Fund**

**Notes:**
Eligible projects must be:
	-  Within 150 miles of the Texas-Mexico border, and
	-  Located outside counties that are part of a Metropolitan area
	   containing more than  1 million residents

## Service lines

- Service connections
- Plumbing improvements

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Construction Fund**

**Notes:**
The Colonia Construction Fund is distributed through an annual competition.

Funding priority is given to applicants from localities that have been funded through the Texas Water Development Board’s Economically Distressed Areas Program (TWDB EDAP).

Eligible projects must provide assistance to colonia residents that cannot afford the cost of service lines, service connections, and plumbing improvements associated with access to the TWDB EDAP funded water or sewer system. 

## Distributed on an as-needed and case-by-case basis

- Must be tied to a TWDB EDAP funded project

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Economically Distressed**
**Areas Program**

**Notes:**
The EDAP Fund is distributed on an as-needed basis to colonia residents that cannot afford the cost of service lines, service connections, and plumbing improvements associated with access to the TWDB EDAP funded water or sewer system improvement project.

An application cannot be submitted until the construction of the Texas Water Development Board’s Economically Distressed Areas Program funded water or sewer system project begins. 

## Colonia Area Planning Fund

- Colonia Comprehensive Planning Fund

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Planning Fund**

**Notes:**
The Colonia Planning Fund has two different categories for colonia planning assistance:
-  the Colonia Area Planning Fund (CAPF) and
-  the Colonia Comprehensive Planning Fund (CCPF).

## Housing activities

- Surveys and site engineering
- Technical assistance
- Water and sewer activities

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Planning Fund**

**Notes:**
The Colonia Area Planning Fund provides assistance towards the cost of:

	- Housing activities

	- Providing technical assistance technical to colonia residents and
	  nonprofit organizations

	- Water and sewer water, sewage

	- Aids in the funding of preliminary surveys and site engineering.

The CAPF also provides assistance towards the cost of architectural services, mortgage commitments, legal services, and obtaining construction loans.

## Assistance for collecting statistics:

- Demographic
- Housing activities
- Public facilities
- Public services
- Land use

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Comprehensive Planning Fund**

**Notes:**
The Colonia Comprehensive Planning Fund provides assistance that is used to conduct a complete inventory of the colonias that includes demographic, housing, public facilities, public services, and land use statistics. 

## Community development activities

- Education
- Housing
- Infrastructure improvements
- Outreach

**Texas Community Development Program**
- Colonia Fund:
**Colonia Self-Help Centers**

**Notes:**
Operation of the colonia Self-Help Center’s are supported by funds from ORCA which are administered through the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs by a Memorandum of Understanding.

Operation of the centers are carried out through a local nonprofit organization, local community action agency, or local housing authority that has demonstrated the ability to carry out the functions of a Self-Help Center. 

The colonia Self-Help Centers provide concentrated on-site technical assistance to low and very low-income individuals and families in a variety of ways including housing, community development activities, infrastructure improvements, outreach and education.

## FY04 funds: $10,658,375 
Colonia Construction Fund and Colonia EDAP Fund – Award Minimum $75,000 to $500,000 Maximum

- Colonia Construction Fund and Colonia EDAP Fund – Award Minimum $75,000 to $500,000 Maximum

**Texas Community Development Program**
**Colonia Fund**

**Notes:**
Total dollars available from the Colonia Fund in FY04 were $10,658,375 

Awards from the Colonia Construction Fund and Colonia EDAP Fund ranged from $75,000 to $500,000.

## Oralia Cardenas

| P.O. Box 12877
Austin, TX 78711-2877

1700 N Congress Ave., Suite 220
Austin, TX 78701 | Phone:  512-936-7890
Toll Free: 800-544-2042
Fax:  512-936-6776
Email:  ocardenas@orca.state.tx.us
Website:  www.orca.state.tx.us |
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- Director, Community Development Division