CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Offi ce of Policy Development and Research
CDBG Formula Targeting to 

Community Development Need 

Prepared by: 

Todd Richardson 

Office of Policy Development and Research 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 

Washington, DC 

February 2005 
Foreword 

Last year marked the 30th Anniversary of the Community Development Block Grant 

(CDBG) program. The primary objective of the CDBG program is the development of viable 

urban communities, by providing decent housing, suitable living environments, and expanded 

economic opportunities, principally for low- and moderate-income persons. To divide the annual 

appropriation of CDBG funds among jurisdictions, the Congress designed a formula that is 

intended to provide larger grants to communities with relatively high community development 

need and smaller grants to communities with relatively low community development need. 

The CDBG statute identifies poverty, neighborhood blight, deteriorated housing, physical 

and economic distress, decline, suitability of one’s living environment, and isolation of income 

groups, among others, as important components of community development need. The CDBG 

formula uses variables identified in the 1970s that proxy these dimensions of community 

development need. The core variables in the formula that allocates the CDBG funds to local 

jurisdictions have not been changed since 1978. 

This report provides the latest assessment of how well the variables being used in the 

CDBG formula continue to target funds toward community development need. It shows that the 

formula does generally continue to target to need. Among the entitlement communities, on a per 

capita basis, the 10 percent of communities with the greatest community development need 

receive four times as much as the 10 percent of jurisdictions with the lowest level of community 

development need. However, targeting toward community development need has declined 

substantially over the past 26 years. Over time, an increasing number of jurisdictions with 

similar need have come to receive substantially different grants. Furthermore, the amount of 

funds going to the most needy grantees on a per capita basis has decreased, while the amount of 

funds going to the least needy grantees on a per capita basis has increased. 

This report offers four alternative formulas that would substantially improve targeting to 

community development need. Each alternative provides trade-offs in terms of the following: 

• formula simplicity; 

• amount of funds reallocated; and 

• the type of community development need provided highest priority. 

It is important to recognize that any change to the existing formula that improves 

targeting to need will result in a significant redistribution of funds. Nonetheless, the Department 

hopes that serious attention be given to the alternatives presented in this report. We look forward 

to working with Congress, CDBG grantees, and other stakeholders to discuss alternatives to the 

current formula. 

 Dennis C. Shea 

Assistant Secretary for 

 Policy Development and Research 
Acknowledgements 

The author thanks Nelson Bregón, Richard Kennedy, Robert Duncan, Sue Miller, and Steve 

Johnson of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Community 

Planning and Development (CPD) and Darlene Williams, Jennifer Stoloff, and Mark Shroder of 

the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) for their comments and suggestions on 

earlier draft versions of this report. I am most indebted to both Robert Meehan of CPD, who 

provided invaluable institutional memory, data sets, and the core elements of Chapter 7 of this 

report, and Kevin Neary of PD&R, who taught me all that I know about formula allocations and 

provided the core elements of Chapter 8. F. Stevens Redburn and Dustin Brown of the U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget also provided helpful comments that greatly improved this 

report. I am extremely grateful to Giles Roblyer, Patricia Dumrose, and Linda Wolfe Keister of 

HR Communications, Ltd. for their careful editing. 

Despite the generous contributions from these individuals, any errors and omissions that remain 

in the report are, of course, my own. 
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Table of Contents

Executive Summary.................................................................................................... vii 

Chapter 1. Introduction. .................................................................................................1 

Chapter 2. Current Formula Mechanics. .......................................................................5 

Chapter 3. Developing a Community Development Needs Index. .............................11 

Chapter 4. CDBG Targeting to Need: Entitlement Communities. .............................37 

Chapter 5. CDBG Targeting to Need: States (Nonentitlements). ...............................53 

Chapter 6. CDBG Alternative Formulas. ....................................................................61 

Chapter 7. Impact of New Metropolitan Area Definitions. ........................................85 

Chapter 8. The 70/30 Split. .........................................................................................91 

Chapter 9. Conclusion. ................................................................................................95 

Appendix A. Targeting to Individual Measures of Need 

Appendix B. Impact of Alternatives on Individual Grantees 

References 

 
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Executive Summary

Purpose of the Report 

This report assesses how well the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) formula, after 

introduction of 2000 Census data into the formula, allocates funds toward the community 

development needs identified in the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. The 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicated in its Fiscal Year (FY) 

2004 budget that it would undertake this study. 

The National Research Council’s Panel on Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula 

(Louis, Jabine, and Gerstein 2003) recommends that policymakers periodically review formula 

allocation programs to assess whether they perform as intended. The CDBG formula has 

undergone the following five major assessments since 1974: 

1. The first of the reports, prepared at the request of Congress in 1976, pioneered the 

thinking on how to target funds to community development need (Bunce 1976). The 

major conclusions of that report led to the current CDBG allocation formula, which 

first allocated funds in 1978. 

2. A follow-up report in 1979 discussed the targeting of the newly created formula (Bunce 

and Goldberg 1979). 

3. & 4. With the introduction of new census data into the formula in 1980 and 1990, HUD 

performed follow-up studies to determine whether the CDBG formula continued to 

target well to community development need (Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary 

and Richardson 1995). Those studies showed that targeting to need has declined as new 

census data have been introduced into the formula, and significant funding anomalies 

still exist, but in general, the formula still provides considerably more dollars per capita 

to needier communities than it does to less needy communities. 

5. This report continues in the tradition of those reports, assessing how well the formula 

allocates toward community development need following the full introduction of 2000 

census data into the formula. This report also provides several alternative formulas for 

improving targeting to community development need. 

How the CDBG Formula Works 

After setting aside funds for special purposes such as technical assistance, projects specified by 

Congress, and the Indian CDBG program, the annual appropriation for CDBG formula funding 

is split so that 70 percent is allocated among eligible metropolitan cities and counties (referred to 

as entitlement communities), and 30 percent among the states to serve nonentitled communities. 

HUD uses two basic formulas, known as Formula A and Formula B, to allocate CDBG funds to 

entitlement communities. A similar “dual formula” system allocates funds to states. For 

entitlements, Formula A allocates funds to a community based on its metropolitan shares of: (1) 

population, weighted at 25 percent; (2) poverty, weighted at 50 percent; and (3) overcrowding, 

weighted at 25 percent, times appropriations. Formula B allocates funds to a community based 
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on: (1) its share of growth lag1, weighted at 20 percent; and its metropolitan shares of (2) 

poverty, weighted at 30 percent and (3) pre-1940 housing weighted at 50 percent times 

appropriation. 

HUD calculates the amounts for each entitlement jurisdiction under each formula. Jurisdictions 

are then assigned the larger of the two grants. That is, if a jurisdiction gets more funds under 

Formula A than Formula B, its grant is based on Formula A. With this dual formula system, the 

total amount assigned to CDBG grantees has always exceeded the total amount available through 

appropriation. To bring the total grant amount allocated to entitlement communities within the 

appropriated amount, HUD uses a pro rata reduction. In FY 2002, for example, the pro rata 

reduction was 11.43 percent. 

Current Formula, 2004 

Entitlement Communities States (Nonentitlements) 

Formula A Formula B Formula A Formula B

25% * population 20% * growth lag 25% * population 20% * population 

50% * poverty 30% * poverty 50% * poverty 30% * poverty 

25% * overcrowding 50% * pre-1940 housing 25% * overcrowding 50% * pre-1940 housing 

Metropolitan denominators except for growth lag. Grant 

is larger of two formulas less a pro rata reduction. 

State nonentitlement total denominators. Grant is larger 

of two formulas less a pro rata reduction. 

The formula for the nonentitled areas of states generally operates like the entitlement formula. 

Two key differences exist, however: (1) Formula B uses population instead of growth lag and (2) 

jurisdiction share is based on the state nonentitlement total rather than the metropolitan or 

nonmetropolitan total. As with entitlement communities, HUD calculates the amounts for each 

state under each formula, then assigns the larger of the two grants. To bring the total grant 

amount to states within the appropriated amount, HUD uses a pro rata reduction. In FY 2002, the 

pro rata reduction for states was 16.85 percent. 

Creating a Needs Index 

To assess how well the current formula targets to the community development need of 2000, 

HUD staff created two needs indexes: one capturing a range of community development needs 

among entitlement grantees and another capturing the community development needs of 

nonentitled areas served by states. 

In previous CDBG studies, HUD used a methodology to develop standard measures of needs 

across entitlement cities. This study uses the same basic methods, except it includes urban 

counties in addition to cities. The report also creates a separate needs index for state 

nonentitlement areas. 

 

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 Growth lag is the shortfall in population that a city or county has experienced when comparing its current 

population to the population it would have had if it grew like all metropolitan cities since 1960. For the FY 2002 

formula allocation, the growth rate for all entitlement communities between 1960 and 2000 was 37.4 percent. If a 

city or county grew at a rate greater than 37.4 percent between 1960 and 2000, it receives a growth lag value of zero. 

Cities receive growth lag funding based on their share of total growth lag for all cities while urban counties receive 

growth lag funding based on their share of total growth lag for all entitlements (urban counties and cities). 
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Community development need encompasses many different elements—housing quality, 

infrastructure, economic development, poverty, tax base, and others. To account for these 

dimensions of need, the needs index serves as our best estimate of the actual level of community 

development need. For entitlements, the needs index comprises 17 variables identified as 

indicators of one or more dimensions of community development need. The state needs index 

comprises 10 variables. Factor analysis condenses these multiple variables into only a few 

variables. Factor analysis groups variables that appear to relate to one another and creates a 

factor score for the patterns of variance common among variables. In past studies of the CDBG 

formula, three distinct patterns of variance have emerged, resulting in three factors: one relating 

to problems associated with poverty, another relating to problems associated with aging 

communities, and a third relating to communities in decline (Bunce 1976; Bunce, Neal, and 

Gardner 1983; Neary and Richardson 1995). These different patterns of need between 

communities with high poverty and communities with age and decline drove the creation of the 

dual formula. 

The factor analysis for this study likewise creates three factors, but they represent different 

patterns of variance than the factor analysis in the previous studies. For entitlement communities, 

a single factor now captures most of the variance associated with the variables of poverty, age of 

housing, and decline, suggesting that a single formula could now capture those three elements, 

reducing the justification for the current dual formula. Two new patterns of variance arise in 

2000, however, that were not evident in 1970, 1980, or 1990: (1) a factor representing fiscal 

stress associated with immigrant growth, and (2) a factor reflecting low-density places with high 

poverty concentrations but declining poverty rates. 

To create a single needs score for every jurisdiction, the three factors are weighted and summed. 

The factor that represents poverty, age of housing, and decline was weighted at 80 percent 

because it explains most of the variance among the 17 needs variables and represents the 

dimensions of need most emphasized in the CDBG statute. A 15-percent weight was applied for 

the factor measuring the fiscal stress associated with immigrant growth, recognizing this new 

dimension of community development need. Finally, a 5-percent weight was provided for the 

poverty concentration/declining poverty factor. This factor represents one dimension of need, but 

it also represents improving communities. 

The factor analysis for states also creates three factors: one related to poverty and economic 

distress, a second related to age of housing, and a third related to a weak proxy for infrastructure. 

These factors are also weighted and summed to create a single needs score. To create a single 

needs score for each state, the poverty and economic distress factor is weighted at 70 percent, 

age of housing is weighted at 25 percent, and infrastructure is weighted at 5 percent. Chapter 3 

provides a more thorough justification for the weighting to create the entitlement and 

nonentitlement composite needs scores. 

Current Formula Targeting to Need 

When this report discusses targeting to need, it uses per capita grants to compare the relative 

funding of communities. This approach assumes that population is not a measure of need. This 

assumption enables us to compare the relative level of grant of New York City (population 
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8,084,316) to East Orange, New Jersey (population 69,750). Though their total grants are 

dramatically different ($219 million versus $2 million in FY 2004, respectively), their per capita 

grants are comparable ($27.07 versus $28.66). Targeting operates on the premise that a 

community with high need should get a larger per capita grant than a community with low need. 

Performance of the Entitlement Formula 

Prior CDBG studies have shown that the current CDBG formula has, relative to a community 

development needs index, worsened in its ability to appropriately target funds to entitlement 

communities (Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary and Richardson 1995). The changing 

demographic makeup of jurisdictions throughout the 1990s has led the CDBG formula to 

generally target worse in 2000 than it did in 1990. That said, the current entitlement formula does 

continue to target to need. On average, the 10 percent of communities with the most need get 

four times larger per capita grants than the 10 percent of communities with the least need. 

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Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

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Chart ES-1. Current Entitlement Formula. Targeting to the Needs Index 

An increasing number of troubling inequities exist, however. Chart ES-1 provides a graphical 

presentation of this problem, ordering entitlement grantees left to right from least needy to most 

needy based on the needs index. The solid line represents how many dollars a jurisdiction would 

get on a per capita basis if the grant funds were allocated using the needs index. The “bouncing” 

line represents how many dollars jurisdictions get on a per capita basis with the current formula. 

A number of very low need grantees on the left side of the chart get high per capita grants 

relative to their need under the current formula. Some very needy grantees on the right side of 

the chart receive relatively low per capita grants. 
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On the left side of the chart, relatively low need communities receiving very high per capita 

grants include Newton, Massachusetts, Royal Oak, Michigan, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. These 

older suburbs benefit from the pre-1940 and growth lag variables of Formula B. These 

communities are relatively low need, however, enjoying poverty rates of 2 to 3 percent and per 

capita incomes substantially above the national average. They receive per capita grants of $28 to 

$33 while communities with similar need scores receive grants in the range of $4 to $7 per 

capita. 

On the right side of the chart, some high need communities get low per capita grants relative to 

their need score. These communities include Miami, Florida, Paterson, New Jersey, Pharr, 

Texas, and Compton, California, which suffer poverty rates ranging from 20 to 35 percent and 

per capita incomes well below the national average. Under the current formula, they receive 

grants of $23 to $26 per capita while communities with similar need scores receive $40 to $50 

per capita. 

Problems in the current entitlement formula can be traced to the following three elements: 

1. The relative flatness of Formula A. The most needy grantees funded under Formula A do 

not get substantially more on a per capita basis than the least needy grantees. This 

flatness is due primarily to the 25 percent weight on population in Formula A. 

2. Formula B grantees of similar need often get very different per capita grant allocations. 

This relative inequity primarily results from the pre-1940 housing variable allocating 

substantial amounts of funds to some communities that have old housing but otherwise 

do not have any community development need. The growth lag variable also contributes 

to the inequity because many slow growing communities, and even some that have lost 

population, do not suffer economically. 

3. On average, Formula A grantees get substantially less than similarly needy Formula B 

grantees. This inequity results from the share of the need represented by the variables in 

Formula A being spread across both Formula A and Formula B grantees while the share 

of the need represented by growth lag and pre-1940 housing in Formula B is largely 

concentrated among Formula B grantees. 

In addition, the poverty variable results in overfunding of “college towns” relative to their per 

capita need. In some communities a large number of full-time college students live in off-campus 

housing. When the Census Bureau collects income information from those students, it does not 

count income support from family, thus counting a large number of students as in poverty. For 

example, in State College, Pennsylvania, home to Penn State University, 74 percent of college 

students live in poverty while 12 percent of the remaining population is in poverty. The college 

student poverty rate inflates State College’s total poverty rate to 47 percent, greater than the very 

distressed communities of Benton Harbor, Michigan (43 percent poverty rate) and Hidalgo 

County, Texas (42 percent poverty rate). 

 
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The growth lag variable also creates some inequities among high-need communities. Chart ES-1 

shows a number of relatively high-need communities on the right side of the chart with per capita 

grants nearly double what their community development needs index score suggests is fair 

relative to the need of other jurisdictions. The relative overfunding largely results from the 

growth lag variable, which moves more than 18 percent of the total appropriation for CDBG 

entitlements to the relatively few communities with growth lag, particularly to the even fewer 

communities with very high levels of population loss. For example, Saint Louis, Missouri has a 

per capita grant of $73, $41 from growth lag alone. Detroit, Michigan, a more needy Formula B 

city as measured by the community development needs index, receives $49 per capita, $29 from 

growth lag. Both cities are distressed and have community development needs related to decline, 

but the analysis of community development need suggests that Detroit’s grant at $49 per capita is 

consistent with its level of community development need and Saint Louis’s grant of $73 per 

capita is significantly higher than is appropriate for its relative level of need. 

Performance of the State Formula 

The state formula also tends to target poorly to need. Chart ES-2 shows that with the exception 

of one grantee (Puerto Rico), the appropriate per capita grants (the solid line) are approximately 

$5 for the least needy grantees and approximately $15 to $20 for the most needy. The current per 

capita grants for all of the grantees except Puerto Rico show almost no relationship to the 

community development needs index line. While little relationship exists between the needs 

index and the current per capita grants, the magnitude of the anomalous targeting is not as large 

as it is in the entitlement formula. 

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Need (Slope 8.0)

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Chart ES-2. Current Nonentitlement Formula. Targeting to the Needs Index 
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 Two primary reasons drive the poor targeting of the nonentitlement formula: 

1. The relative flatness of both Formula A and Formula B. The most needy grantees do not 

get substantially more on a per capita basis than the least needy grantees. This flatness 

results primarily from the 25 percent weight on population in Formula A and the 20-

percent weight on population in Formula B. 

2. The unfairness of Formula A, due to overcrowding, and Formula B, due to pre-1940 

housing. Our analysis shows overcrowding and poverty to be closely correlated in 

nonentitlement areas. Overcrowding, however, is concentrated in a few states, thus the 

formula essentially gives those states added dollars for their poverty population. The pre1940 housing variable simply rewards states with old housing without determining if they 

are needy. 

Unlike the entitlement formula, a large inequity in funding between Formula A and Formula B 

does not appear to exist. With the exception of Puerto Rico, to which Formula A does target 

well, both formulas are relatively weak in their targeting to need. 

Four Alternative Formulas 

A number of items must be considered when creating an alternative to the current formula. 

Clearly any change to the current formula will be motivated by a desire to improve targeting to 

need. Specifically, we seek to (1) improve equity, so similarly needy grantees get similar grant 

amounts, and (2) improve the relative targeting of the formula so the most needy grantees get 

substantially higher per capita grants than the least needy grantees. 

We also seek a simple formula that causes the least disruption to the current CDBG funding 

levels. A simple formula can be easily explained so grantees and policymakers understand the 

mechanics that determine the grant amounts. Regarding the disruption of funds, any change to 

the current formula will cause some grantees to gain funding while others lose. 

We offer four alternative formulas with different degrees of improving targeting to need, 

different levels of simplicity, and different patterns of redistributing funds. 

Alternative 1 

Entitlement Alternative 1 tweaks the existing formula by fixing the problems in Formula A and 

B that lead to large inequities in funding among grantees within each individual formula by 

taking the following actions: 

• Formula A 

o Reduce the weight on population from 25 percent to 10 percent and increase the 

weight on poverty to 60 percent and the weight on overcrowding to 30 percent. This 

action increases the grants for the more needy Formula A grantees that are currently 

significantly underfunded relative to the needs index. 
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o Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or elderly 

headed households living in poverty” to correct for the relative overfunding of college 

towns relative to their community development need. 

• Formula B 

o Replace the pre-1940 variable with “housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household” to better target to needy communities with older infrastructure and 

dilapidated housing. 

o Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or elderly 

headed households living in poverty” to correct for the relative overfunding of college 

towns relative to their community development need. 

o Lower the weight on growth lag to 10% and increase the weight on poverty to 40%. 

Also adjust growth lag to reduce funding for communities with relatively high per 

capita incomes and low poverty rates. These changes reduce some of the overfunding 

relative to community development need caused by growth lag. 

Generally, these changes improve the targeting within each formula but do not correct for the 

funding inequities between Formula A and Formula B. Alternative 1 causes the least 

redistribution of funds but makes the formula even more complicated. This option is similar to 

the alternative presented in 1995 by Neary and Richardson. 

Alternative 1 

Entitlement Communities States (Nonentitlements) 

Formula A Formula B Formula A Formula B

10% * population 10% * adjusted growth lag 10% * population 10% * population 

60% * family & elderly 

poverty 

40% * family & elderly 

poverty 

65% * family & elderly 

poverty 

40% * family & elderly 

poverty 

30% * overcrowding 50% * housing 50 years or 

older occupied by a 

poverty household 

25% * overcrowding 50% * housing 50 years or 

older occupied by a 

poverty household 

Metropolitan denominators except for growth lag. Grant 

is larger of two formulas less a pro rata reduction. 

State nonentitlement total denominators. Grant is larger 

of two formulas less a pro rata reduction. 

Chart ES-3 shows that entitlement alternative 1 does improve targeting relative to the current 

formula (Chart ES-1), most notably decreasing grants for low need grantees that are currently 

relatively overfunded. For example, it reduces the grants for Newton, Royal Oak, and 

Wauwatosa from around $30 per capita to approximately $5 per capita, an allocation more 

consistent with the grants of communities with similar need. It also reduces the high growth lag 

grants somewhat, but not enough to bring them in line with the needs index. The Saint Louis per 

capita grant, for example, is reduced from $73 to $63 per capita. It also provides small increases 

to some high-need underfunded communities. For example, Miami, Paterson, Pharr, and 

Compton, with current grants of $23 to $26 per capita, have their grants increase to $30 to $34 

per capita, a bit closer to the $40 to $50 per capita of similarly needy grantees. 
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Chart ES-3. Alternative 1. Targeting to Need 

Nonentitlement Alternative 1 likewise tweaks the existing formula by fixing the problems in 

Formulas A and B that lead to large inequities in funding among grantees within each individual 

formula. This alternative undertakes the following changes: 

• Formula A 

o Reduce the weight on population from 25 percent to 10 percent and increase the 

weight on poverty to 65 percent. This change increases the funding for the more 

needy Formula A grantees while decreasing funding for the less needy as measured 

by the needs index. 

o Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or elderly 

headed households living in poverty” to correct for the relative overfunding of states 

with significant college student populations in the nonentitlement areas. 

• Formula B 

o Replace the pre-1940 variable with “housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household” to better target to states with older infrastructure and dilapidated housing. 

o Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or elderly 

headed households living in poverty” to correct for the relative overfunding of states 

with large college student populations in the nonentitlement areas. 

o Reduce the weight on population from 20 percent to 10 percent and increase the 

weight on poverty to 40 percent. As with Formula A, this change increases the 

funding for the more needy Formula B grantees while decreasing funding for the less 

needy as measured by the needs index. 
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Chart ES-4 shows that these changes move the per capita allocations much closer to the needs 

line than the current formula. 

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Need (Slope 8.0)

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Chart ES-4. Nonentitlement Alternative 1. Targeting to Need 

Alternative 2 

Entitlement Alternative 2 was designed to be a very simple single formula that closely matches 

the allocation suggested by the needs index. The formula uses four easy-to-understand variables 

to allocate the funds: poverty, female-headed households with children under 18, housing older 

than 50 years occupied by a household in poverty, and overcrowding. These variables bear a 

high correlation to the individual needs factors and relatively low correlation with one another. A 

regression model seeking to best target to the needs index forms the basis for the weighting of 

the variables. Unlike the other alternatives proposed, this formula has no adjustments or pro rata 

reductions. This option dramatically improves the fairness of the formula (Chart ES-5), in part by 

eliminating funding inequities between Formula A and B. 

Alternative 2 

Entitlement Communities—70% States (Nonentitlements)—30%

50% * family & elderly poverty 60% * family & elderly poverty

10% * female-headed household with children under 18 10% * female-headed household with children under 18 

20% * overcrowding 30% * housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household 

20% * housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household 

Entitlement total denominators. State nonentitlement total denominators. 
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The formula, however, only modestly increases funding to the more needy jurisdictions. By 

improving fairness in the funding allocation without increasing the average funding level to the 

relatively more needy grantees, some very needy Formula B communities experience significant 

funding decreases. For example, Detroit’s grant is reduced from $49 per capita to $38 per capita 

to put it in line with similarly needy Miami, whose grant increases from $28 per capita to $41 per 

capita. High-need grantees that are relatively overfunded by the formula as compared to the 

needs index suffer even larger decreases. Saint Louis experiences a funding decrease of 50 

percent under this alternative, bringing its grant to $37 per capita. Buffalo, New York, has a 

funding decrease of 39 percent, bringing its grant to $41 per capita, and Cleveland, Ohio has a 

decrease of 36 percent, bringing its grant to $39 per capita. 

By correcting for the inequities of the current formula, funding levels increase for high-need 

communities currently receiving small per capita grants relative to their need. Paterson has its 

grant increase from $23 to $32 per capita, Pharr increases from $26 to $36 per capita, and 

Compton increases from $26 to $38 per capita. 

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Chart ES-5. Entitlement Alternative 2. Targeting to Need 

Nonentitlement Alternative 2 was designed to be simple and closely match the recommended 

funding pattern of the nonentitlement needs index. The formula uses three widely available and 

easily understandable variables to allocate the funds: poverty, female-headed households with 

children, and housing older than 50 years occupied by a person in poverty. This formula does not 

use overcrowding as a factor due to its high correlation with poverty in the nonentitled areas. 

Unlike in the entitlement formula, overcrowding does not capture a dimension of community 

development need not already captured by poverty. This alternative dramatically improves the 

targeting to need as shown by Chart ES-6. 
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Need (Slope 8.0)

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Chart ES-6. Nonentitlement Alternative 2. Targeting to Need 

Alternative 3 

Entitlement Alternative 3 builds from entitlement alternative 2 but moderates the sharp drop in 

funding for the very needy Formula B communities and generally shifts funding from low-need 

communities to high-need communities. The formula uses the same variables as entitlement 

alternative 2 but places more weight on older housing occupied by a poverty household and less 

on overcrowding than alternative 2. Compared to the original needs index justifying the current 

formula, the needs index in this study does not contain as many variables capturing community 

decline. To account for this deficiency, the shift in weight for alternative 3 is intended to put 

more emphasis on places with the problems of age and decline versus places with growing 

immigrant populations. The nonentitlement formula is the same as in alternative 2. 

Alternative 3 

Entitlement Communities—70% States (Nonentitlements)—30%

50% * family & elderly poverty 60% * family & elderly poverty

10% * female-headed household with children under 18 10% * female-headed household with children under 18 

10% * overcrowding 30% * housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household 

30% * housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household 

Entitlement total denominators. Adjusted by the ratio of 

metropolitan area per capita income divided by local per 

capita income with an adjustment cap of +/- 25 percent. 

Pro rata reduction of adjusted grant to match grant 

allocation to appropriations. 

State nonentitlement total denominators. 
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In addition, to account for fiscal disparities within metropolitan areas, this alternative adjusts 

grants up for jurisdictions with a low per capita income relative to their metropolitan per capita 

income and adjusts grants down for jurisdictions that have a high per capita income relative to 

their metropolitan per capita income. This adjustment results in an average increase in grants 

greater than the number of decreases. The application of a pro rata reduction ensures the total 

grant amount does not exceed appropriations. 

$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 3 Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart ES-7. Entitlement Alternative 3. Targeting to Need 

Chart ES-7 shows that alternative 3 targets well to need, but differently than alternative 2. 

Alternative 3 has a higher slope than alternative 2, allocating more funds per capita to the higher 

need grantees and less funds per capita to the lower need grantees. Alternative 3, however, has 

more variation in grant amounts among grantees with similar need than alternative 2. 

Associated with its higher slope, alternative 3 increases the funding for the more needy grantees 

at the expense of the less needy grantees and also benefits some of the older declining cities. 

Instead of declining, as it does under alternative 2, Detroit’s grant increases under alternative 3 to 

$51 per capita. Miami’s grant increases a lesser amount to $44 per capita. This separation in per 

capita grant amounts between the similarly needy Miami and Detroit represents the greater 

differentiation in grant amounts for similarly needy jurisdictions under alternative 3 versus 

alternative 2. These fluctuations largely result from the higher weight given to decline in 

alternative 3. Nonetheless, relatively overfunded high-need jurisdictions with substantial decline, 

like Saint Louis, Buffalo, and Cleveland, still suffer decreases in funding relative to their current 

grants (32 percent, 14 percent, and 12 percent, respectively), but not as significant as under 

alternative 2. 
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Low-need jurisdictions largely have significant reductions under alternative 3. For example, the 

relatively low-need jurisdiction of Newport Beach, California, has its per capita grant fall to $3 

per capita (its current grant is $6 per capita and its alternative 2 grant is $4 per capita). 

Alternative 4 

Alternative 4 is a single formula allocating all funds to both entitlements and states without a 

70/30 split. Currently, entitlement grantees are allocated 70 percent of the funds and states are 

allocated 30 percent of the funds. Since FY 1982 when the 70/30 split was first put into effect, 

the number of entitlement grantees has grown from 732 to 1,105 in FY 2004. While the split 

between entitlements and nonentitlements has remained static, the relative share of the U.S. 

population served by the 70 percent share of entitlement funds has grown while the relative share 

of the population served by the nonentitlement side of the formula has decreased. The 

nonentitlement share of the population, however, is still greater than 30 percent, having fallen 

from 45 percent in FY 1982 to 36 percent in FY 2002. 

Alternative 4 

Entitlement Communities and State (Nonentitlements)—100% 

50% * family & elderly poverty

10% * female-headed household with children under 18 

10% * overcrowding 

30% * housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty household 

Adjusted by the ratio of metropolitan area per capita income divided by local per capita income (states not adjusted) 

with an adjustment cap of +/- 25 percent. Pro rata reduction of adjusted grant to match grant allocation to 

appropriations. 

This 70/30 split could be maintained in its current state, the split could be changed using some 

different approaches, or the split could be eliminated altogether with a single formula. If a single 

formula were used, and that formula used the factors and weighting of entitlement alternative 3,2

the de facto split would be 69 percent to entitlements and 31 percent to nonentitlements in FY 

2004. As shown on Chart ES-8, that targeting would be almost exactly the same as shown in 

Chart ES-7 for alternative 3. 

 

2

 By including states in the formula, unlike nonentitlement alternative 3, states do get some funding due to 

overcrowding (10 percent). Consequently, a moderate shift of funds occurs from high poverty states with no 

overcrowding to high poverty states with overcrowding. 
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$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement and Nonentitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 4 Per Capita Grant

Combined Needs Index Per

Capita Grant

Low Need High Need

Chart ES-8. Alternative 4. Targeting to Need 

Impact 

All of the alternatives we discuss in this report result in a significant redistribution of funds. 

Table ES-1 shows the impact on entitlements and Table ES-2 shows the impact on 

nonentitlements. Alternative 1, which simply tweaks the formula, results in fewer very large 

losses and gains than alternatives 2 and 3. For entitlements, alternative 4 causes the largest 

redistribution of funds. Alternatives 1, 3, and 4 for entitlements largely redistribute funds from 

the least needy to the most needy. Alternative 2, by fixing the anomaly in funding between 

Formula A and Formula B grantees, also leads to funding reductions for some very needy 

grantees, a problem that alternative 3 seeks to fix. Alternative 4 has the same impact as 

alternative 3, except slightly more losers than winners for entitlements occur because the pot of 

funds for entitlements is effectively reduced to 69 percent from its current 70 percent. For states, 

however, slightly more winners occur under alternative 4 than alternatives 2 and 3 because the 

pot of funds effectively has increased to 31 percent from 30 percent. 
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Table ES-1 

Percent of Entitlement Grantees Gaining/Losing Funds by Formula Alternative 

 Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 

Loss greater than 40% 5% 12% 15% 15% 

Loss 20 to 40% 16% 15% 18% 19% 

Loss 10 to 20% 15% 9% 11% 10% 

Loss 0 to 10% 20% 12% 11% 12% 

Gain 0 to 10% 18% 12% 12% 11% 

Gain 10 to 20% 13% 11% 10% 11% 

Gain 20 to 40% 11% 17% 14% 13% 

Gain greater than 40% 1% 12% 11% 9% 

Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 

N=1,105 (As compared to FY 2004 allocation) 

Table ES-2 

Percent of Nonentitlement Grantees Gaining/Losing Funds by Nonentitlement Formula 

Alternatives 

 Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4

Loss greater than 40% 0% 4% 4% 0% 

Loss 20 to 40% 14% 18% 18% 18% 

Loss 10 to 20% 20% 22% 22% 20% 

Loss 0 to 10% 16% 16% 16% 18% 

Gain 0 to 10% 26% 6% 6% 6% 

Gain 10 to 20% 20% 12% 12% 16% 

Gain 20 to 40% 6% 20% 20% 20% 

Gain greater than 40% 0% 4% 4% 4% 

Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 

N=51 (using FY 2004 geography)

Table ES-3 shows the total redistribution of funds by region caused by the different alternatives. 

As expected, alternative 1 has the smallest redistribution of funds. Even so, the New England 

region suffers a very large loss of funding of 22 percent, primarily resulting from the 

replacement of the variable of pre-1940 housing with pre-1950 housing occupied by a household 

in poverty in Formula B. Alternative 2 causes the largest regional redistribution of funding 

because of its correction for the A and B formula anomalies without substantially raising the 

slope of the allocation. Alternatives 3 and 4 have regional redistributions similar to alternative 1, 

but less than alternative 2 because of the increase in slope and an increased weight on 

communities in decline. 
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Table ES-3 

Total Regional Shifts for Both Entitlements and States for Each Alternative 

Region Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 

New England -22% -31% -21% -21% 

New York/New Jersey -2% -5% 3% 2% 

Mid-Atlantic -7% -18% -11% -12% 

Southeast 8% 20% 16% 16% 

Midwest -11% -19% -11% -11% 

Southwest 13% 21% 15% 16% 

Great Plains -9% -12% -8% -8% 

Rocky Mountain -5% -2% -4% -3% 

Pacific/Hawaii 9% 14% 0% 1% 

Northwest/Alaska -6% -3% -7% -5% 

Puerto Rico 33% 35% 23% 24% 

 N=1,156 

Recommendation 

Serious consideration should be given to changing the CDBG allocation formula so that it better 

targets to community development need. Any of the alternatives proposed in this report would 

accomplish this goal. HUD looks forward to working with Congress, CDBG grantees, and other 

stakeholders to discuss these alternatives. 
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Chapter 1. Introduction 

Purpose of the Report

The purpose of this report is to assess how well the Community Development Block Grant 

(CDBG) formula, after introduction of Census 2000 data into the formula, allocates funds toward 

the community development needs identified in the Housing and Community Development Act 

of 1974. HUD indicated in its Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 budget that it would be undertaking this 

study. 

The National Research Council’s Panel on Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula 

(Louis, Jabine, and Gerstein 2003) recommends that policymakers periodically review formula 

allocation programs to assess whether they are performing as intended. For the CDBG formula, 

the following four major assessments of the formula have preceded this one: 

1. The first report, prepared at the request of Congress in 1976, pioneered the thinking on 

how to target funds to “community development need” (Bunce 1976). The current 

CDBG allocation formula, which first allocated funds in 1978, is built around the major 

conclusions of that report. 

2. A follow-up report in 1979 addressed the targeting of the newly created formula (Bunce 

and Goldberg 1979). 

3 & 4. As new census data were introduced into the formula in 1980 and 1990, HUD did 

follow-up studies to determine whether the CDBG formula continued to target well to 

community development need (Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary and Richardson 

1995). Those studies show that while targeting to need has declined as new census data 

have been introduced into the formula, and that there are significant funding anomalies, 

in general, the formula still provides considerably more dollars per capita to needier 

communities than it does to less needy communities. 

In FY 2003, 2000 Census data were fully introduced into the CDBG allocation formula. 

Continuing HUD’s tradition of reexamining the formula when new decennial census data are 

available, this report evaluates how the introduction of 2000 Census data affects the formula’s 

targeting to community development need. An already published report, “Redistribution Effect 

of Introducing Census 2000 Data Into the CDBG Formula” (Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly 

2003), provides basic information about which formula variables are responsible for shifts in 

funding. This report does not repeat that analysis; rather, it focuses on targeting to community 

development need. In addition to the needs analysis, this report does the following: 

• Describes the impact of introducing the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) 

new definitions for metropolitan areas. 

• Explains the 70/30 funding split between entitlement and nonentitlement CDBG grantees. 
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• Provides four alternative formulas3 that would improve targeting to need. 

Report Overview 

This report is structured into nine chapters. 

Chapter 1. Introduction. This chapter explains the purpose of the report. 

Chapter 2. Current Formula Mechanics. This chapter explains how the current dual formula 

works and provides direct examples. 

Chapter 3. Developing a Community Development Needs Index. This chapter describes the 

selection of variables for inclusion in a community development needs index, the statistical 

techniques used to isolate different patterns of community development need, and the process 

used to create a single score for each community to proxy its level of community development 

need relative to the national average. 

Chapter 4. CDBG Targeting to Need—Entitlement Communities. This chapter shows how, 

after the introduction of 2000 Census data, the CDBG entitlement formula targets to the 

community development needs index. It also describes which components of the existing 

formula are responsible for its increasingly poor targeting to need. 

Chapter 5. CDBG Targeting to Need—States (Nonentitlements). This chapter shows how the 

CDBG nonentitlement formula targets to the community development needs index. It also 

describes the components of the formula that contribute to its generally poor targeting. 

Chapter 6. CDBG Alternative Formulas. This chapter shows three possible alternatives for 

improving the targeting to need of the CDBG entitlement formula and two possible alternatives 

for improving the targeting to need of the nonentitlement formula. 

Chapter 7. Impact of New Metropolitan Area Definitions. OMB’s new metropolitan area 

definitions could potentially result in the addition of 78 entitlement cities and 12 urban counties. 

The new definitions also change the metropolitan denominator for the entitlement program for 

each of the formula variables. This chapter describes the potential implication of adding all of the 

eligible communities as well as the reality of how many jurisdictions actually decided to 

participate in FY 2004. 

Chapter 8. The 70/30 Split. Since 1981, nonentitled portions of states have received 30 percent 

of the CDBG formula allocation while entitlement areas have received 70 percent. Since that 

time, numerous new communities and urban counties have been added to the entitlement share of 

the formula from the nonentitlement share. This chapter offers some options ranging from 

 

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 The report provides three alternatives for the entitlement formula, two alternatives for the nonentitlement formula, 

and one single formula alternative. For simplicity in the Executive Summary and concluding chapter, the 

entitlement and nonentitlement formulas are linked to create individual alternatives resulting in a total of four 

complete alternatives. 
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continuing the current split, to annually adjusting the split, to creating a single formula that funds 

both entitlements and nonentitlements. 

Chapter 9. Conclusion. This chapter summarizes the report findings and recommends that 

serious consideration be given to changing the formula. 
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Chapter 2. Current Formula Mechanics 

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides annual “entitlement” 

allocations to eligible cities and counties and nonentitlement allocations to states for areas that do 

not qualify or choose not to participate as entitlements. As specified in sections 102 and 106 of 

the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, the program allocates funds based on 

demographic data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 

After setting aside funds for special purposes, such as technical assistance, congressionally 

specified projects, and 1 percent for the Indian CDBG program, the annual appropriation for 

CDBG formula funding is split so that 70 percent is allocated among entitlement cities and 

counties and 30 percent among the states. The communities and states must submit annual plans 

that show how they expect to use these funds and other Community Planning and Development 

formula funds and report on their prior year accomplishments. Program regulations govern the 

eligible use of the funds (24 CFR Part 570). 

For the most part, CDBG funding levels allocated by formula have remained constant in recent 

years at some amount between $4.2 and $4.4 billion. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2002, the total 

appropriation level for the CDBG formula was $4.341 billion, $3.039 billion allocated to 

entitlement communities and $1.302 billion for nonentitlement communities.4

Entitlement Communities and States 

To qualify as an entitlement community, cities and counties must meet criteria established in 

section 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act. The statute makes the following 

areas eligible for the entitlement program. 

Metropolitan Cities 

• Central cities of metropolitan areas (MAs).5

 

• Other cities with a current population of 50,000 or more that are also in MAs. 

• Cities that retain metropolitan city status as a result of previously meeting the criteria 

for metropolitan cities. 

 

4

 For comparison to the previously published “Redistribution Effect of Introducing Census 2000 Data Into the 

CDBG Formula,” the discussion in chapters 2 through 6 uses the FY 2002 appropriation level and universe of 

grantees. Chapters 7 and 8, Executive Summary tables, and Appendix B reflect the FY 2004 universe of CDBG 

grantees. 

5

 The Office of Management and Budget defines metropolitan areas and designates central cities. This office 

establishes the criteria and updates the MA list when decennial census data are issued and as the Census Bureau 

updates population estimates throughout the decade. Beginning in FY 2004, due to revisions to the OMB definitions 

of MAs, “principal city” is used instead of “central city” as a means of determining eligibility for the entitlement 

program. 
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Urban Counties 

• Counties that are in MAs and have a population of 200,000 or more after excluding 

metropolitan cities and eligible Indian tribes. 

• Counties that retain qualification status as a result of previously meeting criteria for 

urban counties. 

The nonentitled portion of a state receives funding based on the balance of need characteristics 

that remain after subtracting data for metropolitan cities and urban counties that choose to 

participate in the entitlement program. Data for Native Americans living in federally recognized 

Indian tribal areas are also subtracted because they are eligible for funding under separate grant 

programs. 

Qualification process. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designates 

metropolitan cities based on population estimates available from the Census Bureau and central 

cities designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). HUD uses the data that are 

available for all units of government 90 days before the start of the federal fiscal year. 

HUD also identifies urban counties annually when the data show that a county could potentially 

have a population of more than 200,000 or meet other legislative tests. The county includes 

unincorporated areas along with local units of government where the county has authority or a 

legal agreement with local governments to undertake community development activities. Urban 

counties go through a process of establishing legal agreements for participation with local 

governments when they are first qualified and every 3 years thereafter. 

States are automatically funded under the CDBG program6

. They are funded based on the 

nonentitled portion in the state; that is, the balance of the state after excluding metropolitan 

cities, urban counties with their included units of government and all Native Americans living in 

eligible tribal areas. Only units of general local government (small cities, small towns, and rural 

counties) in the nonentitled area may apply to the state for funding. The Housing and 

Community Development Act defines the District of Columbia as a metropolitan city. It includes 

Puerto Rico as a state. Other territories, outlying areas, and Native Americans living in tribal 

areas are excluded from the formula and funded under set-asides from the annual appropriation. 

The number of metropolitan cities and urban counties participating as entitlement communities 

in CDBG has increased steadily since the creation of the program in 1974. Since 1981, when 

Congress established that entitlements would receive 70 percent of the funds and nonentitlements 

30 percent (the 70/30 split), the number of entitlement grantees has ballooned from 666 to 1,105 

in FY 2004, a 66 percent increase. Generally, when new metropolitan cities are added to the 

formula, individually they have a small impact because they have small populations, usually 

around 50,000. Because the population threshold for urban county participation—200,000—is 

 

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 Since 1981, when Congress gave states the ability to assume responsibility for administering the CDBG program, 

there has been a gradual transition from HUD administration of the nonentitled funds for individual states to state 

administration of the CDBG nonentitlement program. Only Hawaii’s nonentitled grant continues to be administered 

by HUD. 
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higher than that of cities, however, their entry into the program has a larger impact on the 

entitlement allocation. Since 1981, roughly a quarter of all new entitlement communities have 

been urban counties. Chapter 8 explains the implications of the increasing number of entitlement 

communities and the fixed split of 70 percent to entitlements and 30 percent to states. 

CDBG Formulas 

The CDBG “formula” consists of two basic formulas, known as Formulas A and B, to allocate 

CDBG funds. In practice, five formulas are used in this annual process, all variations on 

Formulas A and B. Three formulas allocate 70 percent of funds to entitlement communities, and 

two formulas allocate funds to the states (for nonentitlement communities). This system of five 

formulas has been in place since FY 1981 (Neary and Richardson 1995). 

 

Formula A for entitlement communities is as follows: 

(0.25 Pop (a) + 0.5 Pov (a) + 0.25 Ocrowd (a)) x $3.039 billion 

 Pop (MA) Pov (MA) Ocrowd (MA) 

Formula B for cities is as follows: 

(0.2 GLag (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a) ) x $3.039 billion 

 GLag (MC) Pov (MA) Age (MA) 

Formula B for urban counties is as follows: 

(0.2 GLag (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a) ) x $3.039 billion 

 GLag (ENT) Pov (MA) Age (MA) 

where: 

• (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

• (MA) is the value for all MAs. 

• (MC) is the value for all entitlement cities. 

• (ENT) is the value for all entitlement jurisdictions (cities and urban counties). 

• $3.039 billion is the amount available for allocation to entitlement jurisdictions in FY 

2002. 

• Pop is the total resident population. 

• Pov is the number of persons below the poverty level. 

• Ocrowd is the number of overcrowded housing units. A housing unit is overcrowded 

when more than 1.01 persons per room are living in the unit. 

• Age is the number of housing units built before 1940. 

• Glag is population growth lag. Growth lag is the shortfall in population that a city or 

county has experienced when comparing its current population to the population it would 

have had if it grew like all metropolitan cities since 1960. For the FY 2002 formula 

allocation, the growth rate for all entitlement communities between 1960 and 2000 was 
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37.4 percent. If a city or county grew at a rate greater than or equal to 37.4 percent 

between 1960 and 2000, it receives a growth lag value of zero.7

HUD calculates the amounts for each entitlement jurisdiction under both Formulas A and B. 

Jurisdictions are then assigned the larger of the two grant amounts. That is, if a jurisdiction gets 

more funds under Formula A than Formula B, its grant is based on Formula A. With this dual 

formula system, it is not surprising that the total amount assigned to CDBG grantees has always 

exceeded the total amount available through appropriation. To bring the total grant amount 

allocated to entitlement communities within the appropriated amount, HUD uses a pro rata 

reduction. In FY 2002, for example, the pro rata reduction was 11.43 percent. That is, the amount 

assigned to a community under the dual formula is multiplied by 0.8857 (1 – 0.1143) to generate 

the actual grant amount.8

The formula for the nonentitled areas of states generally operates like the entitlement formula. 

Two key differences, however, are present: (1) Formula B uses population instead of growth lag, 

and (2) the denominator for all of the variables is the sum of the nonentitled total (NEnt) instead 

of the sum of non-MAs. The formulas for the nonentitlement allocation are as follows: 

Formula A is as follows: 

(0.25 Pop (a) + 0.5 Pov (a) + 0.25 Ocrowd (a) ) x $1.302 billion 

 Pop (NEnt) Pov (NEnt) Ocrowd (NEnt) 

Formula B is as follows: 

(0.2 Pop (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a) ) x $1.302 billion 

 Pop (NEnt) Pov (NEnt) Age (NEnt) 

As with entitlement communities, HUD calculates the amounts for each state under each 

formula. States are then assigned the grant that is the larger of the two. To bring the total grant 

amount to states within the appropriated amount, HUD uses a pro rata reduction. In FY 2002, for 

example, the pro rata reduction for states was 16.85 percent. 

Sources of Data for the Formulas 

To ensure objectivity and consistency, the decennial census is the primary source of the data in 

the CDBG formula. In years following the release of the decennial data, the Census Bureau 

provides updated population estimates, identifies new incorporations, and reports major 

 

7

 HUD does not have a 1960 population figure for some communities. Those communities are not included when 

calculating the 1960 to 2000 growth rate. In addition, while the latest population used to compute growth lag reflects 

recent boundary changes, HUD cannot make changes to the 1960 population for individual communities based on 

boundary changes that result from annexations because the 1960 data are not available. HUD does make changes to 

the 1960 population data for communities that result from mergers, since the data are available. 8

 There could conceivably be a pro rata increase, since the sum of the values in each numerator (entitlement 

jurisdictions) is less than the denominator (all MAs, portions of which are not entitled). In the more than 20 years of 

the CDBG dual formula, there has never been a need for a pro rata increase. 
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boundary changes (usually due to annexation). As required by statute, HUD uses the latest data 

consistently available for all areas as of 90 days before the start of the fiscal year. Since HUD 

allocates funds to Indian tribes separately, HUD excludes data for Native Americans living in 

tribal areas from the formula data for all states and entitlement communities. 

Formula Allocation Example 

Below is an example of how the formulas work. The estimated CDBG grant for this city9 would 

be based on 350,000 persons; 50,000 persons in poverty; 7,500 overcrowded housing units; 

65,000 housing units that were built before 1940; and a growth lag of 40,000 persons between 

1960 and 2000. It would receive the larger of the amounts generated by the two formulas. 

Formula A:

Population Poverty Overcrowding

(0.25 350,000 + 0.5 50,000 + 0.25 7,500 ) x $3.039 billion 

 229,192,836 27,561,898 5,551,631 

 = $4,942,675 

Formula B:

Growth Lag Poverty Age of Housing 

(0.2 40,000 + 0.3 50,000 + 0.5 65,000 ) x $3.039 billion 

 25,564,131 27,561,898 12,974,750 

 = $10,216,211 

This grantee gets substantially more money using Formula B than with Formula A. As a result, 

its grant would be the total of the larger, Formula B, multiplied by a pro rata reduction of 12.37 

percent, making the total grant after pro rata reduction $8,952,466. 

It is useful to know that FY 2002 used Census 2000 data for population and growth lag, but still 

used Census 1990 data for the poverty, overcrowding, and pre-1940 housing. The FY 2003 

allocation used Census 2000 data for all the variables, and the FY 2004 allocation uses the 

Census 2002 population estimates for the population and growth lag variables and the new OMB 

metropolitan area definitions for determining the denominator on most of the variables. 

Appropriation amounts allocated by formula have remained fairly similar over the 3 years: 

$4.341 billion in FY 2002, $4.340 billion in FY 2003, and $4.331 billion in FY 2004. 

Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly (2003) showed the impact on redistributing funds as a result of 

Census 2000 data being fully introduced into the formula in FY 2003. 

 

9

 This calculation is based on the FY 2002 universe of grantees and appropriation amount. All the data used are from 

Census 2000. 
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Chapter 3. Developing a Community Development Needs Index 

The report “Redistribution Effect of Introducing Census 2000 Data into the CDBG Formula” 

(Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly 2003) showed how funds are redistributed among communities 

when the Census 2000 data are introduced. This chapter describes the establishment of the 

measurement tool—a needs index—used to assess whether the redistribution of funds resulting 

from the new Census 2000 data improves or aggravates the formula’s ability to target toward 

community development need. 

In previous Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) studies, the Department of Housing 

and Urban Development (HUD) used a methodology that created standard measures of 

“community development need” across entitlement cities (Bunce 1976; Bunce and Goldberg 

1979; Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary and Richardson 1995). This study used the same 

basic methods. Advancing the work of previous studies, however, this study develops a needs 

index that includes urban counties in addition to cities. It develops a separate needs index for the 

nonentitlement balance of states. 

Community development need encompasses many different things—housing quality, 

infrastructure, economic development, poverty, tax base, and others. To account for these many 

dimensions of need, this study assembled data on 17 community-need-related variables for each 

entitlement jurisdiction.10 Factor analysis is used to group variables that correlate highly with one 

another. For variables that correlate highly with each other, factor analysis creates a factor score 

to represent the common variance among these variables. To the extent there are different 

patterns of variance, factor analysis creates multiple factor scores. The factor score for each 

jurisdiction represents the number of standard deviations it is from the mean. For example, if 

poverty and overcrowding have a high level of correlation, a place with a poverty rate near the 

national mean and an overcrowding rate near the national mean would have a factor score of 

zero. A place with a rate of poverty and overcrowding one standard deviation less than the 

national average would receive a factor score of –1.0; a place with a rate one standard deviation 

greater than the national average would receive a factor score of 1.0. 

CDBG Formula History 

The formula originally established for allocating CDBG funds in the 1974 authorizing legislation 

(Housing and Community Development Act of 1974) was relatively simple and easy to 

understand. It had only three variables—population weighted at 25 percent, poverty weighted at 

50 percent, and overcrowding weighted at 25 percent. The formula gave the largest weight to 

poverty, which reflects the emphasis on communities with low-income persons that CDBG was 

intended to serve. HUD conducted an analysis after enactment of the law that used the same 

approach used in this report. A community development needs index was created, and the new 

formula’s allocation was compared against the needs index. The report from this analysis, 

published in 1976, showed that the formula in the original 1974 legislation targeted very well to 

communities with large poverty populations but did not target well to older and declining 

 

10 Data are available on all 17 variables for only 899 of the 1,024 Fiscal Year 2002 entitlement jurisdictions. 

Analyses that use the needs index refer to these 899 jurisdictions only. 
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communities (Bunce 1976). It also showed that poverty and decline were not closely related, 

suggesting the need for a dual formula system. 

As a result of HUD’s 1976 analysis, and the realization that many of the older and declining 

communities had been large recipients of the categorical grants CDBG was intended to replace, 

Congress enacted legislation in 1977 (Housing and Community Development Act of 1977) that 

created a dual formula that would target funds to both places with large poverty populations and 

older and declining communities. The dual formula has been in use since the Fiscal Year (FY) 

1978 appropriation. 

Identifying the Variables 

Four studies have preceded this one in developing a community development needs indicator: 

Bunce 1976; Bunce and Goldberg 1979; Bunce, et al. 1983; and Neary and Richardson 1995. As 

with these four studies, this study started the process of identifying the variables for the 

community development needs index by looking at the Congressional intent of the CDBG 

program. 

The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, established as the primary 

objective of the CDBG program “the development of viable urban communities, by providing 

decent housing and suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities, 

principally for persons of low and moderate income.” The statute goes on to specify that at least 

70 percent of the funds should be used to benefit persons of low and moderate income. The 

statute directs that the funds be directed at the following specific objectives: 

1. The elimination of slums and blight and the prevention of blighting influences and the 

deterioration of property and neighborhood and community facilities of importance to the 

welfare of the community, principally persons of low and moderate income. 

2. The elimination of conditions which are detrimental to health, safety, and public welfare 

through code enforcement, demolition, interim rehabilitation assistance, and related 

activities. 

3. The conservation and expansion of the Nation’s housing stock in order to provide a 

decent home and a suitable living environment for all persons, but principally for those of 

low and moderate income. 

4. The expansion and improvement of the quantity and quality of community services, 

principally for persons of low and moderate income, which are essential for sound 

community development and for the development of viable urban communities. 

5. A more rational utilization of land and other natural resources and the better arrangement 

of residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and other needed activity centers. 

6. The reduction of the isolation of income groups within communities and geographical 

areas and the promotion of an increase in the diversity and vitality of neighborhoods 
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through the spatial deconcentration of housing opportunities for persons of lower income 

and the revitalization of deteriorating or deteriorated neighborhoods. 

7. The restoration and preservation of properties of special value for historic, architectural, 

or esthetic reasons. 

8. The alleviation of physical and economic distress through the stimulation of private 

investment and community revitalization in areas with population out-migration or a 

stagnating or declining tax base. 

9. The conservation of the Nation’s scarce energy resources, improvement of energy 

efficiency, and the provision of alternative and renewable energy sources of supply. 

(Housing and Community Development Act of 1974) 

Community Development need clearly encompasses many different elements, and the CDBG 

statute is specifically designed to give jurisdictions a great deal of flexibility to address the 

community development needs specific to their community. Any community development needs 

indicator must encompass a wide variety of measures reflecting different types of community 

development need. 

Variables Used To Construct the Community Development Needs Indicator 

This study identified the variables to be used in the needs index for the entitlement communities 

based on the CDBG objectives noted above. Table 3-1 shows the variables used in previous 

studies, as well as those used for this study. Many of the variables selected for this study have 

been used in one form or another in all of the studies. Data availability and continuing research 

on the changing dynamics of community need have led to variable modifications and the 

addition or subtraction of variables over time. 

Table 3-1. Community Development Needs Variables, 1976–2003 

Variable Description 

Bunce 

(1976) 

Bunce 

and 

Goldberg 

(1979) 

Bunce, Neal, 

and 

Gardner(1983) 

Neary and 

Richardson 

(1995) 

Richardson

(This 

Report) 

Income variables

Percent of poor persons (census) X X X 

Percent of persons under the age of 18 in 

poverty (census) X X 

Percent of persons living in poor families 

or poor households headed by a elderly 

person (census) X X 

Percent of households that are femaleheaded with children in poverty X 

Change in percentage of poor persons over 

10 years (census) X X X 

Real per capita income (census) X X 
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Variable Description 

Bunce 

(1976) 

Bunce 

and 

Goldberg 

(1979) 

Bunce, Neal, 

and 

Gardner(1983) 

Neary and 

Richardson 

(1995) 

Richardson

(This 

Report) 

Ratio of per capita income to metropolitan 

per capita income (census) X 

Net change in real per capita income over 

20 years (census) 

X 

(10 years) X 

X 

(10 years) 

Percent of poverty persons in 40 percent or 

higher poverty census tracts (census) X 

Social and demographic variables

Percent of families with a female head and 

children under 18 (census) X X X X 

Percent of population older than 65 

(census) X X X X 

Percent of households minority (census) X X X X 

Percent of population black (census) X 

Change in percent of population black over 

10 years (census) X X 

Percent of population of Spanish origin 

(census) X 

Percent of population age 25–65 without a 

high school education (census) X X X X 

Minority dissimilarity index 

(segregation)multiplied by percent 

minority X 

Economic Variables

Percent of population age 16–64 that is 

employed (census) X X X 

Percent of persons age 16 or older in the 

labor force that are unemployed (census) 

X 

(Bureau 

of Labor 

Statistics 

[BLS]) X 

X 

(BLS) X X 

Percent change in the volume of retail sales 

over 5 years (economic census) 

X 

(9 years) 

X 

(10 years) X 

Percent change in retail sales 

establishments over 9 years (economic 

census) X 

Percent change in retail, wholesale, and 

service employment over 10 years 

(economic census) 

X 

(5 years) X 

Percent change in manufacturing 

employment over 10 years (economic 

census) X 

Net change in unemployment rate over 10 

years (census) X 

New housing permits in past 2 years X 

Housing variables

Percent of occupied housing units that are 

pre-1940 and occupied by poverty 

household (census) X 

X 

(pre-1950) 

Percent of occupied housing units that are 

pre-1960 occupied by a poverty renter 

(census) X 

X 

(pre-1970) 
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Variable Description 

Bunce 

(1976) 

Bunce 

and 

Goldberg 

(1979) 

Bunce, Neal, 

and 

Gardner(1983) 

Neary and 

Richardson 

(1995) 

Richardson

(This 

Report) 

Percent of housing units pre-1940 (census) X X X 

Percent of rental units pre-1940 (census) X 

Percent of housing units owner-occupied 

(census) X 

X 

(renter) 

Percent of owner units pre-1940 (census) X 

Percent of occupied housing that is rental 

with one of four housing problems 

(census)11 X X 

Percent of housing units lacking complete 

plumbing (census) X X 

Percent of housing units overcrowded X X X X 

Population trends

Percent change in population since 1960 

(census) X X X 

X (loss 

only) 

Percent change in population over 10 years 

(census) 

X 

(5 years) X X 

X (loss 

only) 

Percent change in households over 10 

years X 

Other indicators

Number of murders, assaults with 

weapons, incidents of nonnegligent 

manslaughter, and robberies per 1,000 

persons (UCR) X X X X X 

Change in violent crime over 4 years X 

Number of persons per square mile 

(census) X X X X 

The variables selected for creating a community development needs index are best explained in 

the context of the CDBG objectives. For simplicity, in this report, the CDBG objectives are 

summarized in four categories; each variable is explained in the specific CDBG category. Each 

variable’s description is supported by an historic rationale and any relevant recent research 

supporting the variable’s use. Not all the variables identified are available for all 1,024 CDBG 

entitlement jurisdictions; needs scores are created for 899 jurisdictions only.12 

1. Low and Moderate Income Persons. The overall objective of CDBG is to serve 

“persons of low and moderate income.” Thus, indicators that target low- and moderate-income 

persons are essential. The specific objectives provide a special emphasis on targeting 

communities with high neighborhood concentrations of low- and moderate-income persons. The 

 

11 Overcrowding, without complete kitchen, without complete plumbing, and/or with housing cost burden greater 

than 30 percent. 

12 There is some bias in the jurisdictions that are excluded due to missing data. Specifically, 38 grantees in Illinois 

are excluded because the crime data for most Illinois communities, except Chicago, are missing; all 21 Puerto Rico 

jurisdictions are excluded for lack of crime data; and a disproportionate number of urban counties, 32 of the 159 

urban counties, are excluded due to incomplete crime data. Crime rate is an excellent measure of community distress 

not captured by any of the other factors used in this analysis, which justifies its inclusion even though its use reduces 

the number of grantees used in this analysis from 1,024 to 899. 
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objectives also indicate that CDBG funds should be used to fund community services for lowand moderate-income persons; this report identifies subgroups of persons that are particularly 

high consumers of community services. 

Income Variables 

a. Persons in poverty living in families or elderly households. The first CDBG formula 

study identified the importance of poverty as a measure of community development need 

because poor persons have a high reliance on city government for basic necessities. In 

addition, poverty is associated with “substandard housing, urban blight, neighborhood 

instability, and housing abandonment” (Bunce 1976). This study uses persons in poverty 

living in families or elderly households instead of simply persons in poverty because the 

persons in poverty variable from the census includes off-campus college students, who 

often receive support from their families that is not recorded by the census. The persons 

in poverty variable, therefore, tends to distort the level of need in areas where large 

colleges or universities are located. By focusing on just persons in poverty that live in 

families (two or more related persons) or elderly households, this anomaly is largely 

resolved (Neary and Richardson 1995).13 

b. Percentage point change in poverty rate between 1990 and 2000. Jurisdictions with 

growing numbers of persons in poverty have special community development needs 

associated with their capacity to address a growing impoverished population. Research 

has demonstrated, for example, that every 1 percent increase in a city’s poverty rate 

reflects a 5.5 percent increase in per capita expenditure on police services. Similar effects 

exist for fire protection costs (Ladd and Yinger 1989). The change in poverty rate among 

CDBG entitlements between 1990 and 2000 ranges from a drop of 18 percentage points 

(Toa Alta Municipio, PR) to an increase of 8 percentage points (North Miami, FL). 

c. Jurisdiction per capita income relative to metropolitan per capita income. This is a 

new variable for this study. Rather than use per capita income alone, this measure takes 

into account the metropolitan context of that per capita income. It extends research 

conducted by David Rusk (1993) showing that “the city-suburb per capita income ratio is 

the single most important indicator of an urban area’s social health.” Conceptually, it 

takes into account the relationship between the cost of providing services, which is driven 

by metropolitan area incomes (the employment/services market), and the tax base to pay 

 

13 Because this variable excludes single, nonelderly persons in poverty (the proxy for college students in this 

analysis), there is a sense that it may misrepresent the needs of communities with particularly high portions of their 

population made up of noncollege students who are single, nonelderly, and in poverty. To test this, HUD requested a 

special tabulation of census data that specifically excluded full-time college students from the poverty count. 

Comparing the noncollege student poverty rate to the poverty rate for persons living in families and elderly 

households in poverty across the CDBG universe finds a correlation of 0.989. A few noncollege town communities 

have a 10 percent reduction in the share of the national poverty total when the elderly and families in poverty are 

used instead of special Census tabulation data on noncollege students in poverty. Those communities include 

Bangor, Maine; Clearfield, Utah; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Portland, Maine; Asheville, North Carolina; 

Lewiston, Maine; Portland, Oregon; Miami Beach, Florida; Glens Falls, New York; Charleston, West Virginia; 

Wheeling, West Virginia; Superior, Wisconsin; Sarasota, Florida; Clearwater, Florida; Palm Springs, California; and 

Atlantic City, New Jersey. 
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for those services, which is driven by local incomes. The lower this ratio, the more 

difficult it is for a community to provide a level of service that can compete with the level 

of service provided in other communities in the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). 

This measure is at the heart of Rusk’s concept of inelastic and elastic cities, where elastic 

cities can annex their growing suburbs and inelastic cities are landlocked. Inelastic cities 

experience declining tax bases and increased need for services. 

d. Net change in per capita income from 1989 to 1999. This variable measures the 

economic growth of a community. Rising per capita income reflects a growing economy 

and a stronger tax base. Declining per capita income growth suggests a struggling 

economy and a waning tax base relative to rising costs for a jurisdiction. 

e. Concentrated poverty. This is a new variable for this study. The exact variable is the 

percent of persons in poverty living in neighborhoods with more than 40 percent 

poverty.14 This measure uses Jargowsky’s (1996) definition of a ghetto neighborhood as 

40 percent poverty or more. 

The sixth objective of the CDBG statute calls for the “reduction of the isolation of 

income groups within communities.” A number of recent studies have documented the 

extent of poverty concentrations in the United States (Jargowsky 1996; Rusk 1999) and 

the consequences of ghetto poverty (Wilson 1987; Blank 1997; Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, 

and Aber 1997). Recent research on the impact of moving poor families from highpoverty to lower poverty neighborhoods demonstrates significant effects for women and 

girls in terms of increased safety, reduced incidence of psychological disorders, and less 

obesity. However, there appears to be a negative impact on boy’s behavior. (Orr, et al 

2003). Generally, the social cost of poor people living in high-poverty neighborhoods 

appears to be higher than the cost of just having poor people, in terms of public safety 

and health care costs. 

High Consumers of Community Services15

a. Female-headed households with children. This is a group seen to have day care needs. 

In addition, communities with large segments of single parent households are often 

correlated with neighborhood instability and substandard housing (Bunce 1976). This is 

also a good supplement to the poverty measure because it captures a high number of 

households that are just above the poverty threshold. According to Census 2000 data, 49 

percent of female-headed households with children in the US have incomes less than 

$20,000 compared to just 8 percent of married families with children. Very few female-

 

14 To address the issue of college towns, this variable uses persons in poverty living in families and elderly 

households rather than all persons in poverty. 

15 In all previous studies, the percentage of persons over age 65 was used as a factor. This study initially included 

elderly persons based on the premise that they often have special needs for transportation, housing, recreation, and 

health care (Bunce 1976). This study determined, however, that elderly persons did not correlate well with any other 

factors. Further exploration suggests that a large elderly population can mean higher service costs but it also is very 

indicative of communities with a significant population of well-off retirees. Because the meaning of this variable has 

changed, it is not included in this analysis. 
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headed households with children have higher incomes, only 4 percent nationwide have 

incomes greater than $60,000. 

b. Persons with lower education levels. Lack of high school education is correlated with 

high crime rates, unemployment, and social problems. Individuals without a high school 

education also often live in declining neighborhoods. Not having a high school education 

increases the likelihood a person is dependent on public support (Bunce 1976). 

2. Decent Housing. This study interprets the statute’s focus on “decent housing principally 

for persons of low and moderate income” to encourage targeting of CDBG funds to areas with 

large amounts of substandard housing, as well as places with a lack of decent affordable housing. 

Variable selection also takes into account the historic preservation and energy conservation 

objectives. 

a. Occupied housing units that are pre-1950 and occupied by a poverty household and 

occupied housing units that are pre-1970 and occupied by a poverty renter. Earlier 

studies found that housing built before 1940 was an indicator of substandard housing and 

a good proxy for “government repair and maintenance costs of older sanitation facilities 

and sewage lines.” Older housing was also associated with housing abandonment. (Bunce 

1976). As needier jurisdictions have demolished their pre-1940 housing stock over time 

and less needy jurisdictions have renovated their pre-1940 housing stock, pre-1940 

housing has steadily lost this targeting ability (Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary 

and Richardson 1995). Age of housing remains a good proxy for an older infrastructure, 

the costs of maintaining that infrastructure, and a need for historic preservation. Ladd and 

Yinger (1991) found that cities with older housing had higher operating costs than cities 

with newer housing. It is highly desirable to capture the concept of age without overly 

rewarding communities that have aged gracefully. 

Census 2000 does not have a perfect proxy for inadequate housing. Historically, pre-1940 

housing has been used; its targeting ability has declined over time, however, as 

dilapidated older units were demolished in declining communities and renovated in 

improving communities. Neary and Richardson (1995) modified the older housing 

variable to include occupancy by a poor person to improve the targeting of the age of 

housing variable toward inadequate housing. Table 3-2 shows results from analysis of 

2001 American Housing Survey data on the relationship between inadequate housing and 

older housing. Nationally, 6.3 percent of the nation’s housing stock is inadequate.16 Older 

housing is indeed more likely to be substandard, with housing built before 1940 nearly 

twice as likely (11.1 percent) to be substandard than on average nationally. Poor people 

are also more likely to live in inadequate housing (12.1 percent). Combining poverty with 

old housing substantially improves targeting toward inadequate housing. Approximately 

18 percent of pre-1950 housing units occupied by a person in poverty have housing 

quality problems. Tenure is also a good measure of housing inadequacy. Renters are 

more likely to live in inadequate housing, particularly renters in older housing (16.5 

percent for renters of pre-1950 housing). 

 

16 Using the definition of “Physical problems - moderate and severe” in the American Housing Survey for the United 

States: 2001 (U.S. Census Bureau 2002). 
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Table 3-2. Age of Housing, Income, and Tenure as Indicators of Housing and 

Neighborhood Distress 

National 

Total Poverty

Pre-1940 

Housing

Pre-1950 

Poverty 

Pre-1950 

Renter 

Pre-1970 

Poverty 

Renter 

Housing need indicators 

Percent of units inadequate 6.3 12.1 11.1 17.9 16.5 18.7 

Percent of units severely inadequate 2.0 4.0 3.7 5.9 5.4 6.4 

Percent rating house quality 6 or less on 

10 point scale (1 is low, 10 is high) 14.2 21.3 21.0 26.7 30.4 30.6 

Neighborhood need indicators 

Percent living near abandoned buildings 4.8 8.2 10.2 12.9 12.0 13.8 

Percent living near roads in need of repair 35.2 40.4 41.5 44.6 46.5 45.6 

Percent rating neighborhood quality 6 or 

less on 10 point scale (1 is low, 10 is high) 17.2 23.8 23.9 29.9 30.7 33.2 

Percent deeming crime to be so 

bothersome that resident 

wishes to move 3.7 6.4 5.2 8.9 9.3 11.8 

Source: Analysis of 2001 American Housing Survey Data 

To capture communities with somewhat newer housing stock (pre-1970) but with 

housing inadequacy problems, the pre-1970 poverty renter variable has targeting 

advantages similar to pre-1950 poverty. 

b. Percent of housing units with more than 1.01 persons per room. Bunce’s 1976 report 

identified overcrowding as an important indicator of (1) disposal and sanitation problems, 

(2) a high demand for recreational facilities, (3) density of the population, and (4) excess 

demand for housing. In 1995, the CDBG needs indicator included renter units with one of 

four housing problems as an indicator of need. This factor included overcrowding, renter 

cost burden of 30 percent or more, and units without complete kitchen and/or plumbing. 

This study returned to using overcrowding alone.17 Overcrowding has increased between 

1990 and 2000 and is closely associated with growing immigrant population, which puts 

a unique strain on local government resources. Studies commissioned by the National 

Academy of Sciences of the states of California and New Jersey found that immigrants, 

particularly the low-skilled immigrants with larger families that reflect overcrowding, 

contribute less to local and state revenues than they consume (Smith and Edmonston 

1997). 

3. Suitable Living Environment. The variables in this category address the CDBG 

objectives of eliminating slums and blight, neighborhood revitalization, and land use planning. 

 

17 Analysis of the cost burden variable shows that it is generally a good indicator of high housing costs. For CDBG 

targeting purposes, however, it has the side effect of especially targeting college towns. College towns often have 

high housing costs because they are desirable places to live, with few community development need, and apparently 

large numbers of persons with low incomes resulting in cost burden. The low incomes are deceptive, however, 

because many college students have low earned incomes but are supported by their parents.
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a. Number of murders, assaults with weapons, incidents of nonnegligent 

manslaughter, and robberies per 1,000 persons in 2001.18 Communities with higher 

crime rates are confronted not only by the need for greater police enforcement but also 

the social cost associated with higher crime, including substantial health costs (Orr, et al. 

2003). Crime also is a “push” factor that provides a strong incentive for people with a 

choice, generally the people contributing most to a jurisdiction’s tax base, to leave the 

community (Skogan 1990). 

b. Number of persons per square mile in 2000. Research by Ladd and Yinger (1989) 

demonstrated that higher general service costs are associated with both high- and lowdensity communities. According to Ladd and Yinger, “Cities with low densities face high 

transportation and coordination costs, whereas cities with high densities face severe 

congestion.” 

c. Level of minority segregation in metropolitan area multiplied by the percent of the 

minority population. For this variable, this study uses a metropolitan level dissimilarity 

index. This index measures the proportion of the population in the metropolitan area that 

would need to move for the minority population to be evenly represented in all census 

tracts.19 Zero represents complete integration and 1 is complete segregation. The index is 

then multiplied by the percent minority in a particular jurisdiction. In previous studies, 

percent minority has been used as a separate indicator because urban blight and 

abandonment were found to be concentrated in minority neighborhoods. Areas with high 

minority concentrations were associated with overcrowded housing, a higher infant 

mortality rate, greater welfare dependency, substandard housing, and high rates of 

unemployment (Bunce 1976). Minorities are also more likely to have extended stays in 

poverty (Blank 1997). More recent research indicates that these problems are much more 

concentrated in metropolitan areas with high degrees of segregation (Rusk 1999). 

Furthermore, racial segregation has been found to have a high correlation with fiscal 

inequality and urban sprawl, defined as decreases in population density in the urbanized 

area (Orfield 2002). 20 This could be driven partly by the substantial wealth gap between 

minorities and whites (Oliver and Shapiro 1995). From this evidence, this study 

concludes that jurisdictions with the highest percent minority population in a racially 

segregated metropolitan area are likely to have relatively high levels of distress in terms 

of fiscal revenue capacity and loss of population density in favor of urban sprawl. 

 

18 All data are from Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). If city data are available from 2001 UCR, 

that is used; otherwise, 1999 UCR data are used. For urban counties, 2000 UCR data is used less the entitlement city 

UCR counts above. If no data are available for one or more entitlement city in a county but are available for that 

county, data are not used for either. If the UCR population count for a county is greater than 1.20 or less than 0.5 of 

the actual population count for an urban county, UCR data are not used for that county. For the 123 urban counties 

for which data was available, 103 have ratios between 0.90 and 1.10. 

19 Minority is defined as all persons except non-Hispanic whites. 

20 Orfield found the correlation between tax base inequality in the 25 largest metropolitan areas correlates with the 

dissimilarity index for racial segregation at 0.57. He also determined the correlation between decline in urbanized 

land area density and the dissimilarity index for racial segregation to be –0.52. 
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4. Economic Opportunities. The statute clearly states that CDBG should be targeted at 

communities with population out-migration or a stagnating or declining tax base. 

Population Trends 

a. Population loss between 1960 and 2000. The Census of 1960 marked the population 

height for many older, industrial central cities. The growth of interstate highway systems 

and housing finance systems that favored suburban development over central city 

housing, along with the decline in the number of manufacturing jobs located in central 

cities, contributed a great deal to this population loss (Oliver and Shapiro 1995). Cities 

with significant population loss are often confronted by the costs associated with 

managing abandoned housing, an aging infrastructure that is larger than needed or that it 

can support, and usually an older and larger poverty population than cities that are 

growing. As a result, these cities have higher than average numbers of municipal 

employees per 10,000 residents and tend to levy a higher combined state and local tax 

burden (Moore and Stansel 1993). Even those jurisdictions that stabilized their population 

between 1990 and 2000 still retain the higher costs noted above21. 

b. Population loss between 1990 and 2000. Some jurisdictions that continued to grow in 

population between 1960 and 1990 have begun to experience population loss. These 

“newer” declining cities and urban counties, many of them inner-ring suburbs, are 

beginning to experience population decline and some of the stresses noted in the previous 

section for the older cities with population loss. 

Economic Variables 

a. Percent of population age 16 to 64 that was employed in 2000. The smaller the 

segment of working age population that is employed, the greater social distress for a 

community. This is a measure of the extent that the primary generators of income for a 

community are idle, unemployed, or dependent on services. High rates of idleness are 

often related to higher crime and dependence on community services without 

contributing to the tax base. 

b. Percent of persons age 16 years or older in the labor force that was unemployed in 

2000. This is a direct measure of economic distress for a community. High numbers of 

unemployed persons who are looking for work is reflective of a troubled regional 

economy or a mismatch between the skills of the persons and the jobs available in the 

region. 

In prior years, changes in retail sales over 5 years, in manufacturing employment over 10 

years, and service employment over 10 years have been included in the needs index. These 

data have come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Census, which is conducted every 

5 years. The most recent data available are from 1997. Unfortunately for this study, which 

 

21 One caveat on the population loss estimates relates to falling household size. Some communities with population 

loss, generally well-off suburbs that were almost fully built out in 1960, lost population in the form of falling 

household size but actually are relatively well off. 
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depends on changes between two time periods, the Census Bureau began using North 

American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes in 1997 for defining types of 

industry in place of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes that were used for 

previous economic census. For many types of jobs, there is no direct one-to-one link between 

SIC code jobs and NAICS codes. For time series analysis, it is very important to have data 

defined the same for both time periods. Because the economic census data are not defined the 

same for both time periods, they could not be used in this study. The consequence for this 

analysis is to have relatively few measures of economic growth and decline as part of the 

needs index. 

Factor Analysis 

After identifying the variables that indicate community development need, for this study, those 

data were translated into a single “needs indicator” using a statistical technique called “factor 

analysis.” Factor analysis identifies underlying factors that capture the variance among multiple 

variables. In this way, a single variable can be created that represents the common variance of 

multiple variables. Generally, with a large number of variables, factor analysis will create more 

than one factor to represent the different patterns of variance among the variables (Kim and 

Mueller 1978). 

Over the past three decades, there has been remarkable consistency in terms of the number and 

type of factors created using this technique. Those factors have generally been (1) problems 

associated with poverty, (2) density, and (3) age/decline (Bunce and Goldberg 1979; Bunce, 

Neal, and Gardner 1983; Neary and Richardson 1995). The first CDBG study that used this 

technique to create a measure of community development need (Bunce 1976) identified these 

three factors as well as factors for (4) crime and unemployment and (5) lack of economic 

opportunity. 

This study determined that over the past decade, the factors that previously had different patterns 

of variance—problems associated with poverty, unemployment, older infrastructure, and 

decline—have largely converged into a single factor that accounts for 46 percent of the variance 

among the 17 variables identified above. Two new needs variables, however, have emerged: one 

that appears to be closely associated with high rates of immigration growth, and another that is 

closely associated with a trend, documented by Jargowsky (2003), where many places with 

concentrated poverty had substantial poverty rate declines during the 1990s. 

For purposes of the formula alternatives described in Chapter 6, it is useful to note that the factor 

analysis from the previous studies indicated that a dual formula system—one that targets toward 

poverty and another toward age and decline—was appropriate. In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, 

poverty was clearly a dimension of need that did not relate well to age and decline. The analysis 

from this study, however, indicates that this finding is no longer true. For the entitlement 

communities, places with high rates of older housing and population loss are now accounted for 

in the same factor that picks up poverty (factor 1). If policy makers choose, those dimensions of 

community development need can now be captured through a single formula. 
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Factor 1. Poverty/Age/Economic Distress/Decline

Factor 1 is an excellent factor for showing community development need. It reflects 46 percent 

of the variance among the variables used in the factor analysis. Furthermore, 11 of the 17 needs 

variables used in this analysis correlate with factor 1 at 60 percent or higher (shown in bold in 

Table 3-3) while 5 of the remaining 6 variables have correlations of greater than 40 percent 

(shown in italics in Table 3-3). Only the change in the poverty rate between 1990 and 2000 has a 

weak correlation with this factor. That is, communities that score high on this factor, score high 

regardless of their poverty rate change between 1990 and 2000. Table 3-3 shows the correlation 

between factor 1 and each of the community need variables used in this study. 

Table 3-3. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Underlying Factor 1 

 Correlation22

Percent of persons in poor families or poor elderly households, 2000 0.913 

Point change in poverty rate, 1990–2000 0.018 

Per capita income/per capita income of MSA, 2000 (negative equates with 

good targeting to need) –0.668 

Net per capita income change, 1989–1999 (negative equates with good 

targeting to need) –0.676 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts with greater than 40 percent 

poverty, 2000 0.489 

Percent of families with female head with children under age 18, 2000 0.740 

Percent of population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 0.781 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950, occupied by a poverty 

household, 2000 0.734 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970, occupied by a poverty 

renter household, 2000 0.855 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 0.479 

Number of homicides, assaults, and robberies per 1000 persons, 

1999/2000/2001 0.711 

Persons per square mile, 2000 0.430 

MSA dissimilarity index multiplied by percent minority 0.715 

Percent population loss, 1960– 2000 0.516 

Percent population loss, 1990–2000 0.429 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 (negative equates with 

good targeting to need) –0.835 

Percent of persons age 16 or older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 0.864 

 N=899 

Table 3-4 shows a select group of communities that have high need and low need on factor 1.23

This table shows that factor 1, which is strongly correlated with poverty, the old housing 

variables, and unemployment, targets strongly to older cities such as Detroit and Baltimore while 

it targets away from large urban counties such as Fairfax County, Virginia, and Oakland County, 

Michigan. 

 

22 Correlations at or above 0.600 are in bold while correlations from 0.400 to 0.600 are italicized. 

23 The select communities are cities with population greater than 250,000 and urban counties with population greater 

than 500,000. Tables 3-4, 3-6, 3-8, and 3-9 show the 10 most needy and 10 least needy of these communities on 

each factor. 
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Communities that have a high value on factor 1 are generally recognized to have considerable 

community development need. 

Table 3-4. Examples of High- and Low-Need Communities on Factor 1 

 Higher Need Score Lower Need Score 

Newark, NJ 3.22 Orange County, CA –0.97 

Detroit, MI 2.98 Contra Costa County, CA –1.00 

Buffalo, NY 2.59 Montgomery County, MD –1.02 

St. Louis, MO 2.54 Cobb County, GA –1.03 

Cleveland, OH 2.53 King County, WA –1.05 

Baltimore, MD 2.37 Montgomery County, PA –1.22 

Miami, FL 2.29 Fairfax County, VA –1.25 

Philadelphia, PA 2.09 Oakland County, MI –1.31 

New Orleans, LA 2.00 Hennepin County, MN –1.41 

Factor 1: 

Poverty/age of 

infrastructure/ 

economic distress/ 

inadequate tax 

base/crime 

New York, NY 1.81 Westchester County, NY –1.42 

Factor 2. Low-Skilled Immigrants/Overcrowding

As noted earlier, factor 2 is a new dimension of community distress that has surfaced as a result 

of the rapid growth in the immigrant population in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly low-skilled 

immigrants with larger families. The communities reflected in factor 2 are growing, often in very 

high cost areas of the country. The immigrant population it targets generally is not in 

Table 3-5. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Underlying Factor 2 

 Correlation 

Percent of persons in poor families or headed by elderly poor person, 

2000 0.049 

Point change in poverty rate, 1990–2000 0.315 

Per capita income/per capita income of MSA, 2000 –0.142 

Net per capita income change, 1989–1999 –0.238 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts with greater than 40 percent 

poverty, 2000 –0.058 

Percent of families with female head with children under age 18, 2000 –0.454 

Percent of population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 0.464 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950, occupied by a poverty 

household, 2000 –0.491 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970, occupied by a poverty 

renter household, 2000 –0.305 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 0.780 

Number of homicides, assaults, and robberies per 1000 persons, 

1999/2000/2001 –0.110 

Persons per square mile, 2000 0.326 

MSA dissimilarity index multiplied by percent minority 0.401 

Percent population loss, 1960–2000 –0.643 

Percent population loss, 1990–2000 –0.616 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 –0.206 

Percent of persons 16 or older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 0.022 
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poverty, but does tend to contain low-wage workers with limited education. As Table 3-5 shows, 

this factor is most strongly correlated with overcrowding. This factor accounts for 16 percent of 

the variance among the variables used in this analysis. 

Not surprisingly, communities with the least need on this factor are communities that have 

limited economic opportunity and are losing population, another dimension of community 

development need that is largely captured in factor 1. Table 3-6 shows, for example, that the very 

distressed cities on factor 1, such as Buffalo, New York, and St. Louis, Missouri have very low 

need on factor 2. This leads to an important policy tradeoff question for the CDBG formula: to 

what extent should CDBG funds be targeted to communities experiencing fiscal stress due to 

immigration growth? Doing so comes at the expense of communities experiencing fiscal stress 

due to poverty, age, and decline, as measured by factor 1. 

Table 3-6. Examples of High- and Low-Need Communities on Factor 2 

 Higher Need Score Lower Need Score 

Santa Ana, CA 4.07 Toledo, OH –1.17 

Anaheim, CA 2.25 New Orleans, LA –1.35 

Los Angeles, CA 1.70 Baltimore, MD –1.78 

Long Beach, CA 1.55 Louisville, KY –1.93 

Miami, FL 1.46 Detroit, MI –1.94 

Los Angeles County, CA 1.37 Cleveland, OH –2.26 

New York, NY 1.25 Cincinnati, OH –2.58 

San Jose, CA 1.20 Pittsburgh, PA –2.70 

Riverside, CA 1.17 St Louis, MO –2.88 

Factor 2: 

Overcrowding/ 

population growth 

Houston, TX 1.10 Buffalo, NY –2.98 

Factor 3. Concentrated Poverty, Low Density With Declining Poverty Rates

Factor 3 is difficult to interpret as a measure of community development need. As Table 3-7 

shows, it correlates most strongly with places that have concentrated poverty and low-density 

population, and declining poverty rates. It captures an interesting trend of the 1990s: the overall 

decline of concentrated poverty (Jargowsky 2003). Clearly, locations with concentrated poverty 

are distressed, but to what extent should CDBG funds be targeted to these places if they are 

experiencing a general decline in poverty? 
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Table 3-7. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Underlying Factor 3 

 Correlation 

Percent of persons in poor families or headed by elderly poor person, 2000 0.284 

Point change in poverty rate, 1990–2000 –0.644 

Per capita income/per capita income of MSA, 2000 0.223 

Net per capita income change, 1989–1999 0.108 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts with greater than 40 percent 

poverty, 2000 0.602 

Percent of families with female heads with children under age 18, 2000 0.032 

Percent of population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 0.077 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950, occupied by a poverty 

household, 2000 –0.250 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970, occupied by a poverty 

renter household, 2000 –0.173 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 –0.026 

Number of homicides, assaults, and robberies per 1000 persons, 

1999/2000/2001 0.170 

Persons per square mile, 2000 –0.557 

MSA dissimilarity index multiplied by percent minority 0.004 

Percent population loss, 1960–2000 –0.242 

Percent population loss, 1990–2000 –0.178 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 –0.172 

Percent of persons age 16 and older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 0.130 

Table 3-8 shows the conflict associated with this measure of need. Needy communities that have 

shown some improvement in the 1990s, such as Atlanta, Fresno, and El Paso, rank very high on 

this measure, but distressed places with increasing poverty rate and high density, like Buffalo 

and New York, New York, rank very low on this factor. 

Table 3-8. Examples of High- and Low-Need Communities on Factor 3 

 Higher Need Score Lower Need Score 

Atlanta, GA 2.33 Baltimore, MD –0.78 

Fresno, CA 2.16 Newark, NJ –0.81 

El Paso, TX 2.05 St. Louis, MO –0.84 

New Orleans, LA 1.59 Philadelphia, PA –0.91 

Memphis, TN 1.55 Anaheim, CA –0.95 

Tampa, FL 1.51 Santa Ana, CA –1.06 

San Antonio, TX 1.43 San Francisco, CA –1.19 

Baton Rouge, LA 1.40 Boston, MA –1.40 

Corpus Christi, TX 1.34 Buffalo, NY –1.73 

Factor 3: 

Declining poverty/ 

poverty 

concentration/ low 

density 

Miami, FL 1.14 New York, NY –1.94 
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Creating a Composite Needs Index 

Creating a single measure of community development need requires evaluating the CDBG 

objectives to determine the relative importance of each needs factor identified above. From that 

assessment, the weight of the individual dimensions of need can be determined. 

By definition, factors 1, 2, and 3 are independent of each other as dimensions of the variance 

explained by the variables used in this analysis. Factor 1 clearly targets to communities with 

problems identified in the CDBG statute, specifically places with large segments of their 

population including persons with low and moderate income, communities with substantial 

neighborhood blight, places with deteriorated housing and physical and economic distress, and 

decline (41 USC 5301[c]). Factor 1 accounts for 45 percent of the total variance and correlates 

well with nearly all the variables identified in this analysis as measures of community need. 

Factor 2 represents a new dimension of community need, growing immigrant communities. The 

CDBG statute states as one of its purposes the development of new centers of population growth 

and economic activity (41 USC 5301[b][1]). For the communities targeted by factor 2, 

population growth and economic activity come at the cost of increased fiscal stress associated 

with providing community services for the growing population of low-wage workers. In 

addition, the CDBG statute calls for the expansion of the nation’s housing stock to provide a 

decent home and a suitable living environment for all persons (41 USC 5301[c][3]). Because 

much of the growing immigrant population is moving into expensive housing markets for work, 

the consequence is a shortage of housing that leads to overcrowding. Factor 2 accounts for 16 

percent of the variance between the variables used in this analysis. Factor 2, however, targets 

away from many of the high-need communities identified in factor 1. 

Finally, factor 3 captures a dimension of need—poverty concentration—but also some 

dimensions of positive economic growth in the form of declining poverty rates. One objective of 

the CDBG program is to reduce the isolation of income groups (41 USC 5301[c][6]). Factor 3 

targets toward the subset of communities with poverty concentration that are also experiencing 

declining poverty rates. Like factor 2, it targets away from other communities with high need 

that have increasing poverty rates. Factor 3 represents about 9 percent of the variance of the 17 

variables used in this analysis. 

Using the CDBG program’s statutory objectives as a guide, the weight assigned to each factor to 

create a composite needs index score is as follows: 

 Factor 1 is assessed a weight of 80 percent. Factor 1 receives the largest share of the 

weight because (1) it targets toward multiple components of the CDBG objectives, (2) 

reflects a very high proportion of the variance in need between communities, and (3) 

communities that rank as less needy on this factor do not rank as particularly needy on 

either factor 2 or 3, thus decreasing the risk of anomalous targeting. 

 Factor 2 is assessed a weight of 15 percent. Factor 2 is modestly weighted to reflect that, 

although it targets well toward the fiscal stress associated with growing low-wage 
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immigrant populations, it also targets away from many of the high-need communities of 

factor 1. 

 Factor 3 is assessed a weight of 5 percent. Factor 3 gets a very low weight. While it does 

account for a select group of communities with high rates of concentrated poverty, factor 

3 also targets away from needy communities with increasing poverty rates. The author 

also suspects that factor 3 may reflect a pattern of variance unique to the 1990s. 

Table 3-9 shows the individual scores for some of the larger CDBG jurisdictions with relatively 

high composite scores, meaning that they have high community development need, and others 

that have relatively low scores. Not surprisingly, the high-need communities of factor 1 are most 

frequently represented in the higher need category. Especially needy communities on factor 2, 

such as Santa Ana, CA, however, move up on this list as well. 

Table 3-9. Examples of High- and Low-Need Communities on Composite Needs Index 

 Higher Need Score Lower Need Score 

Newark, NJ 2.55 Virginia Beach, VA –0.72 

Detroit, MI 2.12 Contra Costa County, CA –0.76 

Miami, FL 2.11 Montgomery County, MD –0.78 

Santa Ana, CA 1.88 Cobb County, GA –0.80 

Cleveland, OH 1.68 King County, WA –0.85 

Baltimore, MD 1.60 Fairfax County, VA –0.97 

St. Louis, MO 1.56 Montgomery County, PA –1.00 

Buffalo, NY 1.54 Oakland County, MI –1.07 

New York, NY 1.54 Westchester County, NY –1.15 

Composite 

needs index: 

0.80*Factor 1 + 

0.15*Factor 2 + 

0.05*Factor 3 

Philadelphia, PA 1.50 Hennepin County, MN –1.17 

The composite needs index for entitlement communities will be used as the “measuring stick” in 

Chapter 4 to assess how well the current entitlement formula targets toward community 

development need. This needs index is used in that chapter to answer the following two basic 

questions: 

1. Do communities with similar needs index scores receive similar per capita grant 

amounts? 

2. Do communities with very high needs index scores get much larger grants on a per capita 

basis than communities with very low needs index scores? 
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Nonentitlement Targeting to Need 

Nonentitlements are statewide aggregates of all the communities not covered by the entitlement 

side of the formula. They reflect urban and rural areas, small towns, new growing suburbs, and 

declining agricultural communities. This diversity of communities, often in a single state, makes 

creating a needs index for nonentitlement areas difficult. 

A review of the data available that are comparable across grantees for the geographic areas that 

make up nonentitlements indicates that decennial census data are the only reliable and 

comparable source of data. This is due to the odd geography of nonentitlement areas, which are 

balances of states remaining after subtracting entitlement areas. It cannot be assumed, for 

example, that rural areas are a good proxy for nonentitlement areas because in some states a high 

percentage of the nonentitlement areas are urban. 

The variables used to create the nonentitlement needs index include nine variables previously 

used in the analysis of need for entitled areas that make practical sense for nonentitlement areas. 

We don’t use, for example, the measure of local per capita income relative to metropolitan per 

capita income in the nonentitlement needs index because the balance of a state consists of 

multiple MA and non-MA areas. 

The nine variables used for the nonentitlement needs index that are the same as for the 

entitlement needs index are selected for the same reasons as for the entitlement jurisdictions. One 

additional variable is added: a proxy for infrastructure need due to the high percentage of 

nonentitlement funds that are spent on infrastructure. The variables as they related to the 

summary objectives of the CDBG statute are described below.24

1. Low- and Moderate-Income Persons. 

Income Variables 

a. Persons in poverty living in families or elderly households.

b. Concentrated poverty. 

High Consumers of Community Services 

a. Female-headed households with children.

b. Persons with lower education levels. 

 

24 The CDBG statute calls for subtracting Native Americans who live in Native American areas, such as 

reservations, trust land, and Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas, from the data used in the CDBG formula. This 

impacts a few urban counties and states with large Native American populations living in Native American areas. 

For this analysis, Native Americans are subtracted from the overcrowding variable only. This impacts the scores for 

a few states with large Native American populations, such as Oklahoma, Alaska, and New Mexico. The allocation 

amounts provided in Appendix B do reflect subtracting Native Americans for all of the selected variables. 
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2. Decent Housing. 

a. Occupied housing units built pre-1970 and occupied by a poverty renter. 

b. Occupied housing units built pre-1950 and occupied by poverty household. 

c. Overcrowding. 

3. Suitable Living Environment. 

 Housing units with wood or bottled gas as the main source of heating fuel. This 

variable is not used in the entitlement needs index. It was added for the nonentitlement 

needs analysis to obtain a proxy for infrastructure need. Analysis of 2001 American 

Housing Survey data show that this is a reasonable proxy for water and sewer 

infrastructure. Housing units using wood or bottled gas as the main source of heating fuel 

are also likely not to have public water or sewer connections.25 

4. Economic Opportunities. 

a. Population age 16 to 64 that was employed in 2000. 

b. Persons age 16 years or older in the labor force that were unemployed in 2000. 

These 10 variables show similar patterns of variance that create three factors: (1) poverty, 

economic distress, and overcrowding; (2) older housing; and (3) some elements of water and 

sewer need. 

Factor 1—Poverty/Economic Distress/Overcrowding 

Nonentitlement factor 1 captures 55 percent of the variance explained by the 10 variables. As 

Table 3-10 shows, it most closely represents poverty need, but also very closely captures the 

need associated with unemployment, low education, and concentrated poverty. It also has a very 

high correlation with overcrowded housing. 

 

25 According to data analyzed from the 2001 American Housing Survey (AHS), 77 percent of households that use 

wood or bottled gas as their main source of heat also do not have public sewers; 22 percent of households without 

sewers also use wood or bottled gas as their main source of heat. The correlation between no sewer and no piped gas 

is 0.35. The AHS data show that 26 million households have no sewers. Similarly, this survey indicates that 54 

percent of households that use wood or bottled gas as their main source of heat also do not have public or private 

piped water. Of households without piped water, 26 percent also use bottled gas or wood as their main source of 

heat. The correlation between no piped water and no piped gas is 0.31. This same survey shows that 17 million 

households have no piped water. In total, 8.8 million households use bottled gas or wood as their main source of 

heating. The lack of coverage on this variable may make this proxy regionally biased toward rural places where 

bottled gas is used and away from rural places where other heating fuels, such as oil or electricity, are used. 
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Table 3-10. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Nonentitlement Underlying Factor 1

 Correlation 

Percent of persons in poor families or headed by elderly poor person, 2000 0.980 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts with greater than 40 percent poverty, 

2000 0.864 

Percent of families with female head with children under 18, 2000 0.564 

Percent of population age 25– 64 without high school education, 2000 0.846 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950 occupied by poverty 

household, 2000 0.098 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970 occupied by poverty renter 

household, 2000 0.595 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 0.804 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 (negative equates with good 

targeting to need) –0.959 

Percent of persons age 16 or older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 0.933 

Percent households heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.067 

Table 3-11 shows the states that rank the highest and lowest on factor 1. Table 3-11 shows one 

nonentitlement grantee, Puerto Rico, whose score on factor 1 is substantially greater than 1. 

Puerto Rico is unique among nonentitlements because of its very high poverty rate and thus very 

high score on factor 1.26 

Table 3-11. Examples of High- and Low-Need States on Factor 1 

 Highest Need Score Lowest Need Score 

Puerto Rico 5.62 Colorado –0.71 

New Mexico 1.24 Indiana –0.71 

Mississippi 1.20 New Jersey –0.72 

Arizona 1.10 Nebraska –0.73 

Louisiana 1.09 Iowa –0.80 

California 0.91 Minnesota –0.84 

West Virginia 0.60 New Hampshire –0.92 

Kentucky 0.45 Wisconsin –0.97 

Alabama 0.44 Massachusetts –0.99 

Factor 1: Poverty, 

economic distress, 

overcrowding 

South Carolina 0.42 Connecticut –1.20 

Factor 2—Old Housing Occupied By Needy Families 

Unlike the needs index for entitlement grantees, old housing occupied by needy families remains 

a distinctly separate element of need from the poverty measure of need in factor 1. Factor 2 is 

 

26 Chapter 5 suggests that the poverty rate for Puerto Rico is not directly comparable to other states because the cost 

of living is less. This would suggest that the factor score for Puerto Rico should be somewhat less. 
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most closely targeted toward nonentitlements with old housing stock occupied by households in 

poverty. 

Table 3-12. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Nonentitlement Underlying Factor 2

 Correlation 

Percent of persons in poor families or headed by elderly poor person, 2000 0.045 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts greater than 40 percent poverty, 2000 0.042 

Percent of families with female head with children under age 18, 2000 –0.040 

Percent of population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 –0.091 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950, occupied by a poverty 

household, 2000 0.969 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970, occupied by a poverty renter 

household, 2000 0.731 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 –0.375 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 (negative equates with good 

targeting to need) 0.119 

Percent of persons age 16 or older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 –0.118 

Percent households heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.236 

Table 3-13 shows states with high and low need on factor 2. The high-need states are states 

known for having small mining, industrial, and farming towns that have lost economic strength 

over the past several decades. The less-needy states on this factor are states with more recent 

population growth. 

Table 3-13. Examples of High- and Low-Need States on Factor 2 

 Highest Need Score Lowest Need Score 

West Virginia 1.98 Maryland –0.68 

South Dakota 1.67 Colorado –0.73 

New York 1.59 Delaware –1.04 

Vermont 1.54 Utah –1.25 

Montana 1.33 Connecticut –1.30 

Pennsylvania 1.32 Arizona –1.50 

Kansas 1.24 Hawaii –1.55 

North Dakota 1.22 Nevada –1.85 

Oklahoma 1.16 Florida –1.90 

Factor 2: Old 

housing with poor 

occupant 

Maine 1.05 Alaska –2.54 

Factor 3—Infrastructure Need 

Factor 3 shows the relative level of infrastructure need as proxied in the U.S. Census data by the 

portion of households heating with wood and bottled gas. Interestingly, this factor also has a high 

correlation with female-headed households with children. 
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Table 3-14. Correlation of Individual Need Variables to Nonentitlement Underlying Factor 3

 Correlation 

Percent of persons in poor families or headed by elderly poor person, 2000 –0.047 

Percent of poor persons in census tracts with greater than 40 percent poverty, 

2000 –0.184 

Percent of families with female head with children under age 18, 2000 0.594 

Percent of population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 0.280 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1950, occupied by a poverty 

household, 2000 –0.153 

Percent of occupied housing units built pre-1970, occupied by a poverty renter 

household, 2000 –0.085 

Percent of housing units overcrowded, 2000 –0.166 

Percent of population age 16–64 employed, 2000 (negative equates with good 

targeting to need) 0.021 

Percent of person age 16 and older in labor force and unemployed, 2000 –0.213 

Percent households heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.761 

The states listed in Table 3-15 that rank high on factor 3 are communities with clear 

infrastructure need: Mississippi, Delaware, and New Mexico. The grantees that rank the lowest 

on this factor are largely states with relatively less infrastructure need, such as Massachusetts, 

Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Analysis of American Housing Survey data, however, shows 

many communities with infrastructure need are not represented by the number of households 

heating with wood or bottled gas. In regions of the country, for example, where electric heat is 

common, this variable misses much of the infrastructure need. 

Table 3-15. Examples of High- and Low-Need States on Factor 3 

 Highest Need Score Lowest Need Score 

Mississippi 2.35 New York –0.65 

Delaware 1.96 West Virginia –0.79 

New Mexico 1.63 Hawaii –1.12 

Alabama 1.41 Rhode Island –1.22 

Missouri 1.26 New Jersey –1.49 

Georgia 1.24 Pennsylvania –1.54 

South Carolina 1.20 Connecticut –1.59 

Arkansas 1.06 Massachusetts –1.67 

North Carolina 1.01 Utah –1.97 

Factor 3: 

Infrastructure 

Vermont 0.83 Puerto Rico –2.58 
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Creating a Composite Needs Index for Nonentitlements 

As with the entitlement communities, creating a single composite score out of the three factors 

requires weighting each factor. How important is each factor relative to the objectives of the 

CDBG program? 

For the composite needs index used in Chapter 5 to measure how well the nonentitlement 

formula targets to community development need, the weight assigned to each factor to create a 

composite needs index score is as follows: 

 Factor 1 is assessed a weight of 70 percent. Factor 1 explains 55 percent of the variance 

and correlates very well with 8 of the 10 variables. It targets very well toward the poverty 

and economic distress objectives of the CDBG statute. 

 Factor 2 is assessed a weight of 25 percent. Factor 2 explains 17 percent of the variance 

and correlates well with 2 of the 10 variables. The two variables it correlates well with, 

pre-1970 housing occupied by poverty renters and pre-1950 housing occupied by a 

poverty household, are the variables that proxy the important community development 

needs associated with inadequate housing and aging infrastructure. 

 Factor 3 is assessed a weight of 5 percent. Factor 3 explains 12 percent of the variance 

and correlates well with 2 of the 10 variables. As noted above, considerably more 

infrastructure need is present than is represented by households heating with wood or 

bottled gas. To lower the risk of creating substantial anomalies in targeting, the weight is 

relatively low on this factor. 

Table 3-16 shows that the nonentitlement areas of Puerto Rico, Mississippi, and New Mexico are 

the most needy communities while Connecticut, Utah, and Massachusetts are the least needy. 

Table 3-16. Examples of High- and Low-Need States on the Composite Needs Index 

 Highest Need Score Lowest Need Score 

Puerto Rico 3.77 Indiana –0.62 

Mississippi 1.00 Maryland –0.66 

New Mexico 0.99 Colorado –0.68 

West Virginia 0.87 Nevada –0.70 

Louisiana 0.83 New Hampshire –0.74 

California 0.64 New Jersey –0.75 

South Dakota 0.50 Wisconsin –0.76 

Kentucky 0.48 Massachusetts –0.86 

Oklahoma 0.47 Utah –0.89 

Composite: 

.70 * Factor 1 

.25 * Factor 2 

.05 * Factor 3 

Arizona 0.44 Connecticut –1.25 

The composite needs index for states will be used as the “measuring stick” in Chapter 5 to assess 

how well the current nonentitlement formula targets toward community development need. This 

needs index is used in that chapter to answer the following two basic questions: 
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1. Do states with similar needs index scores receive similar per capita grant amounts? 

2. Do states with very high needs index scores get much larger grants on a per capita basis 

than states with very low needs index scores? 
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Chapter 4. CDBG Targeting to Need: Entitlement Communities 

This chapter demonstrates how well the current Community Block Development Grant (CDBG) 

entitlement formula targets to the community development needs index developed in Chapter 

3.27 When this report describes “targeting” to need, it uses “per capita grants” to compare the 

relative funding of communities. This approach assumes that population is not a measure of 

need. For example, this assumption allows for comparing New York City’s (population 

8,084,316) grant to that for East Orange, New Jersey’s (population 69,750). Their total grants are 

dramatically different, $219 million versus $2 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2004, respectively. 

Their per capita grants, however, are comparable, $27.07 to $28.66. The premise of targeting is 

that a community with high need should get a larger per capita grant than a community with low 

need. 

Over time, the current CDBG formula has degenerated in its ability to appropriately target funds 

to jurisdictions with community development need (Bunce, Neal, and Gardner 1983, Neary and 

Richardson 1995). The current formula does continue to target more funds per capita to 

communities with high-needs index scores relative to communities with low-needs index scores, 

but the targeting continues to weaken; this creates some troubling inequities. Specifically, an 

increasing number of relatively well-off communities are receiving more funding on a per capita 

basis than some very distressed communities. This chapter also describes which elements of the 

formula are most responsible for creating the funding inequities. 

Most/Least 

Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly (2003) include an extensive description of how the formula 

allocation changed when Census 2000 data were introduced. That report explores two key time 

periods: the 1-year change from FY 2002 to FY 2003 and the 10-year change from FY 1993 to 

FY 2003. This report examines how that redistribution of funds affected targeting to community 

development need for those same two time periods: 

1. One-year change, from FY 2002 to “All 2000 Data.”28 Three of the formula variables—

poverty, pre-1940 housing, and overcrowding—are updated only once every 10 years. The 

transition from Census 1990 data to Census 2000 data for those variables occurred in the 

transition from the FY 2002 allocation to the FY 2003 allocation. The other two variables in 

the formula, population and growth lag, are updated every 1 to 2 years and did not change 

from FY 2002 to FY 2003. The first question is, therefore, how much of an effect does the 

once a decade change have on the formula’s targeting to need? 

Table 4-1 shows that both before and after introducing Census 2000 data on poverty, 

overcrowding, and pre-1940 housing, the current formula does target to need. That is, on 

 

27 For a similar analysis using individual indicators of need, such as poverty, crime, and population loss as well as 

need factor 1, see Appendix A. 

28 In this report, “All 2000 Data” is used instead of FY 2003 because for this analysis, the appropriation level and 

number of entitlement grantees remain constant at the FY 2002 amount. The actual FY 2003 allocation, which used 

all Census 2000 data, and the numbers in this analysis are very similar because the appropriation and number of 

grantees did not change significantly between FY 2002 and FY 2003. 
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average, the less needy communities receive relatively smaller grants on a per capita basis 

than the more needy communities. The table shows that for the FY 2002 allocation, the 89 

least needy communities received $7.45 per capita while the 90 neediest communities 

received $33.51 per capita. Using a simple, most over least measure (Most/Least), the most 

needy communities on average receive 4.5 times greater funding on a per capita basis than 

the least needy communities in FY 2002. 

Continuing a trend that began with introducing 1980 Census data into the formula (Bunce, 

Neal, and Gardner 1983), however, the introduction of new census data exacerbated targeting 

to need. When Census 2000 data for poverty, overcrowding, and pre-1940 housing are used 

in place of Census 1990 data, the difference in average per capita grant funding between the 

least needy and most needy grantees falls from 4.5 to 4.1. 

Table 4-1. Impact of Introducing Census 2000 Data on Targeting to Community Development 

Need—Per Capita Grants by Needs Decile 

Deciles of 

CD Need N FY 2002 

All 2000 

Data 

Percent 

Change 

Low 89 $7.45 $7.83 5.1 

2 90 $8.78 $9.29 5.8 

3 90 $10.92 $11.40 4.4 

4 90 $11.81 $12.28 4.0 

5 90 $13.36 $14.09 5.5 

6 90 $15.47 $15.52 0.3 

7 90 $17.64 $17.77 0.7 

8 90 $18.72 $18.70 –0.1 

9 90 $25.96 $25.71 –1.0 

High 90 $33.51 $32.27 –3.7 

Total 899 $17.88 $17.87 –0.1* 

Most/Least 4.5 4.1 

Note: Per capita grants weighted on population. 

*This does not equal zero because the needs index includes only 

899 of the 1,024 entitlement jurisdictions. 

2. Change in targeting over a decade. Unlike poverty, pre-1940 housing, and overcrowding 

data that are updated only once every 10 years, population data are updated more frequently 

during the decade, usually every 1 to 2 years. Population impacts the remaining two variables 

of the formula, population (in Formula A) and growth lag (in Formula B). In addition, 

population is used to determine eligibility for CDBG entitlement status (see Chapter 2). As 

new communities that are currently funded under the nonentitlement program become 

eligible as entitlement communities, a reduction in share of funds available for the current 

entitlement communities is the result. 
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Neary and Richardson (1995) documented the impact of introducing 1990 Census data into 

the formula.29 To know the full impact of transitioning from all 1990 Census data to all 2000 

Census data requires comparing the most versus least distribution for the 787 jurisdictions 

with needs data that were CDBG grantees in FYs 1993 and 2003. Table 4-2 illustrates this 

impact. It accounts for a reduction in funding share to these 787 communities due to the 

introduction of new entitlement communities and the impact of the change in data from 

Census 1990 to Census 2000 for all five variables used in the dual formula—population, 

poverty, overcrowding, growth lag, and pre-1940 housing. 

Table 4-2. Impact of Introducing Census 2000 Data, Population Updates, and New Entitlements 

on Targeting to Community Development Need FY 1993 to FY 2003— 

Per Capita Grants by Needs Decile 

Deciles of 

CD Need N 

All 1990 

Data 

All 2000 

Data 

Percent 

Change 

Low 70 $7.94 $8.10 2.0 

2 75 $9.38 $9.43 0.5 

3 80 $11.52 $11.51 –0.1 

4 73 $12.15 $12.59 3.6 

5 74 $14.35 $14.27 –0.6 

6 86 $16.11 $15.53 –3.6 

7 80 $18.58 $17.95 –3.4 

8 78 $19.89 $18.96 –4.7 

9 86 $26.84 $25.89 –3.5 

High 85 $35.12 $32.33 –7.9 

Total 787 $19.11 $18.33 –4.1* 

Most/Least 4.4 4.0 

Note: Per capita grants weighted on population. 

*Most of this decrease is due to the introduction of new entitlement 

communities between 1993 and 2002. 

Table 4-2 shows that the introduction of all the census data, which has also led to more 

entitlement grantees, has been particularly difficult for the neediest grantees, who 

experienced a decline in funding of nearly 8 percent, compared to small increases for the 

least needy grantees. The result for these 787 jurisdictions is a most/least ratio change from 

4.4 to 4.0. 

 

29 Neary and Richardson showed the impact introducing all Census 1990 data into the formula in FY 1993. In 

reality, all the Census 1990 data were not introduced until FY 1995. 
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Regression Analysis 

The most/least analysis is a simple approach to indicate how well the current formula targets to 

need. It does not, however, capture all the dimensions associated with targeting. Chapter 3 poses 

two key questions that will be answered in Chapter 4: 

1. Do communities with similar needs index scores receive similar per capita grant 

amounts? 

2. Do communities with very high needs index scores get much larger grants on a per capita 

basis than communities with very low needs index scores? 

To some extent, the most/least analysis answers question 2, but with a lack of precision. To 

answer question 1, and answer question 2 more precisely, this study employs regression analysis. 

Regression analysis provides two helpful measures, R-square and slope. The R-square enables 

this report to answer the first question: do communities with similar needs index scores receive 

similar per capita grant amounts? In a simple linear regression between two variables, the Rsquare estimates how similar the variance is between the variables. For example, are most 

jurisdictions with high needs scores also receiving relatively high per capita grants? If the answer 

is yes, the R-square is high. If, instead, little relationship exists between the needs scores and per 

capita grant amounts, the R-square is small. An R-square of 1.00 represents perfect targeting to 

need while an R-square of 0.00 indicates that no relationship at all exists between the needs 

index and the targeting of the current formula. The R-square tends to measure the fairness of the 

formula allocation. Locations with similar needs should get similar per capita grant amounts. 

The slope enables answering the second question: do communities with very high needs index 

scores get much larger grants on a per capita basis than communities with very low needs index 

scores? The slope indicator in a regression is similar to the most/least concept presented in 

Tables 4.1 and 4.2. The greater the slope, the greater the difference in funding between the most 

and least needy grantees. That is, a slope of 0 would mean that, on a per capita basis, the least 

needy community received the same as the neediest. A slope of 10 would mean a community one 

standard deviation from the mean would receive $10 more per capita than the mean per capita 

grant. 

Table 4-3. Regression Statistics of Targeting to Need Over Time 

Targeting to: All 1990 Data* FY 2002** All 2000 Data** 

R-square 0.308 0.349 0.352 

Slope 9.9 9.5 8.8 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 17.2 18.2 18.1 

R-square 0.494 0.506 0.525 

Slope 10.8 10.1 9.5 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 16.7 16.7 16.8 

* Reflects only 787 jurisdictions with needs data that were grantees in FY 1993. 

** Reflects 899 jurisdictions with needs data that were grantees in FY 2002. 
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In the Places rows in Table 4-3, the R-square between per capita CDBG funding and need was 

0.349 in FY 2002. This suggests that community need did not explain much of the variation in 

per capita funding between cities (although the R-square was somewhat improved from that for 

the same cities using all 1990 data). As will be illustrated later, this low R-square means that 

communities with similar needs receive quite different per capita grants. The low R-square 

suggests equity problems in the formula. 

 

The Places rows in Table 4-3 treats all entitlement communities equally. Because a great deal of 

variation exists among the communities in terms of their size, however, it may be more 

appropriate to consider how well the formula targets to people living in communities with 

different needs. In the People rows in Table 4-3, each community is weighted by its population. 

This demonstrates that the formula performs somewhat better in targeting among the larger 

places than among individual jurisdictions. 

While the measure of fairness, R-square, has improved slightly, the slope has declined from 9.9 

to 8.8 for the unweighted regression (Places) and 10.8 to 9.4 for the regression weighted on 

population (People). Over the course of the decade, the slope has declined. The more needy 

communities are getting less on a per capita basis relative to the mean than they did a decade 

ago. The relatively less needy communities are receiving more on a per capita basis than they did 

a decade ago. 

Table 4-3 also provides a constant. The constant represents the per capita grant for a jurisdiction 

with a needs score near the national average. Chapter 3 noted that grantees with less than 

average need levels receive negative scores, and grantees with above average needs scores 

receive positive needs scores. The constant becomes an important indicator when comparing 

relative funding levels between Formula A and B grantees below. 

Charts 

Charts 4-1 and 4-2 provide graphical presentations of these concepts. A fictional per capita grant 

amount with the same slope as the current allocation (8.8) that targets perfectly to the needs 

index—that is, an R-square of 1—is plotted as the solid line in Chart 4-1. The “bouncing” line 

represents how much the current per capita grants vary from the needs index. Communities of 

similar need, which should be receiving approximately the same amount per capita, are getting 

substantially different grant amounts than appropriate for their need. 
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$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita

Grant (slope 8.8)

Low Need High Need

Chart 4-1. Current Formula Targeting to the Needs Index (Slope 8.8) 

$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 4-2. Current Formula Targeting to the Needs Index (Slope 12.0)
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Chart 4-2 shows this same comparison but with the assumption that not only is there a desire that 

the formula be fair—similarly needy communities receive similar grant amounts—but that the 

neediest communities get substantially more on a per capita basis than the least needy. Chart 4-2 

reflects a per capita allocation using the needs index; the slope increases from 8.8 in Chart 1 to 

12.0 for Chart 2.30 This higher slope is this study’s goal for developing a formula in Chapter 6 

that is not only fairer but also allocates a greater share of the funds to the neediest grantees 

relative to the least needy. 

To provide another way to assess how the current formula targets to community development 

need, Appendix A shows how the formula currently targets to individual components of the 

needs index, such as poverty and population loss. 

Formulas A and B 

With respect to targeting, a clear difference exists between Formula A and Formula B grantees. 

The lack of fairness, evidenced by the low R-square, is due largely to Formula B, and the low 

slope is primarily due to Formula A. Chart 4-3 shows the per capita grants for the Formula B 

communities relative to the needs index for Formula B communities and how that compares to 

the needs index for Formula A grantees and the per capita grants for Formula A grantees. The 

key lessons of Chart 4-3 are as follows: 

 On average, Formula B grantees are more needy than Formula A grantees (the Formula B 

needs line is higher than the Formula A needs line). 

 Formula B creates many anomalies where communities of the same need receive very 

different grant amounts. Most striking are the number of less needy communities getting 

much more on a per capita basis than communities of higher relative need (demonstrated by 

the “bouncing” of the Formula B current grants line). 

 Formula B grantees tend to be funded at a higher level than their needs score (as shown by 

most of the bounces being above the needs line). 

 Formula A does not have major anomalies, but the most needy grantees do not receive much 

more than the least needy grantees, as the relatively flat slope of the Formula A current 

grants line indicates). 

 Formula A grantees with relatively high need are particularly underfunded relative to their 

needs score, as evidenced by the widening gap between the Formula A needs line and the 

Formula A grants line. 

 

30 The R2

 relationship with need remains 1.000. The selection 12 as the slope is subjective, 10 or 15 could just as 

easily been chosen. This study selected 12 because when the original dual formula was implemented it had a slope 

of 12.72 relative to a needs index created for 483 entitlement cities (Bunce and Goldberg 1979, Table 17). A slope 

of 12 places the jurisdictions in the lowest needs decile near $4 per capita and jurisdictions in the highest needs 

decile near $36 per capita, a most/least ratio of 9. 
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$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees Split by A and B

Per Capita Grant

B Current

B Need

A Current

A Need

Low Need High Need

Chart 4-3. Comparing Formula A and B Targeting to Need (Slope 12.0) 

Table 4-4 provides the statistical evidence for Chart 4-3 using the unweighted (Places) regression 

results. 

Formula A

 High R-square (0.884, which indicates a low rate of anomalies and a high rate of 

fairness). 

 Low slope (6.2, indicating the most needy don’t get much more than the least needy). 

 A constant that is much lower than Formula B (12.8 compared to 25.5, showing that a 

Formula A grantee with average need receives $12.70 less per capita than an similar 

needy Formula B grantee). 

Formula B

 Low R-square (0.378, indicating a high rate of anomalies). 

 Reasonably high slope (10.3, indicating that the most needy generally get more than the 

less needy). 
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Table 4-4. Regression Statistics for Targeting to Need by Formula for the Current Formula With 

All Census 2000 Data 

Targeting to: Formula A Formula B 

R-square 0.884 0.378 

Slope 6.2 10.3 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.8 25.5 

R-square 0.924 0.490 

Slope 6.7 9.6 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 12.9 22.9 

 Formula A: N=534; Formula B: N=365. 

The funding inequity between Formula A and B grantees increases as the neediness of the 

Formula A jurisdiction grows. This is a product of the large difference between the Formula A 

and Formula B constant in Table 4-4 and the higher slope for Formula B relative to Formula A. 

Table 4-5 demonstrates this widening gap another way; this table shows the average per capita 

grants by needs decile for Formula A and Formula B grantees. In the lowest needs decile, the 

average Formula A grantee receives $6.36 per capita and the average Formula B grantee receives 

$9.89 per capita, a gap of $3.53. That gap widens to approximately $12 to $13 for grantees with 

average need and higher, except for needs decile 9 where the gap nears $20. 

Table 4-5. Comparing Formula A and Formula B Average Per Capita Grant by Community 

Development Need Decile 

Deciles of CD 

Need Formula A Formula B 

Gap (Formula 

B minus 

Formula A) 

Low $6.36 $9.89 $3.53 

2 $7.54 $13.56 $6.02 

3 $8.24 $17.51 $9.27 

4 $10.36 $17.60 $7.24 

5 $10.96 $23.06 $12.10 

6 $12.47 $24.49 $12.02 

7 $13.64 $27.28 $13.64 

8 $15.65 $28.26 $12.61 

9 $17.97 $37.86 $19.89 

High $24.20 $35.92 $11.72 

N=899; Per capita grants weighted on population. 
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Identifying the Underlying Causes for Inequities in the Current Formula

Population 

As described above, Formula A causes inequities because its allocation has a low slope. The 

single largest contributor to the low slope is the 25 percent weight on the population variable. 

The slope of the population variable is zero because population does not target community 

development need. While this report previously noted that Formula B sometimes targets large 

grants to low-need communities, the majority of low-need communities are funded under 

Formula A because of the population variable. This is because most low-need jurisdictions have 

fast-growing populations and newer housing stock, resulting in their receiving larger allocations 

with Formula A from the 25 percent weight on population than from any of the variables in 

Formula B. 

Poverty 

Poverty receives a 50 percent weight in Formula A and a 30 percent weight in Formula B. As 

demonstrated by the needs index, poverty is an extremely good indicator of a number of 

dimensions of community development need. Two problems, however, exist with the poverty 

measure. First, because poverty is a fixed national standard that does not take into account 

regional differences in the cost of living, it has a regional bias that favors places with low cost of 

living. Second, relatively low-need college towns receive relatively large per capita grants 

because off-campus college students are recorded as being in poverty, when in fact many of them 

receive unrecorded support from families. 

Poverty is a constant dollar threshold nationwide. It does not take into account that it may cost 

more to live in some parts of the country than in other regions. That is, a person just above the 

poverty line in New York City who has to pay $1,000 in rent per month may be worse off, in 

terms of disposable income, than a person in poverty in Saginaw, Michigan, who pays $550 in 

rent each month. Cost of living is strongly related to the incomes in an area. Generally, if the 

median income for a metropolitan area is high, the cost of housing and other goods and services 

in the metropolitan area are also high. 

Congress recognized this disparity in cost of living when it established guidelines for CDBG 

program eligibility, setting income limits based on the metropolitan area median income. 

Households with incomes less than 80 percent of median income are considered “low and 

moderate income” and eligible for assistance with funds from the CDBG program. 

While the program uses these income thresholds to determine whether persons or households are 

eligible for the program, the formula uses the constant dollar standard of poverty. Among CDBG 

entitlement grantees, the national poverty rate is 13 percent. Similarly, among CDBG grantees, 

13 percent of households have extremely low incomes, defined by having incomes less than 30 

percent of their metropolitan area median income.31

 

31 Data on the number of households with less than 30 percent of local median income are from a special tabulation 

of Census 2000 Data prepared for HUD by the U.S. Census Bureau using the Section 8 income limits. 
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Table 4-6. Comparing Poverty Rate to Extremely Low-Income Rate by Region 

Region 

Number of 

Entitlement 

Communities 

Percent 

Poverty 

Rate 

Percent 

Extremely 

Low 

Income 

Rate 

New England 73 14 19 

New York/New Jersey 96 13 16 

Mid-Atlantic 87 11 12 

Southeast 164 13 12 

Midwest 187 11 13 

Southwest 106 16 13 

Great Plains 30 11 12 

Rocky Mountain 37 10 11 

Pacific/Hawaii 183 14 12 

Northwest/Alaska 40 10 11 

Puerto Rico 21 43 22 

Total 1024 13 13 

 Source: Census 2000 Special Tabulation Data for HUD 

While the rates are similar nationally, some regions have a much lower rate of extremely lowincome households than their poverty rate, which indicates relatively low local costs. High cost 

places have a much higher rate of very low-income households than poverty rate. Table 4-6 

shows that in 6 of the 11 regions, the poverty rate is similar to the rate of households who are 

extremely low-income. In the New England and New York/New Jersey regions, however, the 

percent of extremely low-income household significantly exceeds the poverty rate. In these 

regions, poverty understates the level of need. The starkest example of the poverty rate 

overstating community development need is in Puerto Rico, where the rate of extremely lowincome households in entitlement areas is nearly half the poverty rate. 

The use of poverty also creates several anomalies in its allocation to some relatively small 

communities that receive most of their funding due to the “poverty” of college students living in 

off-campus housing.32 Table 4-7 shows 28 cities where more than half of the population counted 

in poverty are college students.33 The way census data are collected, these students indicate their 

income on their census form but do not report that they receive financial support from family. 

While the census counts the students in poverty, their level of true need, because of support from 

their families, is considerably less. A better measure of need for these communities is to look at 

the poverty rate for the noncollege student population. 

For example, in State College, Pennsylvania, home to Pennsylvania State University, 74 percent 

of college students are in poverty as compared to12 percent of the remaining population. The 

college student poverty rate inflates State College’s total poverty rate to 47 percent, a poverty 

 

32 In the official count of persons in poverty, the Census Bureau does not include institutionalized persons, persons 

living in military group quarters, persons living in college dormitories, or unrelated individuals under 15 years old. 

33 Individuals who are enrolled in college, are in poverty, and are not living in families or dormitories. 
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rate greater than the very distressed communities of Benton Harbor, Michigan (43 percent 

poverty rate), and Hidalgo County, Texas (42 percent poverty rate). 

Table 4-7. Full-Time Enrolled College Students in Poverty 

 

Percent 

College 

Students in 

Poverty 

Percent 

NonCollege 

Students in 

Poverty 

Percent All 

Persons in 

Poverty 

Percent. of 

Poverty 

Population 

College 

Students 

Ann Arbor, MI 58 7 17 65 

Athens-Clarke County, GA 71 17 28 51 

Auburn, AL 80 15 38 74 

Berkeley, CA 61 11 20 55 

Bloomington, IN 70 13 30 68 

Boulder, CO 58 9 17 57 

Bowling Green, OH 68 9 25 73 

Cedar Falls, IA 63 8 17 61 

Champaign, IL 67 10 22 63 

Chapel Hill, NC 70 8 22 69 

Charlottesville, VA 71 14 26 56 

Chico, CA 68 16 27 52 

College Station, TX 75 15 37 74 

Corvallis, OR 60 12 21 52 

Davis, CA 71 7 24 78 

De Kalb, IL 63 10 21 63 

East Lansing, MI 68 12 35 80 

Fort Collins, CO 58 8 14 52 

Iowa City, IA 65 9 22 68 

Lawrence, KS 62 10 19 57 

Madison, WI 59 8 15 52 

Normal, IL 69 7 19 71 

Provo, UT 72 15 27 55 

San Marcos, TX 63 17 29 56 

State College, PA 74 12 47 88 

Tallahassee, FL 65 15 25 53 

Urbana, IL 62 16 27 57 

West Lafayette, IN 72 9 38 87 

 Source: Census 2000 Special Tabulation Data for HUD. 

Pre-1940 Housing 

Pre-1940 housing receives a 50 percent weight in Formula B. When the current dual formula was 

put in place, old housing was considered a good proxy of inadequate housing and old 

infrastructure. Over time, however, the more needy communities with old housing have been 

demolishing it, while wealthy communities have been renovating and even increasing (by 
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converting warehouses into lofts, for example) the stock of old housing. Since this variable 

allocates 27 percent of all the CDBG funds, its declining targeting has led to some very well off 

communities getting substantially more funds on a per capita basis than some very distressed 

communities. 

Table 4-8 provides some examples of low-need communities that have not experienced 

significant declines in their pre-1940 housing relative to high need communities that have. The 

resulting redistribution of funds on this variable from the high need communities to the low need 

communities was most severe when the 1990 Census data were introduced, but continues with 

the introduction of 2000 Census data. The very distressed Detroit, Michigan, for example, has 

had a 48 percent decline over the past 20 years in the number of housing units built before 1940. 

The relatively less needy Boston suburb of Newton, MA, on the other hand, has had only a 2 

percent decline in pre-1940 housing units since 1980. As the total number of pre-1940 housing 

units decline, Newton’s relative share of the funding for those units has increased, while 

Detroit’s has decreased. It is pre-1940 housing that is responsible for a large number of funding 

anomalies. 

Table 4-8. Comparing Change in Pre-1940 Housing Stock for Relatively High Need vs. Low 

Need Jurisdictions 

1980 Census 1990 Census 2000 Census Percent 

Change 

1980 to 

2000 

Low Need 

Newton, MA 17,364 17,190 16,946 –2 

Oak Park, IL 16,351 16,403 15,654 –4 

Royal Oak, MI 5,492 5,455 5,194 –5 

Evanston, IL 15,389 15,249 14,298 –7 

 

High Need 

Detroit, MI 214,968 146,748 112,022 –48 

Benton Harbor, MI 2,434 1,487 1,300 –47 

East St. Louis, IL 6,387 2,911 3,191 –50 

Gary, IN 13,422 8,737 8,127 –39 

Newark, NJ 57,577 36,014 28,376 –51 

Growth Lag 

Growth lag, which measures slow population growth and loss of population since 1960, is 

generally a good indicator of community distress. It, too, however, creates some anomalies. 
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Table 4-9. Jurisdictions with Growth Lag Funding Targeting to Community Development Need 

by Percentile 

Percentiles 

of CD Need 

Entitlement 

Jurisdictions 

With Growth 

Lag 

Per 

Capita 

From 

Growth 

Lag 

Minimum 

Per 

Capita 

From 

Growth 

Lag 

Maximum 

Per 

Capita 

From 

Growth 

Lag 

Low 18 $4.33 $0.17 $17.58 

2 18 $5.50 $0.14 $17.63 

3 26 $5.76 $0.38 $18.68 

4 28 $5.49 $0.18 $19.23 

5 33 $7.09 $0.20 $17.75 

6 24 $6.41 $2.45 $25.13 

7 37 $9.44 $1.05 $21.46 

8 40 $9.63 $0.05 $25.51 

9 43 $15.68 $3.03 $43.75 

High 46 $14.05 $1.43 $40.82 

Total 313 $10.72

Most/Least 3.2 

Table 4-9 shows by community development needs decile the average per capita dollar amount 

allocated to the 313 CDBG entitlement grantees that receive funding from growth lag. The 

majority of the grantees receiving funds under this variable are quite needy. On average, the 

needier a jurisdiction, the more funds it receives on a per capita basis from growth lag. 

Over time, however, an increasing number of relatively well-off communities received funding 

from growth lag that is not consistent with their actual level of community development need. 

Many of these locations are fully developed suburbs not seeking to grow. Others are 

communities that have lost population through the decline of household sizes but in fact may still 

be experiencing growth in housing. Royal Oak, Michigan, for example, receives $17.58 per 

capita due to the growth lag variable alone. This is because it has lost 25 percent of its population 

since 1960. With a per capita income of nearly $31,000 and a poverty rate of 2 percent, however, 

the loss of this population does not reflect economic decline.34 In the case of Royal Oak, 

population loss is actually a sign of affluence rather than decline; although the population 

declined 25 percent, the total number of occupied housing units increased by 27 percent between 

1960 and 2000. This was made possible by a sharp decrease in average household size from 3.5 

persons in 1960 to 2.1 in 2000. As a result, Royal Oak receives more on a per capita basis from 

 

34 The per capita income for the Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, Michigan Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area 

(CMSA) was $24,275 in 1999, making Royal Oaks’ per capita income significantly higher than its surrounding 

communities. 
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growth lag than Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ($16.93), which has a poverty rate of 18 percent and 

a per capita income of $16,509. 

Table 4-10. Examples of Relatively Low-Need Communities with High Per Capita Growth Lag 

Grants 

Need Indicators 

Name 

Per Capita 

Grant Amount 

Due to Growth 

Lag 

Percent 

Population 

Change 1960 

to 2000 

Per Capita 

Income 

Percent 

Population in 

Poverty 

Redford, MI $18.68 –28 $22,263 4 

Tonawanda Town, NY $17.63 –26 $20,947 5 

Royal Oak, MI $17.58 –25 $30,990 2 

Portsmouth, NH $16.21 –23 $27,540 6 

St Clair Shores, MI $13.94 –18 $25,009 3 

Wauwatosa, WI $13.63 –17 $28,834 3 

Lakewood, OH $12.59 –14 $23,945 6 

Medford, MA $12.51 –14 $24,707 4 

Westland, MI $11.28 –11 $22,615 5 

Haverford, PA $11.05 –10 $29,749 2 

West Allis, WI $11.01 –10 $20,914 5 

Newton, MA $10.71 –9 $45,708 3 

Penn Hills, PA $10.66 –9 $20,161 6 

Another growth lag issue is that for some very needy jurisdictions, it may in fact target too much 

funding relative to their need. That is, some very needy places receive very large CDBG grants 

as a result of growth lag. Other equally needy places without as much population loss, however, 

receive considerably less. For example, St, Louis, Missouri, receives $41 per capita from growth 

lag for an overall per capita grant amount of $73. Detroit, a needier Formula B city as measured 

by the community development needs index, receives $29 on growth lag and an overall per 

capita grant amount of $49. More striking, Miami, Florida, has a similar level of need to Detroit 

and higher than St. Louis, but is a Formula A community that does not receive funds due to 

growth lag. Miami has an overall grant of only $28. That is, Miami’s total per capita grant is 

only 40 percent as much as St. Louis, although Miami ranks as having relatively higher need on 

the needs index. Any correction to the formula to improve fairness will almost certainly result in 

a decrease in funding for St. Louis and an increase in funding for Miami. 

Summary 

The CDBG formula continues to target more funds to the most needy grantees relative to the 

least needy grantees. As measured against the community development needs index developed in 

Chapter 3, however, the average amount of funds being allocated to the most needy communities 

decreased with the introduction of Census 2000 data while the average per capita grant to the 

least needy grantees increased. In addition, the formula continues to manifest a significant degree 
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of unfairness, with similarly needy grantees receiving substantially different per capita grant 

amounts. The unfairness in the formula is largely due to (1) Formula B grantees receiving 

substantially more than similarly needy Formula A grantees and (2) the pre-1940 and growth lag 

variables in Formula B. The declining relative share of funds for the neediest communities 

relative to the least needy is due to the high weight on the population variable in Formula A. 
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Chapter 5. CDBG Targeting to Need: States (Nonentitlements) 

This chapter shows that, with the exception of Puerto Rico, the current Community Development 

Block Grant (CDBG) nonentitlement formula does not target well to community development 

need. 

 

Most/Least 

Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly (2003) discuss changes in the formula allocation following the 

introduction of 2000 Census data. The report explores two key periods: the change over 1 year, 

from Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 to FY 2003, and the change over 10 years, from FY 1993 to FY 

2003. This report examines how redistributing funds affected targeting to community 

development need for those same two periods: 

1. Change in targeting over 1 year from FY 2002 to “All 2000 Data.”35 Three of the formula 

variables—poverty, pre-1940 housing, and overcrowding—are updated only once every 10 

years. The transition from 1990 Census data to 2000 Census data for those variables occurred 

in the transition from the FY 2002 allocation to the FY 2003 allocation. The other variable in 

the formula—population—is updated every 1 to 2 years; it did not change from FY 2002 to 

FY 2003. The first question is, how much of an effect does the once-a-decade change have 

on the formula’s targeting to need? 

Table 5-1 shows the change in per capita allocations due to the replacing of 1990 Census data 

on poverty, pre-1940 housing, and overcrowding with 2000 Census data. When arranged by 

community development needs quintile, introducing the new data results in a small shift of 

funds from the more needy states to the less needy states. 

Table 5-1 

Impact of Introducing 2000 Census Data on Targeting to Community Development Need 

Per Capita Grants* by Needs Quintile 

Quintile N FY 2002 All 2000 Data Change

Low 10 $9.85 $10.07 2.2% 

2 10 $11.10 $11.12 0.2% 

3 11 $11.28 $11.40 1.1% 

4 10 $12.59 $12.41 -1.4% 

High 10 $15.85 $15.68 -1.0% 

Total 51 $12.09 $12.09 

Most/Least 1.6 1.6 

*The denominators for per capita grants are based on 2000 population counts for all columns. 

 

35 The term “All 2000 Data” is used instead of saying FY 2003 because for this analysis the appropriation level and 

number of entitlement grantees are held constant at the FY 2002 amount. The actual FY 2003 allocation using all 

2000 census data and the numbers used in this analysis are very similar because the appropriation and number of 

grantees did not change significantly between FY 2002 and FY 2003. 
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2. Change in targeting over 10 years from FY 1993 to FY 2003. Unlike the other variables in 

the formula, updates occur to population data more frequently during the decade, usually 

every 1 to 2 years. Population affects both formulas. In addition, population determines 

eligibility for CDBG entitlement status (see Chapter 2). As new communities currently 

receiving funds under the nonentitlement program become eligible as entitlement 

communities, relatively more funds become available to share among the remaining balance 

of nonentitlement areas nationwide. 

Table 5-2 shows the 10-year period, combining the changes in Table 5-1 with the population 

changes and the loss of population to be served caused by new entitlements on the 

nonentitlement side of the formula. Not surprisingly, comparing Table 5-1 to Table 5-2 

shows that population updates and the introduction of new entitlements have only a 

minimum impact on reduced targeting. The introduction of 2000 Census data for poverty, 

overcrowding, and pre-1940 housing causes most of the small shift in funds from the most 

needy to least needy states. 

Table 5-2 

Impact of Introducing 2000 Census Data, Population Updates, and New Entitlements on 

Targeting to Community Development Need FY 1993 to FY 2003 

Per Capita Grants* by Needs Quintile 

Quintile N All 1990 Data All 2000 Data Change

Low 10 $9.85 $10.07 2.1% 

2 10 $11.06 $11.12 0.5% 

3 11 $11.13 $11.40 2.3% 

4 10 $12.71 $12.41 -2.4% 

High 10 $15.92 $15.68 -1.5% 

Total 51 $12.09 $12.09 

Most/Least 1.6 1.6 

*The denominators for per capita grants are based on 2000 population counts for all columns 

Most striking about Tables 5-1 and 5-2 is the very small difference in funding between the least 

needy ($10.07) and the most needy ($15.68), a ratio of only 1.6. In the nonentitlement formula, 

the most needy states do not get much more on a per capita basis than the least needy states. 

Regression Analysis 

The most/least analysis is a simple approach to showing how well the current formula targets to 

need. That approach, however, does not capture all dimensions associated with targeting. In 

Chapter 3, we noted that Chapter 5 would need to answer the following two key questions: 

1. Do states with similar needs index scores receive similar per capita grant amounts? 

2. Do states with very high needs index scores get much larger grants on a per capita basis 

than states with very low needs index scores? 
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To some extent, the most/least analysis answers the second question, but with some lack of 

precision. To answer the first question, and more precisely answer the second question, we use 

regression analysis. 

Regression analysis provides us with two helpful measures: R-square and slope. The R-square 

enables us to determine if states with similar needs index scores receive similar per capita grant 

amounts. In a simple linear regression between two variables, the R-square estimates how similar 

the variance is between the variables. For example, are states with high needs score also 

receiving relatively high per capita grants? If yes, then the R-square is high. On the other hand, if 

no relationship exists between needs scores and current per capita grants, the R-square is small. 

An R-square of 1.00 represents perfect targeting to need while an R-square of 0.00 indicates no 

relationship at all between the needs index and the current formula. The R-square tends to 

measure the fairness of the formula allocation. States with similar need should get similar per 

capita grant amounts. 

The slope allows us to determine if states with very high needs index scores get much larger 

grants on a per capita basis than states with very low needs index scores. The slope indicator in a 

regression is similar to the most/least concept presented in Tables 5-1 and 5-2: the greater the 

slope, the greater the difference in funding between the most and least needy grantees. A slope of 

“0” would mean the least needy community received the same as the most needy community on 

a per capita basis. A slope of 4 would mean a state that is one standard deviation from the mean 

would get $4 more per capita than the mean per capita grant. 

The portion of Table 5-3 referring to “Places” shows the R-square for per capita CDBG funding 

and need was 0.699 in FY 2002. This suggests that state need was moderately good at explaining 

the per capita funding variation between states. This measure suggests the current formula is 

relatively fair; it does not create large funding differences between similarly needy states. As we 

will show below, however, this finding is somewhat misleading. 

The “Places” portion of Table 5-3 treats all states equally. Since a great deal of variation exists 

among the states in terms of their size, however, it might be more appropriate to consider how 

well the formula targets to people living in states with different needs. The “People” portion of 

Table 5-3 weights each state by its population, demonstrating that the formula does a somewhat 

worse job in targeting among the nonentitled states with large populations. Both measures show 

that the R-square—the measure of fairness—declines with the introduction of 2000 Census data. 

Table 5-3 

Regression Estimate of Targeting to Need Over Time 

Targeting to: All 1990 Data FY 2002 All 2000 Data 

R-square 0.690 0.699 0.661 

Slope 5.3 4.8 4.9 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.2 12.2 12.3 

R-square 0.638 0.659 0.621 

Slope 5.0 4.5 4.7 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 12.1 12.1 12.1 
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The slope measure changed very little between the FY 2002 allocation and the introduction of 

2000 Census data: 4.8 to 4.9, somewhat counter to the earlier most/least analysis. 

As alluded to above, however, Table 5-3 is somewhat deceptive. The R-square and slope shown 

in Table 5-3 are principally driven by the very needy Puerto Rico, which receives a very large 

per capita grant. If Puerto Rico is removed from the analysis, very little targeting of the current 

formula to need occurs, with an R-square of 0.294 and a slope of 2.4. Thus, beyond Puerto Rico, 

the nonentitlement formula does a relatively poor job of targeting to the more needy of the 50 

states. 

Table 5-4 

Regression Estimate of Targeting to Need With and Without Puerto Rico With 2000 Census 

2000 

Targeting to: With Puerto Rico Without Puerto 

Rico 

R-square 0.661 0.294 

Slope 4.9 2.4 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.3 12.0 

R-square 0.621 0.281 

Slope 4.7 2.2 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 12.1 11.8 

Charts 

Presenting a chart showing the current targeting of the formula to need can help understand the 

R-square and slope concepts above. The two graphs in Chart 5-1 explain the targeting of the 

current formula to the community development needs index line. The graph at the left shows the 

needs index with a slope of 4.7, matching the current slope for the formula. By looking at this 

first graph, we can see that the uniqueness of Puerto Rico (the spike at the far right of the chart) 

among the states in terms of both its level of need and the amount of funds it receives on a per 

capita basis. The graph also shows that, for the remaining 50 states, very little relationship exists 

between grant amounts and the needs index. 

The chart on the right shows this same comparison but with the assumption that the formula 

should be fair—similarly needy communities get similar grant amounts—but that the neediest 

get substantially more on a per capita basis than the least needy. Thus, the graph on the right 

reflects the needs index with a slope of 8.0.36 This chart more clearly shows how the 

nonentitlement allocation appears to have very little relationship to the community development 

needs index, except in respect to Puerto Rico. 

 

36 This slope is subjective. Selecting 8 is based on the assumption that we want the formula to target relatively more 

funds to the most needy states. 
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Chart 5-1. Current Nonentitlement Formula Targeting to the Needs Index 

Formula A and Formula B 

Table 5-4 compares the targeting of Formula A and Formula B. In the entitlement analysis of 

Chapter 4, we showed that Formula A had a high degree of fairness (a high R-square) but a low 

slope relative to Formula B. Formula B had a low degree of fairness but a reasonably high slope. 

Nonentitlements follow a very different pattern. Excluding Puerto Rico, Formula A and Formula 

B are equally bad at targeting to need. Both have a low R-square of less than 0.4 and low slopes 

of less than 3.0. 

Table 5-4 

Regression Estimate of Targeting to Need by Formula for the Current Nonentitlement Formula 

with all 2000 Census Data 

Targeting to: Formula A Formula A 

without Puerto 

Rico 

Formula B 

R-square 0.778 0.322 0.341 

Slope 6.0 2.5 2.8 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 11.4 11.5 12.5 

R-square 0.817 0.441 0.304 

Slope 6.3 3.0 2.8 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 10.7 11.1 12.5 

Chart 5-2 graphically presents the findings from Table 5-4. With the exception of Puerto Rico 

(the spike at the right-hand side of the Formula A chart), which appropriately gets a very high 

per capita grant, in both cases a low-need state is nearly as likely to get a relatively higher per 

capita grant as a high-need state. 

Needs Index with Current Slope of 4.7

$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 4.7)

 Low Need High Need

Needs Index with Higher Slope of 8.0

$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 8.0)

 Low Need High Need
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Chart 5-2. Comparing Nonentitlement Formula A and B Targeting to Need 

Table 5-5 shows the per capita grants by needs quintile. When Puerto Rico is excluded from the 

analysis, very little difference exists in per capita grant amounts between the least needy and 

most needy for either Formula A or Formula B. In addition, unlike entitlements, very little 

difference exists between Formula B and Formula A per capita grants within each of the need 

quintiles. 

Table 5-5 

Nonentitlement Per Capita Grants by Need Quintile by Formula (All 2000 Census Data)

Quintiles of 

Need Formula A

Formula A 

Without 

Puerto Rico Formula B 

Low $8.94 $8.94 $10.27

2 $11.45 $11.45 $11.04

3 $9.94 $9.94 $12.56

4 $11.79 $11.79 $14.68

High $16.03 $13.45 $13.07

Total Average $12.53 $11.69 $11.66

Formula A

$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Formula A Grantees 

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 8.0)

 Low Need High Need

Formula B

$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Formula B Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Current Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 8.0)

 Low Need High Need
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Problems in the Nonentitlement Formula

Population 

As shown above, both Formula A and Formula B have low slopes. The largest contributors to the 

low slope are the 25 percent weight on the population variable in Formula A and the 20 percent 

weight on population in Formula B. Population simply represents the size of a place, not a 

measure of its need. The characteristics of the population must be analyzed to know whether the 

jurisdiction is needy. Because per capita grant amounts are used to compare the fairness of 

allocations to similarly needy jurisdictions with different populations, by definition the slope of 

the population variable is zero. 

Poverty 

Poverty receives a 50 percent weight in Formula A and a 30 percent weight in Formula B. As 

demonstrated by the needs index, poverty is an extremely good indicator of a number of 

dimensions of community development need. The poverty measure suffers from the following 

two problems: 

1. Poverty remains a constant dollar threshold nationwide, and does not take into account 

that it may cost more to live in some parts of the country than in others. A person living 

in Connecticut and paying $800 per month in rent may be worse off in terms of 

disposable income than a person living in poverty in Puerto Rico paying $300 per month 

in rent. Cost of living relates strongly to the incomes in an area. Generally, if a 

metropolitan area or nonmetropolitan county enjoys a high median income, its cost of 

housing and other goods and services are also high. 

Congress recognized this disparity in cost of living when it established guidelines for 

CDBG program eligibility, establishing income limits based on the local area median 

income. Households with incomes less than 80 percent of median income are considered 

low and moderate income and eligible for assistance with funds from the CDBG 

program. 

While the program uses these income thresholds to determine whether persons or 

households are eligible for the program, the formula uses the constant dollar standard of 

poverty to allocate funds. CDBG nonentitlement grantees share an average poverty rate 

of 12 percent. Similarly, 11 percent of CDBG nonentitlement grantee households have 

extremely low incomes, as defined by having incomes less than 30 percent of their area 

median income.37

Table 5-6 shows that some regions are probably undercounted in terms of need associated 

with low-income households while others probably are overcounted. Specifically, states 

in the New England region on average have more extremely low-income persons than is 

represented by poverty. On the other hand, Puerto Rico, the states in the Southwest 

 

37 Data on number of households less than 30 percent of local median income are from a special tabulation of 2000 

census data prepared for HUD by the U.S. Census Bureau using the Section 8 income limits. 
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region, and the states in the Pacific region have poverty rates that exceed their rate of 

extremely low-income households. This suggests that using poverty as a single measure 

to allocate CDBG funds likely understates the need in the New England region while 

overstating the need in Puerto Rico, the Southwest, and the Pacific. 

Table 5-6 

Comparing Poverty Rate to Extremely Low Income Rate by Region for Nonentitlement Areas 

Region N 

Poverty 

Rate 

Extremely 

Low 

Income 

Rate 

New England 6 6% 10% 

New York/New Jersey 2 9% 10% 

Mid-Atlantic 5 11% 10% 

Southeast 8 14% 12% 

Midwest 6 8% 9% 

Southwest 5 16% 12% 

Great Plains 4 10% 10% 

Rocky Mountain 6 11% 10% 

Pacific/Hawaii 4 15% 12% 

Northwest/Alaska 4 12% 10% 

Puerto Rico 1 55% 24% 

TOTAL 51 12% 11% 

2. Off-campus college students in poverty do not pose as significant a problem for 

nonentitlements but their inclusion does cause some small difference in funding between 

states.

Pre-1940 Housing 

In declining areas of states, old housing likely will be demolished or abandoned over time, while 

more affluent areas renovate the old housing. As a result, pre-1940 housing in nonentitlement 

areas has weakened over time as a measure of community development need. 

Summary 

The nonentitlement formula targets very well to the community development need of Puerto 

Rico. For the remaining 50 states, however, very little relationship exists between a state’s level 

of community development need and its current per capita grant formula allocation. 
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Chapter 6. CDBG Alternative Formulas 

This chapter provides three options for modifying the Community Development Block Grant 

(CDBG) entitlement formula allocation and two options for modifying the CDBG 

nonentitlement formula. The funding implications associated with each option are also 

explained. All of these alternatives assume that the funding split between entitlements and 

nonentitlements would be held constant at 70/30. Chapter 8 describes making changes to the 

70/30 split, including using a single formula for both entitlements and nonentitlements. Chapter 

9 explains how the entitlement and nonentitlement options from this chapter and the single 

formula option in Chapter 8 are combined into four overall alternative formulas. 

Goals for Formula Alternatives 

Developing a funding formula requires an understanding of the program’s goals. The alternatives 

in this chapter are based on three goals: 

1. Improve Targeting to community development need. Chapters 4 and 5 demonstrate 

how the formula has substantial inequities in how it targets to community development 

need. All the alternatives suggested are based on the presumption of wanting to decrease 

or eliminate the number of funding inequities in the current formula. 

2. Simplify the formula. The current formula is quite complicated, difficult to explain, and 

somewhat difficult to administer. A simplified formula would allow the allocations to be 

more transparent and possibly create a greater sense of fairness. 

3. Minimize redistribution of funds. The goal of most block grant programs is to enable 

jurisdictions to have a steady and predictable flow of resources to address program 

objectives. Any change to the CDBG formula will cause a redistribution of funds and 

thus increase or decrease that predictable flow of resources. Jurisdictions that lose funds 

are likely to experience a painful adjustment period. 

Summarizing Entitlement Formula Alternatives 

All three formula alternatives explained below improve targeting to need. The alternatives 

presented offer policymakers various degrees of tradeoffs among the three goals stated above. 

Basically, the alternatives presented do the following: 

Entitlement Alternative 1. This alternative “tweaks” or makes minor adjustments to the 

existing formula by correcting the problems in Formulas A and B that lead to large inequities in 

funding among grantees in each formula. For example, pre-1940 housing is replaced by “housing 

older than 50 years occupied by a person in poverty.” It does not, however, correct the funding 

inequities between Formulas A and B. This option causes the least redistribution of funds but 

makes the formula even more complicated than it is currently. It is similar to the alternative 

presented in 1995 by Neary and Richardson. 
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Entitlement Alternative 2. This alternative creates a very simple single formula. The formula 

uses four widely available and easily understandable variables to allocate the funds. The 

variables are poverty, female-headed households with children, housing older than 50 years 

occupied by a household in poverty, and overcrowding. This option dramatically improves 

targeting to need, including correcting funding inequities between Formulas A and B. It only 

modestly increases the slope of the allocation, however. By improving fairness in the funding 

allocation without raising the slope, some very needy Formula B communities experience 

significant funding decreases. For example, Detroit’s grant is reduced from $49 per capita to $38 

per capita to align it with similarly needy Miami, whose grant increases from $28 per capita to 

$41 per capita. 

Entitlement Alternative 3. This alternative adds an adjustment factor to entitlement alternative 

2. It uses the same four variables as entitlement alternative 2 but shifts the weights on some 

variables and adds an adjustment factor that assigns extra weight to fiscal stress. This alternative 

raises the weight on older housing occupied by a poverty household and reduces the weight on 

overcrowding, as compared to alternative 2, to put additional emphasis on places facing age and 

decline problems versus locations with growing immigrant populations. It also adjusts grants 

upwards for jurisdictions with a low per capita income relative to their metropolitan per capita 

income and adjusts grants downwards for jurisdictions with a high per capita income relative to 

their metropolitan per capita income. Overall, this increases the amount of funds the more needy 

grantees receive at the expense of the least needy grantees and benefits several of the older 

declining cities. For example, Detroit’s grant increases to $51 per capita while Miami’s increases 

to $44 per capita, Newport Beach’s per capita grant, however, falls to $3 per capita; its current 

grant is $6 per capita, and its alternative 2 grant is $4 per capita. 

All three alternatives improve targeting to need but also significantly redistribute funds. 

Alternative 3 provides the largest redistribution of funds, while alternative 1 offers the smallest. 

Entitlement Alternative 1—Tweaking the Current Formula

Alternative 1 is based on the analysis in Chapter 4 that identifies the significant problems of each 

of the dual formulas. Alternative 1 does not correct the historic inequities in funding between 

Formulas A and B; it simply corrects the anomalies in each formula. 

Formula A 

The problems with Formula A, as detailed in Chapter 4, and the solutions recommended for 

alternative 1 are as follows: 

1. Problem: Low slope. The more needy a Formula A grantee, the more underfunded it is 

relative to its need. 

Solution: Reduce the weight on population from 0.25 to 0.10, and increase the weight on 

poverty to 0.60 and on overcrowding to 0.30. 
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Analysis: Population does not target to need; it simply targets to population regardless of 

need. Poverty and overcrowding are both good indicators of need among Formula A 

grantees. 

2. Problem: College students in poverty. Although full-time college students are generally 

supported by their family, the Census Bureau reports them as being in poverty.38

Solution: Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or 

elderly-headed households living in poverty.” 

Analysis: This corrects the formula so that college towns no longer receive 

disproportionately large allocations relative to their actual level of community 

development need. 

Formula B 

The problems with Formula B, as detailed in Chapter 5, and the solutions recommended for 

alternative 1 are as follows: 

1. Problem: Pre-1940 housing occupied by higher income households. As time has passed, 

needy communities have demolished pre-1940 housing while less needy places have 

renovated their older housing. 

Solution: Replace the variable with “housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household.” 

Analysis: This new variable targets to needy cities with older infrastructure and 

dilapidated housing. 

2. Problem: College students in poverty. As in the description in Formula A, full-time 

college students are often counted as being in poverty when they actually do have a 

source of support not captured by the census—their families. 

Solution: Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or 

elderly-headed households living in poverty.” 

Analysis: This corrects the formula so that college towns no longer receive 

disproportionately large allocations relative to their actual level of community 

development need. 

3. Problem: Less needy places with population loss or slow growth. Growth lag funds 

communities whose populations since 1960 are growing at a slower pace than the 

national growth rate for entitlement cities. Some of these communities were built out in 

 

38 Students living in dormitories are not counted in the current census population counts on poverty; students living 

in housing units, however, are counted. 
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1960, however, and intentionally implement policies to discourage growth, simply have 

no more land for growth, or have had a large decrease in household size even though they 

are economically very strong. 

Solution: Reduce growth lag funding for communities with high per capita incomes and 

low poverty rates. Specifically, reduce a community’s growth lag score if its per capita 

income is greater than 125 percent of the national per capita income, and its poverty rate 

(using the new definition of poverty) is less than 75 percent of the average for entitlement 

communities. If a community’s per capita income is more than 125 percent of the 

national per capita income, its growth lag is reduced according to its poverty rate. A 

poverty rate of 75 percent of the average for entitlement communities receives full 

funding while a poverty rate of 50 percent of the average gets no funding. For 

communities with poverty rates between 50 and 75 percent, the reduction is proportional. 

Analysis: This reduces high funding to most low-need communities created by growth 

lag, which otherwise targets well to need. 

4. Problem: Extremely high per capita grants due to growth lag. Because of growth lag, a 

number of very needy grantees receive very large per capita grants that are well above 

their needs-index-based funding level. 

Solution: Reduce the weight on growth lag from 20 percent to 10 percent, and increase 

the weight on poverty from 30 percent to 40 percent. 

Analysis: This tends to make funding levels for Formula B communities with similarly 

high needs more similar. 

These adjustments significantly improve the targeting of the formula to need. Chart 6-1, as 

compared to Chart 4-2, shows that alternative 1 has fewer anomalies, especially regarding 

overfunding the least needy grantees. The left side of the chart demonstrates this by the per 

capita grants for alternative 1 clustered fairly close to the needs index line. Big differences in per 

capita allocations continue to exist between higher need, similar needy grantees; the increasingly 

larger spikes on the right side of the chart illustrate this. 
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$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 1 Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-1. Alternative 1 Targeting to Need 

Chart 6-2 and Table 6-1 show that alternative 1’s slope for Formula A grantees is closer to the 

desired slope, moving the more needy Formula A grantees much closer to the needs line than 

currently. At the same time, the r-square increases for Formula B by “trimming” some of the 

anomalies. 

Table 6-1. Regression Estimate of Targeting to Need by Overall and by Formula for 

Alternative 1 

Targeting to: Overall Formula A Formula B 

R-square 0.645 0.929 0.599 

Slope 11.5 8.9 12.8 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 17.2 13.8 20.8 

R-square 0.777 0.948 0.711 

Slope 11.9 9.3 12.6 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 16.4 14.1 19.5 
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$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees Split by A and B

Per Capita Grant

B Alternative 1

B Need

A Alternative 1

A Need

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-2. Alternative 1 Targeting to Need by Formulas A and B 

Entitlement Alternative 2—Arriving at the Best Simple Formula for 

Targeting To Need

Alternative 2 is a new formula. The goal was to target well to the needs index using a simple 

formula. To achieve this goal, this analysis took these steps: 

 Identify the variables available for each jurisdiction that explain the most variance in the 

needs index. 

 Weight those variables by regressing them against an “allocation” that uses the needs 

index 

Identifying the Variables 

As explained in Chapter 3, the needs index for entitlement communities comprises 17 variables. 

This study used factor analysis to identify which variables had similar patterns of variance and 

extract that variance to create individual factors. That analysis produced three factors. 

To identify variables for the alternative 2 formula, the variables that correlated the highest with 

each of the three factors from the needs index were identified. If several variables correlated 

highly with a factor, those variables with relatively low correlation with one another were 

identified. 
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Table 6-2 shows the 17 variables used to create the needs index and how each one correlates 

with factor 1, from highest to lowest correlation. The right side of the table shows the variables 

identified as having high correlation with factor 1 but relatively low correlation with one another. 

That is, factor 1 correlates best with poverty (A), but it also correlates well with female-headed 

households with children (B) and pre-1950 poverty households (C), both of which have 

relatively low correlations with poverty given that they all correlate well with factor 1. Poverty is 

a particularly good measure of unemployment, concentrated poverty, and lower education levels. 

Although poverty and female-headed households with children correlate with one another at only 

0.54, they both have relatively good correlations with the crime measure, 0.64 and 0.66 

respectively. This report contends that when combined, these factors offer a valid proxy for 

distress measured by crime. Pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, although 

correlated with poverty at only 0.48, is a very good indicator of population loss since 1960 and, 

to a lesser extent, population loss since 1990. Although pre-1950 poverty housing and femaleheaded households with children have a relatively high correlation with one another, 0.72, the 

strength of female-headed households with children under 18 at targeting toward crime and the 

pre-1950 poverty variable’s strength at targeting toward population loss leads to including both 

as formula variables. 

Table 6-2. Variables Correlating Well With Factor 1 

Community Development Need Measures Factor 1 

(A) 

Poverty 

Rate for 

Persons in 

Family and 

Elderly 

Households 

(B) 

FemaleHeaded 

Households 

With 

Children 

Under 18 

(C) 

Pre-1950 

Housing 

Occupied 

by Poverty 

Household

Factor 1 1.00 0.91 0.74 0.73 

Poverty rate for persons in family and elderly households, 2000 0.91 1.00 0.54 0.48 

Unemployment rate, 2000 0.86 0.87 0.52 0.50 

Pre-1970 housing occupied by poverty renter, 2000 0.86 0.61 0.78 0.91 

Employed population age 16––64, 2000 –0.84 –0.89 –0.38 –0.40 

Population age 25–64 without high school education, 2000 0.78 0.75 0.33 0.36 

Female-headed households with children under age 18, 2000 0.74 0.54 1.00 0.72 

Pre-1950 housing occupied by poverty household, 2000 0.73 0.48 0.72 1.00 

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) dissimilarity index multiplied by percent 

minority, 2000 0.72 0.61 0.37 0.29 

Homicides, assaults, robberies per 1000 persons, 2001, Department of 

Justice Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) 0.71 0.64 0.66 0.46 

Net per capita income change 1989 to 1999 –0.68 –0.57 –0.44 –0.38 

Local per capita income/per capita income of MSA, 2000 –0.67 –0.41 –0.47 –0.44 

Population loss since 1960 0.52 0.25 0.51 0.70 

Concentrated poverty,* 2000 0.49 0.78 0.25 0.17 

Overcrowded housing units, 2000 0.48 0.49 –0.07 –0.02 

Persons per square mile, 2000 0.43 0.14 0.12 0.33 

Population loss since 1990 0.43 0.22 0.48 0.53 

Point change in poverty rate, 1990–2000 0.02 –0.40 –0.07 –0.03 

*Percent of poor persons in jurisdictions concentrated in census tracts with more than 40 percent poverty. 
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Factor 2 correlates best with overcrowding as a needs indicator (0.78). It also correlates well 

with places that are not losing population: –0.64 for population loss since 1960 and –0.62 for 

population loss since 1990. Population gain is a good measure of need only to the extent that 

population gain is creating fiscal stress, such as with the growth in number of low-wage 

immigrants; overcrowding captures this extremely well. Population gain without capturing the 

low-wage or poverty component of that growth is most likely an indicator of fiscal health than 

fiscal stress. 

Table 6-3. Variables Correlating Well With Factor 2 

Factor 2 Overcrowding

Factor 2 1.00 0.78

Overcrowded housing units, 2000 0.78 1.00

Population loss since 1960 –0.64 –0.15

Population loss since 1990 –0.62 –0.15

Pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, 2000 –0.49 –0.02

Population age 25–64 without a high school education, 2000 0.46 0.77

Female-headed households with children under age 18, 2000 –0.45 –0.07

MSA dissimilarity index multiplied by percent minority, 2000 0.40 0.68

Persons per square mile, 2000 0.33 0.45

Point change in poverty rate 1990 to 2000 0.32 0.02

Pre-1970 housing occupied by a poverty renter household, 2000 –0.31 0.18

Netper capita income change 1989 to 1999 –0.24 –0.43

Population age 16–64 employed, 2000 –0.21 –0.57

Local per capita income /per capita income of MSA, 2000 –0.14 –0.36

Poverty rate for persons in family and elderly households, 2000 0.05 0.49

Unemployment rate, 2000 0.02 0.44

Concentrated poverty*, 2000 –0.06 0.28

Homicides, assaults, robberies per 1000 persons, 2001, UCR –0.11 0.21

*Percent of poor persons in jurisdictions concentrated in census tracts with more than 40 percent poverty 

Finally, factor 3 is an indicator of need for communities with high poverty concentrations but 

declining poverty rates. Poverty concentration could be potentially a good variable for the 

formula. It would have a similar problem to the growth lag variable of the current formula, 

however, specifically targeting large amounts of money to a few places. It would also have some 

regional bias in favor of very low cost-of-living jurisdictions, such as entitlement jurisdictions in 

Puerto Rico, where poverty rates are much higher than the rates of extreme low-income 

households. For these reasons, no variables based on factor 3 are included among the proposed 

formula variables.39

 

39 See Table 3-7 for the correlations of the variables with factor 3. 
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That leaves four variables for a simple entitlement formula: 

 Family and elderly persons in poverty. 

 Female-headed households with children. 

 Housing built before 1950 occupied by a poverty household. 

 Overcrowding. 

Weighting the Variables 

The next step in the process is to weight these variables so that they best target to the needs 

index, a relatively simple exercise. As previous charts demonstrated, the needs index scores are 

already converted to per capita grant amounts. These per capita grant amounts are then 

multiplied by population to convert them to actual grant amounts.40 Then, the grant amounts that 

individual jurisdictions would receive if funds were allocated only by the variable persons in 

family or elderly poverty households is calculated. Similar allocations are derived using femaleheaded households with children, housing built before 1950 occupied by poverty households, 

and overcrowding. A regression is run with the needs score grant calculation as the dependent 

variable and the four variables identified above as the independent variables. The result is as 

follows: 

R2

 = 0.997 

Family and elderly person in poverty = 0.529 

Female-headed households with children = 0.128 

Housing built before 1950 occupied by a poverty household = 0.185 

Overcrowding =0 .196 

Rounding these factors creates the following formula: 

[0.5 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHH (a) + 0.2 AgePov (a) +0 .2 Ocrowd (a) ] * Appropriations 

 Povfam (ENT) FHH (ENT) AgePov (ENT) Ocrowd (ENT) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

 (ENT) is the value for all entitlement jurisdictions (cities and urban counties). 

 Povfam is the number of persons in poverty living in family or elderly households. 

 FHH is the number of female-headed households with children. 

 AgePov is the number of housing units older than 50 years occupied by a poverty 

household. 

 Ocrowd is overcrowding.

In addition to departing from a dual formula, alternative 2 also changes the denominator from the 

sum of all metropolitan areas to the sum of all entitlement jurisdictions. The sum of all 

metropolitan areas made sense with a dual formula system because it meant that neither of the 

 

40 To capture the universe of CDBG grantees, this study estimated needs scores for the 123 jurisdictions that do not 

have need scores under the standard need calculation. This is done with factor analysis that excludes (1) crime rates 

and (2) the dissimilarity index multiplied by the percent minority factors. 
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dual formulas were allocating the full appropriation amount since the sum of the numerator—all 

entitlements—was less than the sum of the denominator—all metropolitan areas. With neither of 

the two formulas allocating all the appropriation, this reduced the amount of pro rata reduction 

needed to bring the “greater of” component of the dual formula in line with the actual 

appropriation. With a single formula, if a metropolitan total denominator is used, it is necessary 

to implement a pro rata increase to match the appropriation level. The need for a pro rata 

increase is avoided by simply allocating the funds based on a denominator that is the sum of the 

data for only the jurisdictions receiving funding. 

As Chart 6-3 shows, this very simple formula allocates very well to need. In addition to 

dramatically reducing the number of anomalies in the formula, it also modestly increases the 

slope of the overall allocation, and it corrects for the historic inequities in funding between 

Formulas A and B grantees. This correction, however, comes at a significant cost to most 

Formula B communities, many with high community development need. 

$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 2 Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-3. Alternative 2 Targeting to Need 

Table 6-4 shows several very needy Formula A grantees and Formula B communities and 

demonstrates how the alternative 2 formula increases funding for the very needy Formula A 

communities but at some cost to the very needy Formula B communities. All but two of the 

needy Formula B communities listed in Table 6-4 have a funding decrease as a result of 

alternative 2. Table 6-8, later in this chapter, compares the overall funding redistribution caused 

by this alternative when compared to alternatives 1 and 3. 
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Table 6-4. Comparing Impact of Alternative 2 on Needy Formula A and Formula B Grantees 

 Per Capita Grant 

High Need Formula A 

Grantees 

Needs 

Score

Current 

Formula

Alternative 

2

Percent 

Change 

Hidalgo County, TX 2.58 $31.98 $45.84 43 

Miami, FL 2.11 $27.94 $40.78 46 

Santa Ana, CA 1.88 $25.25 $30.75 22 

Long Beach, CA 1.44 $23.29 $33.33 43 

Los Angeles, CA 1.43 $23.96 $33.06 38 

Fresno, CA 1.42 $21.93 $31.22 42 

Kern County, CA 1.05 $18.73 $26.00 39 

El Paso, TX 0.93 $18.59 $27.08 46 

Memphis, TN 0.91 $15.43 $24.94 62 

Houston, TX 0.80 $18.93 $24.82 31 

 Per Capita Grant 

High Need Formula B 

Grantees 

Needs 

Score

Current 

Formula

Alternative 

2 Change 

Newark, NJ 2.55 $40.08 $38.40 –4 

Detroit, MI 2.12 $48.91 $38.44 –21 

Cleveland, OH 1.68 $61.81 $39.18 –37 

Baltimore, MD 1.60 $44.28 $31.46 –29 

St Louis, MO 1.56 $72.97 $36.38 –50 

New York, NY 1.54 $27.77 $34.05 23 

Buffalo, NY 1.54 $68.15 $41.18 –40 

Philadelphia, PA 1.50 $42.03 $34.41 –18 

New Orleans, LA 1.48 $37.55 $38.05 1 

Chicago, IL 1.32 $35.35 $29.34 –17 

Alternative 3—Arriving at a Formula More Sharply Targeted to Need

As noted above, some very needy Formula B communities experience significant funding 

decreases using alternative 2. This is because correcting the Formula A and Formula B funding 

inequities means increasing grants for a large number of Formula A communities. This is true for 

both very needy and not-so-needy communities. Across the need spectrum, alternative 2 

increases funding for Formula A at the expense of Formula B. Alternative 3 adjusts the 

alternative 2 approach so that very needy grantees receive larger per capita grants, and less needy 

grantees get smaller grants. Alternative 3 also make some adjustments to prevent very needy 

Formula B grantees from being as adversely impacted by the formula change in alternative 2. 

Adjustment 1. Chapter 3 noted that the needs index is underrepresented in variables that measure 

decline relative to previous needs indexes. In addition, the CDBG statute clearly emphasizes the 

distress associated with decline more than it does the fiscal stress associated with immigrant 
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growth. These arguments justify a shift in the weighting to provide 30 percent of the funds on old 

housing with a poverty household variable (a 10-point weight increase) and 10 percent of the 

funds on overcrowding (reducing the weight 10 points). This also results in a shift, relative to 

alternative 2, of more funds to the very needy Formula B communities. 

Adjustment 2. To more sharply target funds to the neediest communities in each metropolitan 

area, applying an adjustment factor that increases grants for jurisdictions with low per capita 

incomes relative to their metropolitan area per capita income substantially increases the slope of 

the allocation. To ensure that this adjustment does not create anomalies, it is capped to prevent 

any jurisdiction’s grant from being increased or decreased by more than 25 percent. Employing 

this adjustment results in an overall increase in allocations such that a pro rata reduction must be 

used to keep the formula allocation within appropriation. 

Applying these adjustments substantially increases the slope of the formula allocation relative to 

both the current formula and alternative 2, but with a modest sacrifice in targeting to need. The 

loss in targeting to the needs index is due almost entirely to shifting the weight from 

overcrowding to the old housing with poverty household variable. As noted above, however, the 

needs index probably understates the need of communities in decline. Chart 6-4 shows more 

variance from the needs index line relative to alternative 2, but this is primarily to benefit the 

most needy grantees. 

$0

$10

$20

$30

$40

$50

$60

$70

Entitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 3 Per Capita Grant

Needs Index Per Capita Grant

(slope 12.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-4. Alternative 3 Targeting to Need 
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Table 6-5 indicates that, as with alternative 2, all the very needy Formula A communities gain 

funding under alternative 3. Unlike alternative 2, however, most of the very needy Formula B 

grantees also gain funding. Four do lose funding, but not as much as they would with alternative 

2. 

Table 6-5. Comparing Impact of Alternative 3 on Needy Formula A and Formula B Grantees 

 Per Capita Grant 

High Need Formula A 

Grantees 

Needs 

Score

Current 

Formula

Alternative 

3

Percent 

Change 

Hidalgo County, TX 2.58 $31.98 $48.82 53 

Miami, FL 2.11 $27.94 $43.80 57 

Santa Ana, CA 1.88 $25.25 $28.78 14 

Long Beach, CA 1.44 $23.29 $31.49 35 

Los Angeles, CA 1.43 $23.96 $28.27 18 

Fresno, CA 1.42 $21.93 $28.13 28 

Kern County, CA 1.05 $18.73 $24.07 29 

El Paso, TX 0.93 $18.59 $22.54 21 

Memphis, TN 0.91 $15.43 $27.35 77 

Houston, TX 0.80 $18.93 $22.75 20 

 Per Capita Grant 

High Need Formula B 

Grantees 

Needs 

Score

Current 

Formula

Alternative 

3

Percent 

Change 

Newark, NJ 2.55 $40.08 $47.77 19 

Detroit, MI 2.12 $48.91 $50.67 4 

Cleveland, OH 1.68 $61.81 $54.38 –12 

Baltimore, MD 1.60 $44.28 $42.12 –5 

St. Louis, MO 1.56 $72.97 $49.56 –32 

New York, NY 1.54 $27.77 $35.88 29 

Buffalo, NY 1.54 $68.15 $58.47 –14 

Philadelphia, PA 1.50 $42.03 $46.95 12 

New Orleans, LA 1.48 $37.55 $43.31 15 

Chicago, IL 1.32 $35.35 $36.59 4 

Table 6-6 shows the overall redistribution of funds caused by the three alternative formulas by 

needs decile. Both alternatives 1 and 3 move significant funds from the least needy to the most 

needy grantees, while alternative 2 generally reduces funding for the least needy. Because 

alternative 2 corrects the funding anomalies between Formula A and Formula B, however, the 

more needy grantees receive relatively smaller funding increases. 
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Table 6-6. Fund Redistribution by Needs Decile 

Per Capita Grant Amount Percent Change from Current

Percentiles 

of CD Need N Current 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

3 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

3 

Low 89 $7.83 $5.26 $5.75 $4.33 –33 –27 –45 

2 90 $9.28 $7.54 $7.86 $6.51 –19 –15 –30 

3 90 $11.39 $8.75 $9.17 $8.27 –23 –19 –27 

4 90 $12.27 $11.27 $11.64 $10.71 –8 –5 –13 

5 90 $14.09 $13.37 $13.67 $13.19 –5 –3 –6 

6 90 $15.52 $14.80 $15.95 $15.27 –5 3 –2 

7 90 $17.77 $17.16 $17.77 $17.51 –3 0 –1 

8 90 $18.70 $20.40 $21.06 $20.61 9 13 10 

9 90 $25.72 $26.67 $25.42 $27.20 4 –1 6 

High 90 $32.27 $35.99 $33.68 $37.38 12 4 16 

Total 899 $17.87 $17.85 $17.69 $17.94

Most/Least 4.1 6.8 5.9 8.6 

 Note: Per capita grants weighted on population. 

Table 6-7 shows the regression coefficients for the formula alternatives in targeting to the needs 

index. All the alternatives dramatically improve targeting to the needs index, with alternative 2 

offering the optimal fairness and alternative 3 providing the largest allocations— that is, the 

highest slope—to the most needy grantees. 

Table 6-7. People and Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.352 0.645 0.891 0.794 

Slope 8.8 11.5 10.4 12.8 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 18.1 17.2 16.6 17.3 

R-square 0.525 0.777 0.947 0.857 

Slope 9.5 11.9 10.8 12.8 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 16.8 16.4 16.4 16.4 

N=899 for all regressions 

Table 6-8 shows the overall redistribution of funds by percent of jurisdictions losing funds and 

gaining funds. As expected, if jurisdictions in the least needy category are losing an average of 

30 to 45 percent of their funds, all these alternatives result in a large number of grantees that lose 

funding and a large number that gain funding. Alternative 1 results in fewer very large losers and 

fewer very large winners than the other alternatives because it is not correcting the gap in 

funding between similar needy Formula A and Formula B grantees. 
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Table 6-8. Percent of Entitlement Grantees Gaining/Losing Funds by Formula Alternative 

 Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

Loss greater than 40 5.5 12.0 13.4 

Loss 20 to 40 15.1 14.4 17.6 

Loss 10 to 20 15.7 8.9 12.0 

Loss 0 to 10 19.6 12.6 11.6 

Gain 0 to 10 18.8 12.3 11.2 

Gain 10 to 20 13.8 10.8 9.2 

Gain 20 to 40 10.4 17.3 13.8 

Gain greater than 40 1.1 11.7 11.2 

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 

 N=1024 

Table 6-9 shows the fund redistribution by region. Generally speaking, the New England region 

loses the most and Puerto Rico gains the most under all these alternatives. Interestingly, 

alternatives 1 and 3 have similar patterns of regional redistribution. 

Table 6-9. Fund Redistribution by Region 

Per Capita Grant Amount Percent Change from Current

Region N Current 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

3 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

3 

New England 73 $28.02 $23.01 $19.52 $24.37 –18 –30 –13

New York/New 

Jersey 96 $20.88 $20.75 $20.44 $21.82 –1 –2 5

Mid-Atlantic 87 $19.59 $17.51 $14.38 $16.28 –11 –27 –17

Southeast 164 $12.62 $13.34 $14.93 $14.04 6 18 11

Midwest 187 $18.93 $17.38 $15.10 $17.43 –8 –20 –8

Southwest 106 $15.17 $17.15 $19.20 $17.66 13 27 16

Great Plains 30 $17.77 $15.59 $14.02 $15.42 –12 –21 –13

Rocky Mountain 37 $11.49 $10.54 $11.40 $11.05 –8 –1 –4

Pacific/Hawaii 183 $15.94 $17.52 $18.90 $16.41 10 19 3

Northwest/Alaska 40 $12.60 $11.08 $11.89 $11.25 –12 –6 –11

Puerto Rico 21 $30.51 $40.29 $46.15 $39.92 32 51 31

 Note: Per capita grants weighted on population. 

Alternative 3’s second adjustment combined with pro rata reduction associated with alternative 3 

tends to benefit poor jurisdictions in high cost-of-living locations, such as New England, at the 

expense of all the jurisdictions in places with lower costs of living, like the entitlement 

communities in the Puerto Rico region. This tends to correct for the bias in alternative 2 that 

favors places with very low costs of living over places with higher costs of living. 
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Summarizing Nonentitlement Formula Alternatives 

For nonentitlement communities, this report offers only two alternatives: one that tweaks the 

current formula and a simple alternative with three variables. 

Nonentitlement Alternative 1. As with the entitlement alternative 1, this alternative makes 

minor adjustments to the existing formula by resolving the problems in Formulas A and B that 

lead to large inequities in funding among grantees under each formula. For example, pre-1940 

housing is replaced by “housing older than 50 years occupied by a person in poverty.” 

Nonentitlement Alternative 2. This alternative creates a very simple, single formula. The 

formula uses three widely available and easy-to-understand variables to allocate the funds. The 

variables are poverty, female-headed households with children, and housing older than 50 years 

occupied by a person in poverty. 

Nonentitlement Alternative 1—Tweaking the Formula

Alternative 1 uses the analysis in Chapter 5 to identify the key problems of each of the dual 

formulas. 

Formula A 

The problems with Formula A, as detailed in Chapter 5, and the solutions recommended are as 

follows: 

1. Problem: Low slope due to population variable. 

Solution: Reduce the weight on population from 25 percent to 10 percent, and increase 

the weight on poverty to 65 percent. 

Analysis: Population does not target to need; it simply targets to population regardless of 

need. Poverty is a good indicator of need among Formula A grantees. 

2. Problem: College students in poverty. Although full-time college students living in 

nonfamily situations (off-campus housing, fraternities and sororities) are generally 

supported by their family, the census reports them as being in poverty. 

Solution: Change the definition of poverty to “persons living in family households or 

elderly-headed households living in poverty.” This solution is also applies for the 

definition of poverty used in Formula B. 

Analysis: This corrects the formula so that nonentitlements with significant college 

student populations no longer receive disproportionately large allocations relative to their 

actual level of community development need. 
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Formula B 

1. Problem: Pre-1940 housing occupied by higher income households. As time has passed, 

needy places have demolished pre-1940 housing while less needy locations have 

renovated their old housing. 

Solution: Replace the variable with “housing 50 years or older occupied by a poverty 

household.” 

Analysis: This new variable targets better to nonentitlement areas with older 

infrastructure and dilapidated housing that generally do not have the resources to address 

that need. 

2. Problem: College students in poverty. See explanation under Formula A. 

3. Problem: Low slope due to population variable. 

 Solution: Reduce the weight on population from 20 percent to 10 percent, and increase 

the weight on poverty to 40 percent. 

Analysis: Population does not target to need; it simply targets to population regardless of 

need. Poverty is a good indicator of need. 

Chart 6-5 shows the targeting to need as a result of these changes. A tremendous improvement in 

targeting is evident, with the alternative 1 per capita grants of nonentitlements tracking much 

more closely to the needs index than the current formula. 
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$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 1 Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 8.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-5. Nonentitlement Alternative 1 Targeting to Need 

The regression analysis confirms this finding. Table 6-10 shows very clearly that the fairness (rsquare) is greatly improved overall and for both Formulas A and B. The slope is also 

significantly improved, matching the target slope of 8.0 established with the needs index line. 

Table 6-10. Regression Estimate of Targeting to Need Overall and by Formula for 

Nonentitlement Alternative 1 

Targeting to: Overall Formula A Formula B 

R-square 0.838 0.838 0.905 

Slope 8.1 8.6 5.7 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.5 13.0 11.7 

R-square 0.851 0.861 0.886 

Slope 7.9 9.0 5.4 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 12.1 11.8 11.5 

Nonentitlement Alternative 2—Simple Formula for Targeting to Need

While alternative 1 does a very good job of improving targeting to need, nonentitlement 

alternative 2 is designed to improve targeting to need with a simple formula mechanism. It uses 

the same approach for developing a simple, single formula like that used for the entitlement 

alternative 2. First, a set of variables that correlate well with the needs index factors were 

identified, and then regression analysis was employed to weight those variables. 
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Identifying the Variables

Table 6-11 shows the 10 variables used to create the nonentitlement needs index and how each 

one correlates with factor 1, from highest correlation to lowest correlation. Factor 1 correlates 

best with poverty, and poverty correlates well with unemployment, low education, concentrated 

poverty, and overcrowding. 

 

Table 6-11. Variables That Correlate Well With Nonentitlement Factor 1 

Community Development Need Measures Factor 1 

Poverty 

Rate for 

Persons in 

Family and 

Elderly 

Households 

Factor 1 1.000 0.980 

Poverty rate for persons in family and elderly households, 2000 0.980 1.000 

Population age 16–64 employed, 2000 –0.959 –0.926 

Unemployment Rate, 2000 0.933 0.908 

Concentrated poverty, 2000* 0.864 0.908 

Population age 25–64 without a high school education, 2000 0.846 0.819 

Overcrowded housing units, 2000 0.804 0.759 

Pre-1970 housing occupied by a poverty renter household, 2000 0.595 0.579 

Female-headed households with children under age 18, 2000 0.564 0.478 

Pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, 2000 0.098 0.153 

Percent households that heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.067 0.077 

*Percent of poor persons in jurisdictions concentrated in census tracts with more than 40 percent poverty.

Table 6-12. Variables Correlating Well With Nonentitlement Factor 2 

Community Development Need Measures Factor 2 

Pre-1950 

Housing 

Occupied 

by Poverty 

Household 

Factor 2 1.000 0.969 

Pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, 2000 0.969 1.000 

Pre-1970 housing occupied by a poverty renter household, 2000 0.731 0.741 

Percent households that heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.236 0.117 

Population age 16–64 employed, 2000 0.119 0.013 

Poverty rate for persons in family and elderly households, 2000 0.045 0.153 

Concentrated poverty, 2000* 0.042 0.160 

Female-headed households with children under age 18, 2000 –0.040 –0.066 

Population age 25–64 without a high school education, 2000 –0.091 –0.052 

Unemployment rate, 2000 –0.118 0.012 

Overcrowded housing units, 2000 –0.375 –0.261 

*Percent of poor persons in jurisdictions concentrated in census tracts with more than 40 percent poverty.
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As Table 6-12 shows, factor 2 has its high correlation with pre-1950 housing occupied by a 

poverty household; that correlates well with pre-1970 housing occupied by a poverty renter 

household. 

Finally, factor 3 approximates infrastructure need and, as Table 6-13 shows, correlates best with 

units that heat with wood or bottled gas. Its next best correlation, 0.594, is with female-headed 

households with children. Because of the concern that using the proxy variable of heating with 

wood or bottled gas will create anomalies in funding due to likely regional bias, this report does 

not recommend its use. On both factors 1 and 3, however, female-headed households with 

children have moderately high correlations with the factors but not high correlation with either 

poverty or pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household. This suggests that some elements 

of community development need in nonentitlement areas that are not captured by poverty or pre1950 housing occupied by a person in poverty is captured by the variable female-headed 

households with children. 

Table 6-13. Variables Correlating Well With Nonentitlement Factor 3 

Community Development Need Measures Factor 3 

Percent 

Households 

that Heat 

With Wood 

or Bottled 

Gas 

Femaleheaded 

Households 

with 

Children 

Under 18 

Factor 3 1.000 0.761 0.594 

Percent households that heat with wood or bottled gas, 2000 0.761 1.000 0.184 

Female-headed households with children under age 18, 2000 0.594 0.184 1.000 

Population age 25–64 without a high school education, 2000 0.280 0.111 0.652 

Unemployment rate, 2000 –0.213 –0.054 0.371 

Concentrated poverty, 2000* –0.184 0.073 0.281 

Overcrowded housing units, 2000 –0.166 –0.017 0.306 

Pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, 2000 –0.153 0.117 –0.066 

Pre-1970 housing occupied by a poverty renter household, 2000 –0.085 0.068 0.328 

Poverty rate for persons in family and elderly households, 2000 –0.047 0.077 0.478 

Population age 16–64 employed, 2000 0.021 0.021 –0.530 

*Percent of poor persons in jurisdictions concentrated in census tracts with more than 40 percent poverty

That leaves with three variables for a simple nonentitlement formula: 

 Family and elderly person in poverty. 

 Housing built before 1950 occupied by a poverty household. 

 Female-headed households with children. 
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Weighting the Variables 

Next, these variables are weighted to best target to the nonentitlement needs index using 

regression analysis. The results are as follows: 

R2

 = 0.972 

Family and elderly person in poverty = 0.624 

Housing built before 1950 and occupied by a poverty household = 0.292 

Female-headed households with children = 0.129 

Rounding the coefficients results in the following formula: 

[0.6 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHH (a) + 0.3 AgePov (a) ] * Appropriations 

 Povfam (NENT) FHH (NENT) AgePov (NENT) 

where: 

• (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

• (NENT) is the value for all nonentitlement jurisdictions. 

• Povfam is the number of persons below the poverty line living in family or elderly 

households. 

• FHH is the number of female-headed households with children. 

• AgePov is the number of housing units older than 50 years and occupied by a poverty 

household. 

$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

$40

Nonentitlement Grantees

Per Capita Grant

Alternative 2 Per Capita Grant

Need (Slope 8.0)

Low Need High Need

Chart 6-6. Nonentitlement Alternative 2 Targeting to Need 
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This very simple formula targets very well to need. In addition to dramatically reducing the 

number of anomalies in the formula, it also increases the slope of the overall allocation. Chart 6-

6 shows this alternative formula to allocate extremely closely to the needs index. Similarly, 

Table 6-14 demonstrates that it targets better than alternative 1, with an r-square of 0.947. It has 

a lower slope than alternative 1 (7.3 compared to 8.1), however, largely because it does not 

allocate as much to Puerto Rico as alternative 1. 

Table 6-14. People and Place Targeting With Puerto Rico 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.661 0.838 0.947 

Slope 4.9 8.1 7.3 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.3 12.5 12.3 

R-square 0.621 0.851 0.931 

Slope 4.7 7.9 7.1 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 12.1 12.1 12.1 

 N=51 for all regressions 

Because Puerto Rico’s need is so much greater than the other states’, when it is included, the 

results tend to distort how well the formula targets to the other 50 state nonentitlements. When 

Puerto Rico is excluded from the regression analysis, as in Table 6-15, the value of the two 

alternatives is clear. The current formula has almost no targeting to need (r-square = 0.294 and 

slope= 2.4), alternative 1 improves the targeting and slope substantially (r-square = 0.697 and 

slope = 5.4), and alternative 2 has the best targeting (r-square=0.909 and slope=6.2). 

Table 6-15. People and Place Targeting Without Puerto Rico 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.294 0.697 0.909 

Slope 2.4 5.4 6.2 

Places 

(unweighted) 

Constant 12.0 12.1 12.1 

R-square 0.281 0.790 0.900 

Slope 2.2 5.4 5.8 

People 

(weighted on 

population) Constant 11.8 11.8 11.9 

 N=50 for all regressions 

Table 6-16 shows that the funding reallocation from the less needy to the most needy grantees is 

similar for the two alternatives. The least needy grantees would suffer decreases of 26 and 27 

percent, on average, while the neediest grantees would experience gains of 23 and 19 percent. 

Table 6–17 shows that alternative 2 causes larger shifts in funding than alternative 1; in both 

cases, however, the funding gains and losses are largely in the +/–20 percent range. 
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Table 6-16. Nonentitlement Fund Redistribution by Needs Quintile 

Per Capita Grant 

Percent Change From 

Current 

Percentiles 

of CD Need States Current 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Low 10 $10.07 $7.46 $7.31 –26 –27 

2 10 $11.12 $9.93 $9.77 –11 –12 

3 11 $11.40 $11.12 $11.71 –2 3 

4 10 $12.41 $12.90 $13.02 4 5 

High 10 $15.68 $19.29 $18.68 23 19 

Total 51 $12.09 $12.09 $12.09

Most/Least 1.6 2.6 2.6 

 Note: Per capita grants weighted on population. 

Table 6-17. Percent of Nonentitlement Grantees Gaining/Losing Funds by Nonentitlement 

Formula Alternatives 

Percent Grant Change Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

Loss greater than 40% 0.0 3.9 

Loss 20 to 40% 17.6 15.7 

Loss 10 to 20% 17.6 27.5 

Loss 0 to 10% 3.9 3.9 

Gain 0 to 10% 31.4 11.8 

Gain 10 to 20% 17.6 7.8 

Gain 20 to 40% 11.8 23.5 

Gain greater than 40% 0.0 5.9 

Total 100.0 100.0 

 N=51 

Finally, Table 6-18 shows that, just as with the entitlement formula alternatives, the New 

England region loses the most, followed by the Midwest and New York/New Jersey region. Most 

of the nonentitlement areas in these regions receive substantial funding from the pre-1940 

housing variable, and shifting this variable to pre-1950 housing occupied by poverty households 

has a significant negative impact on those grants. The Pacific/Hawaii region gains with 

alternative 1 but loses under alternative 2 because of overcrowding, which is a variable under 

alternative 1 but is not included in alternative 2. 
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Table 6-18. Regional Shifts in Funding Due to Nonentitlement Alternatives 1 and 2 

Average Per Capita Grant 

Percent Change from 

Current 

Region States Current 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

Alternative 

1 

Alternative 

2 

New England 6 $11.40 $7.93 $7.69 –30 –33 

New York/New Jersey 2 $14.12 $11.26 $11.11 –20 –21 

Mid-Atlantic 5 $11.45 $11.72 $12.04 2 5 

Southeast 8 $10.81 $11.91 $12.97 10 20 

Midwest 6 $11.09 $8.96 $9.16 –19 –17 

Southwest 5 $12.81 $14.99 $15.01 17 17 

Great Plains 4 $11.97 $11.04 $11.31 –8 –6 

Rocky Mountain 6 $10.43 $10.77 $10.86 3 4 

Pacific/Hawaii 4 $15.09 $16.97 $12.84 12 –15 

Northwest/Alaska 4 $11.52 $12.12 $11.66 5 1 

Puerto Rico 1 $39.89 $52.31 $43.78 31 10 

Total 51 $12.09 $12.09 $12.09 
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Chapter 7. Impact of New Metropolitan Area Definitions 

The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) new metropolitan area (MA) definitions 

could potentially add 78 cities and 12 urban counties to the Community Development Block 

Grant (CDBG) entitlement universe. In addition, the new definitions change the denominator 

totals for all the entitlement variables except growth lag. Although the new definitions are in 

effect for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 allocation, not all the potential jurisdictions have elected to 

become entitlements. This chapter describes the potential impact of the new OMB MA 

definitions along with the actual impact in FY 2004 of the new definitions on the current 

formula. 

Background 

Nearly every year, additional communities become eligible for CDBG entitlement status. Table 

7-1 shows the annual growth of the number of entitlement grantees since the program began in 

FY 1975. Over the course of 30 years, the number of entitlement communities has almost 

doubled from 606 in FY 1975 to 1,105 grantees in FY 2004. Chapter 2 explains the criteria for a 

community to become eligible as an entitlement. Basically, all center cities/principal cities,41

other cities in MAs with populations that exceed 50,000, and counties with populations greater 

than 200,000 (excluding entitlement cities in the county) are eligible. 

Table 7-1. Number of CDBG Entitlement Grantees FYs, 1975–2004 

FY Cities 

Urban 

Counties Total 

Increase 

From 

Previous 

Year FY Cities 

Urban 

Counties Total 

Increase 

From 

Previous 

Year 

1975 533 73 606 -- 1990 741 125 866 8 

1976 533 75 608 2 1991 757 125 882 16 

1977 546 78 624 16 1992 758 131 889 7 

1978 559 81 640 16 1993 756 133 889 None 

1979 562 84 646 6 1994 802 135 937 48 

1980 579 85 664 18 1995 808 138 946 9 

1981 583 86 669 5 1996 815 139 954 8 

1982 636 96 732 63 1997 834 141 975 21 

1983 637 98 735 3 1998 841 145 986 11 

1984 691 104 795 60 1999 842 147 989 3 

1985 707 107 814 19 2000 859 149 1008 19 

1986 711 116 827 13 2001 860 153 1013 5 

1987 712 115 827 None 2002 865 159 1024 10 

1988 736 121 857 30 2003 875 159 1034 11 

1989 737 121 858 1 2004 941 164 1105 71 

. 

When new entitlement communities are added to the CDBG entitlement universe, their data 

move from being funded from the 30 percent nonentitlement pool of funds to the 70 percent 

 

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entitlement pool of funds42. With no change in appropriation amounts, this means that 

entitlements have to share the same amount of funds among more grantees, while 

nonentitlements keep their 30 percent share of funds but serve fewer people. 

Generally, there are substantial increases in the number of grantees when either new population 

estimates are provided or OMB changes the definitions of MAs. Sometimes, as in FY 2004, both 

events occur. Population counts are updated every 1 to 3 years, depending on when the Census 

Bureau makes them available. Once a decade, since the 1950 decennial census, the OMB 

reviews and revises the MA classification standards before applying them to new decennial 

census data. 

OMB’s new standards for MAs based on Census 2000 data went into effect in May 2003. The 

latest OMB revision to the MA criteria is more comprehensive than the Census 1990 revisions. 

The most important changes concern the substitution of counties for towns as the building block 

for MAs in New England and the use of principal cities instead of central cities in naming MAs. 

Table 7-1 shows that the combination of these new definitions and the Census Bureau’s 2002 

population estimates increased the number of entitlement grantees by 71—66 cities and 5 urban 

counties. 

New England 

Since the beginning of the MA program in 1950, OMB has used towns as the building block for 

MAs in New England while using counties elsewhere. OMB explained its decision to change to 

county areas in New England as a way to improve usability to producers and users of data; this 

would make data for MAs in all parts of the country directly comparable. The new rule means 

that, for the first time in the CDBG program, county areas in New England will meet the urban 

county statistical eligibility test. All the land area of an urban county must be included in an MA, 

and its population must be at least 200,000, excluding any CDBG-designated metropolitan cities. 

The potential impact of this change is the addition of 12 counties in New England, qualifying 

collectively for up to $45 million in CDBG funding.43 

The grant allocations for these urban counties will be higher than the typical new urban county 

elsewhere in the country. Typically, CDBG recognition occurs when a county’s population 

exceeds 200,000. Most New England counties have populations much higher than the minimum, 

ranging from 400,000 to 1 million. Because these New England county areas do not have 

organized county governments to administer the Urban County program, however, they need to 

explore the options for creating a consortium of cities and towns to manage an Urban County 

CDBG grant. This means that it may be some years before all the eligible urban counties join the 

program. Applying the new MA criteria to Census 2000 data does not statistically qualify any 

new urban counties in any other regions, but because the New England counties are so large, a 

potential exists for their inclusion in the formula to have a major effect. 

 

42 Except if they come out of an existing urban county. These communities only effect the allocation of the urban 

county they are separating from. 

43 Assumes the FY 2002 appropriation level with new MA denominators. Does not include Census 2002 population 

estimates. 
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None of the 12 New England counties that are now eligible due to the change in OMB MA 

definition, however, were able to organize to become grantees in FY 2004. The five new urban 

counties created between FY 2003 and FY 2004 were not in New England and all are a result of 

the new 2002 population estimates, not the change in OMB MA definition. In terms of new 

urban counties, the new OMB MA definitions have yet to have an impact. 

Principal Cities 

OMB’s new procedures emphasize urbanized areas and urban clusters as the organizing entities 

for MAs. OMB concluded that the identification of central cities as required by the 1990 

standards for qualifying and defining areas is no longer necessary. OMB also concluded that 

central cities have become less dominant in the local context over time. Nevertheless, the Office 

recognized that specific cities are important for analytical purposes as centers of employment, 

trade, entertainment, and other social and economic activities. Therefore, OMB developed 

statistical criteria for identifying principal cities and uses these cities to name MAs. 

Table 7-2. New Principal Cities by Region 

Region 

Number 

Eligible 

Number 

Included in 

FY 2004 

Allocation 

Amount of 

Impact in FY 

2004 ($000) 

New England 3 1 $542 

New York/New Jersey 4 4 $2,562 

Mid-Atlantic 8 8 $3,630 

Southeast 20 13 $5,624 

Midwest 11 9 $6,796 

Southwest 3 3 $1,223 

Great Plains 3 3 $1,239 

Rocky Mountain 3 3 $1,633 

Pacific/Hawaii 8 5 $2,498 

Northwest/Alaska 9 7 $2,566 

Puerto Rico 6 6 $9,260 

Total 78 62 $37,578 

The CDBG statute defines the scope of the “Metropolitan City” entitlement community category 

as being the MA central cities plus any other city of 50,000 or more population in an MA. OMB 

determined that, because the CDBG program is focused on economic growth centers, 

substituting principal cities for central cities was an appropriate technical change and issued 

regulations to substitute MA principal cities for central cities in the CDBG entitlement program. 

Table 7-2 shows the regional distribution of the 78 new MA principal cities that are not already 

CDBG metropolitan cities or part of an existing urban county, and the 62 that elected to be 
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included for the FY 2004 CDBG funding allocation.44 The 62 that elected to be included in the 

FY 2004 CDBG allocation receive about $37.6 million. 

Because none of these locations has populations of more than 50,000, they each have a relatively 

small impact on the formula. Collectively, however, their impact is relatively high for a single 

year. For comparison, over a 10-year period between FY 1993 and FY 2002, 81 entitlements 

were added that had not previously been part of an urban county. Of these, 15 were urban 

counties and 66 were new cities. These 81 entitlements received $79.8 million in FY 2002 

(Richardson, Meehan, and Kelly. 2003). 

The remaining four cities that became eligible for funding in FY 2004 did so because the Census 

2002 population estimates indicated that their population exceeded 50,000. 

“Grandfathering” 

The new MAs also move the CDBG program in a new direction on “grandfathering,” or the 

continued designation as a Metropolitan City entitlement grantee, even though the jurisdiction 

does not meet the current standards. A grandfathering requirement in CDBG retains locations as 

grantees when their population falls below the threshold of 200,000 for urban counties and 

50,000 for cities that are not central cities. Four former central cities that retain their place in an 

OMB-defined MA will be added to the group of grandfathered metropolitan cities. This aspect of 

grandfathering is not unprecedented because the four retain their classification as being parts of 

an MA. Nine other CDBG metropolitan city grantees will be removed from the MA roster all 

together. The nine will be OMB principal cities; however, they will be in “micropolitan,” rather 

than metropolitan, areas. Finally, two more CDBG metropolitan cities with populations less than 

50,000 will be part metropolitan and part micropolitan. Each city is in two counties, with one 

county retaining MA status and the other being demoted by OMB to micropolitan status. The 

“grandfathering” of these 11 places means that the CDBG formula will have areas represented in 

the numerator that are not included in the denominator of the Formula A and Formula B 

calculations. 

Formula Denominator 

Chapter 2 describes the mechanics of the CDBG formula. One component of the CDBG formula 

is that the allocation of funds on four of the five CDBG variables (population, poverty, pre-1940 

housing, and overcrowding) is based on a jurisdiction’s share of the metropolitan total on each of 

those variables. When the MA definition changes, so does the denominator. 

The new MA definitions add 294 counties and remove 75 counties from the universe of counties 

included as metropolitan. Table 7-3 summarizes the national old and new metropolitan totals for 

each of the four applicable variables for the previous and current MA definitions. For all four 

variables, the metropolitan totals increase. An increasing denominator and a fixed numerator 

 

44 In addition to the 78 cities noted, 16 other principal cities are enrolled participants in CDBG urban counties and 

will be eligible for metropolitan city designation when the urban county agreement is up for renewal. Cities coming 

out of urban counties have less effect on other entitlement grantees because their data are already accounted for in 

the entitlement side of the formula. 
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result in every jurisdiction experiencing a decline in share. If the CDBG universe remains 

constant, a decline in share means that the pro rata reduction also decreases. That is, jurisdictions 

that are funded heavily under the variables with the smallest denominator, such as overcrowded 

housing, would experience increases in funding. Jurisdictions funded heavily by the poverty 

factor would experience decreases in funding. 

Table 7-3. Changing MA National Totals for CDBG Variables, Census 2000 Data 

Variable 

Denominator 

Total for Old 

MA Definition 

Denominator 

Total for New 

MA Definition Change 

Percent 

Change 

Population 229,192,836 236,197,894 7,005,058 3.1 

Poverty 27,561,898 28,648,340 1,086,442 3.9 

Overcrowding 5,551,631 5,666,143 114,512 2.1 

Pre-1940 Housing 12,974,750 13,348,818 374,068 2.9 

Of course, as noted above, the universe is not a constant. The new MA definitions also increase 

the number of entitlement grantees drawing from the 70 percent entitlement pot of funds. This 

takes away from all the existing entitlement grantees. Thus, jurisdictions largely funded by 

poverty take an even larger reduction in funding while jurisdictions primarily funded by 

overcrowding receive smaller funding increases, and sometimes even decreases. Chapter 8 

describes the history of the 70/30 split and options for changing the split or eliminating it 

altogether. 
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Chapter 8. The 70/30 Split 

Since 1981, nonentitled portions of states have received 30 percent of the Community 

Development Block Grant (CDBG) formula allocation while entitlement areas have received 70 

percent. Chapter 7 revealed that many new cities and urban counties were added to the 

entitlement share of the formula from the nonentitlement share. This chapter offers several 

alternatives to the 70/30 split between entitlement and nonentitlement communities. 

Background 

Since 1981, the CDBG statute has required that 70 percent of CDBG funds allocated by formula 

go to entitlement jurisdictions, and the other 30 percent go to nonentitled communities. Since 

1981, however, more and more communities have achieved entitlement status. The result is that 

an ever-increasing share of the population is served by 70 percent of the funds, while the 30 

percent share serves a diminishing share of the population. 

The original CDBG formula (Section 106 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 

1974) allocated 80 percent of grant amounts to metropolitan areas (MAs) and 20 percent to nonMAs. “Hold harmless” communities—that is, nonentitlement communities funded under the 

prior programs’ classifications—were funded from the 80 percent share, and the remaining funds 

were allocated by formula to entitlement grantees. The entire metropolitan share was not 

allocated; the remainder of the 80 percent share was then distributed by formula to HUD field 

offices to be allocated to the MAs’ nonentitlement areas of the jurisdiction they served. Thus, the 

split between entitlements and nonentitlements could fluctuate, depending on the portion of the 

formula variables in MAs and entitlement communities (as well as the need to phase out the hold 

harmless grantees from the prior programs). In the early days of the CDBG program, this 

resulted in nonentitlement areas receiving between 20 and 25 percent of the funds. 

In 1981, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act offered states the option of administering the 

CDBG program for their nonentitled jurisdictions. This statute also established that nonentitled 

areas would receive 30 percent of the CDBG allocation available for formula distribution. The 

last major modification to the formula, it was first used for distributing funds in 1982. 

Table 8-1. Population When the 70/30 Split Was Established 

1982 Percent of: Entitled Areas Nonentitled Areas 

Population 55 45 

Formula funds 70 30 

It is instructive to note that when Congress established the entitlement and nonentitlement shares, 

this represented an increase in funding for nonentitlements and a decrease for entitlements. 

Previously, entitlements received approximately 75 percent of the funds; the 1981 enactment of 

the 70/30 split reduced this to 70 percent. Congress did this adjustment knowingly, stating in the 

legislative history of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 “ the increased amount for 

nonentitled areas is more in keeping with their relative needs”. As Table 8-1 shows, even after 
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this adjustment, only 55 percent of the population at the time was in entitlement jurisdictions. 

The CDBG per capita grant for nonentitlements was substantially less than that for entitlements. 

Changes Since 1982 

In the two decades since the 70/30 split was enacted, changes in entitlement geography and 

demographics have caused funding to shift more toward nonentitlement areas. In 1982, there 

were 732 entitlement jurisdictions. By 1993, this number grew to 889, a 21 percent increase. In 

2004, the number is 1,105. 

While the number of entitlement communities steadily increased, the 70 percent share has 

remained constant. As cities and counties grow to reach the threshold for entitlement status, they 

qualify for a share of the 70 percent entitlement share. Although communities sometimes lose 

population and drop below the threshold for entitlement status, Congress has always 

grandfathered them and enabled them to retain their entitlement status. 

New entitlements do not necessarily indicate a transfer of population from nonentitlement areas 

to entitlement areas. Some new entitlements result from smaller, nonentitled locations meeting or 

exceeding the population thresholds, and thereby qualifying for entitlement status. Other new 

entitlements occur when cities that are part of urban counties (and therefore already entitled) 

becoming entitled separately. In these situations, the total population competing for the 70 

percent entitlement share does not increase. The portion of the country drawing from the 70 

percent entitlement share, however, will continue to grow. 

Table 8-2. Change in Share of Population Since 1982 

 

Percent of: Entitled Areas Nonentitled Areas 

1982 

 Population 55 45 

 Poverty population 54 46 

2003 

 Population 62 38 

 Poverty population 64 36 

2004 

 Population 64 36 

 Poverty population 65 35 

Table 8-2 illustrates the change in entitled areas relative to nonentitled areas since 1982. In 1982, 

the 70 percent share of the formula served 55 percent of the total population and 54 percent of 

the poverty population. By 2003, because a sufficient number of the previously nonentitlement 

areas become entitled, the 70 percent share served 62 percent of the total population and 64 

percent of the population in poverty. 
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The lower portion of Table 8-2 indicates that the flow of funding away from entitlement 

jurisdictions will continue when the new MA definitions are applied in 2004.45 Whereas in 2003, 

the 70 percent entitlement share served 62 percent of the population, when the new MA 

definitions are applied, this same share will serve approximately 64 percent of the population. 

Options for Determining Entitlement and Nonentitlement Shares 

This report offers no criteria for determining whether the 70/30 split is appropriate. It also 

presents no arguments as to the relative share of CDBG that should go to entitlement areas 

versus nonentitlement areas. If when Congress enacted the 70/30 split, this share was 

appropriate, the present allocation has come to overfund the nonentitlement areas. In 2003, if 

entitlement grantees were funded on a per capita basis similar to in 1982, approximately 79 

percent of the formula amounts should go to entitlements, compared with the actual 70 percent 

that is required by law. If the appropriate share is a per capita grant in nonentitlement areas that 

is equivalent to that in entitlement areas, however, the formula, while evolving in that direction, 

has not yet reached that distribution. 

Retain the 70/30 Split 

Despite the continued loss of funding share for entitlement areas, on a per capita or per person in 

poverty basis, entitlement areas still receive more than nonentitlement areas. Thus, it may be 

argued that no change is needed in the immediate future. When, as appears inevitable, the 

nonentitlement share of population or poverty population drops below 30 percent, it would seem 

appropriate to adjust the nonentitlement share of formula funds downward from 30 percent to 

reflect this decline in population. For example, if the population or poverty population of 

nonentitlement areas fell to 25 percent of the national total, it would make sense to adjust the 

70/30 split to 75/25 to allow approximate per capita parity for entitlements and nonentitlements. 

Adjust the 70/30 Split to Reflect the Changes in Population Since 1982

When Congress enacted the 70/30 split, it decided, in effect, that 70 percent of funds should go 

to the 55 percent of the population that lived in entitlement communities. In other words, every 1 

percent of the population in entitlement areas ought to receive about 1.27 percent of the funds 

allocated by formula. The 70/30 split could be adjusted continually to reflect this ratio. 

Alternatively, a similar ratio based on any time since 1982 could be adopted. If the formula were 

to freeze the actual 2003 ratio, for example, it could be continually adjusted so that every 1 

percent of the entitled portion of the population received 1.13 percent of the funds allocated by 

formula. 

Adopt a Fair Share Formula

A fair share formula would automatically apportion formula funds between entitlement and 

nonentitlement areas. Rather than specify a static 70/30 split, a single formula could be used to 

 

45 The Census 2002 population estimates are being applied in 2002; they are not accounted for in this table. As in 

past years, their affect is to further increase the portion of the population in entitlement jurisdictions. 
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allocate all of the funds. Then, all jurisdictions would receive funds proportionate to their share 

of need as measured by the formula variables, and the entitlement/nonentitlement split would 

fluctuate annually. To implement this type of formula, it would probably be a good idea to make 

the entitlement and nonentitlement formulas more similar than they are now. 

Entitlement alternatives 2 or 3 and nonentitlement alternative 2 in Chapter 6 provide one concept 

of a fair share formula that could be used to either determine the entitlement/nonentitlement split 

or eliminate the split completely and allocate the funds to entitlements and nonentitlements with 

a single formula. Entitlement alternatives 2 and 3 and nonentitlement alternative 2 share three 

common variables: poverty, pre-1950 housing occupied by a poverty household, and femaleheaded households with children. The entitlement formula alternatives include the additional 

variable of overcrowding. 

If formula alternative 3 from Chapter 6 is used as a single formula for both entitlements and 

nonentitlements, with no funding split, the formula would look as follows: 

(0.5 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHH (a) + 0.3 AgePov (a) + 0.1 Ocrowd (a) ) * Appropriations 

 Povfam(TOT) FHH (TOT) AgePov (TOT) Ocrowd (TOT) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the jusrisdiction. 

 (TOT) is the value for all grantees, entitlement and nonentitlement. 

 Povfam is the number of family and elderly person in poverty. 

 FHH is the number of female-headed households with children. 

 AgePov is the number of housing units older than 50 years and occupied by a poverty 

household. 

 Ocrowd is the number of overcrowded housing units. 

The adjustment of entitlement alternative 3 is then applied where the per capita income 

Metropolitan Statistical Area/local per capita income (with caps) ratio remains constant at 1.0 for 

states. A pro rata adjustment is applied. The funding split is 69 percent for entitlements and 31 

percent for nonentitlements.46 

 

46 Unlike the alternatives discussed in Chapter 6 that used the FY 2002 universe of grantees, this alternative uses the 

FY 2004 universe of grantees. 
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Chapter 9. Conclusion 

The National Research Council’s Panel on Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula 

(Louis, Jabine, and Gerstein 2003) recommends that policymakers periodically review formula 

allocation programs to assess whether they are performing as intended. For the Community 

Development Block Grant (CDBG) formula, there have been five major assessments of the 

formula since 1974. 

The first assessment was used to develop the formula that has been in place since 1978. 

Subsequent assessments determined that over 30 years, the extent to which the variables used in 

the CDBG formula target toward community development need has declined. Over time, (1) an 

increasing number of jurisdictions with the same need receive substantially different grants, and 

(2) the amount of funds going to the neediest on a per capita basis has decreased, while the 

amount of funds going to the least needy on a per capita basis has increased. The formula, 

however, generally continues to target to need. Among the entitlement communities, on a per 

capita basis, the most needy 10 percent of communities receive four times as much as the least 

needy 10 percent of jurisdictions. 

The entitlement formula’s declining targeting can be attributed to several items: (1) the formula 

factors in Formula B create significant anomalies where similarly needy communities get 

substantially different per capita grant amounts; (2) the formula factors in Formula A result in an 

allocation in which there are few anomalies but the most needy grantees do not receive much 

more on a per capita basis than the least needy grantees; and (3) across the board, a Formula A 

jurisdiction with the same need as a Formula B jurisdiction receives a smaller per capita grant 

amount. 

The lack of targeting to need in the nonentitlement formula can largely be attributed to the 

difficulty of defining need for nonentitled areas. Because of this difficulty, the original 

nonentitlement formula was created as a simplified version of the entitlement allocation. The 

result is a nonentitlement formula that is very flat in its allocation to need because of a very high 

weight on population. In addition, the pre-1940 housing variable in Formula B and the 

overcrowding variable in Formula A appear to create several anomalies in targeting to the states. 

The one exception is Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico’s need is extremely high in nonentitled areas, and 

that need is appropriately targeted in the current formula. 

One advantage of a formula allocation versus other funding methods, as identified by the 

National Research Council (Louis, Jabine, and Gerstein 2003), is that a formula creates “the 

appearance, if not always the reality, of a sound analytic process.” For the CDBG program, 

Chapters 6 and 8 of this report provide such a sound analytic process for creating, effectively, 

four different formula alternatives. The first three alternatives maintain separate formulas for the 

entitlement and nonentitlement program, retaining the current 70/30 split. The fourth alternative 

funds entitlements and nonentitlements under the same single formula. Appendix B provides the 

equations for each alternative. 
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 Alternative 1. The current formula, with several technical adjustments to reduce the 

number of funding anomalies. This alternative combines the entitlement and 

nonentitlement alternative 1 options described in Chapter 6. 

 Alternative 2. A simple formula designed to most effectively target to the needs index. 

This alternative combines the entitlement and nonentitlement alternative 2 options 

provided in Chapter 6. 

 Alternative 3. A simple formula that allocates substantially more funds than alternative 2 

to the most needy jurisdictions, particularly jurisdictions suffering from age and decline, 

and significantly fewer funds to the least needy jurisdictions. This alternative combines 

the entitlement alternative 3 and nonentitlement alternative 2 explained in Chapter 6. 

 Alternative 4. A single formula based on alternative 3 that allocates all the formula funds 

using a single formula to both the entitlement and nonentitlement grantees. Chapter 8 

contains a discussion of this alternative. 

This report concludes that serious consideration should be given to changing the formula to 

improve its targeting to need. Any of the alternatives proposed in this report would accomplish 

this goal. The Department looks forward to working with the Congress, CDBG grantees, and 

other stakeholders to discuss these alternatives. 

Finally, the National Research Council’s first recommendation regarding formula allocation 

programs states “...legislators should consider giving some flexibility to program agencies, 

especially in determining what data sources and procedures should be used to produce estimates 

of the components of allocation formulas” (Louis, Jabine, and Gerstein 2003). Allowing a degree 

of flexibility to HUD to make regulatory adjustments to the CDBG formula, as currently allowed 

under the HOME program, may, in the future, help to avoid the significant swings in funds 

necessary at this time to improve formula targeting.
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Appendix A. Targeting to Individual Measures of Need 

Appendix A shows how well the current formula, the three alternatives for entitlements, and the 

two nonentitlement alternatives target to individual measures of community development need. 

Entitlement Grantees 

Factors 

Table A-1. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.497 0.771 0.922 0.893 

Slope 8.5 10.2 8.7 11.0 

Factor 1

Constant 18.1 17.2 16.6 17.3 

R-square 0.197 0.076 0.000 0.031 

Slope –5.4 –3.2 –0.1 –2.1 

Factor 2

Constant 18.1 17.2 16.6 17.3 

R-square 0.074 0.016 0.002 0.004 

Slope –3.3 –1.5 0.4 –0.8 

Factor 3

Constant 18.1 17.2 16.6 17.3 

N=899 for all regressions 

Income Measures 

Table A-2. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.303 0.617 0.892 0.733 

Slope 89.8 127.1 125.2 139.8 

Persons in family 

or elderly 

households in 

poverty Constant 8.5 3.8 3.4 2.5 

R-square 0.469 0.582 0.620 0.715 

Slope 137.0 151.4 128.1 169.4 

Extremely LowIncome 

Households* Constant –0.1 –2.7 –0.2 –5.1 

R-square 0.183 0.285 0.310 0.428 

Slope 20.2 25.1 21.4 31.0 

MSA per capita 

income/local per 

capita income Constant –3.8 –9.7 –6.4 –16.1 

R-square 0.087 0.228 0.406 0.279 

Slope 28.2 45.3 49.5 50.5 

Concentrated 

poverty

Constant 16.9 15.3 14.5 15.2 

N=1,024 for all regressions 

*Family and elderly households with incomes less than 30% of HUD area median family income
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High Consumers of Support Services 

Table A-3. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.158 0.391 0.615 0.503 

Slope 51.1 79.8 81.9 91.2 

Persons over 25 

without a high 

school education Constant 9.9 4.6 3.6 2.8 

R-square 0.364 0.446 0.410 0.540 

Slope 462.3 507.6 399.0 563.3 

Female-headed 

households with 

children under the 

age of 18 Constant 0.8 –1.6 1.9 –3.6 

N=1,024 for all regressions 

Decent Housing 

Table A-4. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.745 0.715 0.473 0.672 

Slope 324.1 315.0 209.9 308.2 

Pre-1950 housing 

with poverty 

household Constant 7.3 6.9 9.8 7.2 

R-square 0.614 0.690 0.609 0.733 

Slope 240.9 253.3 195.0 263.3 

Pre-1970 housing 

with a poverty 

renter household Constant 6.0 4.7 7.0 4.2 

R-square 0.013 0.103 0.270 0.134 

Slope 19.1 53.9 71.5 62.0 

Overcrowded 

housing

Constant 16.9 13.8 12.1 13.4 

N=1,024 for all regressions 

Crime 

Table A-5. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.160 0.295 0.413 0.397 

Slope 1.1 1.4 1.3 1.6 

Crime*

Constant 12.3 9.8 9.7 8.6 

N=899 for all regressions 

 Number of murders, assaults with weapons, incidents of nonnegligent manslaughter, and robberies per 1,000 persons in 2001. 
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Population Trends 

Table A-6. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.648 0.475 0.164 0.288 

Slope 99.1 84.2 40.1 66.1 

Population loss, 

1960–2000

Constant 14.2 14.1 15.2 14.9 

R-square 0.368 0.283 0.106 0.182 

Slope 249.6 217.3 109.0 175.7 

Population loss, 

1990–2000

Constant 15.3 14.9 15.6 15.5 

N=1,024 for all regressions 

Unemployment 

Table A-7. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 

R-square 0.309 0.539 0.721 0.635 

Slope 206.9 270.9 256.7 296.6 

Unemployment

Constant 4.7 –0.2 0.2 –1.8 

N=1,024 for all regressions 

State Grantees, Excluding Puerto Rico47

Factors 

Table A-8. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.181 0.743 0.705 

Slope 1.6 4.8 4.7 

Factor 1

Constant 12.0 12.3 12.2 

R-square 0.161 0.050 0.226 

Slope 0.9 0.7 1.6 

Factor 2

Constant 11.8 11.7 11.6 

R-square 0.001 0.097 0.215 

Slope .065 1.1 1.7 

Factor 3

Constant 11.8 11.7 11.6 

N=50 for all regressions 

 

47 As noted in Chapters 5 and 6, Puerto Rico’s very high need in nonentitlement areas relative to the other states 

distorts the regression estimates on the overall targeting of the nonentitlement formula. 
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Income Measures 

Table A-9. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.140 0.720 0.832 

Slope 23.1 77.9 84.0 

Persons in family 

or elderly 

households in 

poverty Constant 9.6 4.4 3.7 

R-square 0.166 0.551 0.570 

Slope 52.5 142.0 144.9 

Extremely lowincome 

households* Constant 6.1 –3.6 –4.0 

R-square 0.142 0.332 0.370 

Slope 13.1 29.7 31.5 

Concentrated 

poverty

Constant 11.3 10.5 10.4 

N=50 for all regressions  Family and elderly households with incomes less than 30 percent of HUD area median family income.

High Consumers of Support Services 

Table A-10. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.001 0.254 0.378 

Slope 1.4 32.5 39.8 

Persons age 25 

to 64 without a 

high school 

education Constant 11.6 7.0 5.9 

R-square 0.059 0.256 0.337 

Slope 118.6 367.4 423.2 

Female-headed 

households with 

children under the 

age of 18 Constant 8.7 2.1 0.5 

N=50 for all regressions 

Decent Housing 

Table A-11. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.200 0.061 0.216 

Slope 104.7 86.0 162.2 

Pre-1950 housing 

with poverty 

household Constant 9.0 9.4 7.3 

R-square 0.303 0.321 0.489 

Slope 168.2 257.3 318.6 

Pre-1970 housing 

with a poverty 

renter household Constant 7.2 4.8 3.0 

R-square 0.164 0.408 0.061 

Slope 32.5 76.1 29.5 

Overcrowded 

housing

Constant 10.6 9.0 10.6 

N=50 for all regressions 
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Unemployment 

Table A-12. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.123 0.494 0.284 

Slope 52.5 156.4 119.0 

Unemployment

Constant 8.9 3.3 5.2 

N=50 for all regressions 

Infrastructure 

Table A-13. Place Targeting—Regression Statistics 

Targeting to: Current Alternative 1 Alternative 2 

R-square 0.026 0.097 0.168 

Slope 5.0 14.5 19.1 

Households using 

bottled gas or 

wood as primary 

heating fuel Constant 10.9 9.1 8.2 

N=50 for all regressions 
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Appendix B. Impact of Alternatives on Individual Grantees 

Individual Grants—Formula Targeting 

Appendix B shows the individual grants for the alternative formulas presented in this report. For 

each grantee, this appendix specifies the actual Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 allocation, the allocation 

using the FY 2004 appropriation and grantee universe for each of the suggested four alternative 

grants,48 and the percent change for each alternative when compared to the FY 2004 allocation. 

For simplicity, alternative 1 combines entitlement alternative 1 and nonentitlement alternative 1. 

Similarly, alternative 2 is entitlement alternative 2 and nonentitlement alternative 2. Alternative 3 

is entitlement alternative 3 and nonentitlement alternative 2. Alternative 4 is the single formula 

with no 70/30 funding split between entitlements and nonentitlements described in Chapter 8. 

Chart B-1. FY 2004 Formula and the Four Alternatives 

 

48 The base report is based on the FY 2002 appropriation amount and universe of grantees. These FY 2002 

comparison runs did not subtract Native Americans living in Indian areas from the calculations; the formula runs in 

Appendix B, however, do. 

Entitlement Communities 

Formula A: 

[0.25 Pop (a) + 0.5 Pov (a) + 0.25 Ocrowd (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 Pop (MA) Pov (MA) Ocrowd (MA) 

Formula B for cities: 

[0.2 GLag (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 GLag (MC) Pov (MA) Age (MA) 

Formula B for urban counties: 

[0.2 GLag (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 GLag (ENT) Pov (MA) Age (MA) 

States (Nonentitlements) 

Formula A: 

[0.25 Pop (a) + 0.5 Pov (a) + 0.25 Ocrowd (a)] x $1.299 billion 

 Pop (NEnt) Pov (NEnt) Ocrowd (NEnt) 

Formula B: 

(0.2 Pop (a) + 0.3 Pov (a) + 0.5 Age (a) ) x $1.299 billion

 Pop (NEnt) Pov (NEnt) Age (NEnt) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the 

jurisdiction. 

 (MA) is the value for all 

Metropolitan Areas 

(MAs). 

 (MC) is the value for all 

entitlement cities. 

 (ENT) is the value for all 

entitlement jurisdictions 

(cities and urban 

counties). 

 (NEnt) is the value for all 

nonentitled areas 

nationwide. 

 Pop is the total resident 

population. 

 Pov is the number of 

persons below the 

poverty level 

 Ocrowd is the number of 

overcrowded housing 

units. 

 Age is the number of 

housing units built before 

1940. 

 Glag is the population 

growth lag. 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Chart B-2. Alternative 1 

Chart B-3. Alternative 2 

Entitlement Communities 

Formula A: 

[0.1 Pop (a) + 0.6 Povfam (a) + 0.3 Ocrowd (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 Pop (MA) Povfam (MA) Ocrowd (MA) 

Formula B for cities: 

[0.1 GLagadj (a) + 0.4 Povfam (a) + 0.5 Agepov (a) ] x $3.032 billion

 GLagadj (MC) Povfam (MA) Agepov (MA) 

Formula B for urban counties: 

[(0.1 GLagadj (a) + 0.4 Povfam (a) + 0.5 Agepov (a) ] x $3.032 billion

 GLagadj (ENT) Povfam (MA) Agepov (MA) 

States (Nonentitlements) 

Formula A: 

[(0.1 Pop (a) + 0.65 Povfam (a) + 0.25 Ocrowd (a)] x $1.299 billion 

 Pop (NEnt) Povfam (NEnt) Ocrowd (NEnt) 

Formula B is: 

[0.1 Pop (a) + 0.4 Povfam (a) + 0.5 Agepov (a) ] x $1.299 billion

 Pop (NEnt) Povfam (NEnt) Agepov (NEnt) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the 

jurisdiction. 

 (MA) is the value for all 

MAs. 

 (MC) is the value for all 

entitlement cities. 

 (ENT) is the value for all 

entitlement jurisdictions 

(cities and urban counties).

 (NEnt) is the value for all 

nonentitled areas 

nationwide. 

 Pop is the total resident 

population. 

 Povfam is the number of 

persons in poverty living in 

a family or elderly 

household. 

 Ocrowd is the number of 

overcrowded housing units. 

 Agepov is the number of 

housing units built before 

1950 with a poverty 

household. 

 Glagadj is the population 

growth lag adjusted down 

for communities with high 

per capita income and low 

poverty. 

Entitlement Communities 

[0.5 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHHKIDS (a) + 0.2 Ocrowd (a) + 0.2 Agepov (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 Povfam (ENT) FHHKIDS (ENT) Ocrowd (ENT) Agepov (ENT) 

States (Nonentitlements) 

[0.6 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHHKIDS (a) + 0.3 Agepov (a) ] x $1.299 billion 

 Povfam (NEnt) FHHKIDS (NEnt) Agepov (NEnt) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

 (ENT) is the value for all entitlement jurisdictions (cities and urban counties) 

 (NEnt) is the value for all nonentitled areas nationwide. 

 Povfam is the number of persons in poverty living in a family or elderly household. 

 Ocrowd is the number of overcrowded housing units. 

 Agepov is the number of housing units built before 1950 and occupied by a poverty household. 

 FHHKIDS is the number of female-headed households with children under the age of 18.
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Chart B-3. Alternative 3 

Chart B-4. Alternative 4 

Entitlement Communities 

[0.5 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHHKIDS (a) + 0.1 Ocrowd (a) + 0.3 Agepov (a)] x $3.032 billion 

 Povfam (ENT) FHHKIDS (ENT) Ocrowd (ENT) Agepov (ENT) 

The entitlement calculation is then adjusted by the ratio of per capita income of the MSA over the per capita income 

for the jurisdiction, with caps such that no grant is adjusted upward greater than 25 percent and no grant is adjusted 

downward by more than 25 percent. Pro-rata reduction is used to bring the total grant into line with appropriation. 

States (Nonentitlements) 

[0.6 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHHKIDS (a) + 0.3 Agepov (a) ] x $1.299 billion 

 Povfam (NEnt) FHHKIDS (NEnt) Agepov (NEnt) 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

 (ENT) is the value for all entitlement jurisdictions (cities and urban counties). 

 (NEnt) is the value for all nonentitled areas nationwide. 

 Povfam is the number of persons in poverty living in a family or elderly household. 

 Ocrowd is the number of overcrowded housing units. 

 Agepov is the number of housing units built before 1950 and occupied by a poverty household. 

 FHHKIDS is the number of female-headed households with children under the age of 18.

 Entitlement Communities and States (Nonentitlements) Under a Single Formula

[0.5 Povfam (a) + 0.1 FHHKIDS (a) + 0.1 Ocrowd (a) + 0.3 Agepov (a)] x $4.331 billion 

 Povfam (ALL) FHHKIDS (ALL) Ocrowd (ALL) Agepov (ALL) 

The calculation is then adjusted by the ratio of per capita income (PCI) of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) 

divided by the PCI for the jurisdiction (PCIMSA/PCILocal), with caps such that no grant is adjusted either upward or 

downward by more than 25 percent. All state grants are assigned a PCIMSA/PCILocal ratio of 1. Pro-rata reduction 

is used to bring the total grant into line with appropriation. 

where: 

 (a) is the value for the jurisdiction. 

 (ALL) is the value for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. 

 Povfam is the number of persons in poverty living in a family or elderly household. 

 Ocrowd is the number of overcrowded housing units. 

 Agepov is the number of housing units built before 1950 and occupied by a poverty household. 

 FHHKIDS is the number of female-headed households with children under the age of 18.
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Total Grant Amount/

Per Capita Grant Amount

Alterna

R

Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Alabama Anniston, AL $807,000 $1,004,000 $726,000 $723,000 $702,000 24%  $33.92 $42.20 $30.53 $30.38 $29.52 Auburn, AL $860,000 $381,000 $465,000 $487,000 $473,000 -56%  $18.95 $8.40 $10.25 $10.73 $10.42 Bessemer, AL $850,000 $1,127,000 $1,015,000 $1,313,000 $1,272,000 33%  $28.95 $38.40 $34.56 $44.71 $43.33 Birmingham, AL $8,017,000 $8,525,000 $7,008,000 $8,920,000 $8,669,000 6%  $33.49 $35.61 $29.27 $37.26 $36.21 Decatur, AL $619,000 $668,000 $893,000 $923,000 $898,000 8%  $11.48 $12.39 $16.55 $17.12 $16.65 Dothan, AL $640,000 $718,000 $993,000 $836,000 $810,000 12%  $10.85 $12.17 $16.84 $14.17 $13.73 Florence, AL $514,000 $689,000 $694,000 $670,000 $648,000 34%  $14.35 $19.24 $19.39 $18.69 $18.10 Gadsden, AL $1,415,000 $1,530,000 $1,074,000 $1,233,000 $1,197,000 8%  $37.27 $40.29 $28.29 $32.49 $31.53 Hoover, AL $339,000 $252,000 $240,000 $150,000 $150,000 -26%  $5.28 $3.92 $3.74 $2.34 $2.33 Huntsville, AL $1,559,000 $1,518,000 $1,953,000 $1,689,000 $1,641,000 -3%  $9.59 $9.34 $12.02 $10.39 $10.10 Jefferson County, AL $2,556,000 $2,435,000 $3,279,000 $2,748,000 $2,673,000 -5%  $7.13 $6.79 $9.15 $7.67 $7.46 Mobile, AL $3,433,000 $4,448,000 $4,706,000 $4,416,000 $4,289,000 30%  $17.62 $22.83 $24.15 $22.66 $22.01 Mobile County, AL $2,427,000 $2,786,000 $3,502,000 $3,478,000 $3,371,000 15%  $11.82 $13.57 $17.06 $16.94 $16.42 Montgomery, AL $2,548,000 $2,831,000 $3,976,000 $3,710,000 $3,608,000 11%  $12.65 $14.05 $19.74 $18.42 $17.91 Opelika, AL $308,000 $350,000 $480,000 $434,000 $422,000 14%  $13.05 $14.85 $20.35 $18.38 $17.88 
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Total Grant Amount/

Per Capita Grant Amount

Alterna

R

Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Tuscaloosa, AL $1,114,000 $1,176,000 $1,340,000 $1,271,000 $1,237,000 6%  $14.07 $14.86 $16.93 $16.05 $15.62 Alabama State Program $30,041,000 $34,151,000 $39,787,000 $39,787,000 $40,330,000 14%  $11.24 $12.78 $14.89 $14.89 $15.09 TOTAL $58,047,000 $64,588,000 $72,132,000 $72,788,000 $72,389,000 11%  $12.94 $14.40 $16.08 $16.22 $16.14 AlaskaAnchorage, AK $2,285,000 $2,157,000 $2,302,000 $1,802,000 $1,795,000 -6%  $8.49 $8.02 $8.56 $6.70 $6.67 Fairbanks, AK $305,000 $289,000 $361,000 $353,000 $349,000 -5%  $9.91 $9.39 $11.74 $11.46 $11.33 Alaska State Program $2,954,000 $2,867,000 $1,773,000 $1,773,000 $2,113,000 -3%  $10.59 $10.28 $6.36 $6.36 $7.58 TOTAL $5,544,000 $5,314,000 $4,437,000 $3,928,000 $4,257,000 -4%  $9.58 $9.18 $7.67 $6.79 $7.36 ArizonaChandler, AZ $1,610,000 $1,577,000 $1,577,000 $1,144,000 $1,142,000 -2%  $7.97 $7.81 $7.81 $5.66 $5.65 Flagstaff, AZ $742,000 $639,000 $718,000 $562,000 $555,000 -14%  $13.45 $11.59 $13.02 $10.18 $10.05 Gilbert, AZ $673,000 $547,000 $513,000 $373,000 $371,000 -19%  $4.99 $4.05 $3.80 $2.76 $2.75 Glendale, AZ $2,668,000 $2,883,000 $3,040,000 $2,850,000 $2,816,000 8%  $11.57 $12.50 $13.18 $12.36 $12.21 Maricopa County, AZ $3,306,000 $3,446,000 $3,404,000 $2,905,000 $2,847,000 4%  $8.52 $8.89 $8.78 $7.49 $7.34 Mesa, AZ $4,119,000 $4,215,000 $4,313,000 $3,874,000 $3,848,000 2%  $9.65 $9.88 $10.10 $9.08 $9.02 Peoria City, AZ $765,000 $689,000 $691,000 $499,000 $493,000 -10%  $6.21 $5.59 $5.61 $4.05 $4.00 
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Total Grant Amount/

Per Capita Grant Amount

Alterna

R

Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Phoenix, AZ $20,323,000 $23,050,000 $24,971,000 $22,934,000 $22,662,000 13%  $14.81 $16.80 $18.20 $16.72 $16.52 Pima County, AZ $3,033,000 $3,024,000 $3,128,000 $2,105,000 $2,063,000 0%  $8.28 $8.25 $8.54 $5.75 $5.63 Scottsdale, AZ $1,389,000 $1,132,000 $1,124,000 $705,000 $695,000 -18%  $6.44 $5.25 $5.21 $3.27 $3.22 Tempe, AZ $1,933,000 $1,549,000 $1,614,000 $1,290,000 $1,279,000 -20%  $12.12 $9.71 $10.12 $8.09 $8.02 Tucson, AZ $7,456,000 $7,736,000 $9,135,000 $9,744,000 $9,580,000 4%  $14.82 $15.38 $18.16 $19.36 $19.04 Yuma, AZ $1,117,000 $1,290,000 $1,406,000 $1,038,000 $1,025,000 15%  $13.90 $16.05 $17.50 $12.91 $12.76 Arizona State Program $14,406,000 $15,520,000 $12,159,000 $12,159,000 $13,328,000 8%  $13.92 $15.00 $11.75 $11.75 $12.88 TOTAL $63,540,000 $67,298,000 $67,794,000 $62,182,000 $62,703,000 6%  $12.01 $12.72 $12.81 $11.75 $11.85 ArkansasBentonville, AR $204,000 $208,000 $253,000 $197,000 $193,000 2%  $8.47 $8.63 $10.51 $8.17 $8.01 Conway, AR $490,000 $388,000 $471,000 $473,000 $460,000 -21%  $10.67 $8.45 $10.26 $10.30 $10.02 Fayetteville, AR $761,000 $578,000 $737,000 $681,000 $665,000 -24%  $12.53 $9.53 $12.14 $11.22 $10.95 Fort Smith, AR $1,007,000 $1,128,000 $1,483,000 $1,208,000 $1,180,000 12%  $12.35 $13.84 $18.19 $14.82 $14.48 Hot Springs, AR $499,000 $771,000 $784,000 $846,000 $823,000 54%  $13.73 $21.20 $21.56 $23.28 $22.63 Jacksonville, AR $332,000 $361,000 $430,000 $473,000 $460,000 9%  $10.93 $11.88 $14.15 $15.58 $15.14 Jonesboro, AR $662,000 $640,000 $800,000 $684,000 $662,000 -3%  $11.64 $11.25 $14.07 $12.03 $11.63 
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Total Grant Amount/

Per Capita Grant Amount

Alterna

R

Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Little Rock, AR $2,023,000 $2,062,000 $2,927,000 $2,458,000 $2,397,000 2%  $10.99 $11.20 $15.90 $13.36 $13.02 North Little Rock, AR $890,000 $1,045,000 $1,150,000 $1,138,000 $1,108,000 17%  $14.83 $17.41 $19.16 $18.97 $18.46 Pine Bluff, AR $894,000 $1,124,000 $1,458,000 $1,429,000 $1,385,000 26%  $16.50 $20.74 $26.91 $26.38 $25.57 Rogers, AR $480,000 $535,000 $579,000 $445,000 $437,000 11%  $11.55 $12.88 $13.94 $10.72 $10.53 Springdale, AR $595,000 $666,000 $712,000 $633,000 $624,000 12%  $11.68 $13.07 $13.97 $12.42 $12.25 Texarkana, AR $383,000 $484,000 $636,000 $631,000 $610,000 26%  $13.55 $17.11 $22.50 $22.31 $21.57 West Memphis, AR $512,000 $639,000 $829,000 $980,000 $947,000 25%  $18.27 $22.79 $29.58 $34.95 $33.77 Arkansas State Program $22,524,000 $25,545,000 $28,268,000 $28,268,000 $28,959,000 13%  $11.69 $13.26 $14.67 $14.67 $15.03 TOTAL $32,256,000 $36,173,000 $41,517,000 $40,545,000 $40,910,000 12%  $11.90 $13.35 $15.32 $14.96 $15.10 CaliforniaAlameda, CA $1,561,000 $824,000 $1,026,000 $828,000 $830,000 -47%  $21.40 $11.30 $14.07 $11.35 $11.38 Alameda County, CA $2,380,000 $2,372,000 $2,576,000 $2,079,000 $2,099,000 0%  $9.52 $9.48 $10.30 $8.31 $8.39 Alhambra, CA $1,677,000 $1,941,000 $2,162,000 $2,094,000 $2,115,000 16%  $19.13 $22.15 $24.66 $23.89 $24.12 Anaheim, CA $6,035,000 $7,165,000 $7,032,000 $6,551,000 $6,611,000 19%  $18.14 $21.54 $21.14 $19.70 $19.87 Antioch, CA $887,000 $927,000 $1,033,000 $1,105,000 $1,091,000 5%  $8.88 $9.29 $10.34 $11.06 $10.92 Apple Valley, CA $747,000 $862,000 $957,000 $831,000 $806,000 15%  $12.90 $14.89 $16.52 $14.34 $13.92 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-8 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Bakersfield, CA $3,933,000 $4,575,000 $5,278,000 $4,101,000 $4,026,000 16%  $15.07 $17.53 $20.23 $15.72 $15.43 Baldwin Park, CA $1,784,000 $2,214,000 $2,218,000 $2,098,000 $2,115,000 24%  $22.92 $28.45 $28.50 $26.96 $27.18 Bellflower, CA $1,441,000 $1,716,000 $1,823,000 $1,781,000 $1,791,000 19%  $19.34 $23.03 $24.47 $23.89 $24.03 Berkeley, CA $3,881,000 $2,421,000 $1,936,000 $1,957,000 $1,939,000 -38%  $37.45 $23.36 $18.68 $18.88 $18.71 Buena Park, CA $1,229,000 $1,404,000 $1,384,000 $1,280,000 $1,297,000 14%  $15.55 $17.77 $17.51 $16.20 $16.41 Burbank, CA $1,416,000 $1,539,000 $1,750,000 $1,170,000 $1,177,000 9%  $13.76 $14.95 $17.01 $11.37 $11.44 Camarillo, CA $430,000 $401,000 $381,000 $258,000 $257,000 -7%  $7.23 $6.74 $6.41 $4.34 $4.33 Carlsbad, CA $601,000 $528,000 $554,000 $349,000 $347,000 -12%  $6.94 $6.10 $6.40 $4.03 $4.00 Carson, CA $1,333,000 $1,495,000 $1,460,000 $1,293,000 $1,319,000 12%  $14.34 $16.09 $15.71 $13.91 $14.19 Cerritos, CA $471,000 $479,000 $424,000 $245,000 $250,000 2%  $8.95 $9.10 $8.06 $4.65 $4.75 Chico, CA $1,039,000 $758,000 $952,000 $960,000 $942,000 -27%  $15.77 $11.50 $14.44 $14.56 $14.29 Chino, CA $733,000 $798,000 $778,000 $599,000 $603,000 9%  $10.48 $11.40 $11.13 $8.56 $8.62 Chino Hills, CA $516,000 $496,000 $462,000 $271,000 $271,000 -4%  $7.14 $6.86 $6.39 $3.75 $3.74 Chula Vista, CA $2,379,000 $2,659,000 $2,753,000 $2,669,000 $2,674,000 12%  $12.27 $13.71 $14.20 $13.76 $13.79 Citrus Heights, CA $798,000 $789,000 $837,000 $736,000 $729,000 -1%  $9.01 $8.91 $9.45 $8.31 $8.24 Compton, CA $2,502,000 $3,208,000 $3,618,000 $3,825,000 $3,782,000 28%  $26.18 $33.57 $37.86 $40.02 $39.58 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-9 

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Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Concord, CA $1,260,000 $1,293,000 $1,348,000 $1,215,000 $1,221,000 3%  $10.06 $10.32 $10.77 $9.70 $9.75 Contra Costa County, CA $4,144,000 $3,962,000 $4,270,000 $2,845,000 $2,834,000 -4%  $7.69 $7.35 $7.92 $5.28 $5.26 Corona, CA $1,437,000 $1,557,000 $1,574,000 $1,042,000 $1,045,000 8%  $10.39 $11.26 $11.38 $7.53 $7.55 Costa Mesa, CA $1,655,000 $1,776,000 $1,729,000 $1,428,000 $1,441,000 7%  $15.03 $16.12 $15.70 $12.97 $13.09 Cupertino City, CA $459,000 $465,000 $421,000 $224,000 $230,000 1%  $9.18 $9.29 $8.42 $4.48 $4.59 Daly City, CA $1,511,000 $1,635,000 $1,549,000 $1,332,000 $1,387,000 8%  $14.83 $16.05 $15.20 $13.08 $13.62 Davis, CA $988,000 $423,000 $476,000 $399,000 $400,000 -57%  $15.38 $6.59 $7.42 $6.22 $6.23 Downey, CA $1,810,000 $2,126,000 $2,199,000 $1,898,000 $1,926,000 17%  $16.48 $19.36 $20.02 $17.28 $17.54 El Cajon, CA $1,526,000 $1,752,000 $1,925,000 $1,976,000 $1,955,000 15%  $15.97 $18.33 $20.14 $20.68 $20.46 El Centro, CA $808,000 $1,021,000 $1,119,000 $887,000 $876,000 26%  $21.44 $27.10 $29.69 $23.54 $23.24 El Monte, CA $3,266,000 $4,140,000 $4,360,000 $4,356,000 $4,342,000 27%  $27.24 $34.52 $36.36 $36.32 $36.21 Elk Grove, CA $442,000 $391,000 $395,000 $292,000 $291,000 -11%  $5.88 $5.21 $5.25 $3.89 $3.87 Encinitas, CA $491,000 $437,000 $447,000 $276,000 $274,000 -11%  $8.21 $7.31 $7.48 $4.62 $4.59 Escondido, CA $2,105,000 $2,421,000 $2,459,000 $2,385,000 $2,387,000 15%  $15.49 $17.82 $18.09 $17.55 $17.56 Fairfield, CA $1,000,000 $1,056,000 $1,140,000 $993,000 $985,000 6%  $9.81 $10.36 $11.18 $9.74 $9.66 Fontana, CA $2,246,000 $2,674,000 $2,688,000 $2,593,000 $2,591,000 19%  $15.64 $18.62 $18.72 $18.06 $18.05 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-10 

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Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Fountain Valley, CA $432,000 $427,000 $388,000 $278,000 $282,000 -1%  $7.78 $7.69 $6.98 $5.00 $5.07 Fremont, CA $2,041,000 $2,098,000 $1,914,000 $1,213,000 $1,245,000 3%  $9.87 $10.14 $9.25 $5.86 $6.02 Fresno, CA $9,186,000 $11,218,000 $13,124,000 $11,919,000 $11,680,000 22%  $20.63 $25.20 $29.48 $26.77 $26.23 Fresno County, CA $5,818,000 $6,929,000 $7,592,000 $6,012,000 $5,923,000 19%  $16.17 $19.26 $21.10 $16.71 $16.46 Fullerton, CA $1,831,000 $1,966,000 $1,953,000 $1,636,000 $1,652,000 7%  $14.21 $15.26 $15.16 $12.70 $12.82 Garden Grove, CA $3,160,000 $3,757,000 $3,631,000 $3,337,000 $3,380,000 19%  $18.87 $22.44 $21.69 $19.93 $20.19 Gardena, CA $1,118,000 $1,306,000 $1,386,000 $1,303,000 $1,311,000 17%  $18.74 $21.90 $23.24 $21.84 $21.97 Gilroy City, CA $583,000 $674,000 $689,000 $663,000 $667,000 16%  $13.51 $15.62 $15.97 $15.36 $15.45 Glendale, CA $3,978,000 $4,726,000 $5,119,000 $3,839,000 $3,866,000 19%  $19.95 $23.70 $25.67 $19.25 $19.39 Glendora City, CA $414,000 $408,000 $428,000 $277,000 $277,000 -2%  $8.19 $8.06 $8.47 $5.48 $5.48 Goleta, CA $326,000 $298,000 $284,000 $185,000 $190,000 -9%  $11.39 $10.42 $9.92 $6.47 $6.62 Hanford, CA $644,000 $761,000 $879,000 $693,000 $680,000 18%  $14.52 $17.17 $19.82 $15.63 $15.34 Hawthorne, CA $2,076,000 $2,495,000 $2,685,000 $2,603,000 $2,622,000 20%  $24.16 $29.03 $31.25 $30.29 $30.52 Hayward, CA $2,087,000 $2,304,000 $2,322,000 $2,168,000 $2,206,000 10%  $14.62 $16.14 $16.27 $15.19 $15.46 Hemet, CA $837,000 $948,000 $1,045,000 $980,000 $959,000 13%  $13.21 $14.96 $16.48 $15.46 $15.14 Hesperia, CA $851,000 $973,000 $1,004,000 $942,000 $925,000 14%  $12.70 $14.52 $14.98 $14.05 $13.81 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-11 

Total Grant Amount/

Per Capita Grant Amount

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R

Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Huntington Beach, CA $1,684,000 $1,633,000 $1,616,000 $1,021,000 $1,023,000 -3%  $8.69 $8.42 $8.34 $5.27 $5.28 Huntington Park, CA $1,935,000 $2,471,000 $2,654,000 $2,636,000 $2,650,000 28%  $30.73 $39.23 $42.14 $41.86 $42.08 Inglewood, CA $2,709,000 $3,311,000 $3,859,000 $4,038,000 $4,025,000 22%  $23.56 $28.80 $33.57 $35.13 $35.01 Irvine, CA $1,521,000 $1,270,000 $1,203,000 $719,000 $728,000 -16%  $9.38 $7.83 $7.42 $4.43 $4.49 Kern County, CA $6,351,000 $7,693,000 $8,863,000 $8,209,000 $8,049,000 21%  $17.66 $21.39 $24.65 $22.83 $22.38 La Habra, CA $984,000 $1,149,000 $1,185,000 $1,151,000 $1,158,000 17%  $16.40 $19.15 $19.76 $19.19 $19.30 La Mesa, CA $539,000 $487,000 $569,000 $501,000 $498,000 -10%  $9.81 $8.86 $10.36 $9.12 $9.06 Laguna Niguel, CA $412,000 $360,000 $345,000 $200,000 $201,000 -13%  $6.53 $5.71 $5.48 $3.17 $3.19 Lake Forest, CA $594,000 $572,000 $530,000 $334,000 $339,000 -4%  $7.72 $7.43 $6.89 $4.33 $4.40 Lakewood, CA $886,000 $964,000 $1,006,000 $744,000 $750,000 9%  $10.93 $11.89 $12.41 $9.18 $9.25 Lancaster, CA $1,629,000 $1,875,000 $2,136,000 $2,244,000 $2,197,000 15%  $13.07 $15.05 $17.14 $18.01 $17.63 Livermore, CA $556,000 $538,000 $573,000 $434,000 $432,000 -3%  $7.26 $7.03 $7.48 $5.67 $5.64 Lompoc, CA $618,000 $715,000 $781,000 $805,000 $798,000 16%  $14.93 $17.27 $18.86 $19.45 $19.29 Long Beach, CA $10,522,000 $12,540,000 $15,137,000 $14,312,000 $14,213,000 19%  $22.27 $26.54 $32.04 $30.29 $30.09 Los Angeles, CA $86,758,000 $102,678,000 $120,194,000 $102,860,000 $102,553,000 18%  $22.84 $27.03 $31.64 $27.08 $26.99 Los Angeles County, CA $36,270,000 $42,505,000 $46,030,000 $33,764,000 $33,711,000 17%  $15.89 $18.63 $20.17 $14.79 $14.77 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-12 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Lynwood, CA $1,908,000 $2,406,000 $2,509,000 $2,460,000 $2,467,000 26%  $26.73 $33.70 $35.15 $34.46 $34.56 Madera, CA $1,150,000 $1,472,000 $1,629,000 $1,750,000 $1,712,000 28%  $24.88 $31.85 $35.26 $37.86 $37.04 Marin County, CA $1,960,000 $1,724,000 $2,053,000 $1,488,000 $1,482,000 -12%  $7.92 $6.96 $8.29 $6.01 $5.98 Marysville, CA $184,000 $203,000 $273,000 $270,000 $264,000 10%  $14.70 $16.22 $21.83 $21.53 $21.09 Merced, CA $1,499,000 $1,852,000 $2,156,000 $2,043,000 $2,006,000 24%  $21.97 $27.15 $31.60 $29.95 $29.40 Milpitas City, CA $711,000 $759,000 $669,000 $507,000 $530,000 7%  $11.16 $11.92 $10.50 $7.96 $8.32 Mission Viejo, CA $611,000 $539,000 $504,000 $301,000 $303,000 -12%  $6.34 $5.60 $5.23 $3.12 $3.14 Modesto, CA $2,854,000 $3,267,000 $3,695,000 $3,013,000 $2,969,000 14%  $14.02 $16.05 $18.15 $14.80 $14.58 Montebello, CA $1,276,000 $1,551,000 $1,702,000 $1,721,000 $1,724,000 22%  $20.06 $24.39 $26.76 $27.06 $27.11 Monterey, CA $277,000 $225,000 $261,000 $171,000 $171,000 -19%  $9.34 $7.58 $8.81 $5.75 $5.76 Monterey Park, CA $1,178,000 $1,400,000 $1,488,000 $1,393,000 $1,399,000 19%  $19.05 $22.64 $24.07 $22.54 $22.63 Moreno Valley, CA $2,082,000 $2,454,000 $2,569,000 $2,462,000 $2,431,000 18%  $13.81 $16.28 $17.04 $16.33 $16.13 Mountain View, CA $834,000 $827,000 $757,000 $425,000 $440,000 -1%  $11.91 $11.81 $10.80 $6.07 $6.29 Napa City, CA $834,000 $884,000 $946,000 $861,000 $862,000 6%  $11.12 $11.78 $12.61 $11.48 $11.49 National City, CA $1,324,000 $1,644,000 $1,806,000 $1,831,000 $1,833,000 24%  $23.84 $29.61 $32.51 $32.97 $33.00 Newport Beach, CA $437,000 $289,000 $293,000 $195,000 $194,000 -34%  $5.60 $3.69 $3.75 $2.49 $2.48 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-13 

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Jurisdiction

Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Norwalk, CA $1,875,000 $2,228,000 $2,216,000 $2,061,000 $2,095,000 19%  $17.67 $21.00 $20.89 $19.42 $19.75 Oakland, CA $9,961,000 $10,153,000 $11,838,000 $13,779,000 $13,653,000 2%  $24.73 $25.21 $29.39 $34.21 $33.90 Oceanside, CA $2,199,000 $2,454,000 $2,520,000 $2,246,000 $2,243,000 12%  $13.26 $14.80 $15.19 $13.54 $13.52 Ontario, CA $2,927,000 $3,496,000 $3,610,000 $3,521,000 $3,526,000 19%  $17.73 $21.18 $21.87 $21.33 $21.36 Orange, CA $1,607,000 $1,794,000 $1,795,000 $1,483,000 $1,485,000 12%  $12.21 $13.63 $13.64 $11.27 $11.29 Orange County, CA $5,106,000 $5,182,000 $5,100,000 $3,237,000 $3,245,000 1%  $9.04 $9.17 $9.03 $5.73 $5.74 Oxnard, CA $3,306,000 $3,942,000 $3,869,000 $3,631,000 $3,659,000 19%  $18.57 $22.15 $21.74 $20.40 $20.56 Palm Desert, CA $415,000 $402,000 $411,000 $251,000 $249,000 -3%  $9.36 $9.07 $9.26 $5.67 $5.62 Palm Springs, CA $606,000 $632,000 $695,000 $444,000 $439,000 4%  $13.61 $14.19 $15.60 $9.98 $9.85 Palmdale, CA $1,783,000 $2,106,000 $2,223,000 $2,264,000 $2,229,000 18%  $14.34 $16.94 $17.87 $18.20 $17.93 Palo Alto, CA $816,000 $368,000 $412,000 $271,000 $271,000 -55%  $14.18 $6.39 $7.16 $4.70 $4.70 Paradise, CA $272,000 $272,000 $337,000 $284,000 $277,000 0%  $10.17 $10.17 $12.58 $10.62 $10.35 Paramount City, CA $1,464,000 $1,850,000 $1,913,000 $1,846,000 $1,853,000 26%  $25.92 $32.75 $33.86 $32.67 $32.80 Pasadena, CA $2,694,000 $2,529,000 $3,180,000 $2,151,000 $2,142,000 -6%  $19.28 $18.10 $22.76 $15.40 $15.33 Petaluma, CA $426,000 $403,000 $450,000 $369,000 $367,000 -5%  $7.71 $7.30 $8.15 $6.69 $6.64 Pico Rivera, CA $1,105,000 $1,329,000 $1,371,000 $1,332,000 $1,343,000 20%  $17.04 $20.49 $21.14 $20.54 $20.71 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-14 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Pittsburg, CA $783,000 $873,000 $938,000 $950,000 $949,000 12%  $12.94 $14.43 $15.49 $15.70 $15.67 Pleasanton City, CA $341,000 $273,000 $255,000 $152,000 $153,000 -20%  $5.15 $4.13 $3.85 $2.30 $2.31 Pomona, CA $3,436,000 $4,201,000 $4,465,000 $4,495,000 $4,483,000 22%  $22.38 $27.36 $29.08 $29.27 $29.19 Porterville, CA $851,000 $1,044,000 $1,227,000 $1,183,000 $1,161,000 23%  $20.60 $25.27 $29.70 $28.64 $28.11 Rancho Cucamonga, CA $1,180,000 $1,144,000 $1,169,000 $698,000 $696,000 -3%  $8.21 $7.96 $8.13 $4.86 $4.85 Redding, CA $1,006,000 $1,042,000 $1,289,000 $1,150,000 $1,122,000 4%  $11.74 $12.16 $15.04 $13.43 $13.10 Redlands, CA $687,000 $705,000 $840,000 $553,000 $547,000 3%  $10.29 $10.56 $12.59 $8.29 $8.20 Redondo Beach, CA $499,000 $420,000 $497,000 $331,000 $331,000 -16%  $7.58 $6.38 $7.55 $5.03 $5.03 Redwood City, CA $885,000 $933,000 $928,000 $726,000 $748,000 5%  $11.89 $12.53 $12.46 $9.75 $10.05 Rialto, CA $1,608,000 $1,950,000 $2,051,000 $2,064,000 $2,041,000 21%  $16.64 $20.19 $21.23 $21.36 $21.13 Richmond, CA $1,657,000 $1,919,000 $2,377,000 $2,634,000 $2,612,000 16%  $16.16 $18.72 $23.18 $25.69 $25.47 Riverside, CA $4,040,000 $4,382,000 $4,868,000 $4,035,000 $4,007,000 8%  $14.73 $15.98 $17.75 $14.71 $14.61 Riverside County, CA $12,028,000 $13,705,000 $14,257,000 $11,748,000 $11,598,000 14%  $12.96 $14.77 $15.37 $12.66 $12.50 Rosemead, CA $1,384,000 $1,732,000 $1,866,000 $1,897,000 $1,895,000 25%  $25.18 $31.52 $33.96 $34.52 $34.49 Roseville, CA $587,000 $513,000 $555,000 $389,000 $388,000 -13%  $6.40 $5.59 $6.04 $4.24 $4.23 Sacramento, CA $6,974,000 $7,862,000 $9,731,000 $10,484,000 $10,302,000 13%  $16.02 $18.06 $22.36 $24.09 $23.67 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-15 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Sacramento County, CA $7,971,000 $8,404,000 $9,245,000 $7,765,000 $7,654,000 5%  $11.29 $11.90 $13.09 $11.00 $10.84 Salinas, CA $3,004,000 $3,600,000 $3,600,000 $3,407,000 $3,431,000 20%  $20.20 $24.20 $24.20 $22.90 $23.07 San Bernardino, CA $4,274,000 $5,264,000 $6,150,000 $6,694,000 $6,575,000 23%  $22.30 $27.47 $32.10 $34.93 $34.31 San Bernardino County, CA $8,897,000 $10,312,000 $11,367,000 $10,682,000 $10,518,000 16%  $14.85 $17.21 $18.97 $17.83 $17.55 San Buenaventura, CA $1,062,000 $1,082,000 $1,241,000 $1,039,000 $1,034,000 2%  $10.25 $10.44 $11.97 $10.02 $9.98 San Diego, CA $18,260,000 $19,394,000 $21,544,000 $17,519,000 $17,435,000 6%  $14.50 $15.40 $17.10 $13.91 $13.84 San Diego County, CA $5,712,000 $5,903,000 $6,187,000 $4,596,000 $4,565,000 3%  $9.70 $10.03 $10.51 $7.81 $7.75 San Francisco, CA $25,256,000 $15,602,000 $15,507,000 $15,658,000 $15,699,000 -38%  $33.06 $20.42 $20.30 $20.49 $20.55 San Joaquin County, CA $4,246,000 $4,698,000 $5,306,000 $4,241,000 $4,189,000 11%  $12.08 $13.37 $15.10 $12.07 $11.92 San Jose, CA $12,146,000 $13,352,000 $13,086,000 $11,771,000 $11,981,000 10%  $13.49 $14.83 $14.53 $13.07 $13.31 San Leandro, CA $895,000 $920,000 $1,027,000 $979,000 $997,000 3%  $11.10 $11.41 $12.74 $12.15 $12.36 San Luis Obispo County, CA $2,526,000 $2,093,000 $2,445,000 $2,217,000 $2,191,000 -17%  $10.78 $8.93 $10.44 $9.47 $9.35 San Marcos City, CA $811,000 $909,000 $867,000 $806,000 $806,000 12%  $13.05 $14.64 $13.95 $12.97 $12.98 San Mateo, CA $963,000 $968,000 $999,000 $788,000 $803,000 1%  $10.47 $10.53 $10.87 $8.57 $8.73 San Mateo County, CA $3,460,000 $3,436,000 $3,490,000 $2,361,000 $2,396,000 -1%  $9.23 $9.16 $9.31 $6.30 $6.39 Santa Ana, CA $8,363,000 $10,412,000 $10,223,000 $9,571,000 $9,646,000 24%  $24.35 $30.32 $29.77 $27.87 $28.09 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-16 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Santa Barbara, CA $1,319,000 $1,317,000 $1,547,000 $1,163,000 $1,164,000 0%  $14.76 $14.74 $17.31 $13.01 $13.02 Santa Clara, CA $1,298,000 $1,289,000 $1,227,000 $892,000 $921,000 -1%  $12.74 $12.65 $12.05 $8.76 $9.04 Santa Clara County, CA $2,143,000 $2,011,000 $2,029,000 $1,227,000 $1,232,000 -6%  $8.02 $7.53 $7.60 $4.59 $4.61 Santa Clarita, CA $1,361,000 $1,366,000 $1,344,000 $807,000 $808,000 0%  $8.48 $8.51 $8.37 $5.03 $5.03 Santa Cruz, CA $737,000 $613,000 $770,000 $747,000 $744,000 -17%  $13.69 $11.38 $14.31 $13.88 $13.82 Santa Maria, CA $1,529,000 $1,870,000 $1,952,000 $1,974,000 $1,956,000 22%  $19.11 $23.37 $24.40 $24.67 $24.45 Santa Monica, CA $1,635,000 $892,000 $1,062,000 $763,000 $761,000 -45%  $18.84 $10.28 $12.24 $8.79 $8.77 Santa Rosa, CA $1,532,000 $1,498,000 $1,633,000 $1,410,000 $1,410,000 -2%  $9.98 $9.76 $10.64 $9.19 $9.19 Santee, CA $388,000 $360,000 $391,000 $342,000 $341,000 -7%  $7.29 $6.77 $7.34 $6.43 $6.41 Seaside, CA $492,000 $563,000 $563,000 $540,000 $543,000 14%  $15.22 $17.40 $17.41 $16.71 $16.81 Simi Valley, CA $878,000 $853,000 $841,000 $620,000 $616,000 -3%  $7.53 $7.32 $7.21 $5.32 $5.29 Sonoma County, CA $2,435,000 $2,271,000 $2,619,000 $2,233,000 $2,224,000 -7%  $9.38 $8.75 $10.09 $8.60 $8.57 South Gate, CA $2,552,000 $3,211,000 $3,396,000 $3,322,000 $3,353,000 26%  $25.83 $32.51 $34.37 $33.62 $33.94 South San Francisco, CA $728,000 $784,000 $732,000 $625,000 $651,000 8%  $12.14 $13.07 $12.20 $10.43 $10.85 Stanislaus County, CA $2,288,000 $2,705,000 $3,063,000 $2,656,000 $2,619,000 18%  $16.02 $18.94 $21.45 $18.60 $18.34 Stockton, CA $5,022,000 $6,100,000 $7,076,000 $6,962,000 $6,840,000 21%  $19.11 $23.21 $26.92 $26.49 $26.02 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-17 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Sunnyvale, CA $1,504,000 $1,551,000 $1,412,000 $849,000 $885,000 3%  $11.60 $11.96 $10.89 $6.55 $6.82 Thousand Oaks, CA $831,000 $770,000 $733,000 $436,000 $434,000 -7%  $6.77 $6.27 $5.97 $3.55 $3.54 Torrance, CA $1,436,000 $1,458,000 $1,474,000 $846,000 $860,000 2%  $10.14 $10.30 $10.41 $5.98 $6.07 Tulare, CA $819,000 $1,013,000 $1,127,000 $986,000 $969,000 24%  $17.81 $22.04 $24.51 $21.45 $21.07 Turlock, CA $890,000 $976,000 $1,081,000 $914,000 $906,000 10%  $14.44 $15.84 $17.54 $14.83 $14.69 Tustin, CA $977,000 $1,085,000 $1,027,000 $711,000 $731,000 11%  $14.23 $15.80 $14.96 $10.36 $10.65 Union City, CA $785,000 $855,000 $788,000 $687,000 $703,000 9%  $11.23 $12.24 $11.27 $9.83 $10.06 Upland, CA $855,000 $927,000 $1,042,000 $667,000 $660,000 8%  $12.05 $13.06 $14.67 $9.40 $9.30 Vacaville, CA $686,000 $655,000 $674,000 $546,000 $545,000 -5%  $7.33 $7.00 $7.20 $5.84 $5.83 Vallejo, CA $1,438,000 $1,537,000 $1,863,000 $1,726,000 $1,724,000 7%  $12.00 $12.83 $15.56 $14.41 $14.39 Ventura County, CA $2,450,000 $2,714,000 $2,871,000 $2,350,000 $2,351,000 11%  $12.03 $13.33 $14.10 $11.54 $11.55 Victorville, CA $1,032,000 $1,225,000 $1,382,000 $1,460,000 $1,428,000 19%  $14.57 $17.29 $19.51 $20.62 $20.16 Visalia, CA $1,413,000 $1,659,000 $1,852,000 $1,202,000 $1,181,000 17%  $14.58 $17.13 $19.11 $12.40 $12.19 Vista, CA $1,443,000 $1,663,000 $1,700,000 $1,655,000 $1,653,000 15%  $15.76 $18.16 $18.57 $18.07 $18.05 Walnut Creek, CA $396,000 $315,000 $306,000 $185,000 $186,000 -20%  $6.06 $4.82 $4.68 $2.83 $2.85 Watsonville, CA $1,031,000 $1,264,000 $1,358,000 $1,365,000 $1,366,000 23%  $22.10 $27.09 $29.11 $29.26 $29.29 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-18 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

West Covina, CA $1,450,000 $1,616,000 $1,556,000 $1,211,000 $1,232,000 11%  $13.46 $15.00 $14.45 $11.25 $11.44 Westminster, CA $1,512,000 $1,787,000 $1,735,000 $1,631,000 $1,640,000 18%  $16.89 $19.97 $19.39 $18.22 $18.32 Whittier, CA $1,149,000 $1,293,000 $1,418,000 $1,110,000 $1,115,000 13%  $13.45 $15.14 $16.59 $12.99 $13.05 Woodland, CA $701,000 $776,000 $828,000 $825,000 $825,000 11%  $13.79 $15.25 $16.29 $16.22 $16.23 Yorba Linda, CA $325,000 $279,000 $250,000 $150,000 $149,000 -14%  $5.32 $4.56 $4.09 $2.45 $2.44 Yuba City, CA $635,000 $721,000 $833,000 $728,000 $718,000 14%  $13.45 $15.27 $17.63 $15.43 $15.21 California State Program $49,911,000 $53,918,000 $39,579,000 $39,579,000 $45,382,000 8%  $15.53 $16.77 $12.31 $12.31 $14.12 TOTAL $553,750,000 $606,191,000 $642,593,000 $564,983,000 $569,091,000 9%  $15.78 $17.27 $18.31 $16.10 $16.21 ColoradoAdams County, CO $1,988,000 $1,949,000 $2,038,000 $1,597,000 $1,585,000 -2%  $8.11 $7.96 $8.32 $6.52 $6.47 Arapahoe County, CO $1,221,000 $1,086,000 $1,214,000 $882,000 $877,000 -11%  $7.59 $6.75 $7.55 $5.48 $5.45 Arvada, CO $618,000 $529,000 $585,000 $552,000 $540,000 -14%  $6.05 $5.17 $5.73 $5.40 $5.29 Aurora, CO $2,951,000 $3,104,000 $3,357,000 $3,370,000 $3,359,000 5%  $10.32 $10.85 $11.74 $11.78 $11.74 Boulder, CO $1,141,000 $633,000 $804,000 $807,000 $799,000 -45%  $12.12 $6.72 $8.53 $8.57 $8.48 Centennial, CO $380,000 $248,000 $223,000 $153,000 $150,000 -35%  $3.82 $2.50 $2.24 $1.53 $1.51 Colorado Springs, CO $3,101,000 $2,886,000 $3,599,000 $3,248,000 $3,192,000 -7%  $8.35 $7.77 $9.69 $8.75 $8.60 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-19 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Denver, CO $11,025,000 $9,697,000 $10,490,000 $10,888,000 $10,750,000 -12%  $19.67 $17.30 $18.72 $19.43 $19.18 Douglas County, CO $694,000 $473,000 $401,000 $261,000 $257,000 -32%  $4.06 $2.77 $2.35 $1.53 $1.51 Fort Collins, CO $1,219,000 $713,000 $893,000 $920,000 $902,000 -42%  $9.78 $5.72 $7.17 $7.38 $7.23 Grand Junction, CO $407,000 $413,000 $503,000 $476,000 $466,000 1%  $9.43 $9.56 $11.65 $11.02 $10.79 Greeley, CO $1,031,000 $963,000 $1,218,000 $1,212,000 $1,189,000 -7%  $12.56 $11.73 $14.83 $14.76 $14.48 Jefferson County, CO $1,362,000 $1,058,000 $1,179,000 $890,000 $877,000 -22%  $5.62 $4.36 $4.86 $3.67 $3.62 Lakewood, CO $1,125,000 $1,004,000 $1,167,000 $1,036,000 $1,025,000 -11%  $7.83 $6.98 $8.12 $7.20 $7.13 Longmont, CO $648,000 $643,000 $726,000 $507,000 $501,000 -1%  $8.23 $8.17 $9.22 $6.45 $6.37 Loveland, CO $347,000 $304,000 $372,000 $376,000 $370,000 -12%  $6.28 $5.50 $6.73 $6.81 $6.69 Pueblo, CO $1,971,000 $2,440,000 $2,305,000 $2,564,000 $2,503,000 24%  $19.06 $23.59 $22.29 $24.80 $24.20 Westminster, CO $681,000 $595,000 $607,000 $502,000 $501,000 -13%  $6.57 $5.74 $5.86 $4.85 $4.84 Colorado State Program $13,006,000 $12,719,000 $12,275,000 $12,275,000 $13,278,000 -2%  $9.06 $8.86 $8.55 $8.55 $9.25 TOTAL $44,916,000 $41,456,000 $43,955,000 $42,516,000 $43,120,000 -8%  $9.97 $9.21 $9.76 $9.44 $9.57 ConnecticutBridgeport, CT $3,946,000 $3,965,000 $3,660,000 $4,590,000 $4,499,000 0%  $28.16 $28.30 $26.12 $32.76 $32.11 Bristol, CT $714,000 $539,000 $570,000 $666,000 $652,000 -25%  $11.79 $8.90 $9.41 $11.00 $10.77 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-20 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Danbury, CT $756,000 $707,000 $868,000 $984,000 $979,000 -6%  $9.83 $9.19 $11.28 $12.80 $12.72 East Hartford, CT $748,000 $754,000 $759,000 $920,000 $903,000 1%  $15.07 $15.19 $15.28 $18.53 $18.20 Fairfield, CT $628,000 $195,000 $217,000 $198,000 $194,000 -69%  $10.88 $3.39 $3.76 $3.43 $3.36 Greenwich, CT $1,115,000 $333,000 $372,000 $283,000 $279,000 -70%  $18.05 $5.38 $6.03 $4.59 $4.51 Hamden Town, CT $602,000 $470,000 $509,000 $498,000 $488,000 -22%  $10.39 $8.11 $8.79 $8.60 $8.42 Hartford, CT $4,672,000 $5,642,000 $5,108,000 $6,513,000 $6,367,000 21%  $37.51 $45.30 $41.01 $52.29 $51.12 Manchester, CT $779,000 $576,000 $646,000 $662,000 $650,000 -26%  $14.14 $10.46 $11.72 $12.02 $11.80 Meriden, CT $1,094,000 $935,000 $899,000 $1,092,000 $1,067,000 -15%  $18.65 $15.93 $15.32 $18.61 $18.19 Middletown, CT $533,000 $408,000 $398,000 $430,000 $422,000 -24%  $12.07 $9.23 $9.01 $9.73 $9.57 Milford Town, CT $639,000 $246,000 $286,000 $248,000 $244,000 -61%  $11.95 $4.61 $5.36 $4.64 $4.56 New Britain, CT $2,266,000 $2,121,000 $1,698,000 $2,226,000 $2,181,000 -6%  $31.65 $29.62 $23.72 $31.09 $30.47 New Haven, CT $4,481,000 $4,446,000 $3,698,000 $4,823,000 $4,712,000 -1%  $36.09 $35.81 $29.78 $38.84 $37.95 New London, CT $1,086,000 $727,000 $531,000 $693,000 $680,000 -33%  $41.66 $27.90 $20.37 $26.60 $26.08 Norwalk, CT $1,107,000 $690,000 $899,000 $1,009,000 $999,000 -38%  $13.16 $8.20 $10.69 $11.99 $11.87 Norwich, CT $1,215,000 $818,000 $627,000 $801,000 $785,000 -33%  $33.75 $22.73 $17.41 $22.26 $21.80 Stamford, CT $1,300,000 $1,142,000 $1,397,000 $1,368,000 $1,362,000 -12%  $10.85 $9.53 $11.66 $11.41 $11.36 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-21 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Stratford, CT $796,000 $466,000 $377,000 $483,000 $474,000 -41%  $15.87 $9.29 $7.51 $9.63 $9.44 Waterbury, CT $2,713,000 $2,712,000 $2,440,000 $3,172,000 $3,101,000 0%  $25.15 $25.14 $22.61 $29.40 $28.74 West Hartford, CT $1,306,000 $371,000 $413,000 $334,000 $329,000 -72%  $21.28 $6.04 $6.73 $5.44 $5.36 West Haven, CT $852,000 $580,000 $656,000 $737,000 $727,000 -32%  $16.16 $10.99 $12.43 $13.98 $13.78 Connecticut State Program $15,862,000 $9,740,000 $9,496,000 $9,496,000 $9,865,000 -39%  $8.41 $5.17 $5.04 $5.04 $5.23 TOTAL $49,210,000 $38,584,000 $36,523,000 $42,227,000 $41,959,000 -22%  $14.22 $11.15 $10.55 $12.20 $12.13 DelawareDover, DE $326,000 $327,000 $457,000 $420,000 $409,000 0%  $10.01 $10.03 $14.03 $12.88 $12.56 New Castle County, DE $2,888,000 $2,386,000 $2,951,000 $2,551,000 $2,508,000 -17%  $6.57 $5.43 $6.71 $5.80 $5.70 Wilmington, DE $2,999,000 $2,704,000 $2,106,000 $2,681,000 $2,617,000 -10%  $41.36 $37.29 $29.04 $36.97 $36.10 Delaware State Program $2,296,000 $2,400,000 $2,597,000 $2,597,000 $2,688,000 5%  $8.75 $9.14 $9.90 $9.90 $10.24 TOTAL $8,509,000 $7,817,000 $8,111,000 $8,249,000 $8,222,000 -8%  $10.54 $9.68 $10.05 $10.22 $10.18 District of ColumbiaWashington, DC $22,462,000 $18,635,000 $15,340,000 $15,807,000 $15,567,000 -17%  $39.35 $32.64 $26.87 $27.69 $27.27 FloridaBoca Raton, FL $540,000 $451,000 $465,000 $301,000 $296,000 -16%  $6.98 $5.83 $6.01 $3.89 $3.82 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-22 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Boynton Beach, FL $636,000 $676,000 $701,000 $722,000 $712,000 6%  $9.99 $10.61 $11.01 $11.34 $11.18 Bradenton, FL $582,000 $615,000 $756,000 $862,000 $844,000 6%  $11.33 $11.98 $14.72 $16.78 $16.42 Brevard County, FL $1,964,000 $1,774,000 $1,915,000 $1,525,000 $1,482,000 -10%  $6.98 $6.31 $6.81 $5.42 $5.27 Broward County, FL $5,543,000 $6,033,000 $6,441,000 $5,350,000 $5,275,000 9%  $11.86 $12.91 $13.78 $11.44 $11.28 Cape Coral, FL $748,000 $690,000 $711,000 $722,000 $702,000 -8%  $6.63 $6.11 $6.30 $6.39 $6.22 Clearwater, FL $1,143,000 $1,116,000 $1,371,000 $1,193,000 $1,168,000 -2%  $10.55 $10.30 $12.66 $11.01 $10.79 Cocoa, FL $278,000 $322,000 $410,000 $474,000 $460,000 16%  $16.95 $19.60 $24.99 $28.89 $28.02 Collier County, FL $2,628,000 $2,741,000 $2,695,000 $2,354,000 $2,328,000 4%  $10.31 $10.75 $10.58 $9.24 $9.13 Coral Springs, FL $1,092,000 $1,128,000 $1,194,000 $890,000 $880,000 3%  $8.69 $8.98 $9.50 $7.08 $7.00 Davie, FL $764,000 $727,000 $772,000 $629,000 $622,000 -5%  $9.57 $9.11 $9.67 $7.88 $7.78 Daytona Beach, FL $999,000 $1,127,000 $1,400,000 $1,551,000 $1,513,000 13%  $15.46 $17.45 $21.67 $24.01 $23.43 Deerfield Beach, FL $731,000 $772,000 $823,000 $696,000 $681,000 6%  $11.14 $11.77 $12.55 $10.61 $10.38 Delray Beach, FL $700,000 $745,000 $820,000 $689,000 $679,000 6%  $11.24 $11.97 $13.17 $11.07 $10.90 Deltona, FL $589,000 $605,000 $634,000 $630,000 $617,000 3%  $7.98 $8.20 $8.59 $8.54 $8.36 Destin, FL $72,000 $53,000 $55,000 $35,000 $34,000 -26%  $6.18 $4.56 $4.74 $2.98 $2.95 Escambia County, FL $2,538,000 $2,685,000 $3,343,000 $3,291,000 $3,192,000 6%  $10.56 $11.18 $13.92 $13.70 $13.29 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-23 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Fort Pierce, FL $829,000 $995,000 $1,201,000 $1,361,000 $1,323,000 20%  $21.82 $26.19 $31.61 $35.82 $34.83 Fort Walton Beach, FL $176,000 $168,000 $207,000 $184,000 $180,000 -4%  $8.76 $8.37 $10.28 $9.16 $8.95 Fort Lauderdale, FL $2,357,000 $2,492,000 $2,897,000 $2,113,000 $2,081,000 6%  $14.90 $15.76 $18.31 $13.36 $13.16 Fort Myers, FL $812,000 $914,000 $1,100,000 $1,212,000 $1,187,000 13%  $16.25 $18.29 $22.02 $24.26 $23.75 Gainesville, FL $1,483,000 $1,062,000 $1,423,000 $1,503,000 $1,465,000 -28%  $15.58 $11.16 $14.96 $15.79 $15.39 Hialeah, FL $5,147,000 $6,277,000 $6,335,000 $6,030,000 $6,067,000 22%  $22.56 $27.51 $27.77 $26.43 $26.59 Hillsborough County, FL $7,074,000 $7,074,000 $7,687,000 $6,492,000 $6,392,000 0%  $9.58 $9.58 $10.41 $8.79 $8.65 Hollywood, FL $1,846,000 $1,966,000 $2,171,000 $1,900,000 $1,881,000 7%  $12.89 $13.73 $15.16 $13.27 $13.14 Jacksonville-Duval, FL $8,166,000 $8,443,000 $10,942,000 $10,563,000 $10,345,000 3%  $10.15 $10.49 $13.60 $13.13 $12.86 Kissimmee, FL $724,000 $791,000 $867,000 $887,000 $879,000 9%  $14.00 $15.30 $16.76 $17.15 $16.99 Lake County, FL $1,013,000 $957,000 $1,010,000 $926,000 $900,000 -5%  $6.77 $6.40 $6.75 $6.19 $6.02 Lakeland, FL $933,000 $964,000 $1,273,000 $1,134,000 $1,104,000 3%  $10.83 $11.19 $14.77 $13.16 $12.81 Largo, FL $568,000 $520,000 $587,000 $555,000 $540,000 -8%  $8.04 $7.36 $8.31 $7.86 $7.65 Lauderhill, FL $990,000 $1,146,000 $1,255,000 $1,262,000 $1,250,000 16%  $16.83 $19.48 $21.33 $21.46 $21.25 Lee County, FL $2,568,000 $2,493,000 $2,553,000 $1,985,000 $1,941,000 -3%  $8.21 $7.97 $8.16 $6.35 $6.21 Manatee County, FL $1,814,000 $1,766,000 $1,878,000 $1,674,000 $1,637,000 -3%  $8.20 $7.98 $8.49 $7.56 $7.40 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-24 

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Margate, FL $510,000 $524,000 $535,000 $491,000 $486,000 3%  $9.31 $9.57 $9.76 $8.96 $8.87 Marion County, FL $2,059,000 $2,152,000 $2,351,000 $2,105,000 $2,039,000 5%  $9.40 $9.83 $10.74 $9.62 $9.31 Melbourne, FL $677,000 $642,000 $709,000 $699,000 $680,000 -5%  $9.17 $8.69 $9.61 $9.47 $9.22 Miami, FL $9,928,000 $11,963,000 $14,543,000 $15,636,000 $15,518,000 20%  $26.49 $31.92 $38.80 $41.72 $41.40 Miami Beach, FL $2,118,000 $2,292,000 $2,914,000 $1,947,000 $1,951,000 8%  $23.64 $25.58 $32.53 $21.74 $21.78 Miami-Dade County, FL $23,676,000 $27,354,000 $28,802,000 $21,127,000 $21,067,000 16%  $15.39 $17.78 $18.72 $13.73 $13.69 Miramar, FL $906,000 $964,000 $973,000 $919,000 $928,000 6%  $10.03 $10.66 $10.77 $10.17 $10.27 Naples, FL $137,000 $121,000 $120,000 $79,000 $77,000 -12%  $6.47 $5.71 $5.68 $3.74 $3.65 North Miami, FL $1,503,000 $1,818,000 $2,027,000 $2,071,000 $2,067,000 21%  $25.04 $30.28 $33.76 $34.50 $34.42 Ocala, FL $576,000 $612,000 $754,000 $682,000 $662,000 6%  $12.27 $13.03 $16.06 $14.53 $14.10 Orange County, FL $7,330,000 $7,310,000 $7,875,000 $6,718,000 $6,620,000 0%  $10.30 $10.27 $11.07 $9.44 $9.30 Orlando, FL $2,657,000 $2,881,000 $3,475,000 $3,051,000 $3,005,000 8%  $13.72 $14.87 $17.94 $15.75 $15.51 Palm Bay, FL $716,000 $719,000 $795,000 $857,000 $837,000 0%  $8.62 $8.66 $9.58 $10.32 $10.08 Palm Beach County, FL $8,274,000 $8,506,000 $9,053,000 $8,079,000 $7,961,000 3%  $9.31 $9.57 $10.19 $9.09 $8.96 Panama City, FL $477,000 $591,000 $642,000 $662,000 $643,000 24%  $12.99 $16.10 $17.49 $18.02 $17.51 Pasco County, FL $2,935,000 $2,943,000 $3,176,000 $3,352,000 $3,243,000 0%  $8.37 $8.40 $9.06 $9.57 $9.25 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Pembroke Pines, FL $1,086,000 $1,046,000 $1,039,000 $787,000 $788,000 -4%  $7.41 $7.13 $7.08 $5.37 $5.37 Pensacola, FL $1,133,000 $1,204,000 $1,098,000 $994,000 $968,000 6%  $20.51 $21.80 $19.88 $17.99 $17.52 Pinellas County, FL $3,701,000 $3,381,000 $3,915,000 $3,094,000 $3,014,000 -9%  $7.41 $6.77 $7.84 $6.20 $6.04 Plantation, FL $634,000 $570,000 $599,000 $404,000 $400,000 -10%  $7.47 $6.72 $7.06 $4.76 $4.72 Polk County, FL $3,646,000 $3,925,000 $4,459,000 $4,006,000 $3,910,000 8%  $10.24 $11.03 $12.53 $11.26 $10.99 Pompano Beach, FL $1,252,000 $1,360,000 $1,442,000 $1,199,000 $1,180,000 9%  $14.37 $15.61 $16.54 $13.76 $13.53 Port St. Lucie, FL $715,000 $696,000 $717,000 $770,000 $750,000 -3%  $7.26 $7.06 $7.27 $7.82 $7.61 Punta Gorda, FL $97,000 $80,000 $80,000 $53,000 $52,000 -18%  $6.06 $4.99 $4.97 $3.33 $3.23 Sarasota, FL $688,000 $701,000 $885,000 $906,000 $887,000 2%  $12.90 $13.14 $16.60 $17.00 $16.64 Sarasota County, FL $1,769,000 $1,551,000 $1,648,000 $1,357,000 $1,320,000 -12%  $6.29 $5.51 $5.86 $4.82 $4.69 Seminole County, FL $2,886,000 $2,629,000 $2,922,000 $2,196,000 $2,159,000 -9%  $7.56 $6.89 $7.66 $5.75 $5.66 St. Petersburg, FL $2,716,000 $2,995,000 $3,868,000 $3,885,000 $3,804,000 10%  $10.93 $12.05 $15.56 $15.63 $15.30 Sunrise, FL $895,000 $965,000 $1,025,000 $1,033,000 $1,020,000 8%  $10.12 $10.90 $11.58 $11.67 $11.53 Tallahassee, FL $2,310,000 $1,499,000 $1,880,000 $1,791,000 $1,752,000 -35%  $14.89 $9.66 $12.11 $11.54 $11.29 Tamarac, FL $509,000 $513,000 $535,000 $468,000 $459,000 1%  $8.86 $8.93 $9.31 $8.15 $7.99 Tampa, FL $4,505,000 $5,402,000 $6,592,000 $6,146,000 $6,025,000 20%  $14.30 $17.14 $20.92 $19.50 $19.12 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-26 

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Titusville, FL $406,000 $401,000 $499,000 $523,000 $509,000 -1%  $9.87 $9.76 $12.13 $12.71 $12.37 Volusia County, FL $2,677,000 $2,573,000 $3,055,000 $2,702,000 $2,628,000 -4%  $8.41 $8.08 $9.60 $8.49 $8.26 West Palm Beach, FL $1,304,000 $1,420,000 $1,878,000 $2,192,000 $2,155,000 9%  $15.07 $16.42 $21.70 $25.34 $24.91 Winterhaven, FL $319,000 $341,000 $445,000 $377,000 $369,000 7%  $12.07 $12.90 $16.84 $14.27 $13.95 Florida State Program $33,334,000 $34,950,000 $30,703,000 $30,703,000 $32,498,000 5%  $10.76 $11.28 $9.91 $9.91 $10.49 TOTAL $189,108,000 $199,883,000 $215,919,000 $195,762,000 $195,084,000 6%  $11.32 $11.96 $12.92 $11.71 $11.67 Georgia Albany, GA $1,402,000 $1,610,000 $2,112,000 $2,148,000 $2,087,000 15%  $18.37 $21.09 $27.67 $28.15 $27.35 Athens-Clarke, GA $1,765,000 $1,207,000 $1,632,000 $1,664,000 $1,628,000 -32%  $16.99 $11.62 $15.71 $16.02 $15.67 Atlanta, GA $11,284,000 $10,879,000 $10,834,000 $10,019,000 $9,781,000 -4%  $26.56 $25.61 $25.50 $23.58 $23.02 Augusta, GA $2,755,000 $3,098,000 $4,272,000 $4,445,000 $4,324,000 12%  $13.93 $15.66 $21.59 $22.47 $21.85 Brunswick, GA $548,000 $625,000 $562,000 $704,000 $685,000 14%  $35.13 $40.04 $36.02 $45.13 $43.91 Clayton County, GA $2,182,000 $2,303,000 $2,669,000 $2,776,000 $2,747,000 6%  $9.70 $10.24 $11.87 $12.34 $12.21 Cobb County, GA $3,921,000 $3,457,000 $3,640,000 $2,678,000 $2,653,000 -12%  $6.65 $5.86 $6.17 $4.54 $4.50 Columbus-Muscogee, GA $2,189,000 $2,405,000 $2,763,000 $2,299,000 $2,231,000 10%  $11.77 $12.93 $14.86 $12.36 $12.00 Dalton, GA $487,000 $562,000 $593,000 $418,000 $416,000 15%  $16.29 $18.80 $19.84 $13.97 $13.91 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-27 

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DeKalb County, GA $6,893,000 $7,025,000 $8,044,000 $7,002,000 $6,938,000 2%  $10.67 $10.87 $12.45 $10.83 $10.74 Fulton County, GA $3,149,000 $3,106,000 $3,648,000 $2,386,000 $2,352,000 -1%  $8.91 $8.78 $10.32 $6.75 $6.65 Gainesville, GA $470,000 $545,000 $594,000 $519,000 $510,000 16%  $16.80 $19.49 $21.25 $18.56 $18.25 Gwinnett County, GA $4,827,000 $4,536,000 $4,453,000 $2,790,000 $2,784,000 -6%  $7.27 $6.83 $6.70 $4.20 $4.19 Hinesville, GA $367,000 $423,000 $503,000 $422,000 $410,000 15%  $12.02 $13.86 $16.47 $13.81 $13.44 Macon, GA $1,606,000 $2,457,000 $2,935,000 $3,452,000 $3,355,000 53%  $16.75 $25.63 $30.61 $36.01 $35.00 Marietta, GA $835,000 $850,000 $992,000 $906,000 $895,000 2%  $13.46 $13.70 $15.99 $14.61 $14.42 Rome, GA $620,000 $806,000 $844,000 $860,000 $840,000 30%  $17.60 $22.86 $23.94 $24.42 $23.83 Roswell, GA $550,000 $501,000 $496,000 $301,000 $299,000 -9%  $6.96 $6.34 $6.28 $3.81 $3.79 Savannah, GA $3,323,000 $3,721,000 $3,378,000 $4,175,000 $4,071,000 12%  $26.02 $29.14 $26.46 $32.70 $31.88 Valdosta, GA $718,000 $751,000 $1,026,000 $962,000 $935,000 5%  $16.06 $16.81 $22.95 $21.52 $20.92 Warner Robins, GA $543,000 $594,000 $725,000 $696,000 $678,000 9%  $10.33 $11.30 $13.80 $13.24 $12.90 Georgia State Program $47,121,000 $51,398,000 $52,398,000 $52,398,000 $54,479,000 9%  $10.49 $11.44 $11.67 $11.67 $12.13 TOTAL $97,555,000 $102,857,000 $109,113,000 $104,021,000 $105,098,000 5%  $11.40 $12.02 $12.75 $12.15 $12.28 HawaiiHonolulu, HI $11,856,000 $12,725,000 $12,661,000 $9,617,000 $9,739,000 7%  $13.23 $14.20 $14.13 $10.73 $10.87 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-28 

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Hawaii State Program $6,137,000 $6,423,000 $3,619,000 $3,619,000 $4,569,000 5%  $17.59 $18.41 $10.37 $10.37 $13.10 TOTAL $17,993,000 $19,148,000 $16,280,000 $13,236,000 $14,308,000 6%  $14.45 $15.38 $13.08 $10.63 $11.49 IdahoBoise, ID $1,562,000 $1,389,000 $1,765,000 $1,440,000 $1,418,000 -11%  $8.23 $7.31 $9.30 $7.59 $7.47 Idaho Falls, ID $491,000 $491,000 $656,000 $584,000 $572,000 0%  $9.61 $9.61 $12.84 $11.43 $11.19 Lewiston, ID $323,000 $429,000 $430,000 $439,000 $428,000 33%  $10.59 $14.08 $14.10 $14.40 $14.04 Nampa, ID $613,000 $629,000 $745,000 $838,000 $823,000 3%  $10.17 $10.44 $12.36 $13.91 $13.66 Pocatello, ID $604,000 $803,000 $868,000 $861,000 $842,000 33%  $11.79 $15.67 $16.93 $16.80 $16.43 Idaho State Program $10,549,000 $10,876,000 $10,290,000 $10,290,000 $11,084,000 3%  $11.10 $11.44 $10.83 $10.83 $11.66 TOTAL $14,142,000 $14,618,000 $14,754,000 $14,453,000 $15,167,000 3%  $10.61 $10.96 $11.07 $10.84 $11.37 IllinoisArlington Heights, IL $363,000 $270,000 $235,000 $177,000 $176,000 -25%  $4.75 $3.54 $3.08 $2.32 $2.31 Aurora, IL $1,470,000 $1,533,000 $1,847,000 $1,819,000 $1,804,000 4%  $9.36 $9.77 $11.76 $11.59 $11.49 Belleville, IL $862,000 $677,000 $610,000 $757,000 $738,000 -21%  $20.86 $16.39 $14.76 $18.32 $17.85 Berwyn, IL $1,596,000 $985,000 $795,000 $996,000 $986,000 -38%  $29.94 $18.48 $14.91 $18.68 $18.49 Bloomington, IL $730,000 $637,000 $630,000 $607,000 $597,000 -13%  $10.83 $9.44 $9.34 $9.01 $8.85 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-29 

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Bolingbrook, IL $372,000 $339,000 $340,000 $288,000 $286,000 -9%  $5.92 $5.40 $5.42 $4.58 $4.55 Champaign, IL $916,000 $657,000 $721,000 $778,000 $764,000 -28%  $13.19 $9.47 $10.38 $11.21 $11.01 Chicago, IL $100,851,000 $98,448,000 $83,622,000 $101,911,000 $100,044,000 -2%  $34.94 $34.11 $28.97 $35.31 $34.66 Chicago Heights, IL $684,000 $771,000 $790,000 $949,000 $932,000 13%  $20.98 $23.65 $24.22 $29.11 $28.58 Cicero, IL $1,631,000 $1,786,000 $2,241,000 $2,535,000 $2,516,000 10%  $19.36 $21.20 $26.60 $30.09 $29.87 Cook County, IL $12,693,000 $12,415,000 $14,502,000 $11,698,000 $11,565,000 -2%  $7.58 $7.42 $8.67 $6.99 $6.91 Danville, IL $1,168,000 $1,220,000 $854,000 $959,000 $936,000 4%  $35.01 $36.57 $25.59 $28.74 $28.04 Decatur, IL $1,772,000 $1,956,000 $1,659,000 $1,877,000 $1,825,000 10%  $22.19 $24.50 $20.78 $23.51 $22.85 DeKalb, IL $495,000 $283,000 $359,000 $421,000 $416,000 -43%  $12.34 $7.05 $8.96 $10.51 $10.36 Des Plaines, IL $416,000 $384,000 $395,000 $334,000 $334,000 -8%  $7.08 $6.55 $6.72 $5.69 $5.69 Downers Grove, IL $262,000 $155,000 $161,000 $115,000 $114,000 -41%  $5.36 $3.16 $3.29 $2.35 $2.32 DuPage County, IL $4,312,000 $3,804,000 $3,747,000 $2,448,000 $2,449,000 -12%  $6.30 $5.56 $5.48 $3.58 $3.58 East St Louis, IL $2,261,000 $2,125,000 $1,430,000 $1,826,000 $1,774,000 -6%  $72.95 $68.56 $46.13 $58.91 $57.24 Elgin, IL $1,015,000 $1,102,000 $1,265,000 $1,249,000 $1,248,000 9%  $10.51 $11.41 $13.10 $12.93 $12.92 Evanston, IL $2,395,000 $927,000 $886,000 $708,000 $699,000 -61%  $32.62 $12.63 $12.07 $9.65 $9.52 Joliet, IL $1,092,000 $1,167,000 $1,482,000 $1,803,000 $1,768,000 7%  $9.22 $9.86 $12.52 $15.23 $14.93 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-30 

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Kane County, IL $1,423,000 $1,250,000 $1,284,000 $942,000 $933,000 -12%  $5.73 $5.04 $5.17 $3.80 $3.76 Kankakee, IL $707,000 $817,000 $777,000 $979,000 $955,000 16%  $26.02 $30.09 $28.61 $36.04 $35.17 Lake County, IL $3,061,000 $2,611,000 $2,794,000 $2,073,000 $2,050,000 -15%  $5.59 $4.77 $5.11 $3.79 $3.75 Madison County, IL $3,689,000 $3,536,000 $3,237,000 $3,721,000 $3,627,000 -4%  $13.92 $13.34 $12.22 $14.04 $13.69 McHenry County, IL $1,518,000 $1,252,000 $1,296,000 $1,061,000 $1,048,000 -18%  $5.32 $4.38 $4.54 $3.71 $3.67 Moline, IL $1,070,000 $809,000 $641,000 $638,000 $626,000 -24%  $24.76 $18.71 $14.83 $14.76 $14.48 Mount Prospect, IL $452,000 $448,000 $405,000 $276,000 $280,000 -1%  $8.06 $7.98 $7.21 $4.93 $4.99 Naperville, IL $583,000 $424,000 $371,000 $238,000 $235,000 -27%  $4.31 $3.13 $2.74 $1.76 $1.74 Normal, IL $487,000 $209,000 $267,000 $324,000 $317,000 -57%  $10.34 $4.43 $5.67 $6.88 $6.73 North Chicago, IL $380,000 $410,000 $475,000 $519,000 $512,000 8%  $10.53 $11.36 $13.17 $14.37 $14.17 Oak Lawn, IL $346,000 $313,000 $334,000 $312,000 $304,000 -9%  $6.24 $5.66 $6.04 $5.62 $5.49 Oak Park, IL $2,327,000 $523,000 $502,000 $409,000 $402,000 -78%  $45.10 $10.14 $9.73 $7.92 $7.80 Palatine Village, IL $501,000 $473,000 $441,000 $267,000 $269,000 -5%  $7.54 $7.13 $6.64 $4.02 $4.05 Pekin, IL $492,000 $377,000 $366,000 $406,000 $396,000 -23%  $14.72 $11.29 $10.95 $12.15 $11.84 Peoria, IL $2,304,000 $2,750,000 $2,507,000 $2,748,000 $2,673,000 19%  $20.45 $24.41 $22.25 $24.39 $23.73 Rantoul, IL $445,000 $291,000 $164,000 $172,000 $168,000 -35%  $34.22 $22.38 $12.61 $13.22 $12.90 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-31 

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Rock Island, IL $1,409,000 $1,242,000 $796,000 $934,000 $911,000 -12%  $36.09 $31.80 $20.38 $23.92 $23.34 Rockford, IL $2,546,000 $2,775,000 $2,758,000 $3,053,000 $2,983,000 9%  $16.85 $18.37 $18.26 $20.21 $19.75 Schaumburg Village, IL $434,000 $353,000 $333,000 $202,000 $205,000 -19%  $5.79 $4.71 $4.44 $2.70 $2.73 Skokie, IL $648,000 $472,000 $486,000 $363,000 $362,000 -27%  $10.27 $7.48 $7.71 $5.75 $5.73 Springfield, IL $1,540,000 $1,456,000 $1,593,000 $1,632,000 $1,590,000 -5%  $13.77 $13.02 $14.25 $14.59 $14.22 St. Clair County, IL $1,726,000 $1,800,000 $2,367,000 $2,532,000 $2,456,000 4%  $9.44 $9.85 $12.95 $13.85 $13.44 Urbana, IL $565,000 $430,000 $497,000 $611,000 $599,000 -24%  $14.77 $11.24 $13.00 $15.98 $15.66 Waukegan, IL $1,287,000 $1,454,000 $1,680,000 $1,801,000 $1,786,000 13%  $14.09 $15.92 $18.40 $19.72 $19.56 Wheaton City, IL $293,000 $231,000 $221,000 $142,000 $141,000 -21%  $5.29 $4.17 $4.00 $2.57 $2.54 Will County, IL $1,588,000 $1,235,000 $1,355,000 $1,247,000 $1,224,000 -22%  $4.74 $3.69 $4.05 $3.73 $3.66 Illinois State Program $37,843,000 $32,694,000 $32,847,000 $32,847,000 $33,566,000 -14%  $12.76 $11.02 $11.08 $11.08 $11.32 TOTAL $207,020,000 $192,279,000 $179,367,000 $194,704,000 $192,587,000 -7%  $16.43 $15.26 $14.23 $15.45 $15.28 IndianaAnderson, IN $1,086,000 $1,013,000 $998,000 $1,091,000 $1,063,000 -7%  $18.45 $17.22 $16.95 $18.54 $18.06 Bloomington, IN $1,014,000 $719,000 $702,000 $824,000 $805,000 -29%  $14.49 $10.27 $10.03 $11.77 $11.50 Columbus, IN $355,000 $418,000 $453,000 $462,000 $452,000 18%  $9.16 $10.78 $11.70 $11.93 $11.67 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-32 

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East Chicago, IN $1,664,000 $1,622,000 $1,175,000 $1,517,000 $1,482,000 -3%  $52.44 $51.13 $37.04 $47.80 $46.71 Elkhart, IN $882,000 $774,000 $941,000 $1,036,000 $1,017,000 -12%  $17.03 $14.94 $18.17 $20.01 $19.63 Evansville, IN $3,553,000 $2,992,000 $2,096,000 $2,451,000 $2,391,000 -16%  $29.84 $25.13 $17.60 $20.58 $20.08 Fort Wayne, IN $3,053,000 $2,949,000 $3,178,000 $3,723,000 $3,634,000 -3%  $14.53 $14.04 $15.13 $17.72 $17.30 Gary, IN $4,469,000 $4,566,000 $3,488,000 $4,419,000 $4,308,000 2%  $44.27 $45.24 $34.55 $43.78 $42.67 Goshen, IN $335,000 $286,000 $360,000 $360,000 $355,000 -15%  $11.29 $9.63 $12.14 $12.14 $11.96 Hamilton County, IN $710,000 $502,000 $541,000 $387,000 $380,000 -29%  $4.38 $3.09 $3.34 $2.39 $2.34 Hammond, IN $2,774,000 $2,525,000 $1,808,000 $2,343,000 $2,296,000 -9%  $34.07 $31.02 $22.21 $28.78 $28.20 Indianapolis, IN $11,328,000 $11,412,000 $11,874,000 $12,837,000 $12,556,000 1%  $14.27 $14.38 $14.96 $16.17 $15.82 Kokomo, IN $1,192,000 $1,060,000 $826,000 $978,000 $954,000 -11%  $25.94 $23.07 $17.97 $21.29 $20.75 La Porte, IN $594,000 $402,000 $329,000 $365,000 $357,000 -32%  $27.90 $18.87 $15.47 $17.15 $16.77 Lafayette, IN $782,000 $778,000 $867,000 $899,000 $882,000 -1%  $12.91 $12.84 $14.31 $14.83 $14.55 Lake County, IN $1,609,000 $1,357,000 $1,707,000 $1,440,000 $1,415,000 -16%  $5.90 $4.97 $6.25 $5.28 $5.19 Michigan City, IN $866,000 $673,000 $563,000 $639,000 $623,000 -22%  $26.59 $20.66 $17.28 $19.62 $19.14 Mishawaka, IN $662,000 $532,000 $613,000 $672,000 $659,000 -20%  $13.72 $11.03 $12.71 $13.92 $13.66 Muncie, IN $1,697,000 $1,977,000 $1,427,000 $1,955,000 $1,906,000 16%  $25.25 $29.42 $21.24 $29.10 $28.36 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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New Albany, IN $866,000 $802,000 $676,000 $833,000 $810,000 -7%  $23.08 $21.37 $18.02 $22.19 $21.59 South Bend, IN $3,379,000 $2,977,000 $2,320,000 $2,766,000 $2,700,000 -12%  $31.71 $27.94 $21.77 $25.96 $25.34 Terre Haute, IN $2,227,000 $1,961,000 $1,310,000 $1,616,000 $1,576,000 -12%  $37.98 $33.45 $22.34 $27.55 $26.87 West Lafayette, IN $531,000 $324,000 $257,000 $306,000 $300,000 -39%  $18.26 $11.13 $8.85 $10.51 $10.31 Indiana State Program $36,840,000 $29,195,000 $30,490,000 $30,490,000 $31,458,000 -21%  $10.15 $8.04 $8.40 $8.40 $8.67 TOTAL $82,468,000 $71,817,000 $69,002,000 $74,410,000 $74,378,000 -13%  $13.39 $11.66 $11.20 $12.08 $12.08 IowaAmes, IA $589,000 $350,000 $388,000 $417,000 $408,000 -41%  $11.57 $6.88 $7.61 $8.18 $8.02 Cedar Falls, IA $376,000 $342,000 $321,000 $345,000 $338,000 -9%  $10.26 $9.33 $8.75 $9.41 $9.22 Cedar Rapids, IA $1,549,000 $1,075,000 $1,144,000 $1,149,000 $1,127,000 -31%  $12.64 $8.78 $9.33 $9.38 $9.20 Council Bluffs, IA $1,302,000 $924,000 $839,000 $1,028,000 $1,007,000 -29%  $22.20 $15.76 $14.31 $17.52 $17.16 Davenport, IA $2,098,000 $2,091,000 $1,768,000 $2,055,000 $2,005,000 0%  $21.46 $21.39 $18.08 $21.02 $20.51 Des Moines, IA $5,108,000 $3,663,000 $3,025,000 $3,611,000 $3,549,000 -28%  $25.79 $18.49 $15.27 $18.23 $17.92 Dubuque, IA $1,481,000 $1,056,000 $718,000 $800,000 $782,000 -29%  $25.97 $18.51 $12.60 $14.03 $13.71 Iowa City, IA $804,000 $606,000 $559,000 $646,000 $634,000 -25%  $12.60 $9.50 $8.76 $10.12 $9.93 Sioux City, IA $2,276,000 $1,746,000 $1,406,000 $1,446,000 $1,420,000 -23%  $27.05 $20.75 $16.72 $17.18 $16.88 
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Waterloo, IA $1,647,000 $1,527,000 $1,231,000 $1,315,000 $1,284,000 -7%  $24.31 $22.54 $18.18 $19.41 $18.96 Iowa State Program $30,975,000 $24,018,000 $22,886,000 $22,886,000 $23,453,000 -22%  $14.76 $11.44 $10.90 $10.90 $11.17 TOTAL $48,205,000 $37,399,000 $34,286,000 $35,697,000 $36,007,000 -22%  $16.42 $12.74 $11.68 $12.16 $12.26 KansasJohnson County, KS $1,427,000 $1,093,000 $1,222,000 $840,000 $829,000 -23%  $5.23 $4.01 $4.48 $3.08 $3.04 Kansas City, KS $2,869,000 $3,092,000 $3,248,000 $3,976,000 $3,890,000 8%  $19.52 $21.04 $22.10 $27.05 $26.46 Lawrence, KS $963,000 $701,000 $782,000 $822,000 $807,000 -27%  $11.80 $8.59 $9.58 $10.08 $9.89 Leavenworth, KS $435,000 $307,000 $392,000 $477,000 $467,000 -30%  $12.28 $8.66 $11.08 $13.48 $13.19 Overland Park, KS $778,000 $573,000 $554,000 $355,000 $351,000 -26%  $4.91 $3.62 $3.50 $2.24 $2.22 Shawnee, KS $264,000 $191,000 $187,000 $131,000 $131,000 -27%  $5.01 $3.63 $3.55 $2.49 $2.48 Topeka, KS $2,388,000 $2,157,000 $1,849,000 $1,972,000 $1,928,000 -10%  $19.56 $17.66 $15.14 $16.15 $15.79 Wichita, KS $3,464,000 $4,111,000 $4,989,000 $4,912,000 $4,817,000 19%  $9.75 $11.58 $14.05 $13.83 $13.56 Kansas State Program $20,158,000 $18,627,000 $18,550,000 $18,550,000 $19,346,000 -8%  $13.54 $12.51 $12.46 $12.46 $12.99 TOTAL $32,746,000 $30,851,000 $31,774,000 $32,037,000 $32,567,000 -6%  $12.06 $11.37 $11.71 $11.80 $12.00 KentuckyAshland, KY $842,000 $743,000 $489,000 $460,000 $446,000 -12%  $38.98 $34.40 $22.64 $21.31 $20.66 
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Bowling Green, KY $676,000 $643,000 $863,000 $876,000 $852,000 -5%  $13.46 $12.79 $17.18 $17.45 $16.96 Covington, KY $2,018,000 $1,770,000 $1,169,000 $1,624,000 $1,585,000 -12%  $46.95 $41.17 $27.19 $37.79 $36.89 Elizabethtown, KY $193,000 $193,000 $251,000 $198,000 $193,000 0%  $8.36 $8.35 $10.87 $8.60 $8.36 Henderson, KY $306,000 $426,000 $498,000 $576,000 $558,000 39%  $11.16 $15.55 $18.18 $21.00 $20.35 Hopkinsville, KY $346,000 $455,000 $579,000 $604,000 $586,000 31%  $11.82 $15.53 $19.78 $20.62 $20.01 Jefferson County, KY $3,009,000 $2,736,000 $3,365,000 $2,692,000 $2,622,000 -9%  $6.74 $6.12 $7.53 $6.03 $5.87 Lexington-Fayette, KY $2,505,000 $2,294,000 $2,948,000 $2,797,000 $2,729,000 -8%  $9.50 $8.70 $11.18 $10.61 $10.35 Louisville, KY $11,324,000 $10,748,000 $7,339,000 $9,303,000 $9,070,000 -5%  $45.04 $42.75 $29.19 $37.00 $36.08 Owensboro, KY $635,000 $890,000 $934,000 $984,000 $956,000 40%  $11.72 $16.42 $17.24 $18.16 $17.65 Kentucky State Program $31,820,000 $39,521,000 $46,920,000 $46,920,000 $46,911,000 24%  $11.04 $13.71 $16.28 $16.28 $16.27 TOTAL $53,674,000 $60,418,000 $65,355,000 $67,034,000 $66,508,000 13%  $13.11 $14.76 $15.97 $16.38 $16.25 LouisianaAlexandria, LA $802,000 $1,310,000 $1,431,000 $1,416,000 $1,373,000 63%  $17.49 $28.56 $31.21 $30.89 $29.94 Baton Rouge, LA $5,096,000 $5,152,000 $6,804,000 $5,876,000 $5,722,000 1%  $13.18 $13.32 $17.60 $15.20 $14.80 Bossier City, LA $633,000 $691,000 $932,000 $923,000 $897,000 9%  $11.07 $12.09 $16.31 $16.14 $15.70 Houma-Terrebonne, LA $1,492,000 $1,768,000 $2,137,000 $1,964,000 $1,905,000 18%  $14.12 $16.73 $20.23 $18.59 $18.03 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Jefferson Parish, LA $4,403,000 $4,762,000 $5,815,000 $4,997,000 $4,876,000 8%  $11.52 $12.46 $15.21 $13.07 $12.75 Kenner, LA $827,000 $914,000 $1,046,000 $881,000 $860,000 11%  $11.73 $12.97 $14.83 $12.49 $12.20 Lafayette, LA $1,976,000 $1,999,000 $2,515,000 $2,127,000 $2,073,000 1%  $11.84 $11.98 $15.07 $12.74 $12.42 Lake Charles, LA $1,009,000 $1,349,000 $1,524,000 $1,466,000 $1,427,000 34%  $14.27 $19.08 $21.54 $20.73 $20.17 Monroe, LA $1,063,000 $1,283,000 $1,652,000 $1,637,000 $1,585,000 21%  $20.30 $24.50 $31.54 $31.26 $30.26 New Orleans, LA $18,071,000 $21,818,000 $18,145,000 $20,758,000 $20,261,000 21%  $38.15 $46.06 $38.31 $43.82 $42.77 Shreveport, LA $3,167,000 $3,879,000 $5,062,000 $4,821,000 $4,683,000 22%  $15.91 $19.49 $25.43 $24.22 $23.53 Slidell, LA $240,000 $249,000 $294,000 $254,000 $246,000 4%  $9.07 $9.41 $11.13 $9.60 $9.29 Thibodaux, LA $248,000 $308,000 $355,000 $323,000 $314,000 24%  $17.09 $21.23 $24.44 $22.24 $21.62 Louisiana State Program $34,125,000 $40,007,000 $42,495,000 $42,495,000 $43,705,000 17%  $14.04 $16.46 $17.48 $17.48 $17.98 TOTAL $73,152,000 $85,489,000 $90,207,000 $89,937,000 $89,925,000 17%  $16.32 $19.07 $20.13 $20.07 $20.06 MaineAuburn, ME $763,000 $651,000 $439,000 $471,000 $460,000 -15%  $32.97 $28.12 $18.97 $20.36 $19.89 Bangor, ME $1,252,000 $1,036,000 $625,000 $672,000 $656,000 -17%  $39.69 $32.84 $19.83 $21.30 $20.80 Lewiston, ME $1,251,000 $1,344,000 $841,000 $1,038,000 $1,015,000 7%  $35.09 $37.72 $23.60 $29.13 $28.47 Portland, ME $2,567,000 $1,879,000 $1,227,000 $1,389,000 $1,359,000 -27%  $40.18 $29.42 $19.22 $21.75 $21.27 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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South Portland, ME $542,000 $325,000 $217,000 $238,000 $233,000 -40%  $23.31 $13.99 $9.31 $10.23 $10.00 Maine State Program $16,856,000 $14,217,000 $14,318,000 $14,318,000 $14,488,000 -16%  $15.11 $12.75 $12.84 $12.84 $12.99 TOTAL $23,231,000 $19,453,000 $17,667,000 $18,126,000 $18,211,000 -16%  $17.97 $15.05 $13.67 $14.02 $14.09 MarylandAnnapolis, MD $414,000 $378,000 $533,000 $457,000 $447,000 -9%  $11.44 $10.44 $14.71 $12.63 $12.36 Anne Arundel County, MD $2,577,000 $2,128,000 $2,468,000 $2,007,000 $1,970,000 -17%  $5.52 $4.56 $5.28 $4.30 $4.22 Baltimore, MD $28,468,000 $27,871,000 $20,156,000 $27,030,000 $26,378,000 -2%  $44.58 $43.64 $31.56 $42.33 $41.31 Baltimore County, MD $5,094,000 $4,390,000 $5,969,000 $5,369,000 $5,265,000 -14%  $6.61 $5.70 $7.75 $6.97 $6.84 Bowie City, MD $202,000 $120,000 $117,000 $97,000 $97,000 -41%  $3.88 $2.30 $2.25 $1.86 $1.86 Cumberland, MD $1,216,000 $1,110,000 $648,000 $785,000 $764,000 -9%  $57.68 $52.66 $30.72 $37.22 $36.24 Frederick, MD $469,000 $345,000 $476,000 $574,000 $564,000 -27%  $8.37 $6.15 $8.49 $10.24 $10.06 Gaithersburg, MD $545,000 $552,000 $558,000 $526,000 $531,000 1%  $9.68 $9.81 $9.91 $9.35 $9.44 Hagerstown, MD $1,159,000 $1,128,000 $897,000 $1,108,000 $1,078,000 -3%  $31.62 $30.76 $24.47 $30.24 $29.42 Harford County, MD $1,270,000 $1,082,000 $1,308,000 $1,254,000 $1,224,000 -15%  $5.58 $4.75 $5.74 $5.51 $5.37 Howard County, MD $1,409,000 $1,147,000 $1,216,000 $785,000 $776,000 -19%  $5.42 $4.41 $4.67 $3.02 $2.98 Montgomery County, MD $6,221,000 $5,892,000 $6,220,000 $4,826,000 $4,817,000 -5%  $7.40 $7.01 $7.40 $5.74 $5.73 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Prince Georges County, MD $7,445,000 $7,425,000 $8,930,000 $9,376,000 $9,364,000 0%  $9.54 $9.52 $11.44 $12.02 $12.00 Salisbury, MD $360,000 $406,000 $510,000 $617,000 $601,000 13%  $14.61 $16.46 $20.68 $25.04 $24.40 Maryland State Program $9,358,000 $8,243,000 $8,963,000 $8,963,000 $9,183,000 -12%  $7.86 $6.92 $7.53 $7.53 $7.71 TOTAL $66,207,000 $62,217,000 $58,967,000 $63,775,000 $63,061,000 -6%  $12.13 $11.40 $10.80 $11.68 $11.55 MassachusettsArlington, MA $1,558,000 $285,000 $261,000 $259,000 $254,000 -82%  $36.97 $6.77 $6.19 $6.14 $6.03 Attleboro, MA $565,000 $381,000 $393,000 $390,000 $383,000 -33%  $13.09 $8.83 $9.11 $9.02 $8.88 Barnstable, MA $425,000 $368,000 $475,000 $470,000 $458,000 -13%  $8.70 $7.53 $9.72 $9.62 $9.37 Boston, MA $24,264,000 $20,365,000 $15,586,000 $18,890,000 $18,585,000 -16%  $41.18 $34.56 $26.45 $32.06 $31.54 Brockton, MA $1,723,000 $1,802,000 $1,921,000 $2,467,000 $2,413,000 5%  $18.05 $18.88 $20.13 $25.85 $25.29 Brookline, MA $1,918,000 $747,000 $645,000 $529,000 $523,000 -61%  $33.63 $13.10 $11.32 $9.27 $9.16 Cambridge, MA $3,817,000 $1,870,000 $1,556,000 $1,673,000 $1,650,000 -51%  $37.49 $18.37 $15.28 $16.43 $16.21 Chicopee, MA $1,561,000 $1,276,000 $949,000 $1,090,000 $1,065,000 -18%  $28.47 $23.28 $17.32 $19.87 $19.42 Fall River, MA $3,603,000 $3,532,000 $2,605,000 $3,656,000 $3,572,000 -2%  $38.88 $38.12 $28.11 $39.46 $38.55 Fitchburg, MA $1,414,000 $1,178,000 $889,000 $1,208,000 $1,182,000 -17%  $35.59 $29.65 $22.37 $30.40 $29.75 Framingham, MA $645,000 $549,000 $724,000 $770,000 $760,000 -15%  $9.65 $8.21 $10.84 $11.52 $11.37 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Gloucester, MA $942,000 $596,000 $452,000 $527,000 $515,000 -37%  $30.72 $19.42 $14.75 $17.18 $16.79 Haverhill, MA $1,253,000 $913,000 $843,000 $1,027,000 $1,005,000 -27%  $21.01 $15.32 $14.14 $17.22 $16.85 Holyoke, MA $1,636,000 $1,659,000 $1,429,000 $1,828,000 $1,784,000 1%  $41.03 $41.60 $35.85 $45.84 $44.75 Lawrence, MA $2,046,000 $2,577,000 $2,583,000 $3,271,000 $3,202,000 26%  $28.24 $35.57 $35.65 $45.14 $44.20 Leominster, MA $618,000 $553,000 $582,000 $646,000 $632,000 -11%  $14.75 $13.19 $13.89 $15.41 $15.09 Lowell, MA $2,815,000 $2,799,000 $2,632,000 $3,412,000 $3,347,000 -1%  $26.83 $26.68 $25.09 $32.53 $31.91 Lynn, MA $3,007,000 $2,650,000 $2,288,000 $2,954,000 $2,899,000 -12%  $33.56 $29.58 $25.53 $32.97 $32.36 Malden, MA $1,857,000 $1,087,000 $846,000 $1,082,000 $1,068,000 -41%  $33.07 $19.35 $15.06 $19.26 $19.02 Medford, MA $2,126,000 $980,000 $504,000 $706,000 $693,000 -54%  $38.56 $17.77 $9.15 $12.80 $12.56 New Bedford, MA $3,585,000 $3,914,000 $2,953,000 $4,125,000 $4,026,000 9%  $38.10 $41.60 $31.39 $43.84 $42.79 Newton, MA $2,700,000 $535,000 $522,000 $419,000 $410,000 -80%  $32.19 $6.38 $6.22 $4.99 $4.89 Northampton, MA $898,000 $543,000 $319,000 $311,000 $305,000 -39%  $30.99 $18.75 $11.02 $10.74 $10.53 Pittsfield, MA $1,793,000 $1,334,000 $815,000 $982,000 $959,000 -26%  $39.82 $29.63 $18.10 $21.82 $21.31 Plymouth, MA $478,000 $280,000 $359,000 $405,000 $396,000 -41%  $8.89 $5.21 $6.67 $7.53 $7.36 Quincy, MA $2,513,000 $1,187,000 $957,000 $970,000 $960,000 -53%  $28.18 $13.31 $10.73 $10.88 $10.76 Salem, MA $1,352,000 $827,000 $608,000 $743,000 $730,000 -39%  $32.08 $19.61 $14.42 $17.64 $17.32 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Somerville, MA $3,450,000 $2,097,000 $1,304,000 $1,770,000 $1,745,000 -39%  $44.85 $27.26 $16.96 $23.01 $22.68 Springfield, MA $5,007,000 $5,215,000 $4,628,000 $6,006,000 $5,854,000 4%  $32.96 $34.33 $30.46 $39.53 $38.53 Taunton, MA $1,022,000 $848,000 $819,000 $954,000 $930,000 -17%  $18.04 $14.98 $14.46 $16.83 $16.43 Waltham, MA $1,280,000 $813,000 $562,000 $700,000 $694,000 -37%  $21.67 $13.76 $9.52 $11.85 $11.75 Westfield, MA $539,000 $532,000 $546,000 $560,000 $547,000 -1%  $13.37 $13.20 $13.54 $13.89 $13.57 Weymouth, MA $940,000 $535,000 $434,000 $491,000 $480,000 -43%  $17.17 $9.77 $7.93 $8.97 $8.76 Worcester, MA $5,607,000 $5,314,000 $4,181,000 $5,554,000 $5,432,000 -5%  $32.05 $30.37 $23.90 $31.74 $31.05 Yarmouth, MA $175,000 $146,000 $180,000 $192,000 $187,000 -17%  $6.93 $5.77 $7.14 $7.61 $7.41 Massachusetts State Program $40,541,000 $26,721,000 $25,539,000 $25,539,000 $26,418,000 -34%  $11.36 $7.49 $7.16 $7.16 $7.40 TOTAL $129,673,000 $97,008,000 $82,890,000 $96,572,000 $96,063,000 -25%  $20.17 $15.09 $12.90 $15.02 $14.95 MichiganAnn Arbor, MI $1,308,000 $1,119,000 $1,082,000 $1,164,000 $1,154,000 -14%  $11.35 $9.71 $9.40 $10.10 $10.01 Battle Creek, MI $1,557,000 $1,443,000 $1,070,000 $1,196,000 $1,168,000 -7%  $29.02 $26.90 $19.94 $22.29 $21.78 Bay City, MI $1,742,000 $1,371,000 $827,000 $1,102,000 $1,076,000 -21%  $48.60 $38.25 $23.07 $30.75 $30.03 Benton Harbor, MI $572,000 $725,000 $625,000 $806,000 $783,000 27%  $51.76 $65.56 $56.56 $72.89 $70.85 Canton Twp., MI $434,000 $358,000 $351,000 $223,000 $220,000 -17%  $5.34 $4.40 $4.32 $2.74 $2.70 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Clinton Twp., MI $641,000 $575,000 $630,000 $602,000 $592,000 -10%  $6.68 $5.99 $6.57 $6.28 $6.17 Dearborn, MI $2,485,000 $2,498,000 $2,133,000 $1,977,000 $1,930,000 1%  $25.40 $25.54 $21.81 $20.21 $19.73 Dearborn Heights, MI $1,282,000 $867,000 $458,000 $369,000 $362,000 -32%  $22.09 $14.93 $7.90 $6.35 $6.24 Detroit, MI $45,828,000 $50,410,000 $35,975,000 $47,496,000 $46,373,000 10%  $49.54 $54.49 $38.89 $51.34 $50.13 East Lansing, MI $727,000 $438,000 $423,000 $552,000 $544,000 -40%  $15.71 $9.46 $9.15 $11.93 $11.77 Farmington Hills, MI $463,000 $376,000 $371,000 $250,000 $246,000 -19%  $5.69 $4.62 $4.55 $3.07 $3.03 Flint, MI $5,216,000 $5,373,000 $4,232,000 $5,447,000 $5,303,000 3%  $42.84 $44.13 $34.76 $44.73 $43.55 Genesee County, MI $2,257,000 $2,111,000 $2,759,000 $3,276,000 $3,194,000 -6%  $7.23 $6.76 $8.84 $10.49 $10.23 Grand Rapids, MI $4,737,000 $4,641,000 $4,191,000 $5,200,000 $5,089,000 -2%  $24.10 $23.61 $21.32 $26.45 $25.88 Holland, MI $386,000 $302,000 $391,000 $436,000 $430,000 -22%  $11.13 $8.72 $11.27 $12.58 $12.38 Jackson, MI $1,677,000 $1,478,000 $1,017,000 $1,394,000 $1,360,000 -12%  $47.22 $41.63 $28.64 $39.25 $38.30 Kalamazoo, MI $2,166,000 $2,011,000 $1,558,000 $2,054,000 $2,009,000 -7%  $28.55 $26.51 $20.54 $27.07 $26.49 Kent County, MI $1,838,000 $1,526,000 $1,778,000 $1,232,000 $1,209,000 -17%  $5.78 $4.80 $5.59 $3.88 $3.80 Lansing, MI $2,536,000 $2,524,000 $2,485,000 $3,067,000 $2,998,000 0%  $21.38 $21.28 $20.96 $25.86 $25.28 Lincoln Park, MI $989,000 $773,000 $450,000 $455,000 $447,000 -22%  $24.94 $19.49 $11.36 $11.48 $11.27 Livonia, MI $487,000 $379,000 $384,000 $261,000 $256,000 -22%  $4.85 $3.78 $3.83 $2.60 $2.55 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Macomb County, MI $1,984,000 $1,691,000 $1,991,000 $2,061,000 $2,022,000 -15%  $5.87 $5.00 $5.89 $6.10 $5.99 Midland, MI $303,000 $257,000 $344,000 $257,000 $250,000 -15%  $7.20 $6.11 $8.16 $6.12 $5.94 Monroe, MI $629,000 $534,000 $412,000 $501,000 $489,000 -15%  $28.55 $24.24 $18.70 $22.76 $22.21 Muskegon, MI $1,212,000 $1,196,000 $994,000 $1,292,000 $1,261,000 -1%  $30.74 $30.33 $25.20 $32.77 $31.98 Muskegon Heights, MI $569,000 $727,000 $548,000 $740,000 $721,000 28%  $47.99 $61.29 $46.18 $62.42 $60.82 Niles, MI $397,000 $303,000 $232,000 $291,000 $284,000 -24%  $33.16 $25.29 $19.34 $24.28 $23.76 Norton Shores, MI $153,000 $135,000 $146,000 $116,000 $113,000 -12%  $6.63 $5.83 $6.30 $5.01 $4.89 Oakland County, MI $3,811,000 $3,225,000 $3,837,000 $3,210,000 $3,154,000 -15%  $5.89 $4.99 $5.93 $4.96 $4.88 Pontiac, MI $1,900,000 $1,992,000 $1,876,000 $2,286,000 $2,240,000 5%  $28.73 $30.12 $28.36 $34.56 $33.88 Port Huron, MI $1,023,000 $919,000 $724,000 $973,000 $948,000 -10%  $31.67 $28.46 $22.42 $30.12 $29.33 Portage, MI $262,000 $203,000 $229,000 $164,000 $162,000 -22%  $5.80 $4.50 $5.07 $3.64 $3.58 Redford, MI $1,161,000 $772,000 $374,000 $317,000 $313,000 -34%  $22.65 $15.06 $7.30 $6.18 $6.10 Rochester Hills, MI $359,000 $292,000 $287,000 $202,000 $199,000 -19%  $5.23 $4.25 $4.18 $2.94 $2.90 Roseville, MI $672,000 $548,000 $453,000 $543,000 $531,000 -18%  $13.90 $11.33 $9.38 $11.24 $10.98 Royal Oak, MI $1,650,000 $258,000 $298,000 $277,000 $273,000 -84%  $27.86 $4.35 $5.04 $4.67 $4.61 Saginaw, MI $3,016,000 $3,115,000 $2,398,000 $3,154,000 $3,071,000 3%  $50.19 $51.83 $39.90 $52.49 $51.10 
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Southfield, MI $629,000 $593,000 $702,000 $619,000 $611,000 -6%  $8.08 $7.62 $9.02 $7.96 $7.85 St. Clair Shores, MI $1,116,000 $680,000 $314,000 $337,000 $331,000 -39%  $17.79 $10.83 $5.00 $5.37 $5.27 Sterling Heights, MI $828,000 $770,000 $757,000 $726,000 $714,000 -7%  $6.56 $6.10 $6.00 $5.75 $5.66 Taylor, MI $620,000 $656,000 $839,000 $786,000 $767,000 6%  $9.41 $9.95 $12.74 $11.93 $11.64 Troy City, MI $429,000 $342,000 $310,000 $200,000 $201,000 -20%  $5.30 $4.23 $3.83 $2.47 $2.48 Warren, MI $1,053,000 $1,000,000 $1,230,000 $1,433,000 $1,405,000 -5%  $7.65 $7.26 $8.94 $10.41 $10.21 Washtenaw County, MI $906,000 $850,000 $1,001,000 $876,000 $861,000 -6%  $8.60 $8.07 $9.50 $8.31 $8.17 Waterford Twp., MI $451,000 $365,000 $449,000 $436,000 $429,000 -19%  $6.12 $4.95 $6.10 $5.91 $5.83 Wayne County, MI $6,543,000 $6,330,000 $6,303,000 $6,981,000 $6,836,000 -3%  $12.12 $11.72 $11.67 $12.93 $12.66 Westland, MI $1,270,000 $971,000 $744,000 $601,000 $593,000 -24%  $14.72 $11.26 $8.63 $6.96 $6.87 Wyoming, MI $573,000 $540,000 $670,000 $650,000 $643,000 -6%  $8.15 $7.68 $9.52 $9.25 $9.15 Michigan State Program $42,906,000 $34,545,000 $36,630,000 $36,630,000 $37,950,000 -19%  $10.47 $8.43 $8.94 $8.94 $9.26 TOTAL $155,753,000 $145,106,000 $128,285,000 $145,217,000 $144,117,000 -7%  $15.51 $14.45 $12.77 $14.46 $14.35 MinnesotaAnoka County, MN $1,359,000 $1,118,000 $1,199,000 $1,177,000 $1,162,000 -18%  $5.49 $4.51 $4.84 $4.76 $4.69 Bloomington, MN $501,000 $394,000 $413,000 $302,000 $302,000 -21%  $5.96 $4.69 $4.91 $3.59 $3.59 
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Coon Rapids, MN $374,000 $331,000 $374,000 $368,000 $362,000 -11%  $6.00 $5.31 $6.01 $5.90 $5.81 Dakota County, MN $2,058,000 $1,621,000 $1,810,000 $1,567,000 $1,552,000 -21%  $5.35 $4.21 $4.71 $4.08 $4.04 Duluth, MN $3,402,000 $2,757,000 $1,641,000 $1,868,000 $1,829,000 -19%  $39.37 $31.90 $18.99 $21.62 $21.17 Hennepin County, MN $3,514,000 $2,887,000 $3,120,000 $2,209,000 $2,195,000 -18%  $5.85 $4.81 $5.20 $3.68 $3.66 Minneapolis, MN $16,313,000 $11,040,000 $8,333,000 $9,808,000 $9,660,000 -32%  $43.43 $29.39 $22.18 $26.11 $25.72 Moorhead, MN $341,000 $254,000 $338,000 $381,000 $370,000 -26%  $10.47 $7.79 $10.37 $11.68 $11.37 Plymouth, MN $317,000 $213,000 $205,000 $127,000 $127,000 -33%  $4.71 $3.17 $3.04 $1.88 $1.89 Ramsey County, MN $1,286,000 $1,018,000 $1,137,000 $948,000 $937,000 -21%  $5.67 $4.49 $5.02 $4.18 $4.13 Rochester, MN $674,000 $591,000 $780,000 $714,000 $701,000 -12%  $7.45 $6.52 $8.62 $7.89 $7.75 St. Cloud, MN $576,000 $382,000 $470,000 $458,000 $450,000 -34%  $9.64 $6.39 $7.87 $7.67 $7.53 St. Louis County, MN $2,931,000 $2,122,000 $1,428,000 $1,505,000 $1,471,000 -28%  $26.00 $18.82 $12.67 $13.35 $13.05 St. Paul, MN $9,526,000 $6,507,000 $5,907,000 $7,228,000 $7,105,000 -32%  $33.54 $22.91 $20.80 $25.45 $25.01 Washington County, MN $960,000 $718,000 $763,000 $637,000 $628,000 -25%  $4.65 $3.48 $3.69 $3.08 $3.04 Minnesota State Program $24,290,000 $19,719,000 $19,622,000 $19,622,000 $20,338,000 -19%  $11.68 $9.48 $9.43 $9.43 $9.78 TOTAL $68,422,000 $51,671,000 $47,542,000 $48,920,000 $49,191,000 -24%  $13.68 $10.33 $9.51 $9.78 $9.84 
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Mississippi Biloxi, MS $580,000 $687,000 $817,000 $773,000 $756,000 18%  $11.64 $13.79 $16.41 $15.52 $15.17 Gulfport, MS $928,000 $1,015,000 $1,319,000 $1,250,000 $1,216,000 9%  $12.80 $14.00 $18.19 $17.23 $16.77 Hattiesburg, MS $748,000 $795,000 $1,023,000 $1,066,000 $1,034,000 6%  $16.34 $17.38 $22.36 $23.28 $22.59 Jackson, MS $3,060,000 $3,573,000 $4,644,000 $4,687,000 $4,561,000 17%  $16.92 $19.75 $25.67 $25.91 $25.22 Moss Point, MS $214,000 $249,000 $341,000 $365,000 $355,000 17%  $13.83 $16.12 $22.06 $23.57 $22.95 Pascagoula, MS $376,000 $440,000 $561,000 $536,000 $520,000 17%  $14.47 $16.93 $21.59 $20.64 $20.02 Mississippi State Program $35,331,000 $41,512,000 $44,414,000 $44,414,000 $45,579,000 17%  $14.27 $16.76 $17.93 $17.93 $18.41 TOTAL $41,237,000 $48,272,000 $53,119,000 $53,091,000 $54,022,000 17%  $14.38 $16.84 $18.53 $18.52 $18.84 MissouriColumbia, MO $1,010,000 $793,000 $935,000 $954,000 $931,000 -21%  $11.61 $9.12 $10.75 $10.96 $10.70 Florissant, MO $274,000 $226,000 $282,000 $279,000 $275,000 -18%  $5.48 $4.52 $5.64 $5.57 $5.50 Independence, MO $911,000 $964,000 $1,245,000 $1,473,000 $1,439,000 6%  $8.06 $8.53 $11.01 $13.03 $12.73 Jefferson City, MO $381,000 $383,000 $441,000 $403,000 $392,000 0%  $9.75 $9.79 $11.28 $10.31 $10.02 Jefferson County, MO $1,379,000 $1,279,000 $1,536,000 $1,648,000 $1,609,000 -7%  $6.78 $6.29 $7.56 $8.11 $7.91 Joplin, MO $814,000 $890,000 $794,000 $798,000 $777,000 9%  $17.62 $19.27 $17.20 $17.27 $16.83 
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Kansas City, MO $10,741,000 $9,918,000 $8,379,000 $9,582,000 $9,377,000 -8%  $24.22 $22.36 $18.89 $21.61 $21.14 Lees Summit, MO $367,000 $293,000 $329,000 $256,000 $250,000 -20%  $4.90 $3.92 $4.39 $3.42 $3.34 O'Fallon, MO $269,000 $206,000 $197,000 $179,000 $176,000 -24%  $4.51 $3.45 $3.31 $2.99 $2.94 Springfield, MO $1,637,000 $2,070,000 $2,230,000 $2,377,000 $2,317,000 26%  $10.84 $13.71 $14.77 $15.74 $15.34 St. Charles, MO $380,000 $328,000 $422,000 $385,000 $376,000 -14%  $6.25 $5.39 $6.94 $6.34 $6.19 St. Joseph, MO $2,132,000 $1,833,000 $1,272,000 $1,410,000 $1,376,000 -14%  $29.15 $25.05 $17.39 $19.28 $18.81 St. Louis, MO $24,897,000 $21,133,000 $12,465,000 $17,008,000 $16,607,000 -15%  $73.58 $62.46 $36.84 $50.27 $49.08 St. Louis County, MO $6,480,000 $5,903,000 $8,265,000 $6,755,000 $6,601,000 -9%  $7.00 $6.38 $8.93 $7.30 $7.13 St. Peters City, MO $232,000 $165,000 $174,000 $153,000 $150,000 -29%  $4.33 $3.07 $3.24 $2.85 $2.80 Missouri State Program $28,398,000 $33,048,000 $36,815,000 $36,815,000 $37,549,000 16%  $9.61 $11.19 $12.46 $12.46 $12.71 TOTAL $80,302,000 $79,431,000 $75,781,000 $80,474,000 $80,201,000 -1%  $14.16 $14.00 $13.36 $14.19 $14.14 MontanaBillings, MT $843,000 $940,000 $1,180,000 $1,179,000 $1,148,000 12%  $9.16 $10.22 $12.82 $12.81 $12.48 Great Falls, MT $1,157,000 $1,283,000 $1,066,000 $1,101,000 $1,074,000 11%  $20.64 $22.88 $19.02 $19.64 $19.16 Missoula, MT $752,000 $983,000 $970,000 $1,071,000 $1,047,000 31%  $12.63 $16.52 $16.30 $17.99 $17.59 Montana State Program $8,012,000 $8,751,000 $9,158,000 $9,158,000 $9,444,000 9%  $12.07 $13.18 $13.79 $13.79 $14.22 
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TOTAL $10,764,000 $11,957,000 $12,374,000 $12,508,000 $12,712,000 11%  $12.35 $13.72 $14.20 $14.35 $14.59 NebraskaLincoln, NE $2,131,000 $1,784,000 $2,242,000 $2,223,000 $2,185,000 -16%  $9.17 $7.68 $9.65 $9.57 $9.40 Omaha, NE $6,115,000 $5,640,000 $5,714,000 $5,830,000 $5,714,000 -8%  $15.31 $14.12 $14.31 $14.60 $14.31 Nebraska State Program $14,711,000 $12,803,000 $12,661,000 $12,661,000 $13,095,000 -13%  $13.46 $11.71 $11.58 $11.58 $11.98 TOTAL $22,957,000 $20,226,000 $20,617,000 $20,714,000 $20,993,000 -12%  $13.31 $11.73 $11.95 $12.01 $12.17 NevadaCarson City, NV $536,000 $553,000 $606,000 $505,000 $500,000 3%  $9.87 $10.19 $11.16 $9.30 $9.20 Clark County, NV $7,390,000 $7,551,000 $7,581,000 $6,064,000 $6,055,000 2%  $11.01 $11.25 $11.29 $9.03 $9.02 Henderson, NV $1,299,000 $1,119,000 $1,164,000 $796,000 $788,000 -14%  $6.30 $5.43 $5.65 $3.86 $3.82 Las Vegas, NV $6,122,000 $6,525,000 $6,776,000 $5,355,000 $5,320,000 7%  $12.04 $12.83 $13.32 $10.53 $10.46 North Las Vegas, NV $1,841,000 $2,131,000 $2,156,000 $2,128,000 $2,111,000 16%  $13.55 $15.68 $15.87 $15.66 $15.54 Reno, NV $2,424,000 $2,417,000 $2,673,000 $2,389,000 $2,384,000 0%  $12.74 $12.71 $14.05 $12.56 $12.53 Sparks, NV $729,000 $758,000 $781,000 $704,000 $707,000 4%  $9.89 $10.27 $10.59 $9.55 $9.59 Nevada State Program $3,176,000 $3,172,000 $2,240,000 $2,240,000 $2,548,000 0%  $9.74 $9.73 $6.87 $6.87 $7.82 TOTAL $23,517,000 $24,226,000 $23,976,000 $20,181,000 $20,413,000 3%  $10.86 $11.18 $11.07 $9.32 $9.42 
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New HampshireDover, NH $425,000 $256,000 $256,000 $293,000 $287,000 -40%  $15.30 $9.22 $9.23 $10.54 $10.33 Manchester, NH $2,227,000 $1,834,000 $1,652,000 $2,079,000 $2,037,000 -18%  $20.54 $16.92 $15.24 $19.18 $18.79 Nashua, NH $890,000 $794,000 $872,000 $899,000 $882,000 -11%  $10.15 $9.05 $9.94 $10.25 $10.05 Portsmouth, NH $789,000 $300,000 $239,000 $233,000 $227,000 -62%  $37.49 $14.25 $11.37 $11.06 $10.81 Rochester, NH $369,000 $296,000 $329,000 $428,000 $418,000 -20%  $12.57 $10.10 $11.21 $14.58 $14.23 New Hampshire State Program $10,765,000 $7,003,000 $6,947,000 $6,947,000 $7,177,000 -35%  $10.76 $7.00 $6.94 $6.94 $7.17 TOTAL $15,465,000 $10,484,000 $10,295,000 $10,879,000 $11,027,000 -32%  $12.13 $8.22 $8.07 $8.53 $8.65 New JerseyAsbury Park, NJ $540,000 $722,000 $744,000 $933,000 $914,000 34%  $32.15 $43.02 $44.28 $55.56 $54.44 Atlantic City, NJ $1,651,000 $1,449,000 $1,269,000 $1,524,000 $1,502,000 -12%  $41.10 $36.07 $31.58 $37.94 $37.38 Atlantic County, NJ $1,708,000 $1,658,000 $2,029,000 $1,766,000 $1,735,000 -3%  $7.95 $7.72 $9.45 $8.22 $8.08 Bayonne, NJ $2,255,000 $1,600,000 $1,095,000 $1,331,000 $1,307,000 -29%  $36.60 $25.96 $17.78 $21.61 $21.22 Bergen County, NJ $12,648,000 $5,727,000 $7,166,000 $5,056,000 $5,019,000 -55%  $14.13 $6.40 $8.01 $5.65 $5.61 Bloomfield, NJ $1,350,000 $733,000 $505,000 $563,000 $557,000 -46%  $28.41 $15.42 $10.62 $11.85 $11.73 Brick Twp., NJ $438,000 $374,000 $419,000 $442,000 $433,000 -15%  $5.63 $4.81 $5.38 $5.68 $5.57 
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Bridgeton, NJ $521,000 $652,000 $678,000 $849,000 $828,000 25%  $23.00 $28.76 $29.94 $37.46 $36.55 Burlington County, NJ $1,960,000 $1,607,000 $1,915,000 $1,566,000 $1,539,000 -18%  $5.33 $4.37 $5.21 $4.26 $4.18 Camden, NJ $3,425,000 $4,249,000 $3,876,000 $4,868,000 $4,758,000 24%  $42.98 $53.32 $48.64 $61.09 $59.71 Camden County, NJ $3,037,000 $1,855,000 $2,398,000 $2,358,000 $2,316,000 -39%  $10.66 $6.51 $8.42 $8.28 $8.13 Cherry Hill, NJ $529,000 $297,000 $298,000 $200,000 $196,000 -44%  $7.52 $4.23 $4.24 $2.85 $2.79 Clifton, NJ $1,705,000 $1,167,000 $878,000 $905,000 $896,000 -32%  $21.41 $14.66 $11.03 $11.37 $11.25 Dover Twp., NJ $553,000 $486,000 $553,000 $591,000 $576,000 -12%  $5.95 $5.23 $5.96 $6.36 $6.20 East Orange, NJ $1,999,000 $2,078,000 $2,017,000 $2,484,000 $2,447,000 4%  $28.66 $29.80 $28.92 $35.62 $35.08 Edison, NJ $790,000 $743,000 $718,000 $528,000 $535,000 -6%  $7.91 $7.43 $7.19 $5.29 $5.36 Elizabeth, NJ $2,480,000 $2,973,000 $3,402,000 $4,027,000 $3,982,000 20%  $20.12 $24.11 $27.60 $32.66 $32.30 Essex County, NJ $7,217,000 $2,601,000 $3,086,000 $2,362,000 $2,327,000 -64%  $21.01 $7.57 $8.98 $6.88 $6.77 Ewing Twp., NJ $245,000 $225,000 $240,000 $281,000 $275,000 -8%  $6.78 $6.24 $6.64 $7.76 $7.62 Franklin Twp., NJ $388,000 $337,000 $358,000 $272,000 $273,000 -13%  $6.97 $6.05 $6.44 $4.89 $4.91 Gloucester County, NJ $1,783,000 $1,517,000 $1,913,000 $2,012,000 $1,966,000 -15%  $6.80 $5.79 $7.30 $7.68 $7.50 Gloucester Twp., NJ $432,000 $370,000 $431,000 $413,000 $405,000 -14%  $6.58 $5.64 $6.56 $6.28 $6.16 Hamilton Twp., NJ $674,000 $482,000 $575,000 $619,000 $610,000 -28%  $7.58 $5.42 $6.47 $6.97 $6.86 
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Hudson County, NJ $4,402,000 $3,597,000 $3,596,000 $3,265,000 $3,230,000 -18%  $23.95 $19.57 $19.57 $17.76 $17.57 Irvington, NJ $1,261,000 $1,446,000 $1,640,000 $1,944,000 $1,920,000 15%  $20.84 $23.89 $27.10 $32.13 $31.72 Jersey City, NJ $7,932,000 $7,979,000 $7,270,000 $8,997,000 $8,873,000 1%  $33.04 $33.23 $30.28 $37.47 $36.96 Lakewood Twp., NJ $943,000 $1,163,000 $1,300,000 $1,450,000 $1,409,000 23%  $14.46 $17.83 $19.93 $22.23 $21.61 Long Branch, NJ $617,000 $650,000 $706,000 $876,000 $858,000 5%  $19.54 $20.60 $22.36 $27.76 $27.19 Middlesex County, NJ $2,370,000 $2,052,000 $2,257,000 $1,923,000 $1,919,000 -13%  $6.36 $5.50 $6.05 $5.16 $5.15 Middletown, NJ $348,000 $239,000 $274,000 $226,000 $222,000 -31%  $5.29 $3.63 $4.17 $3.44 $3.37 Millville, NJ $353,000 $447,000 $529,000 $501,000 $488,000 27%  $13.11 $16.61 $19.66 $18.62 $18.13 Monmouth County, NJ $3,780,000 $2,706,000 $3,332,000 $2,904,000 $2,841,000 -28%  $7.42 $5.31 $6.54 $5.70 $5.57 Morris County, NJ $2,732,000 $1,632,000 $1,894,000 $1,372,000 $1,350,000 -40%  $6.67 $3.98 $4.62 $3.35 $3.29 New Brunswick, NJ $971,000 $1,014,000 $1,221,000 $1,429,000 $1,417,000 4%  $19.66 $20.53 $24.72 $28.93 $28.68 Newark, NJ $10,651,000 $11,928,000 $10,333,000 $12,872,000 $12,598,000 12%  $38.45 $43.06 $37.30 $46.47 $45.48 North Bergen Twp., NJ $795,000 $846,000 $1,084,000 $1,247,000 $1,235,000 6%  $13.47 $14.33 $18.37 $21.12 $20.93 Ocean City, NJ $364,000 $145,000 $141,000 $114,000 $112,000 -60%  $23.46 $9.33 $9.06 $7.35 $7.20 Ocean County, NJ $1,713,000 $1,485,000 $1,649,000 $1,911,000 $1,857,000 -13%  $5.69 $4.93 $5.48 $6.35 $6.17 Old Bridge Twp., NJ $397,000 $360,000 $363,000 $323,000 $321,000 -9%  $6.30 $5.70 $5.76 $5.11 $5.09 
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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ $350,000 $319,000 $313,000 $227,000 $229,000 -9%  $6.87 $6.25 $6.15 $4.46 $4.49 Passaic, NJ $1,405,000 $1,936,000 $2,361,000 $2,780,000 $2,748,000 38%  $20.53 $28.28 $34.50 $40.62 $40.15 Paterson, NJ $3,417,000 $4,468,000 $4,905,000 $5,921,000 $5,821,000 31%  $22.67 $29.64 $32.54 $39.27 $38.62 Perth Amboy, NJ $827,000 $980,000 $1,283,000 $1,475,000 $1,458,000 18%  $17.18 $20.35 $26.65 $30.63 $30.29 Sayreville, NJ $282,000 $259,000 $277,000 $275,000 $273,000 -8%  $6.75 $6.19 $6.63 $6.57 $6.54 Somerset County, NJ $1,502,000 $1,199,000 $1,379,000 $950,000 $944,000 -20%  $6.05 $4.83 $5.55 $3.82 $3.80 Trenton, NJ $3,686,000 $3,331,000 $2,639,000 $3,431,000 $3,362,000 -10%  $43.04 $38.89 $30.81 $40.06 $39.25 Union, NJ $782,000 $523,000 $413,000 $474,000 $468,000 -33%  $14.08 $9.42 $7.44 $8.53 $8.42 Union City, NJ $1,548,000 $2,166,000 $2,546,000 $3,024,000 $2,999,000 40%  $23.14 $32.38 $38.06 $45.20 $44.83 Union County, NJ $6,316,000 $2,446,000 $3,212,000 $2,810,000 $2,776,000 -61%  $17.95 $6.95 $9.13 $7.98 $7.89 Vineland, NJ $666,000 $694,000 $923,000 $802,000 $787,000 4%  $11.82 $12.32 $16.38 $14.24 $13.97 Wayne Twp., NJ $245,000 $180,000 $180,000 $127,000 $124,000 -26%  $4.46 $3.29 $3.27 $2.31 $2.26 Woodbridge, NJ $733,000 $627,000 $694,000 $686,000 $686,000 -14%  $7.30 $6.25 $6.91 $6.83 $6.83 New Jersey State Program $9,403,000 $6,688,000 $6,725,000 $6,725,000 $7,099,000 -29%  $9.57 $6.81 $6.84 $6.84 $7.22 TOTAL $119,119,000 $97,405,000 $102,004,000 $107,011,000 $105,822,000 -18%  $13.87 $11.34 $11.87 $12.46 $12.32 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM $5,249,000 $5,236,000 $6,473,000 $5,604,000 $5,496,000 0%  $11.32 $11.29 $13.96 $12.08 $11.85 Farmington, NM $520,000 $586,000 $648,000 $438,000 $428,000 13%  $12.82 $14.45 $15.97 $10.79 $10.55 Las Cruces, NM $1,189,000 $1,217,000 $1,506,000 $1,238,000 $1,202,000 2%  $15.85 $16.22 $20.08 $16.50 $16.02 Rio Rancho, NM $346,000 $306,000 $316,000 $258,000 $255,000 -11%  $6.11 $5.41 $5.57 $4.56 $4.50 Santa Fe, NM $689,000 $678,000 $860,000 $734,000 $721,000 -2%  $10.58 $10.42 $13.21 $11.26 $11.07 New Mexico State Program $16,626,000 $19,297,000 $18,463,000 $18,463,000 $19,573,000 16%  $15.87 $18.42 $17.62 $17.62 $18.68 TOTAL $24,619,000 $27,321,000 $28,267,000 $26,734,000 $27,675,000 11%  $14.08 $15.62 $16.16 $15.29 $15.82 New YorkAlbany, NY $4,531,000 $4,174,000 $2,631,000 $3,728,000 $3,649,000 -8%  $48.32 $44.50 $28.05 $39.75 $38.91 Amherst Town, NY $726,000 $572,000 $726,000 $536,000 $523,000 -21%  $6.19 $4.88 $6.20 $4.58 $4.47 Auburn, NY $1,296,000 $984,000 $641,000 $767,000 $747,000 -24%  $45.98 $34.90 $22.75 $27.21 $26.51 Babylon Town, NY $1,576,000 $1,510,000 $1,778,000 $2,039,000 $2,003,000 -4%  $7.31 $7.00 $8.24 $9.45 $9.28 Binghamton, NY $2,825,000 $2,658,000 $1,536,000 $2,011,000 $1,965,000 -6%  $60.45 $56.88 $32.87 $43.02 $42.05 Buffalo, NY $19,551,000 $19,180,000 $11,863,000 $16,872,000 $16,473,000 -2%  $67.96 $66.67 $41.23 $58.65 $57.26 Cheektowaga Town, NY $1,144,000 $1,041,000 $811,000 $882,000 $861,000 -9%  $12.31 $11.20 $8.73 $9.49 $9.26 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Clay Town, NY $356,000 $302,000 $393,000 $344,000 $336,000 -15%  $6.02 $5.11 $6.64 $5.82 $5.69 Colonie Town, NY $475,000 $350,000 $440,000 $384,000 $376,000 -26%  $5.94 $4.38 $5.50 $4.80 $4.70 Dunkirk, NY $688,000 $603,000 $429,000 $511,000 $497,000 -12%  $53.58 $46.92 $33.40 $39.79 $38.73 Dutchess County, NY $1,933,000 $1,279,000 $1,523,000 $1,391,000 $1,363,000 -34%  $8.13 $5.38 $6.41 $5.85 $5.73 Elmira, NY $1,657,000 $1,463,000 $929,000 $1,317,000 $1,282,000 -12%  $54.48 $48.09 $30.53 $43.31 $42.16 Erie County, NY $3,396,000 $2,232,000 $2,011,000 $1,897,000 $1,854,000 -34%  $12.65 $8.31 $7.49 $7.07 $6.91 Glens Falls, NY $678,000 $522,000 $329,000 $402,000 $393,000 -23%  $47.77 $36.74 $23.17 $28.34 $27.67 Greece, NY $522,000 $439,000 $549,000 $504,000 $492,000 -16%  $5.52 $4.64 $5.80 $5.33 $5.20 Hamburg Town, NY $529,000 $270,000 $338,000 $310,000 $303,000 -49%  $9.33 $4.76 $5.96 $5.46 $5.34 Huntington Town, NY $1,115,000 $947,000 $1,066,000 $816,000 $797,000 -15%  $5.62 $4.77 $5.37 $4.11 $4.02 Irondequoit, NY $1,174,000 $647,000 $404,000 $395,000 $385,000 -45%  $22.45 $12.38 $7.73 $7.55 $7.36 Islip Town, NY $2,509,000 $2,484,000 $2,708,000 $2,928,000 $2,885,000 -1%  $7.61 $7.54 $8.21 $8.88 $8.75 Ithaca, NY $976,000 $1,042,000 $601,000 $933,000 $918,000 7%  $32.56 $34.76 $20.05 $31.14 $30.64 Jamestown, NY $1,680,000 $1,485,000 $953,000 $1,213,000 $1,182,000 -12%  $54.14 $47.86 $30.72 $39.08 $38.10 Kingston, NY $977,000 $786,000 $536,000 $662,000 $647,000 -20%  $41.85 $33.68 $22.94 $28.35 $27.71 Middletown, NY $690,000 $652,000 $644,000 $777,000 $762,000 -6%  $26.77 $25.30 $25.00 $30.15 $29.57 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Monroe County, NY $1,799,000 $1,252,000 $1,524,000 $1,227,000 $1,200,000 -30%  $5.41 $3.76 $4.58 $3.69 $3.61 Mount Vernon, NY $2,192,000 $1,897,000 $1,691,000 $1,991,000 $1,966,000 -13%  $31.95 $27.65 $24.64 $29.02 $28.65 Nassau County, NY $18,477,000 $8,018,000 $9,774,000 $9,187,000 $9,063,000 -57%  $14.93 $6.48 $7.90 $7.42 $7.32 New Rochelle, NY $2,035,000 $1,591,000 $1,284,000 $993,000 $981,000 -22%  $28.08 $21.95 $17.72 $13.70 $13.54 New York City, NY $218,834,000 $264,274,000 $268,369,000 $288,735,000 $284,767,000 21%  $27.07 $32.69 $33.20 $35.72 $35.22 Newburgh, NY $1,015,000 $1,193,000 $1,124,000 $1,424,000 $1,399,000 18%  $35.76 $42.04 $39.61 $50.18 $49.29 Niagara Falls, NY $3,088,000 $2,799,000 $1,628,000 $2,276,000 $2,219,000 -9%  $56.81 $51.49 $29.95 $41.88 $40.83 Onondaga County, NY $2,526,000 $1,573,000 $1,743,000 $1,466,000 $1,429,000 -38%  $9.88 $6.15 $6.82 $5.73 $5.59 Orange County, NY $1,970,000 $1,283,000 $1,599,000 $1,484,000 $1,452,000 -35%  $7.34 $4.78 $5.96 $5.53 $5.41 Poughkeepsie, NY $1,244,000 $1,155,000 $920,000 $1,211,000 $1,186,000 -7%  $41.37 $38.41 $30.59 $40.27 $39.42 Rochester, NY $11,607,000 $11,417,000 $8,130,000 $11,236,000 $10,961,000 -2%  $53.45 $52.57 $37.44 $51.74 $50.47 Rockland County, NY $2,552,000 $2,672,000 $2,946,000 $2,245,000 $2,208,000 5%  $8.97 $9.39 $10.35 $7.89 $7.76 Rome, NY $1,456,000 $1,129,000 $668,000 $714,000 $696,000 -22%  $41.95 $32.53 $19.24 $20.58 $20.04 Saratoga Springs, NY $445,000 $283,000 $253,000 $244,000 $238,000 -36%  $16.47 $10.47 $9.37 $9.03 $8.81 Schenectady, NY $3,112,000 $2,747,000 $1,849,000 $2,610,000 $2,548,000 -12%  $50.67 $44.73 $30.10 $42.49 $41.48 Suffolk County, NY $4,474,000 $3,939,000 $4,509,000 $4,723,000 $4,625,000 -12%  $6.36 $5.60 $6.41 $6.71 $6.57 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Syracuse, NY $7,444,000 $7,098,000 $4,824,000 $6,693,000 $6,529,000 -5%  $51.28 $48.89 $33.23 $46.10 $44.98 Tonawanda Town, NY $2,247,000 $1,564,000 $756,000 $799,000 $780,000 -30%  $29.27 $20.37 $9.85 $10.41 $10.16 Troy, NY $2,494,000 $1,943,000 $1,226,000 $1,740,000 $1,700,000 -22%  $51.09 $39.79 $25.11 $35.65 $34.83 Union Town, NY $1,687,000 $1,416,000 $905,000 $967,000 $944,000 -16%  $30.20 $25.36 $16.20 $17.32 $16.91 Utica, NY $3,550,000 $3,597,000 $2,228,000 $3,008,000 $2,933,000 1%  $59.22 $60.01 $37.16 $50.18 $48.93 West Seneca Town, NY $353,000 $239,000 $269,000 $267,000 $261,000 -32%  $7.77 $5.27 $5.92 $5.89 $5.75 Westchester County, NY $6,887,000 $3,121,000 $3,938,000 $2,852,000 $2,815,000 -55%  $13.32 $6.03 $7.61 $5.51 $5.44 White Plains, NY $1,103,000 $725,000 $810,000 $554,000 $552,000 -34%  $19.91 $13.08 $14.62 $10.01 $9.96 Yonkers, NY $4,485,000 $4,588,000 $4,735,000 $4,942,000 $4,866,000 2%  $22.74 $23.26 $24.01 $25.06 $24.67 New York State Program $57,278,000 $46,991,000 $46,800,000 $46,800,000 $47,666,000 -18%  $15.23 $12.50 $12.44 $12.44 $12.68 TOTAL $415,358,000 $424,123,000 $408,340,000 $442,007,000 $436,676,000 2%  $21.69 $22.15 $21.32 $23.08 $22.80 North CarolinaAsheville, NC $1,546,000 $1,472,000 $1,191,000 $1,281,000 $1,250,000 -5%  $22.34 $21.28 $17.22 $18.51 $18.06 Burlington, NC $518,000 $547,000 $745,000 $701,000 $686,000 6%  $11.26 $11.88 $16.18 $15.24 $14.91 Cary, NC $522,000 $402,000 $379,000 $237,000 $236,000 -23%  $5.32 $4.10 $3.87 $2.42 $2.41 Chapel Hill, NC $711,000 $581,000 $609,000 $581,000 $582,000 -18%  $13.77 $11.25 $11.79 $11.26 $11.27 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Charlotte, NC $5,599,000 $5,526,000 $6,699,000 $5,350,000 $5,267,000 -1%  $9.64 $9.52 $11.54 $9.21 $9.07 Concord, NC $463,000 $473,000 $632,000 $682,000 $669,000 2%  $7.92 $8.08 $10.80 $11.66 $11.43 Cumberland County, NC $1,669,000 $1,766,000 $2,105,000 $1,996,000 $1,943,000 6%  $9.32 $9.86 $11.76 $11.15 $10.85 Durham, NC $2,304,000 $2,292,000 $3,038,000 $3,166,000 $3,107,000 -1%  $11.76 $11.70 $15.50 $16.16 $15.86 Fayetteville, NC $1,395,000 $1,490,000 $1,977,000 $1,657,000 $1,614,000 7%  $11.22 $11.99 $15.91 $13.34 $12.99 Gastonia, NC $772,000 $853,000 $1,157,000 $1,377,000 $1,341,000 10%  $11.38 $12.57 $17.06 $20.30 $19.77 Goldsboro, NC $488,000 $595,000 $768,000 $775,000 $752,000 22%  $12.68 $15.46 $19.97 $20.13 $19.55 Greensboro, NC $2,296,000 $2,163,000 $2,853,000 $2,478,000 $2,430,000 -6%  $10.06 $9.48 $12.50 $10.86 $10.65 Greenville, NC $962,000 $714,000 $977,000 $916,000 $892,000 -26%  $14.69 $10.90 $14.91 $13.99 $13.62 Hickory, NC $386,000 $380,000 $483,000 $359,000 $353,000 -1%  $9.82 $9.68 $12.29 $9.14 $8.98 High Point, NC $929,000 $961,000 $1,298,000 $1,278,000 $1,247,000 3%  $10.25 $10.60 $14.32 $14.10 $13.75 Jacksonville, NC $622,000 $676,000 $778,000 $732,000 $712,000 9%  $9.30 $10.10 $11.63 $10.95 $10.64 Kannapolis, NC $491,000 $455,000 $487,000 $595,000 $581,000 -7%  $12.91 $11.97 $12.80 $15.63 $15.29 Lenoir, NC $180,000 $219,000 $281,000 $316,000 $307,000 21%  $9.96 $12.09 $15.55 $17.46 $16.97 Morganton, NC $183,000 $187,000 $233,000 $195,000 $190,000 2%  $10.57 $10.82 $13.44 $11.26 $10.99 Raleigh, NC $2,813,000 $2,438,000 $2,939,000 $2,645,000 $2,603,000 -13%  $9.16 $7.94 $9.57 $8.62 $8.48 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Rocky Mount, NC $804,000 $986,000 $1,331,000 $1,252,000 $1,217,000 23%  $14.35 $17.61 $23.77 $22.35 $21.72 Salisbury, NC $397,000 $406,000 $451,000 $432,000 $421,000 2%  $15.01 $15.36 $17.04 $16.32 $15.91 Wake County, NC $1,626,000 $1,460,000 $1,693,000 $1,467,000 $1,434,000 -10%  $6.28 $5.64 $6.54 $5.67 $5.54 Wilmington, NC $1,059,000 $1,453,000 $1,513,000 $1,567,000 $1,529,000 37%  $11.68 $16.03 $16.69 $17.29 $16.87 Winston Salem, NC $2,197,000 $2,292,000 $3,217,000 $3,028,000 $2,960,000 4%  $11.63 $12.13 $17.03 $16.03 $15.67 North Carolina State Program $52,454,000 $56,305,000 $63,936,000 $63,936,000 $65,960,000 7%  $9.87 $10.60 $12.04 $12.04 $12.42 TOTAL $83,386,000 $87,091,000 $101,769,000 $98,998,000 $100,283,000 4%  $10.03 $10.48 $12.24 $11.91 $12.06 North DakotaBismarck, ND $415,000 $382,000 $484,000 $455,000 $445,000 -8%  $7.38 $6.80 $8.61 $8.09 $7.91 Fargo, ND $835,000 $744,000 $878,000 $837,000 $820,000 -11%  $9.16 $8.16 $9.63 $9.18 $8.99 Grand Forks, ND $504,000 $413,000 $540,000 $512,000 $500,000 -18%  $10.38 $8.52 $11.13 $10.55 $10.31 North Dakota State Program $5,717,000 $5,664,000 $5,633,000 $5,633,000 $5,711,000 -1%  $13.64 $13.51 $13.44 $13.44 $13.63 TOTAL $7,471,000 $7,204,000 $7,535,000 $7,438,000 $7,477,000 -4%  $12.14 $11.71 $12.25 $12.09 $12.15 OhioAkron, OH $8,226,000 $7,406,000 $5,045,000 $6,906,000 $6,727,000 -10%  $38.38 $34.55 $23.54 $32.22 $31.38 Alliance, OH $835,000 $734,000 $507,000 $688,000 $668,000 -12%  $36.33 $31.92 $22.08 $29.92 $29.08 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Barberton, OH $898,000 $766,000 $533,000 $726,000 $707,000 -15%  $32.46 $27.69 $19.26 $26.26 $25.57 Bowling Green, OH $369,000 $229,000 $230,000 $308,000 $301,000 -38%  $12.52 $7.76 $7.80 $10.43 $10.21 Butler County, OH $1,389,000 $910,000 $1,085,000 $959,000 $938,000 -35%  $6.05 $3.96 $4.72 $4.18 $4.09 Canton, OH $3,512,000 $3,179,000 $2,116,000 $2,930,000 $2,853,000 -9%  $44.03 $39.85 $26.52 $36.73 $35.77 Cincinnati, OH $16,103,000 $14,688,000 $9,750,000 $12,302,000 $12,014,000 -9%  $49.72 $45.35 $30.10 $37.98 $37.09 Cleveland, OH $29,026,000 $28,790,000 $18,443,000 $25,642,000 $24,978,000 -1%  $62.04 $61.54 $39.42 $54.81 $53.39 Cleveland Heights, OH $2,072,000 $1,258,000 $749,000 $742,000 $724,000 -39%  $41.66 $25.30 $15.06 $14.91 $14.57 Columbus, OH $7,820,000 $9,791,000 $11,438,000 $13,068,000 $12,762,000 25%  $10.78 $13.50 $15.77 $18.02 $17.60 Cuyahoga County, OH $3,841,000 $2,806,000 $3,603,000 $2,960,000 $2,895,000 -27%  $6.45 $4.71 $6.05 $4.97 $4.86 Cuyahoga Falls, OH $1,150,000 $450,000 $351,000 $350,000 $342,000 -61%  $22.88 $8.96 $6.99 $6.96 $6.80 Dayton, OH $7,675,000 $7,148,000 $4,682,000 $6,394,000 $6,227,000 -7%  $47.18 $43.94 $28.78 $39.31 $38.28 East Cleveland, OH $1,339,000 $1,697,000 $1,248,000 $1,749,000 $1,702,000 27%  $50.24 $63.69 $46.83 $65.64 $63.84 Elyria, OH $772,000 $706,000 $796,000 $947,000 $920,000 -9%  $13.72 $12.53 $14.14 $16.83 $16.34 Euclid, OH $1,221,000 $915,000 $646,000 $760,000 $742,000 -25%  $23.52 $17.62 $12.45 $14.64 $14.29 Fairborn, OH $322,000 $257,000 $357,000 $408,000 $397,000 -20%  $9.92 $7.92 $10.98 $12.58 $12.23 Franklin County, OH $2,222,000 $1,838,000 $2,330,000 $1,792,000 $1,750,000 -17%  $5.72 $4.73 $6.00 $4.62 $4.51 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Hamilton City, OH $1,831,000 $1,609,000 $1,137,000 $1,534,000 $1,495,000 -12%  $30.47 $26.77 $18.91 $25.52 $24.89 Hamilton County, OH $3,294,000 $2,680,000 $3,425,000 $3,306,000 $3,233,000 -19%  $8.22 $6.68 $8.54 $8.25 $8.06 Kent, OH $366,000 $348,000 $399,000 $516,000 $503,000 -5%  $13.19 $12.53 $14.40 $18.61 $18.14 Kettering, OH $616,000 $231,000 $314,000 $248,000 $243,000 -63%  $10.87 $4.07 $5.53 $4.37 $4.29 Lake County, OH $1,664,000 $1,186,000 $1,248,000 $1,240,000 $1,209,000 -29%  $9.33 $6.65 $7.00 $6.95 $6.78 Lakewood, OH $2,609,000 $1,418,000 $835,000 $897,000 $880,000 -46%  $47.19 $25.64 $15.10 $16.23 $15.92 Lancaster, OH $670,000 $588,000 $528,000 $711,000 $693,000 -12%  $18.57 $16.31 $14.63 $19.70 $19.20 Lima, OH $1,454,000 $1,604,000 $1,211,000 $1,654,000 $1,609,000 10%  $35.62 $39.29 $29.67 $40.53 $39.42 Lorain, OH $1,523,000 $1,495,000 $1,459,000 $1,839,000 $1,788,000 -2%  $22.49 $22.09 $21.55 $27.17 $26.42 Mansfield, OH $1,152,000 $1,211,000 $1,008,000 $1,151,000 $1,120,000 5%  $22.70 $23.86 $19.87 $22.68 $22.07 Marietta, OH $534,000 $412,000 $294,000 $322,000 $312,000 -23%  $37.82 $29.21 $20.85 $22.78 $22.12 Massillon, OH $889,000 $597,000 $447,000 $552,000 $537,000 -33%  $28.17 $18.92 $14.16 $17.50 $17.03 Mentor, OH $216,000 $157,000 $177,000 $155,000 $151,000 -27%  $4.30 $3.14 $3.52 $3.09 $3.02 Middletown, OH $799,000 $752,000 $781,000 $931,000 $905,000 -6%  $15.61 $14.70 $15.25 $18.20 $17.69 Montgomery County, OH $2,278,000 $2,054,000 $2,800,000 $2,508,000 $2,444,000 -10%  $6.68 $6.03 $8.22 $7.36 $7.17 Newark, OH $1,020,000 $934,000 $794,000 $1,074,000 $1,045,000 -8%  $21.96 $20.10 $17.09 $23.12 $22.49 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Parma, OH $1,098,000 $725,000 $527,000 $548,000 $536,000 -34%  $12.99 $8.57 $6.24 $6.48 $6.34 Sandusky, OH $967,000 $785,000 $589,000 $759,000 $739,000 -19%  $35.35 $28.68 $21.54 $27.74 $27.00 Springfield, OH $2,400,000 $2,132,000 $1,478,000 $1,898,000 $1,848,000 -11%  $37.42 $33.24 $23.04 $29.60 $28.82 Stark County, OH $1,729,000 $1,192,000 $1,479,000 $1,329,000 $1,293,000 -31%  $7.04 $4.85 $6.02 $5.41 $5.26 Steubenville, OH $908,000 $924,000 $527,000 $574,000 $559,000 2%  $46.12 $46.95 $26.75 $29.16 $28.37 Summit County, OH $1,252,000 $959,000 $1,109,000 $862,000 $841,000 -23%  $4.90 $3.75 $4.34 $3.38 $3.30 Toledo, OH $9,459,000 $9,450,000 $7,374,000 $9,510,000 $9,262,000 0%  $30.60 $30.57 $23.86 $30.77 $29.96 Warren, OH $1,572,000 $1,529,000 $1,183,000 $1,405,000 $1,365,000 -3%  $33.29 $32.37 $25.05 $29.74 $28.90 Youngstown, OH $4,897,000 $4,596,000 $2,687,000 $3,723,000 $3,620,000 -6%  $61.19 $57.43 $33.58 $46.52 $45.23 Ohio State Program $57,071,000 $50,441,000 $52,330,000 $52,330,000 $53,158,000 -12%  $10.88 $9.62 $9.98 $9.98 $10.14 TOTAL $191,060,000 $173,576,000 $150,048,000 $171,209,000 $169,037,000 -9%  $16.73 $15.20 $13.14 $14.99 $14.80 OklahomaBroken Arrow, OK $468,000 $406,000 $432,000 $344,000 $339,000 -13%  $5.63 $4.88 $5.20 $4.15 $4.08 Edmond, OK $479,000 $379,000 $454,000 $316,000 $309,000 -21%  $6.79 $5.37 $6.44 $4.48 $4.38 Enid, OK $678,000 $906,000 $854,000 $894,000 $870,000 34%  $14.57 $19.48 $18.34 $19.22 $18.70 Lawton, OK $1,056,000 $1,165,000 $1,523,000 $1,472,000 $1,431,000 10%  $11.56 $12.75 $16.67 $16.12 $15.67 
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Midwest City, OK $586,000 $637,000 $843,000 $886,000 $861,000 9%  $10.75 $11.69 $15.46 $16.26 $15.80 Norman, OK $1,026,000 $733,000 $958,000 $877,000 $858,000 -29%  $10.49 $7.49 $9.79 $8.96 $8.77 Oklahoma City, OK $6,355,000 $7,117,000 $9,347,000 $9,174,000 $8,956,000 12%  $12.24 $13.71 $18.01 $17.67 $17.26 Shawnee, OK $482,000 $555,000 $562,000 $591,000 $574,000 15%  $16.44 $18.93 $19.18 $20.17 $19.59 Tulsa, OK $4,512,000 $4,648,000 $6,297,000 $5,506,000 $5,384,000 3%  $11.51 $11.86 $16.07 $14.05 $13.74 Oklahoma State Program $20,040,000 $23,419,000 $25,557,000 $25,557,000 $26,328,000 17%  $10.89 $12.72 $13.88 $13.88 $14.30 TOTAL $35,682,000 $39,965,000 $46,826,000 $45,617,000 $45,910,000 12%  $11.06 $12.39 $14.52 $14.14 $14.24 OregonAshland, OR $250,000 $242,000 $302,000 $278,000 $271,000 -3%  $12.37 $11.95 $14.95 $13.74 $13.39 Beaverton, OR $711,000 $668,000 $700,000 $514,000 $513,000 -6%  $8.91 $8.38 $8.78 $6.44 $6.43 Bend, OR $491,000 $446,000 $556,000 $520,000 $509,000 -9%  $8.61 $7.83 $9.75 $9.13 $8.93 Clackamas County, OR $2,562,000 $2,366,000 $2,680,000 $2,145,000 $2,112,000 -8%  $7.18 $6.63 $7.51 $6.01 $5.92 Corvallis, OR $659,000 $574,000 $640,000 $730,000 $716,000 -13%  $13.24 $11.53 $12.85 $14.67 $14.39 Eugene, OR $1,666,000 $1,538,000 $1,796,000 $1,672,000 $1,637,000 -8%  $11.87 $10.96 $12.79 $11.91 $11.66 Gresham, OR $1,067,000 $1,132,000 $1,220,000 $1,217,000 $1,196,000 6%  $11.27 $11.95 $12.88 $12.85 $12.63 Hillsboro, OR $767,000 $778,000 $786,000 $675,000 $673,000 1%  $10.10 $10.25 $10.35 $8.89 $8.86 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Medford, OR $739,000 $775,000 $1,055,000 $977,000 $956,000 5%  $11.43 $11.99 $16.31 $15.12 $14.79 Multnomah County, OR $360,000 $328,000 $387,000 $288,000 $283,000 -9%  $7.88 $7.17 $8.48 $6.30 $6.21 Portland, OR $12,105,000 $9,239,000 $8,736,000 $9,118,000 $8,979,000 -24%  $22.44 $17.13 $16.19 $16.90 $16.65 Salem, OR $1,741,000 $1,832,000 $2,221,000 $1,945,000 $1,910,000 5%  $12.35 $12.99 $15.75 $13.80 $13.55 Springfield, OR $739,000 $805,000 $1,027,000 $1,190,000 $1,161,000 9%  $13.68 $14.89 $19.01 $22.03 $21.49 Washington County, OR $2,415,000 $2,238,000 $2,366,000 $1,826,000 $1,806,000 -7%  $7.64 $7.08 $7.49 $5.78 $5.71 Oregon State Program $16,683,000 $17,378,000 $17,392,000 $17,392,000 $18,637,000 4%  $11.27 $11.74 $11.75 $11.75 $12.59 TOTAL $42,955,000 $40,339,000 $41,862,000 $40,489,000 $41,360,000 -6%  $12.22 $11.47 $11.91 $11.51 $11.76 PennsylvaniaAbington, PA $987,000 $253,000 $281,000 $228,000 $225,000 -74%  $17.59 $4.51 $5.02 $4.07 $4.00 Allegheny County, PA $19,327,000 $14,677,000 $9,585,000 $9,084,000 $8,851,000 -24%  $22.26 $16.90 $11.04 $10.46 $10.19 Allentown, PA $3,331,000 $3,313,000 $2,751,000 $3,673,000 $3,586,000 -1%  $31.39 $31.23 $25.92 $34.62 $33.79 Altoona, PA $2,411,000 $2,019,000 $1,218,000 $1,537,000 $1,497,000 -16%  $49.72 $41.63 $25.11 $31.69 $30.88 Beaver County, PA $4,672,000 $3,629,000 $2,345,000 $2,899,000 $2,823,000 -22%  $26.15 $20.31 $13.13 $16.23 $15.80 Bensalem Twp., PA $465,000 $428,000 $495,000 $471,000 $464,000 -8%  $7.93 $7.29 $8.43 $8.02 $7.90 Berks County, PA $3,257,000 $1,638,000 $1,695,000 $1,620,000 $1,584,000 -50%  $10.80 $5.43 $5.62 $5.37 $5.25 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Bethlehem, PA $2,036,000 $1,778,000 $1,335,000 $1,666,000 $1,626,000 -13%  $28.38 $24.78 $18.61 $23.22 $22.66 Bristol Twp., PA $787,000 $607,000 $506,000 $584,000 $572,000 -23%  $14.17 $10.93 $9.11 $10.52 $10.30 Bucks County, PA $2,864,000 $1,920,000 $2,305,000 $1,871,000 $1,830,000 -33%  $5.77 $3.87 $4.64 $3.77 $3.69 Carlisle, PA $511,000 $406,000 $304,000 $358,000 $349,000 -21%  $28.33 $22.52 $16.85 $19.83 $19.37 Chester, PA $1,760,000 $1,795,000 $1,305,000 $1,711,000 $1,668,000 2%  $47.49 $48.44 $35.21 $46.17 $45.02 Chester County, PA $3,319,000 $2,190,000 $2,633,000 $2,001,000 $1,962,000 -34%  $7.37 $4.87 $5.85 $4.45 $4.36 Dauphin County, PA $1,840,000 $1,266,000 $1,574,000 $1,506,000 $1,473,000 -31%  $9.00 $6.20 $7.70 $7.37 $7.21 Delaware County, PA $4,937,000 $3,633,000 $3,217,000 $3,030,000 $2,960,000 -26%  $12.75 $9.38 $8.31 $7.82 $7.65 Easton, PA $1,164,000 $885,000 $580,000 $818,000 $799,000 -24%  $44.53 $33.85 $22.19 $31.30 $30.58 Erie, PA $4,334,000 $3,998,000 $2,659,000 $3,552,000 $3,463,000 -8%  $42.44 $39.15 $26.04 $34.78 $33.91 Harrisburg, PA $2,537,000 $2,414,000 $1,719,000 $2,307,000 $2,251,000 -5%  $52.27 $49.74 $35.41 $47.52 $46.37 Haverford, PA $1,200,000 $277,000 $243,000 $219,000 $214,000 -77%  $24.86 $5.75 $5.03 $4.53 $4.43 Hazleton, PA $1,147,000 $895,000 $528,000 $646,000 $630,000 -22%  $50.41 $39.35 $23.22 $28.41 $27.70 Johnstown, PA $1,926,000 $1,608,000 $843,000 $1,181,000 $1,149,000 -17%  $82.91 $69.21 $36.28 $50.84 $49.48 Lancaster, PA $2,157,000 $2,071,000 $1,669,000 $2,246,000 $2,196,000 -4%  $38.78 $37.23 $30.00 $40.38 $39.48 Lancaster County, PA $4,057,000 $2,685,000 $3,149,000 $3,055,000 $2,978,000 -34%  $9.59 $6.35 $7.45 $7.22 $7.04 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Lebanon, PA $1,023,000 $762,000 $553,000 $745,000 $727,000 -26%  $42.60 $31.73 $23.02 $31.04 $30.25 Lower Merion, PA $1,388,000 $363,000 $325,000 $272,000 $267,000 -74%  $23.14 $6.05 $5.42 $4.54 $4.44 Luzerne County, PA $6,025,000 $4,267,000 $2,982,000 $3,211,000 $3,124,000 -29%  $26.05 $18.45 $12.89 $13.88 $13.51 McKeesport, PA $1,486,000 $1,295,000 $770,000 $1,071,000 $1,043,000 -13%  $63.01 $54.90 $32.63 $45.40 $44.21 Millcreek Twp., PA $302,000 $245,000 $301,000 $223,000 $216,000 -19%  $5.74 $4.66 $5.73 $4.23 $4.10 Montgomery County, PA $4,445,000 $2,400,000 $3,024,000 $2,461,000 $2,417,000 -46%  $7.46 $4.03 $5.07 $4.13 $4.06 Norristown, PA $1,231,000 $1,096,000 $814,000 $1,090,000 $1,067,000 -11%  $39.32 $34.99 $26.00 $34.81 $34.08 Penn Hills, PA $861,000 $673,000 $453,000 $488,000 $475,000 -22%  $18.42 $14.39 $9.70 $10.45 $10.17 Philadelphia, PA $63,066,000 $70,630,000 $51,401,000 $70,234,000 $68,629,000 12%  $42.26 $47.33 $34.45 $47.07 $45.99 Pittsburgh, PA $20,289,000 $16,728,000 $9,028,000 $11,460,000 $11,191,000 -18%  $61.88 $51.02 $27.53 $34.95 $34.13 Reading, PA $3,756,000 $3,961,000 $3,158,000 $4,250,000 $4,150,000 5%  $46.66 $49.21 $39.23 $52.80 $51.55 Scranton, PA $4,140,000 $2,940,000 $1,610,000 $2,135,000 $2,081,000 -29%  $55.41 $39.36 $21.54 $28.57 $27.86 Sharon, PA $834,000 $673,000 $404,000 $535,000 $521,000 -19%  $52.58 $42.44 $25.46 $33.75 $32.84 State College, PA $862,000 $397,000 $416,000 $498,000 $502,000 -54%  $22.63 $10.42 $10.92 $13.06 $13.19 Upper Darby, PA $2,329,000 $1,745,000 $1,201,000 $1,468,000 $1,441,000 -25%  $28.77 $21.56 $14.84 $18.14 $17.80 Washington County, PA $5,228,000 $4,129,000 $2,730,000 $3,166,000 $3,082,000 -21%  $25.56 $20.19 $13.35 $15.48 $15.07 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Westmoreland County, PA $5,282,000 $3,997,000 $3,242,000 $3,621,000 $3,517,000 -24%  $16.26 $12.30 $9.98 $11.14 $10.82 Wilkes-Barre, PA $2,352,000 $1,766,000 $1,012,000 $1,421,000 $1,386,000 -25%  $55.97 $42.03 $24.08 $33.83 $32.98 Williamsport, PA $1,536,000 $1,310,000 $790,000 $1,075,000 $1,049,000 -15%  $51.06 $43.54 $26.25 $35.72 $34.87 York, PA $2,060,000 $2,023,000 $1,453,000 $2,015,000 $1,967,000 -2%  $51.12 $50.20 $36.07 $50.01 $48.82 York County, PA $3,154,000 $1,747,000 $2,026,000 $2,009,000 $1,961,000 -45%  $9.04 $5.01 $5.81 $5.76 $5.62 Pennsylvania State Program $59,971,000 $54,554,000 $52,545,000 $52,545,000 $53,112,000 -9%  $14.70 $13.37 $12.88 $12.88 $13.02 TOTAL $262,646,000 $232,087,000 $183,175,000 $212,257,000 $209,075,000 -12%  $21.29 $18.82 $14.85 $17.21 $16.95 Rhode IslandCranston, RI $1,266,000 $896,000 $778,000 $806,000 $788,000 -29%  $15.61 $11.05 $9.59 $9.94 $9.72 East Providence, RI $941,000 $661,000 $591,000 $685,000 $669,000 -30%  $18.95 $13.31 $11.90 $13.79 $13.47 Pawtucket, RI $2,472,000 $2,457,000 $1,908,000 $2,586,000 $2,528,000 -1%  $33.39 $33.19 $25.77 $34.94 $34.14 Providence, RI $6,792,000 $7,715,000 $6,408,000 $8,469,000 $8,280,000 14%  $38.61 $43.86 $36.43 $48.15 $47.07 Warwick, RI $1,034,000 $747,000 $697,000 $667,000 $652,000 -28%  $11.88 $8.58 $8.01 $7.66 $7.49 Woonsocket, RI $1,605,000 $1,548,000 $1,221,000 $1,670,000 $1,628,000 -4%  $36.58 $35.29 $27.83 $38.06 $37.10 Rhode Island State Program $6,156,000 $5,355,000 $5,279,000 $5,279,000 $5,440,000 -13%  $11.03 $9.59 $9.46 $9.46 $9.75 TOTAL $20,266,000 $19,379,000 $16,882,000 $20,163,000 $19,984,000 -4%  $18.95 $18.12 $15.78 $18.85 $18.68 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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South CarolinaAiken, SC $256,000 $296,000 $373,000 $300,000 $291,000 16%  $9.83 $11.36 $14.34 $11.52 $11.16 Anderson, SC $920,000 $860,000 $582,000 $594,000 $577,000 -7%  $35.81 $33.46 $22.65 $23.13 $22.44 Charleston, SC $1,288,000 $1,937,000 $1,877,000 $1,786,000 $1,742,000 50%  $13.04 $19.61 $19.00 $18.07 $17.63 Charleston County, SC $2,438,000 $2,602,000 $3,372,000 $3,057,000 $2,969,000 7%  $11.16 $11.91 $15.43 $13.99 $13.59 Columbia, SC $1,543,000 $1,846,000 $2,080,000 $2,220,000 $2,162,000 20%  $13.14 $15.73 $17.72 $18.91 $18.41 Conway, SC $154,000 $179,000 $250,000 $291,000 $282,000 16%  $12.81 $14.90 $20.79 $24.24 $23.48 Florence, SC $407,000 $485,000 $623,000 $512,000 $496,000 19%  $13.56 $16.14 $20.76 $17.05 $16.54 Greenville, SC $1,329,000 $1,324,000 $1,017,000 $931,000 $906,000 0%  $23.66 $23.56 $18.11 $16.56 $16.13 Greenville County, SC $2,860,000 $2,813,000 $3,539,000 $2,883,000 $2,809,000 -2%  $8.33 $8.19 $10.31 $8.40 $8.18 Lexington County, SC $1,185,000 $1,098,000 $1,278,000 $1,092,000 $1,062,000 -7%  $7.10 $6.58 $7.66 $6.54 $6.36 Myrtle Beach, SC $241,000 $211,000 $240,000 $180,000 $177,000 -13%  $9.83 $8.59 $9.78 $7.35 $7.22 Richland County, SC $1,647,000 $1,593,000 $1,934,000 $1,639,000 $1,600,000 -3%  $8.54 $8.26 $10.03 $8.50 $8.30 Rock Hill, SC $553,000 $524,000 $718,000 $857,000 $838,000 -5%  $10.13 $9.59 $13.15 $15.70 $15.35 Spartanburg, SC $921,000 $1,055,000 $1,016,000 $1,053,000 $1,022,000 15%  $23.57 $27.02 $26.00 $26.95 $26.17 Spartanburg County, SC $1,558,000 $1,535,000 $1,944,000 $1,801,000 $1,755,000 -1%  $8.20 $8.08 $10.24 $9.48 $9.24 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Sumter, SC $460,000 $516,000 $710,000 $638,000 $618,000 12%  $11.68 $13.10 $18.03 $16.20 $15.69 South Carolina State Program $27,822,000 $30,831,000 $33,880,000 $33,880,000 $34,753,000 11%  $11.26 $12.47 $13.71 $13.71 $14.06 TOTAL $45,582,000 $49,704,000 $55,435,000 $53,714,000 $54,058,000 9%  $11.10 $12.10 $13.50 $13.08 $13.16 South DakotaRapid City, SD $596,000 $577,000 $775,000 $712,000 $694,000 -3%  $9.89 $9.58 $12.86 $11.82 $11.52 Sioux Falls, SD $980,000 $859,000 $1,154,000 $1,075,000 $1,053,000 -12%  $7.51 $6.59 $8.84 $8.24 $8.07 South Dakota State Program $7,774,000 $7,119,000 $7,019,000 $7,019,000 $7,173,000 -8%  $14.73 $13.49 $13.30 $13.30 $13.59 TOTAL $9,350,000 $8,555,000 $8,947,000 $8,806,000 $8,920,000 -9%  $13.01 $11.91 $12.45 $12.25 $12.41 TennesseeBristol, TN $278,000 $418,000 $431,000 $443,000 $430,000 50%  $11.17 $16.79 $17.31 $17.81 $17.29 Chattanooga, TN $2,265,000 $3,200,000 $3,241,000 $3,379,000 $3,287,000 41%  $14.57 $20.59 $20.85 $21.74 $21.15 Clarksville, TN $958,000 $969,000 $1,212,000 $1,091,000 $1,066,000 1%  $9.05 $9.15 $11.45 $10.30 $10.07 Cleveland, TN $405,000 $472,000 $567,000 $558,000 $542,000 16%  $10.83 $12.61 $15.18 $14.94 $14.50 Jackson, TN $709,000 $955,000 $1,165,000 $1,204,000 $1,172,000 35%  $11.69 $15.75 $19.21 $19.85 $19.33 Johnson City, TN $589,000 $811,000 $855,000 $800,000 $777,000 38%  $10.38 $14.28 $15.07 $14.09 $13.68 Kingsport, TN $496,000 $980,000 $941,000 $900,000 $873,000 98%  $11.18 $22.09 $21.22 $20.29 $19.68 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Knox County, TN $1,203,000 $1,027,000 $1,259,000 $1,067,000 $1,036,000 -15%  $6.10 $5.20 $6.38 $5.41 $5.25 Knoxville, TN $2,262,000 $3,095,000 $3,272,000 $3,949,000 $3,841,000 37%  $13.03 $17.82 $18.84 $22.74 $22.12 Memphis, TN $9,742,000 $11,834,000 $15,938,000 $17,215,000 $16,785,000 21%  $15.01 $18.24 $24.56 $26.53 $25.87 Morristown, TN $349,000 $434,000 $511,000 $526,000 $512,000 24%  $13.88 $17.27 $20.32 $20.93 $20.36 Murfreesboro, TN $722,000 $550,000 $671,000 $685,000 $669,000 -24%  $9.64 $7.34 $8.96 $9.15 $8.94 Nashville-Davidson, TN $5,954,000 $5,960,000 $8,048,000 $7,451,000 $7,280,000 0%  $10.43 $10.44 $14.10 $13.05 $12.75 Oak Ridge, TN $313,000 $599,000 $450,000 $414,000 $405,000 91%  $11.50 $21.99 $16.54 $15.21 $14.86 Shelby County, TN $1,366,000 $1,162,000 $1,261,000 $853,000 $834,000 -15%  $5.32 $4.53 $4.91 $3.32 $3.25 Tennessee State Program $31,244,000 $34,182,000 $40,455,000 $40,455,000 $40,969,000 9%  $9.36 $10.24 $12.12 $12.12 $12.28 TOTAL $58,855,000 $66,646,000 $80,279,000 $80,993,000 $80,478,000 13%  $10.15 $11.50 $13.85 $13.97 $13.88 TexasAbilene, TX $1,329,000 $1,483,000 $1,792,000 $1,731,000 $1,692,000 12%  $11.53 $12.87 $15.55 $15.03 $14.68 Allen, TX $263,000 $205,000 $179,000 $126,000 $125,000 -22%  $4.60 $3.59 $3.13 $2.20 $2.18 Amarillo, TX $2,168,000 $2,503,000 $3,152,000 $2,945,000 $2,885,000 15%  $12.25 $14.14 $17.81 $16.64 $16.30 Arlington, TX $3,825,000 $3,950,000 $4,121,000 $3,204,000 $3,198,000 3%  $10.93 $11.29 $11.78 $9.16 $9.14 Austin, TX $8,967,000 $8,400,000 $9,175,000 $7,697,000 $7,660,000 -6%  $13.35 $12.50 $13.66 $11.46 $11.40 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Baytown City, TX $1,003,000 $1,178,000 $1,359,000 $1,442,000 $1,422,000 17%  $14.89 $17.49 $20.18 $21.41 $21.10 Beaumont, TX $2,126,000 $2,502,000 $2,608,000 $2,387,000 $2,326,000 18%  $18.84 $22.16 $23.11 $21.15 $20.61 Bexar County, TX $2,067,000 $2,243,000 $2,422,000 $1,998,000 $1,958,000 9%  $9.54 $10.35 $11.18 $9.22 $9.04 Brazoria County, TX $2,329,000 $2,482,000 $2,653,000 $2,380,000 $2,347,000 7%  $9.75 $10.39 $11.11 $9.97 $9.83 Brownsville, TX $3,916,000 $5,190,000 $5,729,000 $5,563,000 $5,421,000 33%  $26.03 $34.50 $38.09 $36.98 $36.03 Bryan, TX $1,129,000 $1,141,000 $1,325,000 $1,186,000 $1,163,000 1%  $16.93 $17.11 $19.87 $17.78 $17.44 Carrollton, TX $950,000 $949,000 $933,000 $648,000 $653,000 0%  $8.25 $8.24 $8.10 $5.63 $5.67 College Station, TX $1,345,000 $628,000 $667,000 $619,000 $607,000 -53%  $19.06 $8.90 $9.46 $8.77 $8.60 Conroe, TX $656,000 $766,000 $832,000 $865,000 $853,000 17%  $16.79 $19.60 $21.30 $22.14 $21.84 Corpus Christi, TX $4,105,000 $4,737,000 $5,975,000 $5,337,000 $5,228,000 15%  $14.74 $17.01 $21.45 $19.16 $18.77 Dallas, TX $21,184,000 $24,598,000 $27,798,000 $25,786,000 $25,578,000 16%  $17.49 $20.30 $22.95 $21.28 $21.11 Dallas County, TX $2,252,000 $2,272,000 $2,480,000 $1,987,000 $1,974,000 1%  $8.27 $8.34 $9.10 $7.29 $7.25 Denison, TX $450,000 $508,000 $451,000 $496,000 $483,000 13%  $19.42 $21.91 $19.46 $21.39 $20.86 Denton, TX $1,005,000 $763,000 $902,000 $1,013,000 $1,000,000 -24%  $11.12 $8.44 $9.98 $11.22 $11.07 Edinburg, TX $1,091,000 $1,368,000 $1,507,000 $1,086,000 $1,058,000 25%  $20.68 $25.94 $28.57 $20.58 $20.05 El Paso, TX $10,236,000 $12,705,000 $15,000,000 $12,500,000 $12,207,000 24%  $17.73 $22.00 $25.98 $21.65 $21.14 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Flower Mound, TX $246,000 $184,000 $159,000 $104,000 $101,000 -25%  $4.19 $3.14 $2.70 $1.77 $1.73 Fort Bend County, TX $2,148,000 $2,253,000 $2,277,000 $1,708,000 $1,694,000 5%  $8.94 $9.38 $9.48 $7.11 $7.05 Fort Worth, TX $7,900,000 $8,857,000 $11,018,000 $11,608,000 $11,437,000 12%  $13.92 $15.61 $19.41 $20.45 $20.15 Galveston, TX $1,748,000 $1,891,000 $1,637,000 $1,974,000 $1,933,000 8%  $30.84 $33.35 $28.88 $34.83 $34.09 Garland, TX $2,552,000 $2,818,000 $2,876,000 $2,707,000 $2,717,000 10%  $11.62 $12.83 $13.09 $12.32 $12.37 Grand Prairie, TX $1,639,000 $1,838,000 $1,996,000 $1,893,000 $1,883,000 12%  $12.11 $13.58 $14.75 $13.99 $13.92 Harlingen, TX $1,149,000 $1,431,000 $1,703,000 $1,209,000 $1,181,000 25%  $19.35 $24.10 $28.67 $20.35 $19.89 Harris County, TX $12,729,000 $13,528,000 $14,003,000 $10,614,000 $10,545,000 6%  $9.62 $10.22 $10.58 $8.02 $7.97 Hidalgo County, TX $10,116,000 $13,693,000 $14,521,000 $15,476,000 $15,020,000 35%  $29.31 $39.68 $42.07 $44.84 $43.52 Houston, TX $36,209,000 $42,271,000 $47,690,000 $43,443,000 $42,994,000 17%  $18.02 $21.03 $23.73 $21.62 $21.39 Irving, TX $2,755,000 $2,998,000 $3,040,000 $2,384,000 $2,413,000 9%  $14.05 $15.29 $15.50 $12.16 $12.31 Killeen, TX $1,126,000 $1,249,000 $1,372,000 $1,225,000 $1,210,000 11%  $12.15 $13.47 $14.79 $13.22 $13.05 Laredo, TX $4,336,000 $5,630,000 $6,225,000 $5,213,000 $5,098,000 30%  $22.64 $29.39 $32.50 $27.22 $26.61 League City, TX $316,000 $288,000 $279,000 $183,000 $181,000 -9%  $6.15 $5.61 $5.42 $3.55 $3.52 Lewisville, TX $662,000 $615,000 $617,000 $475,000 $477,000 -7%  $7.88 $7.33 $7.35 $5.66 $5.68 Longview, TX $928,000 $1,029,000 $1,301,000 $1,131,000 $1,103,000 11%  $12.48 $13.85 $17.51 $15.21 $14.84 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-71 

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Lubbock, TX $2,782,000 $2,657,000 $3,248,000 $2,915,000 $2,852,000 -4%  $13.66 $13.04 $15.95 $14.31 $14.00 Marshall, TX $499,000 $702,000 $672,000 $738,000 $718,000 41%  $20.81 $29.28 $28.03 $30.77 $29.94 McAllen, TX $2,134,000 $2,681,000 $2,920,000 $1,869,000 $1,827,000 26%  $18.74 $23.54 $25.65 $16.41 $16.04 McKinney, TX $539,000 $493,000 $514,000 $381,000 $376,000 -9%  $7.38 $6.74 $7.03 $5.22 $5.15 Mesquite, TX $1,097,000 $1,099,000 $1,174,000 $1,104,000 $1,101,000 0%  $8.52 $8.53 $9.12 $8.57 $8.55 Midland, TX $1,092,000 $1,197,000 $1,411,000 $1,229,000 $1,203,000 10%  $11.40 $12.49 $14.73 $12.82 $12.55 Mission, TX $985,000 $1,267,000 $1,363,000 $903,000 $878,000 29%  $19.15 $24.63 $26.50 $17.56 $17.08 Missouri City, TX $333,000 $290,000 $284,000 $178,000 $178,000 -13%  $5.63 $4.89 $4.79 $3.00 $3.01 Montgomery County, TX $2,065,000 $2,036,000 $2,056,000 $1,440,000 $1,413,000 -1%  $7.70 $7.60 $7.67 $5.37 $5.27 New Braunfels, TX $396,000 $417,000 $493,000 $440,000 $432,000 5%  $9.60 $10.12 $11.94 $10.66 $10.46 North Richland Hills, TX $392,000 $360,000 $381,000 $269,000 $269,000 -8%  $6.62 $6.09 $6.44 $4.55 $4.54 Odessa, TX $1,363,000 $1,597,000 $1,902,000 $1,592,000 $1,554,000 17%  $14.98 $17.56 $20.91 $17.50 $17.09 Orange, TX $543,000 $604,000 $520,000 $549,000 $534,000 11%  $29.84 $33.17 $28.56 $30.17 $29.35 Pasadena, TX $2,337,000 $2,766,000 $2,956,000 $3,026,000 $2,998,000 18%  $16.11 $19.07 $20.38 $20.87 $20.67 Pharr, TX $1,321,000 $1,762,000 $1,853,000 $1,635,000 $1,592,000 33%  $25.76 $34.37 $36.14 $31.88 $31.04 Plano, TX $1,477,000 $1,328,000 $1,273,000 $765,000 $762,000 -10%  $6.20 $5.58 $5.34 $3.21 $3.20 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-72 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Port Arthur, TX $1,666,000 $1,937,000 $1,845,000 $2,211,000 $2,158,000 16%  $29.29 $34.06 $32.44 $38.88 $37.93 Richardson, TX $777,000 $688,000 $659,000 $418,000 $421,000 -11%  $8.01 $7.10 $6.80 $4.32 $4.34 Round Rock, TX $447,000 $394,000 $393,000 $302,000 $304,000 -12%  $6.05 $5.34 $5.32 $4.09 $4.12 San Angelo, TX $1,084,000 $1,170,000 $1,527,000 $1,451,000 $1,416,000 8%  $12.40 $13.39 $17.46 $16.60 $16.20 San Antonio, TX $17,379,000 $20,078,000 $24,497,000 $23,218,000 $22,789,000 16%  $14.55 $16.81 $20.51 $19.44 $19.08 San Benito, TX $609,000 $803,000 $941,000 $890,000 $868,000 32%  $25.30 $33.38 $39.08 $36.98 $36.08 San Marcos, TX $618,000 $405,000 $450,000 $490,000 $485,000 -34%  $14.86 $9.74 $10.81 $11.78 $11.65 Sherman, TX $391,000 $453,000 $558,000 $550,000 $540,000 16%  $10.93 $12.67 $15.58 $15.38 $15.09 Sugar Land, TX $388,000 $343,000 $340,000 $211,000 $209,000 -12%  $5.66 $4.99 $4.96 $3.07 $3.05 Tarrant County, TX $3,800,000 $3,695,000 $3,923,000 $2,866,000 $2,842,000 -3%  $7.68 $7.46 $7.93 $5.79 $5.74 Temple, TX $618,000 $662,000 $903,000 $742,000 $725,000 7%  $11.35 $12.17 $16.58 $13.62 $13.31 Texarkana, TX $555,000 $755,000 $903,000 $844,000 $820,000 36%  $15.76 $21.44 $25.64 $23.99 $23.30 Texas City, TX $521,000 $581,000 $752,000 $880,000 $861,000 12%  $12.10 $13.50 $17.46 $20.44 $19.99 Tyler, TX $1,132,000 $1,242,000 $1,601,000 $1,419,000 $1,386,000 10%  $13.01 $14.28 $18.40 $16.30 $15.93 Victoria, TX $762,000 $862,000 $1,063,000 $919,000 $900,000 13%  $12.49 $14.12 $17.42 $15.06 $14.74 Waco, TX $2,006,000 $2,232,000 $2,672,000 $3,022,000 $2,950,000 11%  $17.33 $19.28 $23.09 $26.11 $25.49 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-73 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Wichita Falls, TX $1,641,000 $1,593,000 $1,501,000 $1,500,000 $1,463,000 -3%  $15.94 $15.47 $14.58 $14.57 $14.22 Williamson County, TX $1,215,000 $1,089,000 $1,157,000 $1,004,000 $994,000 -10%  $6.03 $5.40 $5.74 $4.98 $4.93 Texas State Program $86,718,000 $98,206,000 $89,187,000 $89,187,000 $95,771,000 13%  $13.18 $14.92 $13.55 $13.55 $14.55 TOTAL $300,637,000 $339,587,000 $359,667,000 $333,502,000 $336,410,000 13%  $13.80 $15.59 $16.51 $15.31 $15.45 UtahClearfield, UT $279,000 $254,000 $297,000 $324,000 $319,000 -9%  $10.60 $9.66 $11.28 $12.31 $12.11 Layton, UT $409,000 $386,000 $406,000 $333,000 $328,000 -6%  $6.81 $6.42 $6.75 $5.54 $5.46 Logan, UT $705,000 $553,000 $704,000 $719,000 $708,000 -22%  $16.43 $12.88 $16.41 $16.75 $16.50 Ogden, UT $1,367,000 $1,653,000 $1,698,000 $1,896,000 $1,863,000 21%  $17.38 $21.02 $21.59 $24.11 $23.69 Orem, UT $727,000 $713,000 $741,000 $591,000 $580,000 -2%  $8.69 $8.52 $8.85 $7.07 $6.94 Provo, UT $2,039,000 $1,487,000 $1,596,000 $1,585,000 $1,573,000 -27%  $19.39 $14.14 $15.18 $15.07 $14.96 Salt Lake City, UT $4,891,000 $3,897,000 $3,509,000 $3,373,000 $3,325,000 -20%  $26.98 $21.50 $19.36 $18.61 $18.34 Salt Lake County, UT $2,969,000 $2,803,000 $3,006,000 $2,446,000 $2,417,000 -6%  $7.33 $6.92 $7.42 $6.04 $5.97 Sandy City, UT $475,000 $406,000 $403,000 $313,000 $307,000 -15%  $5.32 $4.55 $4.52 $3.51 $3.44 St. George, UT $548,000 $555,000 $577,000 $454,000 $445,000 1%  $10.14 $10.27 $10.67 $8.40 $8.24 Taylorsville, UT $457,000 $445,000 $456,000 $420,000 $418,000 -3%  $7.73 $7.53 $7.71 $7.11 $7.08 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-74 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

West Jordan, UT $486,000 $459,000 $443,000 $428,000 $424,000 -6%  $6.63 $6.25 $6.04 $5.84 $5.77 West Valley, UT $1,112,000 $1,202,000 $1,260,000 $1,283,000 $1,273,000 8%  $10.00 $10.81 $11.33 $11.53 $11.44 Utah State Program $7,525,000 $7,517,000 $6,431,000 $6,431,000 $7,001,000 0%  $8.04 $8.03 $6.87 $6.87 $7.48 TOTAL $23,989,000 $22,329,000 $21,526,000 $20,596,000 $20,982,000 -7%  $10.40 $9.68 $9.33 $8.93 $9.10 VermontBurlington, VT $1,044,000 $1,036,000 $711,000 $965,000 $945,000 -1%  $26.45 $26.25 $18.01 $24.44 $23.95 Vermont State Program $8,692,000 $6,962,000 $6,787,000 $6,787,000 $6,927,000 -20%  $15.06 $12.06 $11.76 $11.76 $12.00 TOTAL $9,736,000 $7,998,000 $7,498,000 $7,752,000 $7,872,000 -18%  $15.79 $12.97 $12.16 $12.57 $12.77 VirginiaAlexandria, VA $1,499,000 $1,527,000 $1,700,000 $1,108,000 $1,114,000 2%  $11.46 $11.67 $13.00 $8.47 $8.51 Arlington County, VA $2,248,000 $2,027,000 $2,240,000 $1,465,000 $1,479,000 -10%  $11.21 $10.10 $11.17 $7.30 $7.37 Blacksburg, VA $774,000 $280,000 $347,000 $425,000 $413,000 -64%  $19.30 $6.98 $8.65 $10.60 $10.29 Bristol, VA $348,000 $377,000 $314,000 $350,000 $339,000 8%  $20.33 $22.01 $18.37 $20.47 $19.81 Charlottesville, VA $643,000 $585,000 $617,000 $810,000 $793,000 -9%  $14.67 $13.34 $14.08 $18.47 $18.09 Chesapeake, VA $1,476,000 $1,450,000 $1,790,000 $1,593,000 $1,557,000 -2%  $7.14 $7.02 $8.66 $7.71 $7.53 Chesterfield County, VA $1,475,000 $1,226,000 $1,388,000 $1,145,000 $1,121,000 -17%  $5.44 $4.52 $5.12 $4.22 $4.13 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-75 

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Name FY 2004 Grant Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative 3 Alternative 4 Alt. 1 

Christiansburg, VA $124,000 $111,000 $154,000 $135,000 $131,000 -11%  $7.07 $6.32 $8.78 $7.68 $7.46 Colonial Heights, VA $106,000 $104,000 $137,000 $134,000 $132,000 -2%  $6.21 $6.10 $8.02 $7.84 $7.71 Danville, VA $1,258,000 $1,521,000 $1,259,000 $1,339,000 $1,301,000 21%  $26.43 $31.95 $26.46 $28.13 $27.33 Fairfax County, VA $7,310,000 $6,812,000 $6,558,000 $4,113,000 $4,139,000 -7%  $7.17 $6.68 $6.43 $4.03 $4.06 Fredericksburg, VA $279,000 $209,000 $255,000 $322,000 $313,000 -25%  $13.90 $10.40 $12.68 $16.03 $15.61 Hampton, VA $1,330,000 $1,326,000 $1,824,000 $1,782,000 $1,741,000 0%  $9.11 $9.09 $12.50 $12.21 $11.93 Harrisonburg, VA $648,000 $346,000 $440,000 $490,000 $479,000 -47%  $15.84 $8.46 $10.76 $11.98 $11.71 Henrico County, VA $1,760,000 $1,516,000 $1,907,000 $1,526,000 $1,499,000 -14%  $6.56 $5.65 $7.11 $5.69 $5.59 Hopewell, VA $253,000 $308,000 $410,000 $497,000 $484,000 22%  $11.23 $13.66 $18.19 $22.05 $21.47 Loudoun County, VA $949,000 $718,000 $697,000 $533,000 $530,000 -24%  $4.65 $3.52 $3.41 $2.61 $2.60 Lynchburg, VA $1,100,000 $1,286,000 $1,209,000 $1,322,000 $1,288,000 17%  $17.02 $19.91 $18.72 $20.46 $19.93 Newport News, VA $1,961,000 $2,081,000 $2,913,000 $3,170,000 $3,094,000 6%  $10.88 $11.54 $16.16 $17.58 $17.16 Norfolk, VA $6,249,000 $5,665,000 $4,856,000 $5,536,000 $5,406,000 -9%  $26.14 $23.70 $20.32 $23.16 $22.61 Petersburg, VA $819,000 $876,000 $835,000 $1,053,000 $1,026,000 7%  $24.73 $26.45 $25.21 $31.79 $30.97 Portsmouth, VA $2,174,000 $2,364,000 $2,058,000 $2,562,000 $2,497,000 9%  $21.79 $23.69 $20.63 $25.68 $25.03 Prince William County, VA $2,238,000 $2,031,000 $2,122,000 $2,058,000 $2,045,000 -9%  $6.22 $5.64 $5.89 $5.72 $5.68 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-76 

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Radford, VA $248,000 $174,000 $152,000 $204,000 $200,000 -30%  $15.83 $11.09 $9.68 $13.04 $12.79 Richmond, VA $5,945,000 $5,855,000 $4,968,000 $5,933,000 $5,787,000 -2%  $30.11 $29.65 $25.16 $30.05 $29.31 Roanoke, VA $2,207,000 $2,277,000 $1,918,000 $2,306,000 $2,246,000 3%  $23.51 $24.26 $20.43 $24.57 $23.93 Suffolk, VA $652,000 $761,000 $994,000 $1,067,000 $1,036,000 17%  $9.32 $10.88 $14.21 $15.25 $14.80 Virginia Beach, VA $3,012,000 $2,790,000 $3,199,000 $2,543,000 $2,496,000 -7%  $6.94 $6.43 $7.37 $5.86 $5.75 Winchester, VA $306,000 $307,000 $339,000 $334,000 $327,000 0%  $12.63 $12.69 $14.00 $13.79 $13.50 Virginia State Program $22,735,000 $25,911,000 $28,900,000 $28,900,000 $29,354,000 14%  $8.21 $9.36 $10.44 $10.44 $10.61 TOTAL $72,126,000 $72,820,000 $76,500,000 $74,755,000 $74,364,000 1%  $9.89 $9.98 $10.49 $10.25 $10.20 Washington Anacortes, WA $128,000 $113,000 $142,000 $136,000 $132,000 -12%  $8.42 $7.41 $9.36 $8.92 $8.72 Auburn, WA $482,000 $498,000 $627,000 $604,000 $594,000 3%  $10.92 $11.28 $14.21 $13.69 $13.45 Bellevue, WA $859,000 $771,000 $732,000 $430,000 $431,000 -10%  $7.61 $6.83 $6.48 $3.81 $3.82 Bellingham, WA $1,022,000 $973,000 $976,000 $1,052,000 $1,032,000 -5%  $14.50 $13.80 $13.85 $14.93 $14.64 Bremerton, WA $631,000 $1,009,000 $955,000 $1,259,000 $1,233,000 60%  $17.38 $27.79 $26.29 $34.67 $33.96 Clark County, WA $1,576,000 $1,507,000 $1,684,000 $1,581,000 $1,548,000 -4%  $7.03 $6.72 $7.51 $7.05 $6.90 Everett, WA $1,127,000 $1,178,000 $1,511,000 $1,734,000 $1,710,000 4%  $11.61 $12.13 $15.56 $17.86 $17.61 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Federal Way, WA $867,000 $902,000 $984,000 $994,000 $988,000 4%  $10.55 $10.98 $11.98 $12.10 $12.02 Kennewick, WA $679,000 $753,000 $837,000 $697,000 $685,000 11%  $11.72 $13.00 $14.45 $12.02 $11.82 Kent City, WA $953,000 $1,001,000 $1,104,000 $1,138,000 $1,127,000 5%  $11.66 $12.25 $13.51 $13.93 $13.80 King County, WA $5,325,000 $4,911,000 $5,416,000 $3,489,000 $3,461,000 -8%  $7.28 $6.71 $7.40 $4.77 $4.73 Kitsap County, WA $1,402,000 $1,295,000 $1,507,000 $1,300,000 $1,274,000 -8%  $7.06 $6.52 $7.59 $6.54 $6.41 Lakewood, WA $785,000 $838,000 $1,041,000 $948,000 $931,000 7%  $13.36 $14.26 $17.71 $16.12 $15.84 Longview, WA $443,000 $542,000 $684,000 $675,000 $658,000 22%  $12.49 $15.27 $19.29 $19.04 $18.57 Mount Vernon, WA $385,000 $421,000 $484,000 $524,000 $517,000 9%  $14.15 $15.48 $17.80 $19.26 $18.99 Olympia, WA $472,000 $496,000 $528,000 $545,000 $536,000 5%  $10.85 $11.39 $12.13 $12.52 $12.31 Pasco, WA $698,000 $854,000 $958,000 $1,020,000 $1,006,000 22%  $19.71 $24.11 $27.04 $28.79 $28.40 Pierce County, WA $3,555,000 $3,390,000 $3,877,000 $3,277,000 $3,223,000 -5%  $7.49 $7.14 $8.17 $6.91 $6.79 Renton City, WA $545,000 $537,000 $635,000 $635,000 $632,000 -2%  $10.25 $10.09 $11.95 $11.95 $11.88 Richland, WA $323,000 $306,000 $405,000 $302,000 $296,000 -5%  $7.78 $7.38 $9.77 $7.28 $7.14 Seattle, WA $14,803,000 $7,755,000 $7,645,000 $7,102,000 $7,028,000 -48%  $25.95 $13.60 $13.40 $12.45 $12.32 Shoreline, WA $427,000 $386,000 $452,000 $452,000 $448,000 -10%  $8.09 $7.32 $8.56 $8.56 $8.48 Snohomish County, WA $3,677,000 $3,379,000 $3,591,000 $3,533,000 $3,502,000 -8%  $7.07 $6.50 $6.90 $6.79 $6.73 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

B-78 

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Spokane, WA $4,583,000 $4,841,000 $4,022,000 $4,511,000 $4,411,000 6%  $23.35 $24.66 $20.49 $22.98 $22.47 Spokane County, WA $1,831,000 $1,642,000 $2,019,000 $1,826,000 $1,784,000 -10%  $7.92 $7.10 $8.73 $7.90 $7.72 Tacoma, WA $3,354,000 $3,489,000 $3,937,000 $4,306,000 $4,222,000 4%  $16.98 $17.66 $19.93 $21.80 $21.37 Vancouver, WA $1,606,000 $1,668,000 $2,018,000 $2,084,000 $2,046,000 4%  $10.72 $11.13 $13.47 $13.91 $13.65 Yakima, WA $1,389,000 $1,647,000 $2,146,000 $1,939,000 $1,908,000 19%  $18.95 $22.47 $29.28 $26.46 $26.03 Washington State Program $18,647,000 $19,471,000 $18,653,000 $18,653,000 $20,195,000 4%  $12.22 $12.76 $12.23 $12.23 $13.24 TOTAL $72,574,000 $66,571,000 $69,572,000 $66,744,000 $67,556,000 -8%  $12.02 $11.02 $11.52 $11.05 $11.19 West VirginiaCharleston, WV $2,271,000 $1,932,000 $1,088,000 $907,000 $882,000 -15%  $43.92 $37.37 $21.05 $17.53 $17.06 Huntington, WV $2,546,000 $2,574,000 $1,455,000 $1,685,000 $1,640,000 1%  $51.01 $51.58 $29.16 $33.75 $32.86 Martinsburg, WV $495,000 $492,000 $386,000 $502,000 $488,000 -1%  $32.74 $32.57 $25.53 $33.20 $32.29 Morgantown, WV $675,000 $1,058,000 $669,000 $917,000 $899,000 57%  $24.69 $38.70 $24.46 $33.54 $32.90 Parkersburg, WV $1,276,000 $1,250,000 $838,000 $1,032,000 $1,001,000 -2%  $39.51 $38.70 $25.93 $31.95 $30.98 Weirton, WV $592,000 $467,000 $251,000 $243,000 $235,000 -21%  $29.56 $23.30 $12.55 $12.12 $11.75 Wheeling, WV $1,799,000 $1,490,000 $796,000 $863,000 $841,000 -17%  $59.24 $49.06 $26.21 $28.42 $27.70 
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West Virginia State Program $19,912,000 $27,709,000 $30,106,000 $30,106,000 $29,988,000 39%  $12.64 $17.59 $19.11 $19.11 $19.04 TOTAL $29,566,000 $36,973,000 $35,589,000 $36,254,000 $35,975,000 25%  $16.41 $20.52 $19.75 $20.12 $19.97 WisconsinAppleton, WI $723,000 $440,000 $541,000 $520,000 $512,000 -39%  $10.24 $6.22 $7.65 $7.37 $7.25 Beloit, WI $813,000 $736,000 $660,000 $850,000 $833,000 -9%  $22.79 $20.64 $18.49 $23.81 $23.34 Dane County, WI $1,317,000 $946,000 $1,160,000 $999,000 $987,000 -28%  $6.29 $4.52 $5.54 $4.77 $4.71 Eau Claire, WI $771,000 $793,000 $714,000 $813,000 $798,000 3%  $12.36 $12.72 $11.44 $13.04 $12.80 Fond du Lac, WI $670,000 $395,000 $395,000 $433,000 $424,000 -41%  $15.84 $9.35 $9.35 $10.25 $10.03 Green Bay, WI $1,128,000 $1,136,000 $1,366,000 $1,478,000 $1,453,000 1%  $11.11 $11.19 $13.46 $14.56 $14.32 Janesville, WI $651,000 $451,000 $521,000 $507,000 $497,000 -31%  $10.69 $7.40 $8.55 $8.32 $8.16 Kenosha, WI $1,287,000 $1,076,000 $1,214,000 $1,539,000 $1,510,000 -16%  $13.91 $11.63 $13.12 $16.64 $16.32 La Crosse, WI $1,204,000 $924,000 $695,000 $842,000 $825,000 -23%  $23.51 $18.05 $13.57 $16.45 $16.11 Madison, WI $2,398,000 $2,355,000 $2,330,000 $2,519,000 $2,489,000 -2%  $11.14 $10.94 $10.83 $11.71 $11.56 Milwaukee, WI $20,715,000 $21,157,000 $17,382,000 $22,612,000 $22,098,000 2%  $35.06 $35.80 $29.42 $38.27 $37.40 Milwaukee County, WI $1,956,000 $1,054,000 $1,338,000 $1,099,000 $1,079,000 -46%  $8.18 $4.41 $5.60 $4.60 $4.52 Neenah, WI $253,000 $158,000 $191,000 $171,000 $168,000 -38%  $10.34 $6.45 $7.81 $6.99 $6.87 
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Oshkosh, WI $979,000 $735,000 $660,000 $831,000 $815,000 -25%  $15.43 $11.59 $10.40 $13.10 $12.85 Racine, WI $2,388,000 $2,028,000 $1,696,000 $2,152,000 $2,107,000 -15%  $29.59 $25.13 $21.01 $26.66 $26.10 Sheboygan, WI $1,251,000 $737,000 $637,000 $728,000 $714,000 -41%  $25.30 $14.90 $12.88 $14.72 $14.45 Superior, WI $1,042,000 $750,000 $470,000 $573,000 $559,000 -28%  $38.29 $27.56 $17.28 $21.05 $20.53 Waukesha, WI $516,000 $358,000 $437,000 $394,000 $392,000 -31%  $7.80 $5.42 $6.60 $5.95 $5.92 Waukesha County, WI $1,257,000 $878,000 $885,000 $635,000 $624,000 -30%  $4.15 $2.89 $2.92 $2.09 $2.06 Wausau, WI $843,000 $736,000 $624,000 $673,000 $658,000 -13%  $22.34 $19.52 $16.54 $17.82 $17.44 Wauwatosa, WI $1,431,000 $267,000 $270,000 $234,000 $229,000 -81%  $30.63 $5.72 $5.79 $5.01 $4.90 West Allis, WI $1,661,000 $928,000 $578,000 $680,000 $667,000 -44%  $27.39 $15.31 $9.53 $11.22 $11.00 Wisconsin State Program $33,072,000 $22,965,000 $22,709,000 $22,709,000 $23,534,000 -31%  $11.43 $7.94 $7.85 $7.85 $8.13 TOTAL $78,326,000 $62,006,000 $57,473,000 $63,993,000 $63,973,000 -21%  $14.44 $11.43 $10.59 $11.80 $11.79 WyomingCasper, WY $551,000 $573,000 $631,000 $623,000 $605,000 4%  $11.01 $11.45 $12.62 $12.45 $12.10 Cheyenne, WY $663,000 $609,000 $574,000 $593,000 $579,000 -8%  $12.36 $11.35 $10.69 $11.04 $10.79 Wyoming State Program $3,754,000 $3,811,000 $4,195,000 $4,195,000 $4,369,000 2%  $9.67 $9.82 $10.81 $10.81 $11.26 TOTAL $4,968,000 $4,993,000 $5,400,000 $5,411,000 $5,553,000 0%  $10.10 $10.15 $10.98 $11.00 $11.29 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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Puerto RicoAguadilla Municipio, PR $2,249,000 $2,988,000 $3,529,000 $2,862,000 $2,760,000 33%  $34.28 $45.54 $53.78 $43.62 $42.07 Arecibo Municipio, PR $3,313,000 $4,438,000 $5,149,000 $5,765,000 $5,565,000 34%  $32.71 $43.82 $50.84 $56.92 $54.94 Bayamon Municipio, PR $5,539,000 $7,250,000 $8,038,000 $6,821,000 $6,608,000 31%  $24.65 $32.27 $35.78 $30.36 $29.41 Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR $1,491,000 $1,969,000 $2,196,000 $1,838,000 $1,775,000 32%  $30.77 $40.63 $45.32 $37.92 $36.62 Caguas Municipio, PR $4,097,000 $5,425,000 $6,100,000 $5,602,000 $5,424,000 32%  $28.91 $38.29 $43.05 $39.54 $38.28 Canovanas Municipio, PR $1,609,000 $2,181,000 $2,393,000 $2,614,000 $2,527,000 36%  $36.15 $49.01 $53.76 $58.74 $56.78 Carolina Municipio, PR $4,708,000 $6,101,000 $6,760,000 $4,995,000 $4,855,000 30%  $25.11 $32.54 $36.06 $26.64 $25.90 Cayey Municipio, PR $1,581,000 $2,138,000 $2,439,000 $2,739,000 $2,644,000 35%  $33.28 $45.01 $51.35 $57.65 $55.67 Cidra Municipio, PR $1,427,000 $1,930,000 $2,081,000 $2,048,000 $1,983,000 35%  $32.39 $43.80 $47.24 $46.48 $45.02 Fajardo Municipio, PR $1,169,000 $1,540,000 $1,798,000 $1,676,000 $1,622,000 32%  $28.25 $37.23 $43.46 $40.51 $39.20 Guayama Municipio, PR $1,490,000 $2,017,000 $2,349,000 $1,934,000 $1,867,000 35%  $33.29 $45.06 $52.47 $43.21 $41.71 Guaynabo Municipio, PR $2,317,000 $2,997,000 $3,381,000 $2,221,000 $2,160,000 29%  $22.88 $29.59 $33.38 $21.93 $21.33 Humacao Municipio, PR $1,893,000 $2,517,000 $2,838,000 $2,943,000 $2,845,000 33%  $31.71 $42.17 $47.55 $49.30 $47.67 Isabela Municipio, PR $1,579,000 $2,151,000 $2,426,000 $1,983,000 $1,908,000 36%  $34.80 $47.40 $53.46 $43.69 $42.05 Juana Diaz Municipio, PR $1,916,000 $2,603,000 $2,889,000 $3,053,000 $2,948,000 36%  $37.23 $50.57 $56.13 $59.32 $57.28 
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Manati Municipio, PR $1,591,000 $2,155,000 $2,461,000 $2,638,000 $2,550,000 35%  $34.13 $46.23 $52.78 $56.58 $54.70 Mayaguez Municipio, PR $3,451,000 $4,258,000 $5,125,000 $4,791,000 $4,651,000 23%  $35.26 $43.50 $52.36 $48.95 $47.51 Ponce Municipio, PR $6,256,000 $8,416,000 $9,992,000 $8,489,000 $8,201,000 35%  $33.61 $45.22 $53.69 $45.61 $44.06 Rio Grande Municipio, PR $1,725,000 $2,303,000 $2,525,000 $2,683,000 $2,600,000 33%  $32.21 $43.00 $47.14 $50.10 $48.55 San German Municipio, PR $1,263,000 $1,685,000 $1,957,000 $1,690,000 $1,638,000 33%  $33.71 $44.97 $52.22 $45.11 $43.72 San Juan Municipio, PR $12,558,000 $16,263,000 $20,449,000 $14,290,000 $13,920,000 30%  $28.97 $37.52 $47.18 $32.97 $32.12 San Sebastian Municipio, PR $1,668,000 $2,279,000 $2,514,000 $2,428,000 $2,340,000 37%  $36.94 $50.46 $55.66 $53.77 $51.82 Toa Alta Municipio, PR $1,847,000 $2,452,000 $2,654,000 $2,389,000 $2,318,000 33%  $27.18 $36.08 $39.06 $35.16 $34.12 Toa Baja Municipio, PR $2,569,000 $3,411,000 $3,789,000 $3,453,000 $3,336,000 33%  $27.08 $35.96 $39.94 $36.40 $35.17 Trujillo Alto Municipio, PR $1,884,000 $2,444,000 $2,700,000 $1,927,000 $1,869,000 30%  $24.02 $31.15 $34.42 $24.56 $23.83 Vega Baja Municipio, PR $2,077,000 $2,817,000 $3,200,000 $3,544,000 $3,419,000 36%  $32.99 $44.75 $50.82 $56.28 $54.30 Yauco Municipio, PR $1,769,000 $2,412,000 $2,717,000 $2,185,000 $2,112,000 36%  $37.53 $51.18 $57.65 $46.36 $44.80 Puerto Rico State Program $55,714,000 $74,172,000 $61,831,000 $61,831,000 $65,100,000 33%  $41.03 $54.62 $45.53 $45.53 $47.94 TOTAL $130,750,000 $173,312,000 $176,279,000 $161,431,000 $161,547,000 33%  $33.88 $44.91 $45.68 $41.83 $41.86 
CDBG Formula Targeting to Community Development Need 

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