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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Total funding for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is reduced by $9.7 million or 0.3 percent over FY 2001 levels. A new $80 million Community Technology Centers initiative within the CDBG program budget will provide competitive grants to support the development and expansion of technology centers in high poverty urban areas. The budget request says the new centers will enhance the Dept. of Education's Community Technology Centers program and will build off of the 680+ Neighborhood Networks, a community-based HUD program that encourages the development of resource and computer learning centers in privately owned HUD-assisted and/or -insured housing.
Budget language has been deleted that required $44 million of CDBG funding go toward initiatives to stimulate investment and encourage economic diversification and community revitalization in distressed neighborhoods.
The Administration's FY 2002 budget request includes $150 million for Round II Urban Empowerment Zones.