HUD ANNOUNCES $450,211 FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN WEST JORDAN FOR REMAINDER OF FY2011

SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced that West
Jordan City will receive more than $450,000 to support community development and produce more affordable housing in West Jordan.

The FY2011 Continuing Resolution significantly reduced overall funding for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program compared to last year. The nation's CDBG funding was reduced by more than $600 million, or approximately 16.5 percent.

"This year's block grant funding requires tough choices that we would not have made in better circumstances," Donovan said. "As we work under the challenges of our nation's deficit, we must also understand that these
programs are absolutely essential in promoting community development, producing affordable housing, helping our homeless and even supporting long-term disaster recovery."

Regional Administrator Rick Garcia said the funding announced today in Utah is $450,211 in Community Development Block Grant funds.

Since 1974, HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program has provided approximately $132 billion to state and local governments to target their own community development priorities. The rehabilitation of affordable housing and the improvement of public facilities have traditionally been the largest uses of CDBG although the
program is also an important catalyst for job growth and business opportunities. Annual CDBG funds are distributed
to communities according to a statutory formula based on a community's population, poverty, and age of its housing stock, and extent of overcrowded housing.

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