City of Goshen
CDBG Annual Action Plan for Program Year 2023
The City of Goshen is preparing the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Action Plan for Program Year 2023 (July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024) and is soliciting public input. The following were identified as priority needs and specific objectives for community and neighborhood development in the City of Goshen for the CDBG Five-year Consolidated Plan (2020-2024):
- Housing Opportunities
- Improve owner-occupied housing through rehab
- Increase quality of rental housing
- Increase transitional housing options
- Reduce housing cost burden through higher wage job opportunities and job training
- Provide permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless
- Support affordable housing creation and preservation
- Provide emergency shelter for homeless individuals and families
- Expand housing options and assistance
- Maintain and facilitate use of Housing Choice voucher program
- Access to Services
- Increase access to affordable healthcare
- Increase services for mentally ill
- Support programs for youth
- Increase access to affordable childcare and early childhood education
- Support services for elderly and the disabled
- Support public transportation
- Provide emergency shelter for homeless individuals and families
- Provide permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless
- Support counseling/advocacy for underserved populations
- Increase access to substance abuse prevention and treatment
- Support life skill development, including job training
- Support nutrition programs and food assistance
- Neighborhood Revitalization
- Improve owner-occupied housing through rehab
- Remove blighted residential properties
- Address issue of vacant/foreclosed houses
- Increase quality of rental housing
- Support public infrastructure projects
- Repair/replace existing sidewalks
- Support neighborhood parks
For Program Year 2023, the City of Goshen expects to fund program activities in the following areas: public services, owner-occupied housing rehabilitation, multi-unit housing, homeownership assistance, program planning and program administration.
The City will hold a public hearing to review Program Year 2022 and to solicit input for the 2023 Annual Plan on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 9:30 AM in the Annex Building Conference Room at 204 E. Jefferson Street. Non-English speaking persons and others needing special assistance to participate in the hearing process should contact the City as soon as possible.