CDA Announces Nearly $20 Million in Proposed FY2027 CDBG and HOME Investments

The City of St. Louis Community Development Administration (CDA) today announced its proposed Fiscal Year 2027 funding recommendations, directing more than $17.4 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and $2.3 million in HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds toward affordable housing, home repair, public services, economic opportunity, neighborhood stabilization and community improvements across the City.

The recommendations reflect the priorities established by CDA at the beginning of the FY2027 competitive funding cycle, with significant investments in youth and families, homelessness services, public facilities and improvements, economic development, and neighborhood stability.

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides federal funding that allows cities to address locally identified community needs. CDA’s FY2027 funding priorities were developed through public engagement with St. Louis residents and are aligned with the City’s 2025–2029 Consolidated Plan.

The proposed investments would continue and expand programs that help keep St. Louis residents safely housed and prevent vacancy, an especially important priority as the City continues recovering from the May 2025 tornado. This includes more than $2.2 million (up from from $1.9 million in 2026) for home repairs through CDA’s Healthy Home Repair Program, which repaired 232 homes in 2025.

The City continues work to reduce and prevent vacancy from multiple directions. Proposed funding includes $1 million for the Land Reutilization Authority to maintain City-owned properties and $228,000 for the City Counselor’s Problem Properties program. Affordable housing production and preservation investments would help create and rehabilitate housing, while home repair programs help existing homeowners remain safely in their homes and prevent additional properties from falling into vacancy.

“Reducing vacancy and reclaiming vacant properties is a mainstay of CDA’s mission,” said Matt Moak, Executive Director of CDA. “CDBG funds help the City of St. Louis and residents tackle vacancy from multiple directions - repairing occupied homes, addressing problem properties, maintaining vacant properties, and putting vacant places back to use.”

More than $3.3 million in proposed public service funding would support a broad network of organizations serving youth, seniors, families, people experiencing homelessness, returning citizens and residents seeking employment. Programs provide food assistance, childcare and recreation, senior services, transitional housing and shelter, housing stability, reentry services, job training and placement, and other critical supports.

Proposed investments include continued support for Peter & Paul Community Services’ Jugan Shelter at its new campus, Food Outreach food access services, St. Louis Area Agency on Aging elderly services; expanded recreation through the City’s Department of Parks, Recreation & Forestry; Employment Connection workforce and reentry programs, and youth and senior programs operated by organizations throughout St. Louis.

CDA is also proposing more than $1.3 million for public improvements and community facilities, including $500,000 for the Carr Square Community Center; $309,525 for Clinton-Peabody’s Phase II redevelopment; and $500,000 for Gene Slay’s Girls & Boys Club’s capital campaign to build a new campus serving Dutchtown, Gravois Park, Marine Villa, Mount. Pleasant, and Bevo.

Many of the proposed investments also build upon programs and capacity strengthened through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). As temporary ARPA resources wind down, CDA continues to use annual federal funding to sustain successful housing, neighborhood and community development efforts while supporting long-term programs serving St. Louis residents.

About the CDBG Program

Established in 1974 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program provides flexible federal funding to help local governments address community development needs. Cities determine how to invest CDBG resources in local priorities, with funding primarily benefiting low- and moderate-income residents and communities.

CDA established Affordable Housing, Economic Development and Public Services for Youth as high priorities for the FY2027 funding cycle. Additional priorities included planning, homelessness, public facilities, public improvements and infrastructure, and program administration.

Draft FY2027 Annual Action Plan City of St. Louis CDA Action Plan, Public Comment, and Next Steps

The proposed FY2027 Annual Action Plan for CDBG and HOME funding recommendations is now available for public review and comment. The public comment period runs from October 8 through November 12, 2026. Residents, organizations and other interested parties are encouraged to review the draft plan and provide feedback. Written comments may be submitted to CDBG@stlouis-mo.gov.

The proposed funding recommendations were also introduced to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen on October 2, 2026, as Board Bill 86, beginning the legislative approval process.

Residents, organizations and other interested parties are encouraged to review the proposed funding recommendations and provide feedback.

CDA will also hold a in-persons and virtual  public hearing on the proposed funding awards:

Friday, November 6, 2026 at 10 AM
1520 Market Street, 2nd Floor Board Room
St. Louis, MO 63103

Zoom information will be available at https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/eventdetails.cfm?Event_ID=55572
 

FY2027 Proposed CDBG and HOME Funding Awards

The following are CDA’s proposed CDBG and HOME funding awards for Fiscal Year 2027.

Total Proposed Funding: $19,839,607

CDBG — $17,471,654
HOME — $2,367,953

Public Services — $3,319,614

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri

• Youth Mentoring & Wraparound Support — $175,000

Carondelet Community Betterment Federation

• CCBF Food & Nutritional Services — $95,437

City Seniors, Inc.

• Food Pantry — $40,000
• Senior Services — $140,000

Covenant House Missouri

• Transitional Living Program — $70,000
• Genesis Shelter Program — $60,000

Criminal Justice Ministry

• CJM Foundations First Housing (Housing-First Reentry Support) — $150,980
• CJM First Services (Reentry Navigation Hub) — $49,687

Department of Parks & Recreation

• Expanded Recreation — $308,000

Employment Connection

• ReEntry — $175,000
• Competitive Employment Program — $90,000
• Green Jobs — $150,000

Food Outreach

• Public Service – Food Access — $160,000

Gene Slay's Girls & Boys Club of St. Louis

• GSGBC Operations — $155,000

Guardian Angel Settlement Association

• Housing Stability — $50,000
• Food Pantry — $50,000
• Senior Services — $50,000
• Childcare — $50,000

Hope House STL

• Transitional Housing Program — $160,000

Interfaith Residence (Doorways)

• Comprehensive Flex Housing — $150,000

Midtown Community Services

• Youth Development & Empowerment — $35,000

Mission: St. Louis

• Beyond Jobs — $100,510
• Beyond School — $140,000

Northside Youth and Senior Service Center

• Northside Senior Meal Program — $100,000

Peter & Paul Community Services

• Jugan Shelter — $100,000

Seed St. Louis

• Building Gardens, Growing Communities — $95,000

St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment

• Prison 2 Prosperity (P2P) — $80,000

St. Louis Area Agency on Aging

• Elderly Services — $200,000

Tower Grove Neighborhoods CDC

• ARCH by HomeScreen — $50,000

Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

• Save Our Sons and Sisters Job Placement — $90,000

Interim Assistance — $1,920,000

Land Reutilization Authority

• Property Maintenance & Vacancy Support — $1,000,000

St. Louis Development Corporation

• Interim Assistance — $500,000

Department of Parks, Recreation & Forestry

• Operation Brightside — $420,000

LMI Homeowner Assistance — $3,750,184

The Housing Partnership

• Down Payment Assistance — $172,500

City of St. Louis Building Division

• Healthy Home Repair Inspections — $350,000

Mission: St. Louis

• Healthy Home Repair Program — $850,000
• Energy Efficiency & Weatherization — $100,728

Community Development Administration

• Home Repair Program Loan Pool — $2,276,956

Code Enforcement — $228,000

City Counselor's Office

• Problem Properties — $228,000

Housing Production

Community Development Administration

• Affordable Housing Production & Preservation — $2,000,000 CDBG / $2,137,953 HOME
• Rehabilitation Administration — $1,050,000 CDBG / $205,000 HOME

Subtotal — $3,050,000 CDBG / $2,342,953 HOME

Economic Development — $400,000

Justine Petersen

• Microenterprise Lending & Training Program — $400,000

Public Improvements — $1,309,525

Carr Square Tenant Corporation

• Carr Square Community Center — $500,000

Gene Slay's Girls & Boys Club of St. Louis

• GSGBC Capital Campaign — $500,000

Preservation of Affordable Housing

• Clinton-Peabody Phase II — $309,525

Planning & Administration

Community Development Administration

• CDA Administration — $2,119,831 CDBG / $25,000 HOME

Comptroller's Office

• Federal Grants Administrative Support — $45,000

Planning & Urban Design Agency

• PDA Administration — $1,000,000

St. Louis Development Corporation

• Capacity Building for Minority Contractors — $100,000

City Counselor's Office

• Legal Services Support Program — $229,500