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PURPOSE OF THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN <br /> <br />HUD has several purposes for creating the Consolidated Plan: <br /> <br />1. Promote citizen participation and the development of local priority needs and objectives by providing <br />easy to understand, comprehensive intbrmation on the comnmnity. <br /> <br />2. Improve the efficiency at the conununity level by simplifying the process of requesting and obtaining <br />federal funds available to communities on a formula basis. · <br /> <br />3. Promote the development of a plan (five-year and one-year time periods) that provides a basis for <br />assessing performance. <br /> <br />4. Encourage communities to consult with private, nonprofit, and public agencies/organizations located <br />both within and outside a community in order to develop solutions to A) problems within a community <br />and/or B) common problems shared by communities. <br /> <br />COMPARING THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN TO THE CHAS <br /> <br />Just like the CHAS, the Consolidated Plan provides the benefit of strategic planning. The Consolidated <br />Plan is meant to be comprehensive, so it should provide a community with a view of where it is today <br />and where it wants to be in five years. ~ll~e community sets priorities by developing a consensus and <br />targeting federal, state, local, and private resources toward activities to help achieve those priorities. Due <br />to the fact that there is a one-year plan within the five-year plan, a community can more effecfiveIy shift' <br />resources to produce results or take advantage of different funding sources. <br /> <br />Also similar to the CHAS, each state must prepare a Consolidated Plan. The state Consolidated Plan must <br />be consistent with local Plans in'"order to ensure that state and local programs and funds are coordinated. <br /> <br />The Consolidated Plan retains the basic outline as the CHAS, with one significant change. In addition <br />to discussing community needs, priorities, and programs related to housing, the Consolidated Plan also <br />includes non-housing community needs, priorities, and programs. Primarily, this means the portion of a <br />community's Community Development Block Grant that is spent for programs other that housing, such <br />as social services and public works. <br /> <br />In addition, effective with the first Consolidated Plan, HUD has altered the definition of low income <br />households. This document reflects the change in definitions, as shown on the following chart: <br /> <br />0%-30% of Median Family Income Very Low Income Extremely Low Income <br />31%-50% of Median Family Income Very Low Income Very Low Income <br />51%-80% of Median Family Income Other Low Income Low Income <br />81%-95% of Median Family Income Moderate Income Moderate Income <br /> <br />FY 1995 HUD Con.*olidated Plan 3 <br />DRAFT <br /> <br />City ofZakewoo~Ohio <br /> <br /> <br />