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The Planning Division administers the Erie County Community\u00a0Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Consortiums. These comprise 34 and 37 communities, respectively, in Erie County that have banded together to receive federal funds.<\/p>\n
These monies are used for a variety of community planning\/improvement projects<\/a>,\u00a0housing programs<\/a>, and economic development<\/a> programs.<\/p>\n The Community Development program year runs from April 1st through March 31st.<\/p>\n News<\/p>\n The Department created land use and census data maps for each municipality.\u00a0 Click here to view those PDFs<\/a>. Slideshow – Completed 2024 Program Year – CDBG Community Projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Planning Division administers the Erie County Community\u00a0Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Consortiums. These comprise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-271754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nErie County now has a local Fair Housing Law<\/a>! The legislation, which was signed into law by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz on May 22, 2018, incorporates the same protections as the federal and state fair housing laws while also prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, immigration and citizenship status, and source of income. Click to read the legislation<\/a>
\nIn accordance with Initiatives for a Smart Economy 2.0,<\/a> Erie County\u2019s Department of Environment and Plan\u00adning is assisting municipalities with compre\u00adhensive plan updates. Please see the Comprehensive Plan Updates page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n