The City of Palo Alto receives funds annually from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, providing funding to organizations through a competitive application process to implement activities, projects, and programs benefiting low-and moderate-income persons and community development needs. Examples of activities funded through the CDBG program include case management services to secure affordable housing and employment, fair housing services, housing rehabilitation and economic development.
The City undertakes CDBG program activities throughout the year. If you have comments or questions about the CDBG program, contact the City's CDBG program staff via email at CDBG.Support@paloalto.gov. Comments or questions may also be mailed to the City at the following address: Planning and Development Services/CDBG, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
The City of Palo Alto invites the public to review and provide comments on the Draft Program Year 2025–2026 CAPER. The Draft CAPER summarizes the City’s progress in meeting its housing and community development goals and its use of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds during the program year.
An electronic copy of the Program Year 2025-2026 Draft CAPER is available below for public review and comment from August 24, 2026, through September 11, 2026.
Program Year 2025-2026 Draft CAPER(PDF, 378KB)
The Human Relations Commission will hold a public hearing on the Program Year 2025-2026 CAPER on September 10, 2026, at about 6:00 p.m. The staff report and meeting details will be available on the Human Relations Commission meeting webpage.
The Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) outlines the public's participation in the City’s CDBG Program. This plan applies to citizens, nonprofit organizations, and other interested parties.
Adopted Citizen Participation Plan 2022(PDF, 726KB)
The City of Palo Alto is an entitlement City that receives CDBG funding from HUD. HUD requires the City to create a five-year Consolidated Plan to direct and allocate CDBG funds. The 2025-2030 Consolidated Plan (ConPlan) is built on a community-oriented participatory process and will function as an application for federal funds under HUD’s CDBG program. The ConPlan will also outline specific goals and priority needs where CDBG funds will be allocated during the five fiscal years of the plan.
2025-2030 Consolidated Plan (Approved on June 9, 2025)(PDF, 7MB)
The Annual Action Plan identifies the City’s housing and community development needs and provides a one-year action plan to demonstrate how the City will invest its CDBG funds to address those needs. The funded activities are intended to meet Palo Alto’s affordable housing and community development objectives described in the 2020-2025 Consolidated Plan.
2020-2021 Annual Action Plan(PDF, 8MB) 2021-2022 Annual Action Plan(PDF, 750KB) 2022-2023 Annual Action Plan(PDF, 1MB) 2023-2024 Annual Action Plan(PDF, 5MB) 2024-2025 Annual Action Plan(PDF, 8MB)
The City annually prepares a Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The CAPER provides an overview of the major CDBG program initiatives undertaken and accomplished in the previous Program Year. After a public review and comment period on the draft CAPER and a public hearing before the Human Relations Commission, the City submits the final CAPER to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in September of each year.
2020-2021 CAPER(PDF, 628KB) 2021-2022 CAPER(PDF, 3MB) 2022-2023 CAPER(PDF, 704KB) 2023-2024 CAPER(PDF, 678KB)
For general program questions, please contact CDBG program staff, at CDBG.Support@paloalto.gov