| St. Louis Five Year Consolidated Plan Strategy | |||||
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Developing stronger neighborhoods through adequate and affordable housing is an important goal of the City of St. Louis. The City faces many challenges in establishing stronger neighborhoods and affordable housing. About 70 percent of the City's housing stock was built before 1950, and more than 90 percent was built before lead-based paint was outlawed in 1978. The median year of construction is 1939. This housing stock is the City's greatest asset, but it has significant maintenance, repair, and environmental needs. Disinvestment, population loss, and loss of housing units have undermined the natural advantages of the City for more than fifty years. In this way, St. Louis is very similar to many other cities in the United States.
The St. Louis Community Development Administration (CDA) funds twenty different neighborhood-based housing and community development organizations, through the Federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership programs. They are called Community-Based Development Organizations (CBDOs). These organizations, along with Management Assistance Programs (MAPs) and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs, or Housing Corporations) affiliated with them, cooperate with the CDA Housing Production division and, in certain targeted wards, with the City-affiliated nonprofit Operation Impact. The CDA also funds programs that provide home repair loans, home repair assistance, homebuyer grants and loans, and technical assistance in homebuying for low- and moderate-income citizens of St. Louis. The Five Year Strategy The purpose of the Consolidated Plan five-year strategy as it relates to housing is to provide an implementation strategy for the years 2000 through 2004 for housing development (both rental and owner-occupied housing), home repair programs, and homebuyer assistance programs. The five-year strategy also will discuss the progress that has been made in the past five years in these same subject areas. COMMUNITY INPUT Roundtable discussions were held with constituent groups during the Five Year Strategy process:
A housing market study and housing needs analysis were developed, as required in the Consolidated Plan. This market analysis will show both what supply and what demand for housing exist in the City of St. Louis, and what types of housing could be developed in the next five years. A weak market can be assisted by public financing, so it is important to know where assistance should best be targeted. The needs analysis consists of updating the 1994 data to 1999 conditions and projecting out possible areas of greatest need in the next five years. Neither the City of St. Louis nor St. Louis Development Corporation endorses any of the websites in this list that are not part of the Community Information Network. They are listed here as alternative sources of information for you to explore. International Housing Resources
National Housing Resources
Missouri Housing Resources
St. Louis Area Housing Resources
City Neighborhood Resources
Neighborhood Sites Not Part of the CIN Neighborhoods Section
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