chu, so, the portion of cdbg that you get for this is only a portion of the total amount of cdbg that the city gets, right, our department, receives the initial allocation of cdbg, and then we, through practice, have given a portion of the cdbg dollars to the office of economic and workforce development, i want to say maybe 1.2 million for economic development and maybe another 1.2 for workforce development. and then our department retains the rest. and who decides that the split between our department and cdd, it was to my recollection, it was based on a historical discussion. i would say back in 2008 or 2009, when the, you know, initially did not have a separate workforce development division. right. so yeah, i don't need to understand the details, but just. okay. so it was in 2000. that's a long time ago. yes. we decided yeah. right. so every five years we're required to go through this process right by hud to, identify my priorities, so to my colleague, you know, supervisor walton's question, what is the relationship between that five year planning process that we go through? and,

chu, so, the portion of cdbg that you get for this is only a portion of the total amount of cdbg that city gets, right, our department, receives the initial allocation of cdbg, and then we, through practice, have given a portion of the cdbg dollars to the office of economic and workforce development, i want to say maybe 1.2 million for economic development and maybe another 1.2 for workforce development. and then our department retains the rest. and who decides that the split between our department and cdd, it was to my recollection, it was based on a historical discussion. i would say back in 2008 or 2009, when the, you know, initially did not have a separate workforce development division. right. so yeah, i don't need to understand the details, but just. okay. so it was in 2000. that's a long time ago. yes. we decided yeah. right. so every five years we're required to go through this process right by hud to, identify my priorities, so to my colleague, you know, supervisor walton's question, what is the relationship between that five year planning process that we go through? and, you

the room, hud is making moves address the veteran benefits issue, to consider flexibilities around cdbg and housing voucher program. you already have the commitment of this administration on increasing vouchers and i think you've seen that with the budgets over the last few years. we are not just saying we are here to support you, we are putting it into the budget and you can see that in the president's budget, proposal for fy25, guarantied vouchers for every extremely low-income veteran and guarantied voucher for every person aging out of foster care because we know these are two critical groups. it would essentially finish the work of ending veteran homeless and and prevent any young person from aging out of foster care onto the streets into shelters, into motels and sexual exploitation, it would be profound. we are tryingg to put our money where our mouth is in all of the fronts. i know there's tough days ahead around homelessness. the crisis is epidemic proportions in a lot of ways it was before the pandemic and we were able to save it off with the american rescue plan and resources

testified these sent on behalf of the national association of counties about critical role homes, cdbg and the housing trust fund play and helping counties of every size to address housing needs. local communities depend on this partnership. even with more housing some families working low-wage jobs some seniors on fixed income still will not make enough. sorry okay. hud's housing assistance program are critical to keep rent affordable. >> excuse me. [laughter] well done. [laughter] i am almost done senator scott. >> take your time mr. chairman. [laughter] i need to make sure they work effectively and officially to serve our communities and protect our investments. congress needs to do our part. last month this committee had a hearing on legislative proposals help expand our housing supply and bring down the cost of housing let's continue our bipartisan work to move forward with common sense proposal help expand housing options and reduce cost i look forward to continue to work with ranking member scott on this committee towards that goal. i look forward to hearing today from the two l

in the senate on behalf of the national association of counties about the critical role that home, cdbg, and the county trust fund play in addressing housing needs. local communities depend on this partnership. even with more housing, some families working low-wage jobs and some seniors on fixed income still won't make enough to afford rent. >> the can't hear the room. >> sorry ? what was that ? sorry. okay. >> 25 housing assistance programs are critical to keep went affordable. the well done. i am almost done, senator scott. >> take your time, mr. chairman. >> hud needs to make sure they work effectively and efficiently to serve our communities and protect our investments. congress needs to do our part. last month, this committee had a hearing legislative proposals to bring down the cost of housing. we must continue our bipartisan work to move forward commonsense proposals that will help expand options and reduce costs. i look forward to continuing to work with ranking member scott on this committee toward that goal. i look forward to hearing today from the two leaders before us about

so those would generally be either cdbg. so federal dollars could be used for repair work, our housing trust fund can be used for that. and i believe i believe, yes. correct. those two sources i think those are the challenges that i am trying to understand and that as we continue to acquire for these small sites, which is a good thing, i'm glad to see a dedicated $30 million. and on top of that, 42, in this one fiscal year, i, i am wary about the balance between acquiring the sites as well as providing a long term sustainable structure for capital, and potentially also rental subsidies, i do have one last question, and maybe this is more for like lydia. lydia. and it's really a bond dollars. and we're really thinking about sites acquisition, not small sites acquisitions, you know, not a not a building but really land. knowing that this is the time when we can see that there is a market. this is a market for us to acquire land that we can potentially build affordable housing as a city, can the bond dollars actually go to acqu

so those would generally be either cdbg. so federal dollars could be used for repair work, our housing trust fund can be used for that. and i believe i believe, yes. correct. those two sources i think those are the challenges that i am trying to understand and that as we continue to acquire for these small sites, which is a good thing, i'm glad to see a dedicated $30 million. and on top of that, 42, in this one fiscal year, i, i am wary about the balance between acquiring the sites as well as providing a long term sustainable structure for capital, and potentially also rental subsidies, i do have one last question, and maybe this is more for like lydia. lydia. and it's really a bond dollars. and we're really thinking about sites acquisition, not small sites acquisitions, you know, not a not a building but really land. knowing that this is the time when we can see that there is a market. this is a market for us to acquire land that we can potentially build affordable housing as a city, can the bond dollars actually go to acqu