Community Development
Although the Trumbull County Planning Commission engages in a multitude of different community development elements, including comprehensive planning, grant procurement and administration, and mapping; the primary focus of our community development program is the managements of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
The Community Development Program provides funding to Ohio’s non-entitlement counties and cities for housing rehabilitation, economic development and public works improvements that meet federal and state objectives to benefit low- and moderate- income personas and/or eliminate blighted areas. The program also includes two set-asides of funds: Neighborhood Revitalization funds to be distributed on a competitive basis to eligible communities to complete public facility improvements in targeted areas of distress; and Microenterprise Business Development funds to be distributed on a competitive basis to eligible communities to assist in the development of local microenterprise businesses and to create and retain long-term jobs in the private sector. Microenterprises are defined as for-profit entities with five or fewer employees, one of whom owns the business.
Trumbull County has recently updated the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice plan (originally completed in 2006). The completion and annual update to that plan is a requirement of the Community Development Block Grant Program for the Ohio Department of Development and the Department of Housing and Development. Please click on the link below to access this plan.
2010 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice