The Consolidated Plan is the City of New York's annual application to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the Office of Community Planning and Development four entitlement programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA). These federal funds are used to address affordable housing, homelessness, supportive housing services and community development needs for programs which were conceived either to directly or indirectly benefit low- and moderate-income households. The 2008 Consolidated Plan represents the fourth year of New York City's five year strategic plan for Consolidated Plan Years 2005 - 2009.

This version of New York City's Consolidated Plan is part of the City's activities to fulfill federal Consolidated Plan citizen participation regulations regarding availability of the Plan to the public which require localities to provide the public with reasonable access and opportunity to examine the document.

The 2008 Consolidated Plan has been amended to contain changes made to the HOME and HOPWA entitlement program activities.

This amendment adjusts downward the HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) entitlement grant allocation and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) sub-grant allocation from the grant amounts originally requested (approximately $116.047 million, and $1.347 million, respectively) to the actually amount awarded (approximately $111.972 million, and $0.544 million, respectively) as a result of the Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (FFY08) appropriations. The amendment includes the deletion of two existing HOME-funded programs, the addition of four new HOME-funded programs and the reallocation of the FFY08 HOME grant funds among the remaining programs.

In addition, the amendment adjusts the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) allocation from the proposed $54.723 million to the amount awarded $56.811 million. This amount serves the City of New York and the Counties of Putnam; Rockland and Westchester (New York State). The amendment substantially reduces the amount of HOPWA monies used to fund HASA Case Management and Supportive Services (HOPWA-201), and eliminates federal funding for three other programs (HASA Housing Personnel (HOPWA-202), HASA Quality Assurance (HOPWA-203), and HASA Project Sponsor Administration (HOPWA-205), respectively). A significant portion of the funds will be reallocated to the HASA (Supportive) Housing Contracts Program (HOPWA-204).

Furthermore, the amended 2008 Consolidated Plan also incorporates the amended Calendar Year 2008 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, as adopted by the City Council.

The public comment period on the substantially amended HOME- and HOPWA-funded entitlement program activities began August 25, 2008 and ended September 23, 2008. Comments received by the end of the comment period regarding the use of these federal funds were summarized and Agencies' responses incorporated into this document for submission to HUD.  The amended Plan was submitted on September 30, 2008.

The 2008 Consolidated Plan consists of two chapters in three volumes: Volume 1. Executive Summary and Part I. Action Plan: One Year Use of Funds; and Volume 2. Part I.E., Supportive Housing Continuum of Care for the Homeless and Non-homeless Special Needs Populations; and Part II. Other Actions; and Volume 3. Part II.M., Summary of Citizens' Comments; and Appendices.


2008 Consolidated Plan - Executive Summary (Amended Version) (350 k)

2008 Consolidated Plan - Volume 1 (Amended Version) (2.3 mb)

2008 Consolidated Plan - Volume 2 (Amended Version) (4.8 mb)

2008 Consolidated Plan - Volume 3 (Amended Version) (1.8 mb)

Written comments and any questions regarding the Consolidated Plan can be directed to: