Office of Community Development & Technical Assistance - This office
encourages collaborations to address statewide community development
activities including: access to capital, mobile home parks, and the impact
of off-campus housing and the importance of healthy housing and energy
cost on housing policies and practices. This Office will focus on
result driven strategic solutions in community economic development by
encouraging creative flexible tools and resources.

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) - The primary purpose of the Community Development Block Grant Program is the development of viable "urban" communities by providing decent housing, expanding economic opportunity and creating suitable living enviornments; primarily for low/moderate persons. To this end, the CDBG program distributes the State's allocation of approx. $5 million annually to the State's non-entitlement municipalities for various purposes.

Office of Homeownership - The purpose of this office is to promote homeownership for low- and moderate-income households, especially those Rhode Islanders traditionally underserved. The Office is charged with addressing a range of issues in the home selection and buying process, to identify and seek to eliminate housing discriminatory practices such as predatory lending, home improvement loan abuses, insurance abuses, access to credit as well as encouraging practices and policies to foster homeownership retention through foreclosure prevention and counseling. The Office continues to work with various housing partners to encourage and create homeownership opportunities in Rhode Island.

Community Dev't
Co-Chairs:
Jeanne Cola
Barbara Fields

Homeownership
Co-Chairs:
Angela Lovegrove
Monica Staaf

Staff:
Ray Neirinckx