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This bill, titled the Community Development Block Grant Equity Act of 2025, proposes to change how Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are distributed. CDBG is a federal program that provides annual grants to states and local governments to fund a wide range of community development activities, including housing, community facilities, and economic development. The bill revises the formula used to allocate these funds to metropolitan cities and urban counties, as well as to states for nonentitlement areas (areas that do not receive CDBG funds directly). The new formula will consider the poverty rate, the extent of female-headed households with children, the amount of pre-1950 housing occupied by poor households, and housing overcrowding. Notably, the poverty rate and the pre-1950 housing factors will be weighted more heavily in the calculation, meaning they will have a greater impact on how funds are allocated. The bill also adjusts the definition of "poverty" to simply mean having an income that does not exceed the poverty level and authorizes appropriations for CDBG assistance for fiscal year 2026 at $3,425,000,000, with subsequent increases for fiscal years 2027 through 2029 tied to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), which measures inflation.

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