Guilford, Madison Receive Major Federal Grants

Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Department of Housing (DOH) Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno announced that $13 million is being awarded to 13 municipalities in Connecticut including Guilford and Madison to provide infrastructure upgrades that will modernize and rehabilitate housing for low and moderate-income individuals.

Awarded through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Cities program, which is administered by DOH with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, eligible projects must be in a municipality with fewer than 50,000 resident and have a focus on improving neighborhoods, eliminating blight, and attracting economic development.

“These grants go a long way toward improving neighborhoods so that we can make our communities more attractive and encourage continued growth for the benefit of all of our residents,” Governor Lamont said.

“These awards will help to improve the lives of Connecticut residents,” Commissioner Mosquera-Bruno said. “Whether it’s helping a family to complete essential renovations on their homes such as repairing a leaking roof, making a senior living facility ADA compliant, or improving the habitability of a domestic violence shelter – CDBG Small Cities funding is an important program. This federal funding is essential to low and moderate income residents and without these dollars, we would likely be unable to assist as many of our low and moderate income residents as they make these kinds of repairs.”

The recipients of this round of CDBG grants are as follows:

Guilford – Shelter Diversion Program ($350,000): Two full-time and two part-time diversion specialists and one youth diversion specialist will be hired to run a shelter diversion program in the Greater New Haven Coordinated Access Network.

Madison – Concord Meadows (Madison Interfaith Residential Community) ($1,479,021.09): The town, in conjunction with Madison Interfaith Residential Community, will begin the second phase of upgrades to this senior housing community with the installation of new heat pump systems for improved and efficient heating and air conditioning in each unit and new energy star-rated windows to increase energy efficiency and envelope improvements for the newer phase of the development.