CDBG - Planning Program (PLNG)
CDBG - Planning Program (PLNG) supports Wisconsin local governments with community-wide and site-specific planning to address economic and community development needs and guide future projects.
Funder: Wisconsin Department of Administration
Due Dates: Rolling (Applications) | January 27, 2027 (Optional application training)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000; $1 grantee match per $2 CDBG; planning completed within 22 months
Summary: Supports Wisconsin local governments in developing community-wide and site-specific plans addressing economic and community development needs.
Key Information: A pre-application meeting or call with DEHCR is required to confirm project eligibility and service area.
Description
The Wisconsin Department of Administration’s Division of Energy, Housing and Community Resources (DEHCR), Bureau of Community Development, administers CDBG-PLNG to help local governments plan responses to major economic or community development needs and unexpected economic activities adversely affecting their communities. The program supports plans, studies, analyses, data gathering, and identification of actions to implement plans.
Eligible work includes comprehensive, community development, neighborhood, redevelopment, downtown revitalization, and individual project plans. Other examples include fair housing analyses, housing and land-use plans, energy conservation and economic development plans, and environmental or historic preservation studies. Projects may address an entire community, a neighborhood or district, or reuse of a specific site. Funded planning must support a project that, if implemented, meets a CDBG National Objective: benefiting low- and moderate-income (LMI) persons or preventing or eliminating slum and blight.
