Alaska Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)

Alaska Community Development Block Grants sit inside the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development, with DCRA administering the HUD pass-through for municipal governments across Alaska outside Anchorage. The program uses single-purpose project grants to support public health, public safety, and essential services, and roughly $2.5 million was available in FFY2025 with a maximum award of $850,000 per community. Eligible projects include housing, slum and blight elimination, urgent needs, public facilities, and special economic development projects in rural communities where at least 51 percent of beneficiaries are low- and moderate-income. Municipalities and boroughs may apply jointly, and nonprofit organizations may serve as co-applicants. The cycle is annual, with late-fall distribution, an early-December deadline, and spring award notice. This is a practical capital route for local governments that can document a clear community need and a compliant beneficiary mix. Anchorage is excluded because it is already a direct HUD entitlement, so the program is aimed at smaller municipal applicants that need federally backed funding for concrete service and infrastructure work.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.