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This section describes our currently-funded activities based upon the boundaries of the Citywide Neighborhood Resource Teams (NRTs). These Neighborhood Resource Team boundaries are mapped and described in terms of their streets on the City's NRT website.

The CDBG Program approach is to assist core/basic activities available to residents in all areas of the City, with an added layer of other special activities targeted to particular NRT areas or sub-areas within those.

The core or basic activities available to each area, which essentially address goals of community-wide concern, include:

• Activities intended to improve the existing housing stock of lower income owner households, such as the City’s rehab loan program and the Project Home repair program;
   

• Activities designed to improve the physical accessibility and adaptability of individual homes, apartments, and civic spaces, such as the Independent Living Home Modification program and the CDBG Office Acquisition/Rehab fund;
   

• Programs organized to expand homeownership opportunities, such as the range of homebuyer programs including the CED HOME- BUY program, Operation Fresh Start, Habitat for Humanity, Urban League of Greater Madison Single Family Rent-to-Own, and Movin’ Out;
   

• Programs that promote the growth of businesses that create jobs for lower income people, such as the Madison Development Corporation business loan programs, the Community Action Coalition of Southern Wisconsin’s "It's My Business" program, and the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative program; and
   

• Programs designed to help people, including homeless persons, retain their housing or find appropriate housing or expand their housing opportunities, such as the Community Action Coalition’s Eviction Prevention and Housing Counseling programs, the Transitional Housing, Inc. Hospitality House services, or the Tenant Resource Center’s mediation services.

The basic activities above are either present in each Neighborhood Resource Team area, or available to residents in all parts of Madison. The following is a list of links to customized activities focusing on particular Neighborhood Resource Team areas, or sub-areas within those:

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