TxCDBG Activity Codes
For a more comprehensive list of activity codes, click here. Please note: The TxCDBG program limits eliligibility and only the priorities listed below are eligible for the state program.
03A Senior Centers
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities (except permanent housing) for seniors. 03A may be used for a facility serving both the elderly and persons with disabilities, provided it is not intended primarily to serve persons with disabilities. If it is, use 03B instead.
03B Facility for Persons with Disabilities
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of centers, group homes, and other facilities (except permanent housing) for persons with disabilities. 03B may be used for a facility serving both persons with disabilities and the elderly, provided it is not intended primarily to serve the elderly. If it is, use 03A instead.
03C Homeless Facilities
Acquisition, construction, conversion of buildings, or rehabilitation of temporary shelters and transitional housing for the homeless, including victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, disaster victims, runaway children, drug offenders, and parolees.
03D Youth Centers
cquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities intended primarily for young people age 13 to 19. These include playground and recreational facilities that are part of a youth center. For the acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of facilities intended primarily for children age 12 and under, use 03M; for facilities for abused and neglected children, use 03Q.
03E Neighborhood Facilities
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities that are principally designed to serve a neighborhood and that will be used for social services or for multiple purposes (including recreation). Such facilities may include libraries and community centers.
03F Parks, Recreational Facilities
Development of open space areas or facilities intended primarily for recreational use.
03G Parking Facilities
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of parking lots and parking garages. Use 03G if rehabilitation of a public facility or street improvement is a small part of an activity to improve a parking facility. However, if parking improvements are only a small part of a larger street improvement activity, use 03K
03H Solid Waste Disposal Improvements
Acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of solid waste disposal facilities. The eligible costs can also include equipment, such as bulldozers, used exclusively at the facility.
03I Flood Drainage Improvements
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of flood drainage facilities, such as retention ponds, catch basins, streambank erosion controls, channelization of streambeds, or dams. 03I can also be used for “Green Infrastructure” improvements to manage stormwater. However, if stormwater management improvements are integral to some other activity like a park or a street project, it should be included in that matrix code (03F for parks, 03K for streets) rather than 03I.
03J Water/Sewer Improvements
Installation or replacement of water lines, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and fire hydrants. Costs of street repairs (usually repaving) made necessary by water/sewer improvement activities are included under 03J.
For water/sewer improvements that are part of:
- More extensive street improvements, use 03K. For example, an activity that involves paving six blocks of Main Street and installing 100 feet of new water lines in one of those blocks.
- A housing rehabilitation activity such as water/sewer hookups (lines from a house to the street), use the appropriate 14* housing rehabilitation matrix code.
03K Street Improvements
Installation or repair of streets, street drains, storm drains, curbs and gutters, tunnels, bridges, and traffic lights/signs. Also use 03K:
- For improvements that include landscaping, street lighting, and/or street signs (commonly referred to as “streetscaping”).
- If sidewalk improvements (see code 03L) are part of more extensive street improvements.
03L Sidewalks
Improvements to sidewalks. Also use 03L for sidewalk improvements that include the installation of trash receptacles, lighting, benches, and trees.
03M Child Care Centers
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities intended primarily for children age 12 and under. Examples are daycare centers and Head Start preschool centers. For the construction or rehabilitation of facilities for abused and neglected children, use 03Q; for the construction or rehabilitation of facilities for teenagers, use 03D
03O Fire Station/Equipment
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of fire stations and/or the purchase of fire trucks and emergency rescue equipment.
03P Health Facilities
Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of physical or mental health facilities. Examples of such facilities include neighborhood clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and convalescent homes. Health facilities for a specific client group should use the matrix code for that client group. For example, use 03Q for the construction or rehabilitation of health facilities for abused and neglected children.
03Z Other Eligible CDBG Public Improvements
This matrix code replaces matrix code 03. Only use this code when an activity does not fall under a more specific 03A – 03S matrix code. Check the following before using this matrix code:
- Grantees may only have one public facility in an activity. Grantees must set up a separate activity for each public facility. When two or more related facilities are funded by CDBG, the grantee needs to set up a separate activity for each facility or improvement.
- 03Z can be used for seawalls, bus shelters, retaining walls, and wind turbines.
- 03Z can be used for activities that assist persons with disabilities by removing architectural barriers from or providing ADA improvements to government buildings (activities that otherwise would not be eligible for CDBG funding).
004 Clearance and Demolition
Clearance or demolition of buildings/improvements, or the movement of buildings to other sites
005 Public Services
Examples of legitimate uses of this code are referrals to social services, neighborhood cleanup, graffiti removal, and food distribution (community kitchen, food bank, and food pantry services).
120 Construction of New Housing (via community development organizations)
Construction of housing with CDBG funds must either be: carried out by CBDOs, in accordance with the regulations at 24 CFR 570.204(a); in accordance with 42 USC 5305(a)(15); or last resort housing under the provisions of the Uniform Act, 42 USC Part 49.
140 Rehab; Single-Unit Residential
Rehabilitation of privately owned, single-unit homes. Reconstruction of housing is eligible as is rehabilitation. Manufactured housing may be rehabilitated if it is considered part of the community’s permanent housing stock.
14A Rehab; Single-Unit Residential, Utility Connections
Rehabilitation of privately owned, single-unit homes. If Housing Counseling under 24 CFR 5.100 is provided in conjunction with rehabilitation, report Housing Counseling under matrix code 14L separately. If referral services, or general budget/financial counseling is provided to residents in conjunction with rehabilitation, the services are considered activity delivery costs as a part of a 14A activity.
14B Rehab; Multi-Unit Residential
Rehabilitation of privately owned buildings with two or more permanent residential units. If Housing Counseling under 24 CFR 5.100 is provided in conjunction with rehabilitation, report Housing Counseling under matrix code 14L separately. If referral services or general budget/financial counseling is provided to residents in conjunction with rehabilitation, the services are considered activity delivery costs as a part of a 14B activity. For the rehabilitation of units that will provide temporary shelter or transitional housing for the homeless, use 03C.
14C Public Housing Modernization
Rehabilitation of housing units owned/operated by a public housing authority (PHA).
14Z Other Housing Rehab, Relocation, and/or Homeownership Services
Housing includes new construction and rehabilitation. Some projects include conversion of non-residential structures to housing, historic preservation as part of housing, insallation of driveways and sidewalks, homeowner subsidies and financing, energy efficiency improvements, and other projects.
150 Code Enforcement
Salaries and overhead costs associated with property inspections and follow-up actions (such as legal proceedings) directly related to the enforcement (not correction) of state and local codes. For the rehabilitation hard costs of correcting code violations, use the appropriate rehabilitation code under the 14* series.
16A Residential Historic Preservation
Rehabilitation of historic buildings for residential use. Use matrix code 16A when the preservation or restoration of historically significant features is the only work being done. If historic preservation work is done as part of other housing rehabilitation, then use the relevant 14* matrix code.
16B Non-Residential Historic Preservation
Rehabilitation of historic buildings for non-residential use. Examples include the renovation of an historic building for use as a neighborhood facility, as a museum, or by an historic preservation society.
170 Economic Development – Assistance to Not-for-Profit Organizations
Financial assistance for activities carried out by the grantee or through a public or private non-profit subrecipient, such as acquiring land, infrastructure development, or the acquisition, expansion, or rehabilitation of buildings.
18A Economic Development – Assistance to For-Profits
Financial assistance to private for-profit businesses to (for example) acquire property, clear structures, build, expand or rehabilitate a building, purchase equipment, or provide operating capital. Forms of assistance include loans, loan guarantees, and grants. With one exception, a separate 18A activity must be set up for each business assisted. If an activity is carried out under 24 CFR 570.208(a)(4)(vi) or 24 CFR 570.483(b)(4)(vi), job aggregation is allowed, and all businesses assisted during a program year may be combined in one activity.
18C Micro-Enterprise Assistance
Financial assistance, technical assistance, or general support services to owners and developers of microenterprises. A microenterprise is a business with five or fewer employees, including the owner(s). The activity must be designed to exclusively serve microenterprises. With one exception, a separate activity must be set up for each microenterprise assisted. If an activity is carried out under 24 CFR 570.208(a)(4)(vi) or 24 CFR 570.483(b)(4)(vi), job aggregation is allowed, and all assisted businesses may be combined in one activity.
020 Planning
Program planning activities, including the development of comprehensive plans (e.g., a consolidated plan), community development plans, energy strategies, capacity building, environmental studies, area neighborhood plans, and functional plans. These activities, along with administration activities, are subject to the 20 percent limitation under 24 CFR 570.200(g) and 570.489(a)(3). Under State CDBG, this matrix code would only be used for planning done in conjunction with another eligible activity.