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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">October 26, 2020</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Randy Cole
<br />Housing Programs Manager
<br />Community Development
<br />Housing Programs Division
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.6321
<br />Randall.Cole@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) COVID housing and community development priority needs survey</h1>
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<div>The City of Columbia will be receiving an additional $737,588 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as result of congress's passage of the CARES Act and in response to the impact COVID-19. Columbia residents are invited to complete the following survey to help identify affordable housing and community development needs related to the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. </div>
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<div>The results of this survey will be one of several public input tools and opportunities to inform the expenditure of these CDBG funds. Thank you for your participation.<br /><br />Contact Randy Cole at Randall.Cole@CoMo.gov for more information.</div>
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