Council committee clears HUD entitlement spending and presses Community Development on backlog and staffing Committee approved an ordinance to expend nearly $28 million in HUD formula grants; council members pressed Community Development on staffing shortfalls (78 of 111 budgeted FTEs), a backlog of over 2,000 home-repair applications and use of an implementation vendor, NextGen, to accelerate payments and compliance work.

Cleveland's Community Development Department is set to allocate nearly $28 million in HUD grants, but can they overcome a backlog of over 2,000 home-repair applications?

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