Housing

Below are housing programs offered by the Business and Community Services Division. To learn more, click on the program name or the corresponding link at the left.

AmeriCorps - The domestic Peace Corps, engages citizens of all ages in projects ranging from tutoring, youth mentoring, public safety, housing rehabilitation, health care, environmental issues, and disaster relief. It gives communities and neighborhoods valuable human resources for addressing their most pressing civic issues, and gives the individual a way to serve their country by picking up a book or a shovel rather than a gun. It has given thousands of Americans opportunities to increase their skills and earn money for college that otherwise would not have been available to them.

Community Development Block Grant - Provides financial assistance to local governments for public improvements. Qualifying districts and nonprofit organizations may also receive CDBG funding through their local government. The state CDBG program is available to non-entitlement cities and counties in Missouri.

Community Service Commission - Established in 1994 as a direct response to the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The Commission operates as a point organization for promoting and recognizing service volunteers and is dedicated to fostering opportunities for all citizens to serve their communities. The Missouri Community Service Commission oversees AmeriCorps programs.

Family Development Account - A contribution tax credit program that provides approved agencies the opportunity to offer state tax credits to contributors resulting in leveraged local dollars for low-income individuals and families to participate in a matched savings program for the purpose of home purchases, higher education, major home improvements, and start-up capital for a small business.

Historic Preservation - Provides an incentive to eligible applicants for rehabilitation of commercial or residential historic structures in the state of Missouri. The incentive is in the form of tax credits equal to 25% of the eligible rehabilitation expenditures of qualified historic structures.

Neighborhood Assistance Program - A contribution tax credit program that allows approved agencies to offer contributors an incentive of tax credits to leverage local dollars for community development activities.

Neighborhood Preservation - Issues state tax credits to a homeowner who rehabilitates a home or to a homeowner or developer that constructs a new home for owner-occupancy in certain areas of the state. This act authorizes state tax credits for eligible residential rehabilitation and construction costs for properties located in distressed communities or defined census blocks.

Business and Community Services
301 W. High Street, Rooms 720, 770, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Tel: 800-523-1434    Fax: 573-751-7384   Email: missouridevelopment@ded.mo.gov