Glossary of CPD Terms

These are some terms that are specifically related to HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) programs or functions.

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
• Act
• Action Plan
• Adjusted Income
• Administrative costs
• Affordability
• Affordable Housing
• Age of housing
• Alternative transportation fuel
• Annual Income
• Applicant
• ASHRAE/IESNA
• Assisted Household or Person
• Borrower
• British thermal unit
• Building
• Buildings for the general conduct of government
• Carpool
• Carpool matching and promotion campaign
• CDBG funds
• Certification
• Checklist
• Chief Executive Officer
• Citizen Participation Plan
• City
• Classification
• Colonias
• Combined Youthbuild
• Commercially available
• Commercial building
• Commitment
• Commitment to a Specific Project
• Community and Individual Investment
  Corporation (CIIC)
• Community Development Financial Institution
• Community Development Block Grant
  Program (CDBG)
• Community Development Block Grants
  (Entitlement)
• Community Development Block Grant
  (Insular Areas)
• Community Development Block Grants (Section 108 Loan Guarantee)
• Community Development Block Grants (Small Cities)
• Community Development Block Grant (State Administered)
• Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO)
• Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
• Community Renewal - Renewal Communities/Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities (RC/EZ/EC)
• Consolidated Plan
• Continuum of Care
• Consortium
• Conversion
• Debt obligation
• Designated public agency
• Disability Compensation
• Disaster Recovery Assistance
• Discretionary grant
• Draw-Down
• Economic Development Initiative (EDI)
• Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity (ECHO) units
• Eligible organization
• Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area (EMSA)
• Eligible person
• Eligible State
• Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program
• Empowerment Zones
• Energy
• Energy audit
• Energy efficiency
• Enterprise Communities
• Entitlement amount
• Entitlement public entity
• Environment
• Environmental residual
• Excess property
• Extent of growth lag
• Extent of housing overcrowding
• Extent of poverty
• Exterior envelope physical characteristics
• Family
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Mortgage Insurance Programs
• Final Rule (HOME)
• Formula city or county
• Grantee
• Group Home
• Guaranteed loan funds
• HOME-Assisted Units
• HOME Funds
• HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
• HOME Investment Trust Fund
• Homeless prevention
• Homeless Veteran
• Homeownership
• Homeownership Zones (HOZ)
• Household
• Housing
• Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
• HVAC
• IBR
• Income
• Industrial facility
• Insular Areas
• Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS)
• Jurisdiction
• Landholding agency
• Lease
• Low Income
• Low-and moderate-income household
• Low-and moderate-income person
• Lower-Income Rental Assistance (Section 8 Certificates and Vouchers)
• Major rehabilitation
• Manufactured home
• Match
• Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Moderate Income
• Neighborhood
• Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy
• New Construction
• Nonentitlement public entity
• Nonprofit organization
• Nonprofit recipient
• Non-substantial rehabilitation
• Participating Jurisdiction (PJ)
• Permit
• Person with disabilities
• Political subdivision
• Population
• Preferential traffic control
• Priority Purchaser
• Program activity
• Program Income
• Project
• Project Completion
• Project sponsor
• Property
• Public building
• Reconstruction (also Rehabilitation)
• Rehabilitation
• Renewal Communities (RC)
• Renewable energy
• Renewable energy measure
• Renovation
• Residential building
• Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (HOPE VI)
• Revolving fund
• Screen
• Section 8 Existing Rental Assistance
• Section 8 Homeownership Program
• Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program
• Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Program
• Self-Help Homeownership Program (SHOP)
• Single Room Occupancy (SRO)
• State-assisted public entity
• State homeless coordinator
• State Recipient
• Subrecipient
• Substantial rehabilitation
• Suitable Property
• Supportive Housing
• Supportive Housing for the Elderly (Section 202)
• Supportive Housing Program (SHP)
• Supportive Services
• Surplus property
• Surplus Property Program To Assist the Homeless (Title V)
• Targeting
• Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
• Total Development Cost (TDC)
• Transitional housing
• Transit level of service
• Underutilized
• Uniform Relocation Assistance (URA)
• Unit of general local government
• Unsuitable property
• Unutilized property
• Urban area traffic restriction
• Useful life
• Value of the building
• Vanpool
• Variable working schedule
• VA Medical Center
• Veteran
• Very Low-Income
• Veteran Service Organization Officers
• Vocational Rehabilitation Program