​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is committed to empowering communities through programs for loans, grants, technical assistance, and tax credits. Assistance from the department is designed to serve as a tool for communities and organizations to leverage additional funding from investors, foundations, and local governments.​​

Grant, Loan, and Tax Credit Programs

The Department offers several programs for communities:​

• Community Development Block Grant Program
• Community Investment Tax Credits Program
• Community Services Block Grant Program
• Homelessness Solutions Program
  
• Local Government Infrastructure Financing
• Maryland Town Manager Circuit Rider Grant Program
• Maryland Housing Counseling Fund​
  
• Neighborhood Housing Services​​​
• Operating Assistance Grant
• State Revitalization Programs​
• ​Community Legacy 
• Strategic Demolition Fund-Statewide 
• Strategic Demolition Fund-Project C.O.R.E 
• Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative 
• National Capital Strategic Economic Development Program 
• SEED Community Development Anchor Institution Program​
  

Local Designations​

• Just Communities​
• ​Main Street Maryland​
• Sustainable Communities​

Disaster Recovery Assistance

• Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Assistance
  • Disaster Grant #1 - Hur​ricane Sandy
  • Disaster Grant #2 - Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee and the Derecho