Coeur d'Alene Tribe receives grant to help infrastructure

PLUMMER - The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Housing Authority has been awarded $455,200 in Indian Community Development Block Grant funding through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HUD's Indian Community Development Block Grant Program is intended to help address a wide variety of community development and affordable housing activities for low-to moderate-income families and can be used to build infrastructure such as roads, water, and sewer facilities.

The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Housing Authority will use the funds to construct an additional sewage lagoon for the Gathering Place apartment complex on the reservation. This is an essential step in addressing some of the immediate housing needs on the reservation," said Rosanna Allen, Executive Director of the Coeur d'Alene Tribal Housing Authority.

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe was just one of 76 tribal communities to be awarded funding in this most recent grant cycle and was the only tribe from Idaho to receive funding.