Sec. 303. Use of funds

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Grants shall be awarded under this title for the following purposes: The construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and site improvement of affordable housing and public facilities, including improvements in the energy efficiency or environmental quality of such public facilities or housing. The provision of human services, including childcare, health care, support services for individuals and families with special needs, education, after-school and vacation programs for children, and recreational and cultural enrichment programs for persons of all ages.

Programs that provide disadvantaged youth with opportunities for employment, education, leadership development, entrepreneurial skills development, and training. The repair, remodeling, and beautification of schools, community centers, libraries, and other community-based public facilities, and the augmentation of staffing for the services they provide. The restoration and revitalization of abandoned and vacant properties to alleviate blight in distressed and foreclosure-affected areas.

The expansion of emergency food programs to reduce hunger and promote family stability. The augmentation of staffing in Head Start, and other early childhood education programs to promote school readiness, early literacy, life-long learning, and family involvement in their children’s education. The maintenance, renovation and improvement of parks, playgrounds, and other public spaces. Providing labor for non-capital-intensive aspects of federally or State-funded infrastructure projects.

The implementation of environmental initiatives designed to conserve natural resources, remediate environmental damage, reverse climate change, and achieve environmental sustainability. The enhancement of emergency preparedness for natural and other community disasters and of post-emergency assistance for the victims of disasters. The expansion of work-study opportunities for secondary and post-secondary students, and the creation of bridge employment opportunities for recent graduates who have been unable to find work in the occupations for which they have trained.

Programs that emulate the Federal art, music, theater, and writers projects of the Works Projects Administration by providing work for unemployed writers, musicians, artists, dancers and actors on projects that are consistent with the public service and equality-enhancing objectives of this Act. The provision of job training to better equip Program employees to perform their program-funded jobs or to allow unemployed and underemployed individuals to obtain employment for which they otherwise would not qualify.

Other activities analogous to those described in paragraphs

(1)through

(14)that address public needs and can be implemented quickly.