State & Local Consulting

Cloudburst’s experts work alongside state and local governments to develop, implement, and manage solutions to address some of our clients’ most pressing housing and community development needs. Cloudburst’s team has deep expertise in housing, program requirements and federal regulations, community development, and infrastructure investment programs. We are experts in fully utilizing federal funding from the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG), Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), including Mitigation and Disaster Recovery (CDBG-MIT and CDBG-DR), while also championing local strategies and resources for greater impact.

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What We Do

Program Design and Implementation

Cloudburst can help clients design effective, compliant, and sustainable programs that actually meet community needs. Our experts implement smart program design choices based on client requirements and program performance and provide clients with step-by-step strategies and materials to help build their capacity and start up new programs.

We can:

Facilitate or conduct community needs and resources assessments to inform program design.
Identify and document process flows.
Provide checklists and guidelines.
Develop policies and procedures.
Establish strategies and tools for subrecipient management.
Build monitoring plans.
Provide guidance and support for HUD CPD grants.
Answer eligibility questions.
Assist in IDIS activity set-up and financial management.
Assist in creating reports (e.g., CAPER).
Guide the creation of new programs.

Strategic Plans

Cloudburst develops thoughtful tools to make planning easier and provide a clear path forward, with extensive experience across HUD and other government requirements.

We can help develop or guide:

Consolidated plans.
Annual action plans.
CDBG-DR action plans.
Mitigation needs assessments.
HOME American Rescue Plan allocation plans.
Citizen Participation Plans and strategies.
Fair Housing plans.
Language Access Plans.
Housing needs assessments.
Resource mapping and asset assessments.
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act evaluations and other planning for survivor services.

Training

Cloudburst can help provide in-person and remote training and coaching to support staff development, build capacity, and help ensure regulatory compliance.

We can provide clients with training on:

HUD Community Planning and Development programs.
Cross-cutting requirements and regulations.
Funding programs.
Systems.
Planning and evaluation.
Stakeholder engagement.
Best practices.
Subrecipient management.

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Technical Assistance

Cloudburst can provide both in-person and remote on-call or more in-depth technical assistance on federal, state, and local regulations and requirements; cross-cutting requirements; and HUD programs.:

We provide expertise in:

HUD Part 58 Environmental Review.
Violence Against Women Act.
Uniform Relocation Act.
Section 3.
Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
Uniform Guidance.
Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act.
Stafford Act.
Disaster event tie-back.
Duplication of benefits.
Financial management and grant compliance certification requirements.
Program delivery and administration.
McKinney-Vento programs.

Research and Evaluation

Cloudburst can assist with data analysis, program evaluation, allocation planning, and required reporting. This can include analysis of program data and supporting or conducting original data collection.

Work includes:

Coordinated entry evaluations.
Continuum of Care evaluations.
Allocation plans.
Shelter system research.
Literature reviews.