City of Covington Community Development DepartmentLocal authority

The City of Covington Community Development Department is a municipal administrative agency of the City of Covington, Kentucky. Its mandate is to foster urban revitalization, support local small-business growth, manage historic preservation, enforce housing and building safety codes, and administer federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs to improve quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents. The department's modern community-development operations and federal entitlement status were established following the enactment of the federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, which empowered urban riverfront cities like Covington to direct federal funds into comprehensive neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing preservation.