Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Projects

CDBG grants are awarded by the City of Thousand Oaks, CA from the Federal Housing and Urban Development Department. SAFE has successfully applied for and received multiple CDBG grants and we expect to receive additional grants going forward. SAFE coordinates and administers all work associated with the grants to ensure it is carried out correctly and the beneficiaries receive the much-needed services for which they applied.

2025-2026 Budget:  $125,000 Scope: Install energy-efficient windows, new roofs, and heating/air conditioning. Beneficiaries: Approximately 13 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks.	2024-2025 Budget:  $134,000 Scope: Install energy-efficient windows, new roofs, and heating/air conditioning. Beneficiaries: Approximately 13 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks.	2023-2024 Budget:  $175,000 Scope: Install energy-efficient windows, new roofs, and heating/air conditioning. Beneficiaries: Approximately 13 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks.
2020-2021 Budget:  $75,000 Scope: Install energy-efficient windows, new roofs, and heating/air conditioning. Beneficiaries: Approximately 13 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks.	2018-2019 Budget:  Approx. $192,000 Scope: Install energy-efficient windows, roofs, heating and cooling systems, and water heaters. Make electrical repairs. Re-level homes. Beneficiaries: 28 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks.	2017-2018 Budget:  $145,000 Scope:  Install energy-efficient windows in 9 homes and new roofs on 5 homes. Replace furnace and/or air conditioning units in 4 homes. Beneficiaries:  15 low and extremely low-income elderly home owners in five mobile home parks. Unfortunately, only 1/3 of the applicants were able to benefit from this grant.
Habitat for Humanity, The Home Depot Foundation, and Calvary Community Church	Winter 2015 SAFE partnered with Habitat for Humanity, Home Depot, and Calvary Community Church to provide services for senior veterans and/or their surviving spouses. Refrigerators, furnaces, air conditioning, and water heaters were among the items furnished and installed free of charge. The Home Depot Foundation provided a $20,000 grant that was augmented with volunteers adding $15,000 of value. A total of 15 residents were served.	Summer 2015 SAFE partnered again with Habitat for Humanity to paint the exterior of four homes.