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Community development

Disaster relief and rebuilding, plus grants that help towns fix themselves up.

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What the money shows

The government spent $106.5B on Community development in 2025, which is 1% of all spending that year. Community development outlays are up 145.9% from 2017. OMB history lists Community development at 0.3% of federal outlays in 1962 and 1% in 2025. Department of Homeland Security, the largest agency in this category, handles 68.9% of its latest outlay. The linked lobbying register category is Real Estate & Construction.

Sources: USAspending · OMB Historical Tables

$106B
Latest outlay
$1.05
Of each $100
+146%
Since FY2017
Real Estate & Construction
Mapped sector

Agencies spending it

Latest fiscal year, top agencies from USAspending.

Department of Homeland Security$73B
Department of Housing and Urban Development$13B
Small Business Administration$9.9B
Department of Agriculture$5.0B
Department of the Interior$3.2B
Department of the Treasury$832M
Department of Commerce$453M
Denali Commission$220M

Lobbying in this sector

Up to five leading real estate & construction clients in the lobby register.

Share since 1962

OMB history plus live rows once ingested.

Bills moving money here

A sector-filtered doorway into the bills register.

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