New data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reveal that three states – Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin – allocated Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to support microenterprise in Program Year 2006 after not having done so the previous year.  In all, 17 states allocated CDBG funds for microenterprise, led by New York, which allocated $4.2 million.  California and Wisconsin were the only other two states to allocate at least 4% or $500,000 of their CDBG funds to support microenterprise.  Four states, meanwhile, did not use CDBG funds for microenterprise in PY 2006 after having done so in PY 2005. 

The table below provides details on the states that allocated CDBG funds for microenterprise in PY 2006, as well as those states that stopped using CDBG funds for microenterprise.