1. Section 104 CDBG
  2. Texas
  3. City of Austin

Section 104 readiness

City of Austin

Where City of Austin stands on the four statutory tests, how to start its inventory, and what publishing it costs.

Section 104 readiness

City of Austin
Texas
Tests not yet checked

Four-test readout

  • Publicly accessibleNot yet checked
  • SearchableNot yet checked
  • Grantee-ownedNot yet checked
  • Undeveloped identifiedNot yet checked

Inventory

Parcels recorded in its name
3,661
Total acreage
43,341.73
Source
Travis Central Appraisal District parcel layer, owner of record matched to City of Austin, read 2026-09-29

Found on the county’s record, not yet confirmed by your staff, and not public anywhere as a list. Ask us to build your inventory from it, or start from your own list.

Preliminary. Read from public records. Your staff confirms which parcels qualify before anything becomes your published database.

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What it costs

$45,000 a year to publish it.

Building and checking your inventory is free. Publishing it is an annual licence, priced by your FY26 CDBG allocation.

Free: building and checking it

  • Upload the parcel list you have, or ask us to attribute one from county records
  • Every parcel matched to its county record, with the source and read date
  • Each parcel flagged “appears undeveloped” or “to confirm” for your staff
  • Redact any row, with a reason, before anything is public
  • CSV, Excel and GeoJSON exports for your own review
  • A methodology memo and a one-page council and HUD summary for your file

The licence: $45,000 a year

  • A hosted, searchable public page and map at your own address
  • An embed for your website, in your colours
  • A live layer ArcGIS Online and QGIS can add by URL
  • A quarterly re-read of every parcel that tells you what changed on the record

Priced from your FY26 CDBG allocation. Pay by card, or by invoice with a purchase order.

  • We do not decide which parcels are “undeveloped.” Your staff does.
  • We do not certify compliance. Your jurisdiction certifies, with counsel.
  • We don’t use your name or logo publicly without written approval.

City of Austin’s FY26 CDBG allocation on HUD’s formula list: $7,207,923. Whether a licence is CDBG-eligible, and under which cap, is your Finance team’s call. Lay the quote against what Finance confirms.

After it is published

The list is the requirement. What the land can hold is the point.

Section 104 sits in a housing act. Once your vacant land is public, the next question is what can be built on it.

  1. 01

    Publish.

    A searchable page, map and download at your own address.

  2. 02

    See what it can hold.

    What your own code allows on each parcel, cited to the section. Where we have not read your code yet, it says capacity unknown.

  3. 03

    Dispose.

    Take the parcels that can carry housing to council, an RFP, or a developer.

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Questions your attorney will ask.

Does this make our jurisdiction compliant?

No. Your jurisdiction certifies compliance; we do not and cannot. We give you the parcel list, the schema, the hosted table, and a methodology memo for your file. The certification decision is yours and your counsel’s.

HUD hasn’t defined “undeveloped.” How do you decide?

We don’t. We flag parcels that appear undeveloped based on assessor use codes and building footprints, and your staff confirms line by line. Our definition is published so you can adopt, narrow, or reject it.

Where does the parcel data come from?

County assessor records, with ownership attributed by owner name. Every parcel links back to the county’s own record so your staff can verify against the source.

What about land held by our redevelopment authority or a dependent district?

Title questions are yours to resolve. We show what assessor records attribute to your jurisdiction’s name and flag adjacent entities we found so nothing is missed silently.

What does it cost?

Building, matching, checking and exporting the inventory is free. Publishing it on a hosted page is an annual licence, priced from your FY26 CDBG allocation, by card or by invoice with a purchase order.

Not yet checked. Confirm findings with your own records and counsel before certifying. The certification . HUD had not issued implementing guidance as of September 28, 2026.

Not your jurisdiction?

Search 1,296 CDBG grantees.

Start with the list you have.

Building and checking your inventory is free. Publishing it is an annual licence, priced by your FY26 CDBG allocation. Your staff confirms every row before anything is public.

Start City of Austin’s inventory

No card to start. No logo use without written approval.