Description:
The CDRLF has been established to assist businesses seeking financial assistance for start-ups and expansions.   Loans can be awarded up to a maximum of $200,000 for working capital and fixed assets. The goal is to create jobs and enhance business services in low and moderate-income areas of Miami-Dade County. 

In order to be eligible, applicants must fulfill one or more of the following Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) national objectives:

• Benefit low and moderate income persons via jobs and/or services;
• Aid in the prevention or elimination of slum and blighted areas;
• Meet community development needs having particular urgency because existing conditions pose serious and immediate threat to the health and welfare of the community.

Contact Person:
Kishore Rao
Supervisor, Economic Development Unit
Community and Economic Development Division
Office of Community and Economic Development
Overtown Transit Village North
701 NW 1 CT  14 FL
Miami, FL 33136
Phone: 786-469-2216