The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, a division of the US Department of the Treasury, is now using a priority point system for scoring its applications. Applicants are awarded up to 5 “priority points” for their commitment to serve communities facing the highest levels of distress.
The score is tabulated using various distress indicators, which are also mapped on PolicyMap. These indicators are: poverty rates, median household income, unemployment rates, home foreclosures and high-cost mortgages.