For displaced people from the 2017 hurricanes, the storms were the first disaster; FEMA’s housing response has been the next. Thousands of low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and families…
General
NLIHC has prepared a chart detailing CDBG-DR Allocations and the status of State Action Plans.
Federal Response
Congress
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) sent a letter…
HUD awarded $28 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds to support long-term disaster recovery—the second and last allocation of what Congress appropriated in…
Representatives Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) introduced on April 11 the “Housing Victims of Major Disaster Act” (H.R. 5474). This bill would require FEMA and HUD to…
FEMA Administrator Brock Long testified at an April 11 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing, “FEMA: Prioritizing a Culture of Preparedness.” Mr. Long pledged…
The NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHCR) sent a letter to House Financial Services Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO) regarding a bill that…
The Texas General Land Office (GLO), which coordinates the state’s disaster recovery efforts, released a Hurricane Harvey Action Plan for the distribution of $5.024 billion in Community…
Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Tom Carper (D-DE) sent a letter to the chair and…
To increase the responsiveness of federal disaster housing programs, the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHCR) of more than 700 organizations has developed an online tool for capturing…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners…
Texas Housers, an NLIHC state partner, filed a lawsuit in late March against the Texas General Land Office (GLO) seeking access to data on the agency’s disaster recovery short-term housing programs.…
The following is a review of additional housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners…
