As part of an administration-wide push to advance equity and racial justice across the federal government (see related article in this Memo), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released…
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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on April 5 that it will make an additional $3.2 million in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds available to help its…
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for urgent action to respond to global climate change. The report states that in less than a decade, human-…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel sent a letter on behalf of the NLIHC-led Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on May 31 calling on the agency to waive…
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the “Community Disaster Mitigation Zones Act” on March 30. Introduced by Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI…
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Department of the Treasury
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released new data on reallocations of the initial appropriation of emergency rental assistance (ERA1). The…
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on March 22 the allocation of nearly $3 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds to help…
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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD announced on March 11 the award of nearly $70 million in Indian Community Development Block Grant-American Rescue Plan (ICDBG-…
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD’s Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) System pages have been updated to include several new DRGR Public Action Plan resources for grantees…
NLIHC and eight other national housing and civil rights organizations sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge on March 16 urging HUD to comprehensively address a recent finding by the agency’s…
A new analysis published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University examines the exposure of rental housing to natural hazards. Using data from FEMA’s National Risk Index (…
