Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 31, 2022
FEMA An audit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found that FEMA did not collect information necessary for the accurate review of erroneous distributions…
NLIHC and Disaster Law Project Submit Recommendations to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
NLIHC and the Disaster Law Project (DLP) submitted recommendations to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on May 20 regarding disaster recovery policies the…
California Bill Would Create Disaster Bridge Loan Program for Wildfire Survivors
A bill recently introduced in California, “Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program-AB 1945,” seeks to shorten the amount of time it takes for survivors of wildfire…
Coronavirus Updates – May 16, 2022
National Updates Department of the Treasury The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released on May 2 the March ERA report and a report on 2021 ERA1 Demographic Percentages by State. Read…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 16, 2022
Congress Support for permanently authorizing the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program is building in the Biden administration and in Congress. If enacted, the DHRC-…
Sen. Warren and Rep. Thompson Introduce FEMA Equity Act
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the “Federal Emergency Management Advancement of Equity Act” (…
NLIHC and Disaster Recovery Advocates Send Disaster Recovery Transparency Recommendations to HUD
NLIHC, the Fair Share Housing Center of New Jersey, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, and Texas Appleseed sent a memo to HUD on May 6 with recommendations to increase transparency and public involvement in…
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Passes Disaster Mitigation Legislation
The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure voted on April 28 on several disaster recovery reform bills. One of the bills, the “Community Disaster Resilience Zone Act,” is supported…
Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – May 2, 2022
Congressional Action Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) sent a letter to appropriators in the U.S House of Representatives asking for additional funding for…
FEMA Releases Equity Action Plan
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…
Coronavirus Updates – April 18
National Updates 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…