Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – June 13, 2022
Congressional and Executive Action The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing on June 14 on FEMA’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposal. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell…
Interagency Council on Homelessness Releases Statement on Rising Rate of Unsheltered Homelessness
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) released a statement on May 25 in response to a deepening crisis involving unsheltered homelessness and the spread of encampments. The statement…
House Appropriations Committee Holds Hearing on FEMA’s FY2023 Budget Request
The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Homeland Security held a hearing on May 25 regarding FEMA’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposal. The budget proposal requests nearly $29.…
HUD Releases Allocation Notice Detailing Process for 2020 and 2021 Long-Term Recovery Funds
HUD has published an allocation notice for the March 2022 distribution of long-term recovery funds for 2020 and 2021 disasters. The notice, published in the Federal Register, details the requirements…
Forecasters Predict 2022 Hurricane Season Will Bring Above-Average Number of Storms
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its forecast for the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season on May 24. The forecast predicts above-average hurricane activity, which would…
Coronavirus Updates – May 31, 2022
National Updates U.S. Department of the Treasury The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) updated its ERA Portal on May 20 to allow grantees to directly input their requests for reallocated…
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-…