Disaster Housing Recovery Update, Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Federal Response Congress Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) wrote a letter to Kathy Kraninger, Program Associate…
Court Orders Temporary Extension of TSA for Those Displaced by Hurricane Maria
A federal court barred FEMA from evicting from hotels and motels nearly 2,000 families displaced by the 2017 natural disasters until July 24 to allow the court to hear further arguments in a lawsuit…
Additional Disaster Housing Recovery Updates – July 9
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…
Advocates Commend Court for Temporarily Baring FEMA from Evicting Hurricane Survivors, Urge Congress to Activate Longer-Term Solutions
Washington, D.C. – The Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) of more than 700 local, state, and national organizations commends the decision made on July 3 by the U.S. federal court to…
Disaster Housing Recovery Update, Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Federal Response Congress Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY) have introduced “The Housing Victims of Major Disasters Act” (S.2996 and H.R.5474), which would…
Court Grants Temporary Injunction on FEMA’s Termination of Transitional Shelter Assistance; Advocates and Members of Congress Call for Longer-Term Solutions
A federal court issued an injunction on June 30 barring FEMA from ending its Temporary Shelter Assistance (TSA) program for families displaced by the 2017 disasters. The court’s decision, which was…
HUD Approves Texas and Florida’s CDBG-Disaster Recovery State Action Plans
HUD has approved the Texas action plan for its $5 billion allocation from the Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program designed to support long-term recovery from…
Additional Updates on Disaster Housing Recovery – July 2
The following is an additional update on disaster housing recovery since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for the article in last week’s Memo, see 6/25). NLIHC also posts…
Court Grants Temporary Injunction to Protect Low Income Disaster Survivors, Now Congress Must Act
Washington, D.C. – The Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition of more than 700 local, state, and national organizations commends the decision made on June 30 by the U.S. federal court to temporarily…
Op-Ed: FEMA's failing disaster victims who are still desperate for housing
Originally published in the Orlando Sentinel on June 29, 2018 Ater Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, tens of thousands of people were displaced from their damaged or destroyed homes. Many…
Take Action: Urge Congress to Provide Stable Housing for Displaced Hurricane Survivors
Nearly 2,000 families displaced after the 2017 disasters will be evicted tomorrow, June 30, when FEMA ends its hotel/motel Transitional Assistance Shelter (TSA) program, while refusing to activate…