HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has published a “Grantee Guide” to help state, territory, tribal, and local government recipients of long-term recovery funds meet fair housing and civil rights obligations.
Those receiving HUD long-term disaster recovery funds through the agency’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program are required to adhere to fair housing and civil rights laws, including the “Fair Housing Act,” the “Civil Rights Act of 1964,” the “Rehabilitation Act of 1973,” the “Americans with Disabilities Act,” and the “Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.” The regulatory requirements applying to each set of funds are laid out in allocation notices released by the agency in the Federal Register. HUD recently consolidated requirements for all disaster funds released by the agency since 2020 in a consolidated notice released last year.
To accompany the consolidated notice, HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has published a detailed guide to assist the recipients of these funds in ensuring that they are following all required civil rights laws when crafting the disaster recovery programs that will use the HUD funding. The guide covers all aspects of the program creation process – including the definition of unmet needs after disasters, accessibility requirements for individuals with disabilities, ongoing monitoring of subrecipients of the funds, and examples of data sources to use in equity analysis.
Read the guide at: https://bit.ly/3Q80yEL