A federal judge has instructed FEMA to again temporarily extend its Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program for displaced survivors of Hurricane Maria. The extension is designed to provide…
FEMA released on July 12 its “2017 Hurricane Season FEMA After-Action Report” examining its response to the 2017 hurricanes, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. While the report…
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…
Federal Response
FEMA
FEMA has released a report titled the “2017 Hurricane Season FEMA After-Action Report.” The report details the response to hurricanes in 2017, including instances of FEMA’s…
The following is a review of housing recovery developments related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires since last week’s Memo to Members and Partners (for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
