The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, December 15 on permanently authorizing HUD’s Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery Program (CDBG-DR), the only source of…
Advocacy
Chrishelle Palay, NLIHC board member and director of the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity (HOME) Coalition, joined last week’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) Disaster…
Federal Response
FEMA
FEMA released an online searchable collection of risk assessment information for planners and emergency managers to improve mitigation strategies, strengthen planning…
Federal Response
Congress
Legislation introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) to reallocate unspent COVID-19 relief funds towards infrastructure and disaster relief passed…
Federal Updates
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Are you a housing provider in or near a disaster-impacted area? If you have vacant units, HUD wants to know! The agency is…
Are you a housing provider in or near a disaster-impacted area? If you have vacant units, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wants to know! The agency is operating a pilot program…
Federal Updates
The application period for the fiscal year 2021 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant programs opened on September 30.…
The Universidad de Puerto Rico Resiliency Law Center held a congressional staff briefing on September 27 on the status of recovery in Puerto Rico titled “Four Years of Disenchantment: Reasons for…
National Updates
Congress
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards met with Congress last week in a bid to increase the amount of disaster recovery assistance headed to the state, which is still…
NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) held a two-part webinar series on natural hazards and the federally assisted housing stock. The second webinar, “Disaster…
DHRC Updates
NLIHC’s Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition (DHRC) is a group of over 850 local, state, and national organizations working to secure disaster recovery funding and key reforms to ensure…
