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“HUD should use published formulas and deadlines to decide which major disasters qualify for long-term recovery grants, how much each affected area receives, whether to add mitigation money, and whether to provide up to $5 million early for planning and first recovery steps.”
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“Disaster recovery projects should try to avoid displacing people or businesses, and people who must relocate should receive information about benefits and appeal rights. Grant money should not move a business in a way likely to cause major job loss in the area it leaves, except when a disaster-displaced business must move to keep operating.”
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“Projects using disaster recovery grants in hazard-prone areas, including flood zones, should meet basic HUD and FEMA building standards and carry required insurance. Some recipients could have to buy flood insurance because the grants would count as federal financial assistance.”
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“HUD should assess how a major disaster damaged homes and infrastructure in the affected area.”
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“HUD should have to start a disaster recovery needs review within 60 days after each presidential major disaster declaration and update that review every three months.”
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“HUD should be able to waive or change some disaster recovery grant rules it controls, while keeping key fair housing, civil rights, labor, environmental, and core program protections. HUD should also have 6 months to propose program rules and 1 year to finish final rules.”
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“HUD could change or waive many disaster recovery program rules when it gives a good-cause reason while preserving core protections, and grantees could rely on certain environmental reviews already completed by another federal agency so funds can be released faster.”
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“HUD should run a permanent disaster recovery grant program, keep a standing Treasury fund for long-term recovery money, reserve some money for HUD staff and technical help, and create a HUD office to coordinate recovery, housing, resilience, and grantee support.”
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“HUD would run a permanent CDBG disaster recovery program for severe major disasters, create a dedicated disaster resilience office to coordinate housing recovery and mitigation work, and finish permanent program rules within one year.”
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“HUD reports should list remaining needs in disaster areas that CDBG-DR or similar federal disaster recovery programs could help address.”
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“States, local governments, and tribes receiving CDBG disaster recovery grants would have to submit recovery plans to HUD, let residents comment for at least 14 days, get HUD approval, promise fair housing and civil rights compliance, and show how lower-income people would benefit.”
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“Grantees would generally spread CDBG disaster recovery money across housing, economic recovery, infrastructure, and mitigation based on unmet needs; HUD could add extra money for projects that reduce future damage; and projects in high-risk areas could face building and insurance standards.”
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“HUD should review grantees each year, set spending and performance targets, and be able to pause grants when targets are missed. Grantees should report spending, beneficiaries, activities, and results, while using controls to prevent fraud, poor purchasing, and duplicate payments for the same disaster loss.”
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“Federal disaster recovery money could be kept in a permanent fund, moved there when older HUD disaster funds go unused, reused when projects earn money back, and sometimes used across more than one qualifying disaster, while unused CDBG disaster recovery grants would face spending deadlines and possible recapture.”
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“Disaster recovery grants should mainly benefit lower-income people, vulnerable residents, affordable housing, durable repairs, and protective rebuilding. Money should generally be split among housing, business recovery, and infrastructure based on measured unmet needs unless HUD approves a different mix.”
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