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By Kerry Smith<\/div><\/div>\n

HUD announced a new office focused on equity for \u201cnot-so-privileged households\u201d in disaster recovery efforts. Fla. and 4 counties will receive a combined $2.789B.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an overhaul of the agency\u2019s disaster recovery efforts: It created the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) in the Office of the Deputy Secretary, and the Office of Disaster Recovery (ODR) within the Office of Community Planning and Development. The change adds dozens of new HUD staff members to help expedite recovery processes as it allocated $3.391 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of that $3.391 billion, the State of Florida and four individual counties will receive $2.789 billion, or 82%. The rest of the allocated funds will go to communities in Alaska, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Puerto Rico.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Florida governments HUD disaster money total<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Lee County: $1,107,881,000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Volusia County: $328,910,000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Orange County: $219,712,000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Sarasota County: $201,535,000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
State of Florida: $910,624,000<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman announced the funding and new HUD office in Ft. Myers on Wednesday. HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge made the announcement simultaneously in Jackson, Kentucky, which received nearly $300 million.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cHUD is committed to helping underserved communities in hard-hit areas recover from disasters,\u201d Fudge said in her announcement. \u201cWe know that far too often, not-so-privileged households bear the brunt of weather-related disasters. We will ensure they have access to the resources they need to rebuild and recover, equitably. Today\u2019s announcement sends a strong message: Equity is elemental to the disaster recovery work.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
HUD says the new system will streamline its disaster recovery and resilience work by increasing coordination, reducing bureaucracy and increasing capacity to get recovery funding to communities more quickly. It also says the process will be more transparent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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By Kerry Smith HUD announced a new office focused on equity for \u201cnot-so-privileged households\u201d in disaster recovery efforts. Fla. and 4 counties will receive a combined $2.789B. WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an overhaul of the agency\u2019s disaster recovery efforts: It created the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) in the Office of the Deputy Secretary, and the Office of Disaster Recovery (ODR) within the Office of Community Planning and Development. The change adds dozens of new HUD staff members to help expedite recovery processes as it allocated $3.391 billion in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds. Of that $3.391 billion, the State of Florida and four individual counties will receive $2.789 billion, or 82%. The rest of the allocated funds will go to communities in Alaska, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Puerto Rico. Florida governments HUD disaster money total Lee County: $1,107,881,000 Volusia County: $328,910,000 Orange County: $219,712,000 Sarasota County: $201,535,000 State of Florida: $910,624,000 HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman announced the funding and new HUD office in Ft. Myers on Wednesday. HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge made the announcement simultaneously in Jackson, Kentucky, which received nearly $300 million. \u201cHUD is committed to helping underserved communities in hard-hit areas recover from disasters,\u201d Fudge said in her announcement. \u201cWe know that far too often, not-so-privileged households bear the brunt of weather-related disasters. We will ensure they have access to the resources they need to rebuild and recover, equitably. Today\u2019s announcement sends a strong message: Equity is elemental to the disaster recovery work.\u201d HUD says the new system will streamline its disaster recovery and resilience work by increasing coordination, reducing bureaucracy and increasing capacity to get recovery funding to communities more quickly. It also says the process will be more transparent. \u00a9 2023 Florida Realtors\u00ae \u2715 ADVERTISEMENT Go to Source Author: kerrys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}