HUD Offers an Update on $7.4 Billion in Disaster Grant Funding

Route Fifty: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development hasn’t decided yet how to divvy-up $7.4 billion that Congress provided last month for the agency to help places recovering from recent hurricanes and other disasters.

This money falls under the department’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program. While any area covered by a presidential disaster declaration this year is technically eligible for the funds, places with the greatest “unmet needs” are prioritized.

“It is too early to make any type of prognostications,” Neal Rackleff, assistant secretary for HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development, told reporters Friday when asked about how the $7.4 billion might be divided among places recovering from disasters.

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