Understanding the Pace of HUD’s Disaster Housing Recovery Efforts

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ID21633833
AuthorsCarlos Martín (0000-0003-3668-403X, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA), Daniel Teles (0000-0002-0485-1465, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author), Nicole Dubois (Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue1
Pages102-127
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Policy Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1051-1482 • E-ISSN: 2152-050X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10511482.2021.1875258
OpenAlexW3153595673
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

Disaster-affected communities often describe national recovery aid as delayed. Yet local governments increasingly rely on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR)—the primary, federal long-term recovery program. This article describes completion times for housing activities across 88 CDBG-DR grants from FY2005 to FY2015; the grants’ housing activities took an average of 3.8 years from declaration to completion, although acceleration occurred over the study years. The authors also identify qualitative contributors to delay, including grant administration type, grantees’ capacity, and CDBG-DR rules, and quantitatively assess their contributions to delays. Although local capacity is a critical qualitative factor, ultimately, CDBG-DR’s lack of permanent statutory authority within the national emergency framework contributes to local governments’ inability to standardize recovery goals and implementation, which, in turn, leads to recovery lags

Block grant · Business · Declaration · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pace · Political science · Statutory law · Welfare · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Law · Public Administration

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