In February of 2018, Congress appropriated $12 billion dollars in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds specifically for mitigation activities for qualifying disasters in 2015, 2016, and 2017, which became the first CDBG-MIT allocations. In September 2021, Congress appropriated over $2 billion dollars and required HUD to set aside 15% of disaster recovery grants for disaster mitigation activities in any allocation of CDBG-DR funds for unmet needs moving forward.
Our team has guided these grant programs to produce tangible positive results and ease the negative impacts of future disasters for the communities we are privileged to serve. Our team has successfully implemented acquisitions, URA procedures, housing resiliency measures, elevations, infrastructure projects, greenspace development, coastal resiliency projects, wetland restoration, and more.