CDBG-DR - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/cdbg-dr/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 CDBG-DR - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/cdbg-dr/ 32 32 103504436 HCFCD Recommends Projects for $863 Million in HUD Funding https://houstonnewmedia.org/hcfcd-recommends-projects-for-863-million-in-hud-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hcfcd-recommends-projects-for-863-million-in-hud-funding Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:49:26 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=48818 1/25/25 – Yesterday, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) released two lists of projects proposed for $863 million in funding. The lists correspond to Community Development Block Grants for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) and Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). The Texas General Land Office (GLO) administers the funds […]

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]]> 888554 Harris County Changes Proposed Project Lists for HUD Funding https://houstonnewmedia.org/harris-county-changes-proposed-project-lists-for-hud-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harris-county-changes-proposed-project-lists-for-hud-funding Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:20:32 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=44490 In a transmittal to Harris County Commissioners Court today, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) updated commissioners on how it hopes to spend $863 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds. Two projects in the Kingwood Area remain funding priorities: Taylor Gully Channel Improvements and Woodridge Village Stormwater Detention. However, the […]

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]]> 757505 GLO Reviewing HUD Applications for Harris County Projects Totaling Half Billion Dollars https://houstonnewmedia.org/glo-reviewing-hud-applications-for-harris-county-projects-totaling-half-billion-dollars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glo-reviewing-hud-applications-for-harris-county-projects-totaling-half-billion-dollars Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:42:06 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=44082 The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is currently conducting a final review on more than $498 million in grant applications from Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and Harris County Community Services Department (CSD). That’s out of a total allocation of $1,072,033,863 allocated to Harris County. And that means projects for almost half the Harvey […]

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]]> 738315 Plum Grove, Splendora, Liberty, Others Receive HUD Grants Through GLO https://houstonnewmedia.org/plum-grove-splendora-liberty-others-receive-hud-grants-through-glo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plum-grove-splendora-liberty-others-receive-hud-grants-through-glo Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:42:19 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=38401 GLO Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced yesterday more than $43 million in HUD grants for 44 infrastructure projects stemming from 2019 Disasters. The $43 million is the combined total of grants made to counties and cities stretching from the Rio Grande Valley to southeast Texas. The infrastructure-project grants will help communities recover from the 2019 […]

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]]> 570895 Montgomery County Holding Three Meetings for Flood Victims Interested in Buyouts https://houstonnewmedia.org/montgomery-county-holding-three-meetings-for-flood-victims-interested-in-buyouts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=montgomery-county-holding-three-meetings-for-flood-victims-interested-in-buyouts Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:41:46 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=29274 Morgan Lumbley, Montgomery County’s Disaster Recovery Manager, will hold community outreach meetings in Spring, Conroe and Splendora in the next 10 days to explain buyout options for flood victims. See specifics about times, dates and places in the poster below. The primary purpose of the meetings will be to explain FEMA’s 2021 Flood Mitigation Assistance […]

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]]> 195652 Should City Be in Disaster Relief? For One Program, It Spent $3 Million to Get $3 Thousand https://houstonnewmedia.org/should-city-be-in-disaster-relief-for-one-program-it-spent-3-million-to-get-3-thousand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=should-city-be-in-disaster-relief-for-one-program-it-spent-3-million-to-get-3-thousand Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:49:24 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=28701 One of the more alarming facts that came out of Thursday’s City Council meeting is that Houston’s Housing and Community Development is spending far more on disaster relief than it gets back in reimbursements. In the case of one program, Economic Development, the ratio between costs and reimbursements to date was actually 1100 to 1, […]

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