Community Development - City, Town, County, Parish, Disaster Recovery.

Low to Moderate Income disaster victims with good credit are denied HUD CDBG-DR Grant funds

Grantee OCD-DRU Louisiana has adapted a new policy to deny Low and Moderate income households from claiming a financial hardship do to having good credit and the ability to receive a Federal Secured SBA loan.

By Writers Pool published 5-5-2018 updated 3-21-2019
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GAP issue a.k.a. Homeowners Responsibility related to Duplication of Benefits.

I have been researching different ways we could propose a solution to the GAP between what Restore OCD-DRU says your work completed on your flooded home should be and what they actually calculated.

By Supervisor published 5-4-2018 updated 7-2-2018
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Local Action Plan by Comments collected for the Louisiana Task Force to address.

Very few speak out, in most all 2017 Louisiana Task Force meetings public comments were typically not from the general public or disaster victims but rather groups looking for their own gains. Why are the people not involved in the Disaster Recovery?

By Murray Wennerlund published 5-2-2018 updated 1-11-2022
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Louisiana Flood 2016 Task Force Meeting April 13 2018

In References you will find the link to the video. This transcript to offer publicly what was said about the Homeowners Responsibility issue and Duplication of Benefits.

By Writers Pool published 4-19-2018 updated 1-15-2022
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Flood Victims are Victims of their own OCD DRU people.

Flood Victims are Victims Twice with State Employed Community Development Office members not following HUD guidance. Louisiana Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit headed up by Patrick Forbes ignores HUD guidance regarding SBA Loans

By Writers Pool published 4-18-2018 updated 6-22-2018
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You are forced to Elevate and Reconstruct because your home or structure was substantially damaged.

Elevation, Reconstruction - Substantially Damaged Home. It's more than just money, it's time and the conflicting instructions each federal agency gives you. One may tell you not to fix anything, one may say go ahead and repair what you can.

By Writers Pool published 4-15-2018 updated 3-3-2022
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State of Louisiana OCD-DRU Reports links old page

Louisiana Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit reports

By Writers Pool published 4-15-2018 updated 1-15-2022
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State of Louisiana OCD-DRU Grant Administrative Manual and Resources

The OCD-DRU seems to remove pages online and not link to the new pages. But thats going to end now that I know they are removing documents that could be of interest to victims of the 2016 Floods in Louisiana

By Writers Pool published 4-15-2018 updated 1-15-2022
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Louisiana 2016 Floods Contractor contracts and links.

Find contracts associated with the Louisiana Floods of 2016 here.

By Writers Pool published 4-15-2018 updated 1-15-2022
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CDBG-DR Financial Updates for the State of Louisiana

Follow the grant money for disaster victims in Louisiana. Find out if it actually makes it to the homeowners so they can rebuild. Find out how long it takes to rebuild after a disaster. You will not hear this from your local or national news people.

By Writers Pool published 4-15-2018 updated 1-15-2022
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