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

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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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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Louisiana Homeowners Restore LA Solution 1 State offers Turnkey Contractor Solution

The state of Louisiana Office of Community Development hired IEM Inc. to manage the repair and reconstruction program for our flood damaged homes. The state trusts IEM, now our Louisiana neighbors can assure the contract and trust is never broken.

By Supervisor published 5-30-2018 updated 6-21-2018
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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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Request for copies of missing Flood 2016 Contracts from OCDDRU Flood Contract page

Ensuring Transparency, Accountability, Efficiency and Open Public Communications is much more difficult with the state of Louisiana Department of Administration than you might think. No accountability even with their methods of asking for Public Records.

By Writers Pool published 6-5-2018 updated 6-27-2018
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Quality Controls and inspections related to Estimates with missing items

The state of Louisiana Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit creates contracts with companies to do a job for disaster victims. Its the homeowners responsibility to report any errors or omissions to the OCD no matter how small.

By Writers Pool published 6-4-2018 updated 6-27-2018
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State of Louisiana OCD-DRU CDBG-DR Grantee Manual 3.7 - Section 4.0 Duplication of Benefits

The State of Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery Unit that handles HUD CDBG-DR as the Grantee has most of their current 2016 information online. It is your responsibility to be sure you have the most current version of the manual

By Murray W. published 7-10-2018 updated 7-10-2018
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