This flexibility allows communities to design programs that fit their specific recovery needs (with certain requirements, such as income restrictions). The beauty - and the challenge - of CDBG-DR funding is its flexibility. As shown in the state-by-state breakdown below, most of the CDBG-DR funding was allocated to Louisiana, followed by Mississippi. HUD distributed nearly $20 billion through the CDBG-DR program for hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. HUD then funded state and local partners through the CDBG-DR program to assist with long-term recovery efforts that would span more than a decade. As with most natural disasters, FEMA, along with state and local agencies, spearheaded the immediate disaster response to Katrina. HUD was involved with three major programs as part of the recovery from Hurricane Katrina: the CDBG-DR program, the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP), and the redevelopment of New Orleans Public Housing.ĬDBG-DR Funding. $120 billion in federal funds, including $75 billion in emergency relief, was spent on the recovery effort.3 million residents registered for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance.More than 1 million homes were damaged across five states.Whether measured by lives lost, the cost of damage, or hurricane strength, few natural disasters were as destructive as Hurricane Katrina: Although New Orleans did not receive a direct hit from the storm, the levees protecting the city fell under the weight of the rain and storm surge, and by August 30, 80 percent of the city was underwater. After gathering strength over the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and Mississippi on August 29, 2005, eventually carving a path up the East Coast. Hurricane Katrina remains one of the worst hurricanes in U.S. This post is based on that 2015 work reviewing the arc of recovery following Katrina. Long-term recovery really means that recovery can take a long time. For the past 15 years, I’ve also been involved with most of HUD’s research on disaster recovery.Īs we consider how communities will recover from Ida, I reviewed some research I had done in 2015 examining the previous decade of post-Katrina recovery. Ida then swept across the mid-Atlantic states, causing severe flooding damage in New York and New Jersey.Īs regular readers of PD&R Edge know, I have been developing allocation formulas for HUD’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program since the mid-1990s, including for Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Ida did inflict considerable wind damage, however, which we are still assessing. The flood control measures implemented after Katrina were successful and largely spared Louisiana from massive flooding. Hurricane Ida struck in the same general vicinity as Katrina on the 16th anniversary of Katrina’s landfall. As I awaited the first reports of the damage left in Ida’s wake, I felt a familiar sensation in the pit of my stomach as I remembered the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, another storm that had a catastrophic impact on Louisiana. In late August 2021, we received reports of a strengthening storm - Hurricane Ida - that was projected to make landfall in Louisiana. Richardson, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
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