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      "title": "The Role of HUD Housing Programs in Response to Past Disasters",
      "summary": "Hurricane Katrina has resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of families from their\nhomes. \nWhile its magnitude is unprecedented, the resulting need to shelter and house displaced families is\nnot. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the nation's agency with a\nmission to provide safe and decent housing for all Americans, has played a role in meeting those\nneeds in the past and is playing a role in the wake of Katrina. This report looks at HUD's current\nprograms and how they have been used to respond to past disasters.\n The report begins by introducing the concept of a continuum of housing needs following a\ndisaster. Displaced families' needs range from emergency shelter to temporary and permanent\nhousing. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has primary responsibility\nfor coordinating disaster relief efforts and providing certain services to help communities recover,\nother federal agencies, including HUD, also play an important role.\n HUD's programs fall into three distinct categories. The direct housing assistance programs\ninclude the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program, the public housing program, and\nproject-based rental assistance (including Section 202 and Section 811 programs for the elderly and\ndisabled). They can be used to provide temporary housing for both families who were receiving\nhousing assistance at the time of the disaster as well as those who were not. The block grant\nprograms, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships\nPrograms, provide flexible funding sources to states and localities to meet housing and other\ncommunity development needs, including those in times of disaster. The Federal Housing\nAdministration (FHA) at HUD provides single-family and multi-family mortgage insurance, the rules\nof which become more flexible following a disaster.\n In order to better understand the role HUD has played in response to disasters, this report\nprofiles crises in which the housing stock was severely damaged. Congress provided emergency\nsupplemental funding to HUD in response to each of the following disasters: Hurricane Andrew,\nMidwest Flooding, the Northridge Earthquake, and the 2004 Florida Hurricanes.\n HUD programs have been used as a conduit for funneling short-, interim-, and long-term\nfunding to disaster-stricken communities many times in the past, however, Katrina's impact on the\nregion's housing stock eclipses that of any other natural or manmade disaster in the history of this\ncountry. While looking to prior uses of HUD resources in times of disaster may be informative,\ngiven the scope of Katrina, new and broad initiatives to meet the interim- and long-term needs of the\naffected region and its residents may be considered in the 109th Congress. This report contains\nreferences to other CRS products that track activities specifically in response to Hurricane Katrina. \nThis report will not be updated.",
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