Research Topics created from questions asked related to disaster recovery.

Public Questions and topics asked and answered that related to declared disaster recovery. We use raw research data to provide fact checking material which is available to members.

170 research topics

Freedom of Information Request: Total number of households pending Homeowner Responsibility and Homeowner Escrow. Total number of LMI awarded grants. DOB Recapture efforts by State of Louisiana related to households below 80% AMI.

#3 published 1-4-2019 1 min. 34 seconds read, search group Research.

Federal Disaster Assistance

When you are navigating the federal disaster assistance agencies your first stop should be to the TruckAndTools.Com Disaster Resources. Every disaster agency uses the same process but not every disaster agency follows strict policy and guidance. Don't go into your disaster recovery with blind trust of your federal and state agencies that are leading the push to get you sheltered and out of the program.

Freedom of Information Request: Copy of public comments for each of the action plan amendments listed on the states DOA - OCD-DRU webpage

#20 published 1-3-2019 updated 1-4-2019 27 seconds read, search group Research.

Freedom of Information Request: Communications between the Governors Office and RLHP relating to waiving state contractor license requirements.

#2 published 1-4-2019 1 min. 41 seconds read, search group Research.

FEMA is providing survivors of the August 2016 flood with additional time to remain in agency - provided manufactured housing units MHUs as they complete the final steps of their recovery. New date is April 30, 2019.

#19 published 1-3-2019 2 min. 51 seconds read, search group Research.

Restore Louisiana Homeowner Assistance Program has heard from many homeowners who have been anxiously waiting for progress on the federal duplication of benefits fix.

#18 published 1-3-2019 2 min. 29 seconds read, search group Research.

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Response to correspondence to President Trump, dated November 27, 2018, requesting that the President waive any requirements that Small Business Administration SBA loans are a prohibited duplication of benefit with HUD CDBG.

#17 published 1-3-2019 2 min. 10 seconds read, search group Research.

Will your city, county, parish building and zoning office change the standard base flood elevation used by FEMA to match what HUD CDBG-DR requires?

#16 published 12-30-2018 27 seconds read, search group Local Government.

For more than 561 days (June 16, 2017) a small group of independent contractors within the Restore La Homeowners Program Solution 2 Reconstruction have changed rules and policy so much that homeowners have questioned their ability to manage.

#14 published 12-30-2018 1 min. 58 seconds read, search group Fact Check.

Are there specific rules, policies or guidance that the states have to tell their citizens to protect them from being deemed ineligible for future federal disaster recovery funds?

#11 published 12-30-2018 3 min. 33 seconds read, search group Transparency.

Season 1, Episode 1: "Gross Incompetence Elevation Costs".

#9 published 12-30-2018 1 min. 18 seconds read, search group State Contractors.

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Homeowners Disaster Recovery and Debt Reduction Assistance Handbook eBook and Website

By Murray Wennerlund 10-19-2023

Providing Guidance for Managing Financial Burden after a Disaster.

Restore Louisiana Homeowner Assistance Program Extends Application Deadline to Tuesday, Oct. 31

By Murray Wennerlund 10-11-2023

If you know someone who applied for HUD CDBG-DR Grants and was invited to complete the application process please send them a reminder, call them, tell them Ill help them complete the application if necessary. Dont let GRANT funds go to the state!

General Contractors and Residential Builders are missing out on $157.25 to $168.00 sqft builds!

By Murray Wennerlund 9-29-2023

General Contractors snubbed 2016 flood victims when asked to construction new homes at 108/sf. Today the same builders are not responding to 157.25 plus per sqft, why?