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10/5/2018 1 Florida Housing Coalition Hurricane Irma Member Update Webinar October 5, 2018 Sponsored by Fannie Mae AGENDA This week: • Rev. Mary Downey, Executive Director, Community Hope Center in Kissimmee [email protected] General News • Hurricane Florence update • Top Ten Priorities for Next Disaster Supplement- attached • Issues with definition of homeless pre and post storm • HR 302 passed by Congress- Disaster Reform Bill • Article: Why Are These Tiny Towns Getting So Much Harvey Aid? • https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/10/whos- losing-out-on-hurricane-harvey-aid-in- texas/571327/ Flood Mitigation Assistance Program • Funding from FEMA opened October 1 st • FMA provides funds for planning/projects to reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to buildings insured under the National Flood Insurance Program • FL Div of Emergency Management (FDEM) is soliciting eligible subapplicants • Deadline: November 28 by 5:00 PM SEE HANDOUT • https://www.fema.gov/flood-mitigation-assistance-grant-program
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Florida Housing CoalitionHurricane Irma
Member Update WebinarOctober 5, 2018
Sponsored by Fannie Mae
AGENDA
This week: • Rev. Mary Downey, Executive
Director, Community Hope Center in [email protected]
General News• Hurricane Florence update• Top Ten Priorities for Next Disaster
Supplement- attached• Issues with definition of homeless pre and post
storm• HR 302 passed by Congress- Disaster Reform
Bill • Article: Why Are These Tiny Towns Getting So
Much Harvey Aid?• https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/10/whos-
losing-out-on-hurricane-harvey-aid-in-texas/571327/
Flood Mitigation Assistance Program• Funding from FEMA opened October 1st
• FMA provides funds for planning/projects to reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to buildings insured under the National Flood Insurance Program
• FL Div of Emergency Management (FDEM) is soliciting eligible subapplicants
• Deadline: November 28 by 5:00 PM
SEE HANDOUT• https://www.fema.gov/flood-mitigation-assistance-grant-program
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The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Watchblog featured a blog post on September 27 that provides an overview of how FEMA’s Individual Assistance program works. The post features a flowchart outlining how the individual assistance, public assistance, and hazard mitigation assistance funds are activated and distributed. The blog post is based on a GAO report from May 2018 titled, Individual Assistance Requests Often Granted but FEMA Could Better Document Factors Considered.
FEMA Assistance Overview
Enterprise Community Partners sent a letter to Neal Rackleff, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD-CPD) outlining ten recommendations for maximizing HUD investments in disaster mitigation. The recommendations “seek to provide context, requirements, and incentives that would allow HUD and grantees to have a greater impact in reducing risk to natural hazards for a generation or more.”
Request for Mitigation Investment
DisasterLegalAid.org will host two webinars this month. o 1st webinar: “Community-Based Strategies and
Lawyering in the Wake of Natural Disasters”: October 11 at 3:00 p.m. Register here. The speakers are from Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico andCommunity Justice Project
o 2nd webinar: “Ready, Willing, & Able: Organizing the Legal Community’s Response to Disasters” October 24 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.
Legal Aid Webinars
Mary Lee Downey [email protected]
Executive Director, Community Hope Center of
Osceola County
Assisting New Floridians in Central Florida
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Introduction to Community Hope Center
Rapid Rehousing & Rent Subsidies
• CDBG• HUD• EFSP• Private Sources
Introduction to Community Hope Center
How we know it works?• We’ve seen it!
Mr. & Mrs. Hitch• Very Low Income• Chronically Homeless• Housed since June 1, 2015
Any additional funding specifically for Evacuees from Puerto Rico
• United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
• Grant from Margarite Casey
Rapid Response for Evacuees from Puerto Rico
New staffingIdentifying householdsDividing the Responsibility
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Identification Cards and many other Services
Wrap Around Services:• Identification Cards• Housing • What else?
Assistance DATA Evacuees from Puerto Rico
Households assisted• Families returning to
Puerto Rico• New Floridians
Assistance Continues Upcoming Trainings
October 12 1:30 pm Irma Webinarhttps://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2615158013329777154
Working with Blended Financing/Subsidy Layering
Webinar on October 23, 2018 at 2:00 pmhttps://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4264099998603695107
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Upcoming Training
November 6-7 at Embassy Suites Kissimmee
• Emergency management training sessions and leadership development
• Speakers from FDEM, Florida VOAD, FEMA and more
https://www.volunteerflorida.org/events/emconvening-3/?utm_source=VF+Active+Contacts+-+MASTER+LIST&utm_campaign=47c424e127-CEO+Notes+Feb2015_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9300c74a26-47c424e127-84048469
Newest Disaster
Publication on
flhousing.org
http://www.flhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Disaster-Management-Guide-for-Housing-
06.24.2018-WEB.pdf
Technical Assistance is Available
Available Daily: 1 (800) 677-4548
Options for Further Assistance Include:Phone and Email consultation
Site Visits
Register at www.flhousing.org for:WorkshopsWebinars
Thank you!Gladys [email protected]
Michael [email protected]
