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Disaster Recovery: Better Monitoring of Block Grant Funds Is Needed

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 25, 2019
Release Date March 25, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-232
Summary:

Use of the $35 billion in federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds for the 2017 hurricanes has been slow.

Over a year after the first funds were appropriated, much of the money remains unspent because grantees in Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still in planning phases. Also, the Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn't have the review guidance and monitoring plans it needs for good grantee oversight.

We recommended ways to improve the oversight of disaster funding and better meet disaster recovery needs.

St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, after Hurricane Irma

Downed power lines, barren and broken trees, and twisted street lights

Downed power lines, barren and broken trees, and twisted street lights

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