Res 2021-064/approving Substantial Amendment No. 10 to the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Action Plan

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THE FINE PRINT: According to § VI.A.a.(1) of the Federal Register published on June 17, 2016: "The action plan must include an impact and unmet needs assessment. Each grantee must develop a needs assessment to understand the type and location of community needs to enable it to target limited resources to areas with the greatest need. Grantees receiving an award under this notice must conduct a needs assessment to inform the allocation of CDBG-DR resources. At a minimum, the needs assessment must evaluate three core aspects of recovery -housing (interim and permanent, owner and rental, single-family and multifamily, affordable and market rate, and housing to meet the needs of pre -disaster homeless persons), infrastructure, and the economy (e.g., estimated job losses). The assessment must also take into account the various forms of assistance available to, or likely to be available to, affected communities (e.g., projected FEMA funds) and individuals (e.g., estimated insurance) to ensure CDBG-DR funds meet needs that are not likely to be addressed by other sources of funds. Grantees must also assess whether public services (i.e., job training, mental health and general health services) are necessary to complement activities intended to address housing and economic revitalization needs." "A needs assessment must take into account the costs of incorporating mitigation and resilience measures to protect against future hazards, including the anticipated effects of climate change on those hazards." Additionally, according to § VI.A.a.(8), the Needs Assessment process and Action Plan must include: "A description of how the grantee will encourage the provision of housing for all income groups that is resilient to natural hazards, including a description of the activities it plans to undertake to address: (a) the transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and permanent housing needs of individuals and families (including subpopulations) that are homeless and at -risk of homelessness; (b) the prevention of low-income individuals and families with children (especially those with incomes below 30 percent of the area median) from becoming homeless; and (c) the special needs of persons who are not homeless but require supportive housing (e.g., elderly, persons with disabilities, persons with alcohol or other drug addiction, persons with HIV/AIDS and their families, and public housing residents, as identified in 24 CFR 91.315 (e) or 91.215(e) as applicable). Grantees must also assess how planning decisions may affect racial, ethnic, and low- income concentrations, and ways to promote the availability of affordable housing in low -poverty, nonminority areas where appropriate and in response to natural hazard -related impacts."