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Official title: To establish a community disaster assistance fund for housing and community development and to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide, from the fund, assistance through a community development block grant disaster recovery program, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 15, 2026 by Al Green · Last progress April 15, 2026
The bill strengthens and prioritizes federal long‑term disaster recovery and mitigation—giving low‑ and moderate‑income households and local governments more predictable, faster aid and tools to reduce future risk—at the cost of higher federal spending, added administrative complexity and compliance limits for grantees, and increased data‑sharing/privacy risks for survivors.
Low- and moderate-income households will receive prioritized, more predictable recovery assistance (including help moving from shelters to permanent housing and at least 70% of funds targeted to them).
Disaster survivors, households, and small businesses should get faster, better-targeted aid because HUD will align rules with FEMA/SBA, share eligibility data, and coordinate implementation to reduce duplication.
States, localities, and tribes gain a dedicated statutory CDBG-DR program, formula allocations, and funding flexibilities (including funds that remain available until expended and preliminary grants) for more predictable, timely long-term recovery.
Taxpayers may face higher federal costs because the bill creates new recurring funding streams, expands long‑term recovery investments, and increases HUD administrative spending.
Local governments and grantees may face substantial new administrative, reporting, and compliance burden (with capped admin allocations) that could strain capacity and slow on-the-ground recovery.
Broad data sharing across federal agencies, grantees, lenders, and providers raises privacy and civil‑liberties risks for disaster survivors if safeguards are inadequate or inconsistently enforced.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Creates a HUD‑led Long‑Term Disaster Recovery Fund and CDBG‑DR program, expands grantee eligibility, requires HUD coordination/regulations, and authorizes data sharing with privacy safeguards.
Creates a HUD‑led long-term disaster recovery program that establishes a Treasury Fund to finance Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG‑DR) grants for housing, infrastructure, economic revitalization, and mitigation after major Presidential disaster declarations. It requires HUD to lead coordination with FEMA and SBA, create an Office of Disaster Management and Resiliency, publish implementing regulations, and set data‑sharing safeguards to speed recovery and prevent duplication of benefits. The bill expands who can receive CDBG‑DR assistance (adding States alongside cities and tribes), authorizes formula allocations and grants from the new Fund (with a 2% set‑aside for HUD support activities), directs HUD to publish allocation methodologies and solicit comment, and requires HUD to issue proposed and final rules within specified timelines. It also authorizes sharing applicant‑level disaster data between federal agencies subject to privacy protections and computer‑matching agreements.