In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema format to call for the First Comprehensive assessment of disaster cost and losses in over 20 years. We also wanted to reform several Disaster Assistance programs to make them more efficient. If february, the house passed the fema legislation and we hope the senate will take up hr1471 and pass it soon. The purpose of todays hearing is to discuss what we have learned so far and begin exploring potential solutions, particularly the principals that should be driving those solutions. While there are si
Theyre fantastic bookstores, and we are grateful for them as always. Former Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with his many years of work in the Nations Capital and he gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to richard ford, who at the time was doing teaching at Trinity College in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new setting and the opened the door to lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on International Politics right there in ireland. A governor with many talents, what may have been the most significant chapter from mississippi was the politicians and Public Servants began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering in to what would be the monster storm of Hurricane Katrina. Overs the next year, the governor, his wife, marsha, all over mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly in uncharted territory so in this new book americas great storm leading through Hurricane Katr
And the fact that there are a lot of rings that are grassroots that uses the innovative programs that roberta talks about and when we revisit the successes the people that built those are being pushed out. I wonder if this is an issue in new orleans. I think the answer very certainly is yes. Its the paradox of urban upgrades generally. You have an artist cadre. New york. C the art world discoverer so goes it did 50 years ago and turns it into suburbia and then moves on. The neighborhoods become increasingly expensive as the jackbooted fashion walks over them. We have seen that definitely new orleans. There is still however in new orleans a very long way to go. There are a lot of neighborhoods that would benefit from an infusion of money and new ideas and it would remain to be seen whether there was unaffected detection in place for the original population thats being forced out. There are nonprofits and there are philanthropic groups but certainly address those issues. There are Commun
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