Since the 2001 World Trade Center attack, Congress has appropriated over $109 billion to HUD in disaster recovery and mitigation funding. HUD’s grantees use these essential funds to assist impacted communities and low- and moderate-income families in recovering from disasters and to mitigate damage from future disasters, including that from water, wind, and fire.

State and local grantees often distribute funds to subrecipients to help carry out the disaster recovery and mitigation programs. Under this structure, funds—as well as documentation and data—are distributed across a diverse range of organizations, geographic locations, and systems and can be used for a wide variety of activities chosen by the grantees and subrecipients. The delegation of authority to execute HUD’s disaster recovery and mitigation programs, coupled with the large influx of funding that States and localities receive that is often spent over extended timelines, results in HUD, its grantees, and their subrecipients facing unique challenges. 

See the oversight reports below that provide insight into how HUD and its grantees’ programs can improve the Department’s disaster recovery and mitigation programs while minimizing fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.