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Community Development Administration outlines ARPA, HUD and disaster-recovery spending; extends NOFA amid tornado response
Summary
Noel Pfeffer, executive director of the Community Development Administration, told the Budget and Public Employees Committee on May 28 that CDA has scaled rapidly since 2020 and is redirecting several programs to support disaster recovery while extending a housing NOFA deadline to July 14 to account for tornado impacts.
Noel Pfeffer, executive director of the Community Development Administration, briefed the Budget and Public Employees Committee on May 28 about CDA’s recent scaling, current funding portfolio and disaster-recovery priorities.
Top line: Pfeffer said CDA has been appropriated more than $400 million in funds between 2020 and 2024 and has made more than $100 million in housing awards that leverage roughly $750 million in private investment; CDA reported more than 3,500 housing units complete or in development. Pfeffer said CDA’s schedule of federal awards rose from about $19 million in 2020 to $59 million in 2024.
Disaster recovery and home repair: CDA described a $25.8 million flood recovery award from earlier hurricanes/floods and an allocated $7.8 million for home-repair programs in that flood recovery action plan. Pfeffer said the 2022 flood award’s home-repair funds can be used for…
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