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St. Petersburg council adopts $159.8 million CDBG-DR action plan for hurricane recovery
Summary
Council approved the "Sunrise St. Pete" action plan allocating $159,800,000 in HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds across housing, infrastructure, nonprofit support and mitigation programs after lengthy public comment about outreach and equity.
St. Petersburg’s City Council unanimously approved a HUD-funded action plan on Thursday that lays out how the city would spend $159,800,000 in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) money to repair damage from recent hurricanes and invest in mitigation.
The plan, presented by city staff and consultants from Horn, directs roughly 70% of funds to housing programs — including residential rehabilitation, reconstruction and reimbursement — with separate pots for affordable rental housing, a voluntary buyout program, public-infrastructure mitigation and nonprofit service support. Horn’s Ryan Flannery, the consultant who led the unmet-needs analysis, told the council that housing accounts for about 73% of the city’s calculated unmet need and that the proposed budgets are intended to be “proportionate” to that assessment.
Why it matters: The money is intended to help low- and moderate-income households recover from hurricanes Idalia and Helene while also funding…
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