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Biloxi council opens workshops on housing rehabilitation; HUD flood-insurance rules cloud eligibility
Summary
The Biloxi City Council held a workshop to restart a housing rehabilitation program, with staff outlining HUD/CDBG requirements, a roughly $400,000 annual allocation and questions about whether flood-insurance rules or map-based targeting will limit who can receive aid.
The Biloxi City Council met in a special workshop to begin designing a housing rehabilitation program aimed at low- and moderate-income homeowners, and staff warned that HUD rules about flood insurance could limit who ultimately qualifies.
Rick Weaver, introduced by the chair to open the session, said the meeting was the first of several workshops to build a program framework and that the city aims to have the program in place around October. "This is our first meeting of our workshops as we work towards the proposal for the housing rehabilitation program throughout the city," Weaver said.
Paula Snyder, the staff member handling federal programming and grants, outlined the program’s likely features and the administrative steps required to use Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. "The city of Biloxi, we have not done a housing rehabilitation program, unfortunately, since Hurricane Katrina," Snyder said,…
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