Making sure that FEMA is working at its optimal level, that there is coordination at the federal level that really honors and respects the hard work going on at the street level or...
What we have to recognize is, unfortunately, those days of garden district storms are over with.
We also required specifically that 10 percent of this funding go for, I think, rental, affordable housing.
It is not necessarily meant to be a Community Development Block Grant bonanza for the entire state.
That is our hope and intention, and I am very pleased that we have a representative from HUD on the second panel.
It is extremely important that we eventually get that law changed to authorize them to do that.
I am Senator Mary Landrieu, and I would like to call this field hearing to order.
FEMA has been in the business of short-term emergency housing, but I put the emphasis on 'short.'
I hope that you receive this in the spirit because that is our only tool right now at the federal level.
About 20 percent of the residents of this city, representing about 4,000 families, are yet to return to the community be...
I want to be very clear about one principle, that we are now using Community Development Block Grant at the federal leve...