Tens of thousands of Floridians hammered by a run of deadly hurricanes are eligible for almost $900 million in federal disaster aid, but three years after storms tore across the state, that money has barely been touched
Municipalities took note after they watched the state struggle to make use of federal disaster aid. In 2016, after Hermine and Matthew, HUD issued
But the Department of Economic Opportunity gave little guidance to the counties that were actually to receive the money. One St. Johns County official told POLITICO county officials would need months just to learn how the program works. Suggestions that the department allow the housing industry and its experts to take a more active role were ignored.
After Hurricane Matthew in 2016, HUD designated a $96 million disaster grant for coastal St. Johns County. But state officials, not local leaders, were in charge of how to spend the money. In April 2019, after two years of back-and-forth,St. Johns didn’t break ground on the first $1.5 million phase of the project until this month because the Department of Economic Opportunity had left the county to set up its own HUD disaster-funding division.
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