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March 4, 2021 at 10:06 am
The Hawai‘i County Council passed two measures authorizing the County to receive $83.84 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.
In January 2020 HUD allocated the grant to address unmet housing recovery needs from the 2018 Kīlauea eruption. The resolution and accompanying bill will allow the County to enter into a grant agreement with HUD and appropriate the funds. On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the County Housing Agency voted in favor of authorizing the County to enter into the grant agreement.
The grant will fund a Voluntary Housing Buyout Program and Housing Relocation Services Program as identified in the County’s CDBG-DR Action Plan that HUD approved in October 2020 following a public comment period.