Saturday Rita/Katrina briefs
Recent items of interest:
- White House disaster declarations today for Hurricane Rita in Louisiana and Texas.
- Katrina tax relief and "Flexibility for Displaced Workers" acts signed yesterday.
- LA Times on the Rita evacuation: "I don't think people realize how traumatic it is to move a nursing home."
- The Big Picture blog argues that Wal-Mart beat FEMA by days in its Katrina recovery -- though of course Wal-Mart didn't have to save families, just buildings and merchandise.
[UPDATE Sunday 9/25: , the blog's author, responds in comments below.]
...and two items that should have been posted here a while ago:
- The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency site has updates, including a new tax credit and HOME deadline of Oct. 31.
- The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority has detailed instructions on compliance with Notice 2005-69 regarding use of tax credit properties to house Katrina victims.
Again, the Novogradac Katrina site has an excellent collection of reports on the disaster relief housing measures taken by state housing finance authorities and other state officials.
[UPDATE: Legal Services of Northern California has posted a set of PowerPoint slides (in PPT ... PDF... HTML) offering lawyer-drafted guidance for Katrina survivors and those trying to help them. PowerPoint presentations always feel incomplete without accompanying narrative, but in this case the pages are sprinkled with useful links and contacts both inside and outside FEMA. Linked documents include FEMA's own Applicant's Guide to the Individuals and Households Program and the Florida Disaster Assistance Manual by the Florida Bar Foundation. Other good links include several to the Louisiana Association of Nonprofits. But there's much more, on both legal and policy topics. Do read this one all the way through to the end.]
- White House disaster declarations today for Hurricane Rita in Louisiana and Texas.
- Katrina tax relief and "Flexibility for Displaced Workers" acts signed yesterday.
- LA Times on the Rita evacuation: "I don't think people realize how traumatic it is to move a nursing home."
- The Big Picture blog argues that Wal-Mart beat FEMA by days in its Katrina recovery -- though of course Wal-Mart didn't have to save families, just buildings and merchandise.
[UPDATE Sunday 9/25: , the blog's author, responds in comments below.]
...and two items that should have been posted here a while ago:
- The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency site has updates, including a new tax credit and HOME deadline of Oct. 31.
- The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority has detailed instructions on compliance with Notice 2005-69 regarding use of tax credit properties to house Katrina victims.
Again, the Novogradac Katrina site has an excellent collection of reports on the disaster relief housing measures taken by state housing finance authorities and other state officials.
[UPDATE: Legal Services of Northern California has posted a set of PowerPoint slides (in PPT ... PDF... HTML) offering lawyer-drafted guidance for Katrina survivors and those trying to help them. PowerPoint presentations always feel incomplete without accompanying narrative, but in this case the pages are sprinkled with useful links and contacts both inside and outside FEMA. Linked documents include FEMA's own Applicant's Guide to the Individuals and Households Program and the Florida Disaster Assistance Manual by the Florida Bar Foundation. Other good links include several to the Louisiana Association of Nonprofits. But there's much more, on both legal and policy topics. Do read this one all the way through to the end.]
posted by Martha Bridegam at 6:38 PM
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