Federal grant funding helps enable communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. This research first examines who has historically received funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA), Public Assistance (PA), and Individuals ...
and tornadoes. but few in the public understood that much of fema’s resources went instead to its primary mission—coordinating the nation’s post-apocalypse efforts—and that the majority of its funding and a third of its workforce was actually hidden in the nation’s classified black budget...
FEMA has obligated more than $1.3 billion in funding to municipalities and eligible private nonprofit organizations for debris removal and necessary emergency protective measures. Housing More than 128,000 homeowners and renters have been approved for FEMA assistance to rent a temporary place to live,...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s request for an emergency declaration was approved Wednesday. The declaration authorizes FEMA to provide emergency protective measures including direct federal assistance at 75% federal funding. State and federal search and rescue operations are underway in Florida in ...
In its rationale for eliminating PDM funding the Administration has pointed to remaining mitigation programs such as the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act) and the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program within the NFIP. Whi...