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HR 426 · in committee · significant

Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act

What this bill does

  • This bill makes it easier for disaster survivors to get FEMA housing aid by lowering damage requirements and allowing permanent housing construction when cost-effective.
  • It affects people whose homes are damaged in major disasters, including those without documented ownership rights to their property.
  • FEMA will consider alternative evidence of home ownership and can approve permanent reconstruction when it costs less than temporary housing solutions.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How should FEMA balance quickly approving housing aid for disaster survivors against the need to verify legitimate ownership claims?

  2. 02

    What types of alternative ownership documentation would be practical for people in disaster areas who lack traditional property records?

  3. 03

    Under what circumstances would permanent reconstruction genuinely cost less than temporary housing, and who decides when that threshold is met?

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Sponsor · D-NY-13

Adriano Espaillat

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Introduced 2025-01-16

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-16 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

  2. 2025-01-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-01-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-01-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-01-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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