The National Flood Insurance Program owes the federal Treasury more than $17 billion from hurricane-related losses and has been unable to set aside enough money to meet catastrophic losses that could arise in the future, congressional investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
After the 2005 storms, Congress approved billions in tax breaks to stimulate construction, but the program was slow to help hardest-hit areas, a report said Wednesday.
A green light has finally been given for a Habitat for Humanity development that should help further ease the city's shortage of affordable housing.
What was once Mississippi's most popular state park lies stripped and closed nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina, but members of a state Senate committee agreed Tuesday to seek funding that could expedite reopening the park by as much as two years.
Jackson County supervisors Monday voted to allow Mississippi cottages to remain in place in the county permanently as long as the zoning allows them and they are at the correct elevation.
Officials from the Mississippi Development Authority paint a picture of vital Hurricane Katrina-relief projects still snared in federal bureaucracy almost three years after the storm.
Trailer manufacturers defended themselves Wednesday on Capitol Hill, insisting they're not responsible for FEMA trailers that had toxic levels of formaldehyde, despite Democrats' claims the companies knew the dangers yet didn't do anything about it.
Revamped long-term recovery groups and the East Biloxi Coordination Center are anticipating $15 million in federal workforce-housing money to rebuild housing Katrina demolished.
The number of FEMA trailers on the Coast had dropped to 3,690 by June 27, the governor's office announced Tuesday.
The building on Seaway Road that has been home to several nonprofit groups since Hurricane Katrina has been named the John S. and James L. Knight Nonprofit Center.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is lobbying Congress for permission to expand its homeowner policies to include flood coverage. The vast majority of flood insurance policies are currently sold by insurers but subsidized by the National Flood Insurance Program.
A group of 12 House members, including powerful committee Homeland Security Committee chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Financial Institutions Committee chair Barney Frank, D-Mass., are trying to block Mississippi's diversion of $600 million in federal Katrina housing funds to Gulfport port improvements. But Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, stands in the way.
GULFPORT YouthBuild Americorps Katrina Rebuilding Project received a $100,000 slice of a $5 million donation from Wal-Mart to the YouthBuild U.S.A. program on Friday in a ceremony at one of its project sites. YouthBuild Gulfport has completed more than 200 projects in South Mississippi since being formed in July 2006. The program helps those age 16 to 24 work toward their GED while providing construction job training working on Hurricane Katrina recovery construction projects.YouthBuild Gulfport...
The first truckload of $85 million in federal relief supplies, lost in a bureaucratic hole for months, has arrived in Louisiana and will be distributed to those still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the chief of the state's storm recovery said Thursday.
Numerous recent national and regional media reports and opinions stop just short of saying Mississippi has stolen federal Katrina-recovery dollars from Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS - It's more carpentry, painting and house-gutting - along with more cerebral work - for college students hitting the Gulf Coast for another spring break amid the devastation from the 2005 hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.
An Illinois woman mourns her two young daughters, swept to their deaths in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. It's a tragic and terrifying story. It's also a lie. An Alabama woman applies for disaster aid for hurricane damage. She files 28 claims for addresses in four states. It's all a sham. Two California men help stage Internet auctions designed to help Katrina relief organizations. Those, too, are bogus.
Last weekend I wrote about a volunteer organization that restores photos damaged in natural disasters.
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