Besides Hurricane Maria, only one other category 5 hurricane made landfall in Puerto Rico in over 150 years – the San Felipe Segundo that hit the island in 1928. In more recent history, Hurricane Georges, a category 3 storm, hit the island in 1998 causing significant destruction. In this Part 1 of our series on...more
Tag: Disaster Recovery
SP Group has designed a best practices checklist for developing and evaluating funding dashboards for the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program. On June 7, 2018, The House Committee on Financial Services approved the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2018 (H.R. 4557), to permanently authorize the CDBG-DR Program. The bill included provisions designed to increase the efficiency,...more
In October 2017, California’s most destructive wildfire, the Tubbs Fire, swept through Santa Rosa in Sonoma County. It destroyed nearly 5,000 homes and had a significant impact on the area’s housing market. In August 2018, less than a year after the Tubbs Fire, the Carr Fire has destroyed over 1,000 homes just a couple hundred miles north of Santa...more