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Feds reject Road Home relief; Louisiana on the hook for $500M
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:27 am
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:27 am
LINK How long before the state comes to homeowners looking for money? 
Federal officials have denied a state request to relax Road Home documentation rules and told state officials to prepare to pay back more than a half billion dollars in unaccounted for Road Home grant money.
Some 130,000 southeast Louisianans received grants to repair their homes as part of the $9 billion Road Home program. However, many found themselves unable to fully repair their homes. Unable to fully fix up their homes, thousands of people opted to use supplemental grants meant to help defray the cost of elevating their houses to finish the repairs.
Recognizing the predicament of those homeowners, HUD agreed to make that legal last year, but there was a catch. Residents had to provide contracts and receipts proving that the repairs had been done. The documentation requirements have proven to by too stringent for many people to qualify. About 1,200 people have applied for the amnesty exemption, but only about 15 have been able to comply with the documentation requirements.
State officials asked HUD to allow homeowners who could demonstrate that their homes were repaired and reoccupied to "self certify," that is attest under oath that they spent the grant money on their homes. HUD's letter not only denied the state's request, it implied that the time for negotiations on the matter are over.
Federal officials have denied a state request to relax Road Home documentation rules and told state officials to prepare to pay back more than a half billion dollars in unaccounted for Road Home grant money.
Some 130,000 southeast Louisianans received grants to repair their homes as part of the $9 billion Road Home program. However, many found themselves unable to fully repair their homes. Unable to fully fix up their homes, thousands of people opted to use supplemental grants meant to help defray the cost of elevating their houses to finish the repairs.
Recognizing the predicament of those homeowners, HUD agreed to make that legal last year, but there was a catch. Residents had to provide contracts and receipts proving that the repairs had been done. The documentation requirements have proven to by too stringent for many people to qualify. About 1,200 people have applied for the amnesty exemption, but only about 15 have been able to comply with the documentation requirements.
State officials asked HUD to allow homeowners who could demonstrate that their homes were repaired and reoccupied to "self certify," that is attest under oath that they spent the grant money on their homes. HUD's letter not only denied the state's request, it implied that the time for negotiations on the matter are over.
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Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:33 am to WPBTiger
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How long before the state comes to homeowners looking for money?
They've already have been auditing people for it. There has been tons of abuse and fraud to Road Home.
Wasn't there already some arrest made in NOLA to some businessmen with ties to Jindal abusing it?
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:35 am to WPBTiger
Waste of money anyway
Why should I be responsible for fixing a mother frickers house?
Why should I be responsible for fixing a mother frickers house?
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:37 am to yellowfin
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Why should I be responsible for fixing a mother frickers house?
What amazed me is the amount of money used to raise houses in coastal parishes to the new flood levels. frick that. If you can't afford it then move further North. No way should we be on the hook for the $16K to raise your mobile home off the ground.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:43 am to WPBTiger
Sorry but if you can't provide receipts and a contract then you shouldn't get a nickel.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:45 am to WPBTiger
What a bunch of unmitigated bullshite.
How long before the whining starts?
Huge waste and abuse of our money.
How long before the whining starts?
Huge waste and abuse of our money.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:46 am to yellowfin
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Why should I be responsible for fixing a mother frickers house?
You are doing a great job with the new projects. They look really nice, nicer than the building I live in.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:47 am to WPBTiger
What a colossal waste of money.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:29 am to stout
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No way should we be on the hook for the $16K to raise your mobile home off the ground.
If only. They charged the max grant amount for every type of structure. $90K to raise a mobile home wasn't unusual.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:31 am to VetteGuy
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How long before the whining starts?
Started about September 2005 if I remember correctly
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:31 am to WPBTiger
Really ridiculous that we can find housing for illegal immigrants, drop bombs on a country 5,500 miles away, but not to help our own fricking taxpaying citizens.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:32 am to WPBTiger
You mean to tell me that disaster relief money was misused and taken advantage of???
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:38 am to yellowfin
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Waste of money anyway Why should I be responsible for fixing a mother frickers house?
The thought process was if you don't pay for these turds to fix their shite the city would fall in on itself. Shitty condemnable houses as far as the eye could see.
The influx of capital worked to a certain extent if you look at the trajectory Nola is on now, but at what cost?
I remember clearly listening to garland and spud amongst others on wwl after Katrina. The line they beat to death was "so what there's a little waste and fraud... We gotta get these people back in their houses!" I'd hear them throttle every politician, road home rep,, FEMA rep, and whoever they could lure onto their forum.
The politicians were under pressure to get the money out there. Just get the money out! They relaxed the common sense requirements on all of the programs and the fraud came in.
In the beginning the programs were structured almost identically to bank construction loans. The programs were well thought out.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:41 am to LT
Asking for receipts and contracts is not that big of a deal. Sorry you didn't keep records. I also don't think that not having people move back was a big deal. We all know that it would have helped crime probably. If we cleared the lots somebody will buy up the land and develop it.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:43 am to stout
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There has been tons of abuse and fraud to Road Home.
I know a guy who got 154,000 from road home. He fixed his house himself. Bought used material from all over the area. Even had his cousin who worked at major building supply store damage a very expensive door. So he could then buy it for little to nothing. The money he had left he bought a new truck and a 9,000 dollar lawnmower and put flat screen TV's in every room of his house. I hope they catch up with him.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:45 am to jmarto1
I agree. They should of told the ones that chose not to insure their shite to go kick rocks. But those degenerate fricks vote.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:51 am to Ponchy Tiger
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I know a guy who got 154,000 from road home. He fixed his house himself. Bought used material from all over the area.
Dad and I did this...only thing we had somebody else do was the roof.
Sorry you people don't know how to do shite yourselves
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:52 am to LT
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They should of told the ones that chose not to insure their shite to go kick rocks.
Lived in a no-flood zone area...wasn't required to get insurance...lived 10 blocks away from the Mississippi River levee...but still got 9 feet of water in my house.
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:53 am to WPBTiger
This is different than the FEMA money they gave out right after Katrina, correct?
Posted on 10/18/14 at 9:55 am to djangochained
It's almost like Bobby thought he good act like a damned retard to the feds for years without repercussion.
Maybe Bobby will be able to leverage this for whatever job it is he's been working toward for the last few years.
Maybe Bobby will be able to leverage this for whatever job it is he's been working toward for the last few years.
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