The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) will receive over $134 million in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This critical funding will help support long-term recovery efforts following the June 2024 severe storms and floods, with a focus on the hardest-hit counties. These floods have caused widespread damage to critical infrastructure and posed ongoing risks to the safety and well-being of our residents.
Draft Action Plan
In response, IEDA has developed an action plan to outline how the funds will be used to build new affordable housing for low-and moderate-income families, improve local infrastructure like stormwater drainage and sewage systems, help communities cover their share of FEMA recovery costs, and invest in planning and projects that reduce the risk of future disasters. As part of the action plan development HUD requires that grant recipients to allow for a public comment period
Public Comment Form
If you would like to provide feedback on the suggested programs offered or would like to provide a comment about the drafted action plan, IEDA will be accepting public comments through Sunday, June 15th, 2025. Submit your comments by mail, email or through the online comment form.
Eligibility
At this time, only counties designated as Most Impacted and Distressed by HUD qualify for these programs. As recovery progresses, programs may be expanded to other areas, but for now only units of local government located in the following counties are eligible to apply:
- Buena Vista (County)
- Cherokee (County)
- Clay (County)
- Dickinson (County)
- Emmet (County)
- Humboldt (County)
- Lyon (County)
- Monona (County)
- O'Brien (County)
- Osceola (County)
- Palo Alto (County)
- Plymouth (County)
- Pottawattamie (County)
- Scott (County)
- Sioux (County)
- Woodbury (County)