CDBG Disaster Recovery – 2025
Forecasted
CDBG Disaster Recovery – 2025 supports disaster-affected Arkansas communities through affordable housing and infrastructure projects that advance long-term recovery and resilience after the 2023 and 2024 storms.
Funder: Arkansas Development Finance Authority
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (2027 funding round deadline)
Funding Amounts: $59,048,000 total allocation; $24 million rental housing, $20 million owner-occupied housing, $11,095,600 infrastructure
Summary: Supports long-term recovery and resilient housing and infrastructure following Arkansas’s 2023 and 2024 storms and tornadoes.
Key Information: Funding focuses on Benton, Cross, and Pulaski counties, excluding the City of Little Rock.
Description
The Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) administers HUD’s Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery allocation for recovery from the 2023 severe storms and tornadoes (DR-4698) and the 2024 severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding (DR-4788). Funds address unmet needs remaining after insurance, FEMA, other federal programs, and private or nonprofit assistance.
The approved action plan prioritizes new affordable rental and owner-occupied housing and infrastructure, including FEMA non-federal cost shares. Recovery investments emphasize resilient construction and low- and moderate-income communities. Although CDBG-DR broadly permits economic revitalization and public services, the approved plan allocates no funding to those categories. ADFA and GrantWorks have also presented an initial Homebuyer’s Assistance Program design, with policies being finalized through an action plan amendment.
