HUD CPD CDBG - Disaster Recovery Buyouts

<div><div><div>The data demonstrates the location of CDBG-DR-funded buyout activities as part of the Office of Community Planning and Development's (CPD) Disaster Recovery Buyout Program.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>The data is derived from an extract of HUD CPD’s Disaster Recovery Grants Reporting (DRGR) System, an address-level dataset that includes Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery activities for certain grantees and over a limited span of time during which grantees were required to report addresses of certain funded activities.<b> Buyouts are a unique disaster-related activity made eligible through a waiver in the allocation of CDBG-DR grants following a natural hazard disaster. Under the waiver, grantees are permitted to use CDBG-DR funds to pay the pre-disaster or post-disaster value to acquire properties impacted by a natural hazard, usually flooding, for the purpose of risk reduction.</b> The offer creates an incentive for impacted homeowners to relocate to a residence outside of a high hazard risk area. The property must be maintained by the local jurisdiction as open space indefinitely to eliminate future disaster liability. Each observation in the address-level dataset is a standardized, geocoded address at which a residential buyout took place. </div><div><br /></div><div>The buyouts were reported by grantees through March 31, 2020. The data extract was drawn, geocoded, processed, and aggregated to the census tract-level following the close of 2020 Q1. Only addresses that were geocoded to a moderate to high level of accuracy were included (LVL2KX = &quot;R&quot; (rooftop) or &quot;4&quot; (Zip+4 centroid)). The addresses extracted from DRGR were geocoded using the HUD Batch Geocoder which matches geocoordinates with standard Census geographies. </div><div><br /></div><div>The data contains buyouts completed through March 31, 2020. An activity is reported as “completed” once an end-use is met; for example, buyouts are complete upon legal acquisition of a property. All activities are aggregated to the 2010 Decennial Census Tract geography. Note: The data are not a comprehensive record of all buyouts funded with CDBG-DR. The activities were completed between October 2009 and March 2020. Grantees were required to enter addresses for these activities beginning in 2015. Early reporting of the address information is voluntary.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The data being displayed are census tract level counts of CDBG-DR-assisted addresses. In order to protect privacy, census tracts where there were fewer than 11 buyouts display a value of -4.<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>To learn more about the Disaster Recovery Buyout Program, please visit: <a href='https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cdbg-dr/disaster-recovery-buyout-program/#buyout-program-overview-considerations-and-strategies' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cdbg-dr/disaster-recovery-buyout-program/#buyout-program-overview-considerations-and-strategies</a><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>, for questions about the spatial attribution of this dataset, please reach out to us at </span><a href='mailto:[e-mail]' style='color:rgb(0, 97, 155); text-decoration-line:none; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><b>[e-mail]</b></a><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>. </span></div><div><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><br /></span></div><div>Data Dictionary: <a href='https://services.arcgis.com/VTyQ9soqVukalItT/arcgis/rest/services/DD_HUD_CPD_CDBG_DR_Buyouts/FeatureServer' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>DD_HUD CPD CDBG-DR Buyouts</a></div><div>Date of Coverage: <b>Cumulative through 2020 Q1</b></div>