{"id":1788724,"date":"2022-12-28T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788724"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:49:45","slug":"ed-morrissey-the-rich-just-keep-getting-richer-thanks-to-government-disaster-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ed-morrissey-the-rich-just-keep-getting-richer-thanks-to-government-disaster-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Morrissey: It seems that the rich just keep getting wealthier&#8230; Government Disaster Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fed-morrissey-the-rich-just-keep-getting-richer-thanks-to-government-disaster-aid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Today\u2019s mystery: How did 15% of Connecticut\u2019s lower-income disaster relief funding from Hurricane Sandy end up in the hands of million-dollar home owners? Politico takes on the role of Hercule poirot today. He reaches back nearly a decade in order to find out why $6.4million of Housing and Urban Development funds were sent to 62 members the upper crust.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit turns out to be \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/27\/connecticut-hurricane-sandy-recovery-00074134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Obama administration and a little-noticed rules change<\/a> This is the HUD Funds&#8217; weak means test:<\/p>\n<p>A review of records in many towns revealed that 62 houses with a value of more than $1 million on the Connecticut Gold Coast were eligible for aid to cover Sandy-related repairs. The homeowners were awarded $6.4million, which is 15% of the $44million in HUD aid for home repairs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Connecticut&#8217;s median home value is $311,500.<\/p>\n<p>E&#038;E News reported that the payments were made after a small change in department regulations in 2013. This allowed states to reimburse wealthy homeowners for repairs to their homes. This was a significant policy shift for the only disaster program designed to aid low-income persons. Even though Sandy aid was the only beneficiary of this change, HUD has provided similar flexibility to other states after major disasters.<\/p>\n<p>One waterfront home in Darien, Conn. worth $5.5 Million, featuring five bedrooms and a pool, was owned by a $150,000 buyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-8\">After receiving a $150,000 grant, another owner sold their house for $2.6million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-9\">Twelve of the 62 homes are worth more than $2 million, according to E&#038;E News\u2019 analysis of local assessors\u2019 records.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-9\"><em>Don\u2019t blame<\/em> <em>Use this site<\/em>Politico spoke with officials from Connecticut. The change in the federal rules allowed for wide-open disbursements, they claim, and they\u2019re right \u2014 to a point. The HUD regulations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s mystery: How did 15% of Connecticut\u2019s lower-income disaster relief funding from Hurricane Sandy end up in the hands of million-dollar home owners? Politico takes on the role of Hercule poirot today. He reaches back nearly a decade in order to find out why $6.4million of Housing and Urban Development funds were sent to 62 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7629,5458,4164,5045,12200,3819,7669,12199],"class_list":["post-1788724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-aid","tag-bongino","tag-disaster","tag-government","tag-morrissey","tag-report","tag-rich","tag-wealthier"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}