The “lion’s share” of a large disaster relief package is headed for California, said Marcia Fudge, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who visited Santa Barbara Friday morning to make the announcement and to check in on two homeless housing projects that receive funding from the federal department she leads.
“Hit hard and more often” by the winter’s big storms, California will receive $115 million out of a total $138 million in aid due to floods, muds, and wind damage. Alabama is to receive $10 million and Georgia $12 million for similar natural disasters plus tornadoes.
“Disasters are coming more and more frequently,” the cabinet secretary told an assembly of public officials and reporters gathered at Direct Relief. Fudge feels for local affairs; before becoming President Biden’s HUD secretary, she represented much of Ohio’s Cuyahoga County in Congress for 12 years and was the mayor of Warrensville Heights for eight years before that.