The GLO Celebrates Completion of All Hurricane Harvey Homeowner Housing Programs
In December, under the leadership of Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., the Texas General Land Office celebrated completion of the final home rebuilt through the Hurricane Harvey Homeowner Assistance Program (HAP) disaster recovery mission. The final home, located in Houston, marked a major milestone of completion in the Harvey recovery effort, which consisted of both home rebuilding and repair reimbursement programs. The programs were funded through a Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“The Texas General Land Office is proud to be a national leader in helping communities rebuild and recover from major disasters,” said Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. “Administering federal grants is extremely complicated, but the GLO’s dedicated recovery experts never quit. Our mission is to serve the people we are supposed to serve and do it well. Today, the homes and lives of more than 13,500 Texas families have been rebuilt thanks to the perseverance and dedication of the GLO’s Hurricane Harvey disaster recovery team and our partners.”
 Initially the GLO allocated more than $1.3 billion to rebuild homes in 48 federally designated eligible counties impacted by Hurricane Harvey while Harris County and the city of Houston administered similar programs with funds allocated directly by HUD. Due to lack of progress, by 2021, the city and county’s programs were fully transferred to the GLO. The GLO rebuilt 8,750 homes for families impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Additionally, nearly 3,000 homeowners received more than $86 million from the GLO’s Homeowner Reimbursement Program in reimbursements for out-of-pocket home repairs. Houston and Harris County’s programs reimbursed 1,700 homeowners for repairs and collectively rebuilt 408 homes. Combined across the GLO, Houston and Harris County programs, more than 9,100 homes were rebuilt, and more than 4,400 repairs were reimbursed across 49 counties for Texas families impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
The Texas GLO has also helped more than 700 homeowners impacted by Imelda, Laura, and repetitive flooding events in the Rio Grande Valley.
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The GLO’s Homeowner Assistance Program is Helping Texans Impacted by The 2024 Disasters
In July, the GLO successfully launched applications for both the home rebuilding and repair reimbursement programs for Texans impacted by the 2024 Disasters, including Hurricane Beryl, across 27 federally eligible counties. The City of Houston and Harris County received direct allocations from HUD to administer housing recovery funding directly.
 In December, the GLO held the first preconstruction meeting for Shirley Theodore whose Alvin home was devastated by Hurricane Beryl. Soon, Shirley will be celebrating 2026 with a safe and resilient new home thanks to the GLO! Find more information at recovery.texas.gov/apply.
In total, across all disaster recovery housing programs, the GLO has helped more than 14,000 (and counting) Texas families have a safe and resilient home for the holidays!
Temporary GLO TIGR Portal Outage Happening in January
Attention Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Grant Subrecipients:
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is proud to partner with communities across Texas to deploy billions of dollars in federal disaster recovery and mitigation funds to fortify communities against future risks. The GLO developed the Texas Integrated Grant Reporting (TIGR) portal system to enable subrecipients to submit application materials, draw requests, and other important functions. To improve collaboration, streamline our process, and enhance security across the agency, the GLO is currently upgrading our technologies and online systems, including TIGR.
During the TIGR upgrade process, there will be a planned, temporary outage of the TIGR portal. While these dates are not yet final, we anticipate the outage to take place in late January or early February. We will be providing follow up communications to you with a more specific timeframe.
While TIGR is offline, subrecipients will not be able to submit draws, change requests, surveys, or application submissions online. The GLO team, however, will be available to assist you over email and telephone. We do expect any submission during this time to require more time to process and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. We will continue to work diligently with all subrecipients to ensure work continues during the upgrade process.
The GLO encourages all subrecipients to submit as much as possible prior to the TIGR portal outage. Once the system upgrades are completed, the GLO team will notify you that the TIGR portal is again available.
We anticipate the TIGR system to be offline for one week.
If you have any questions, please consult your GLO representative. You can also submit questions or comments to cdr@recovery.texas.gov or by calling 844-893-8937. Once again, we appreciate your partnership and look forward to improving the TIGR portal to better facilitate the grant management process for you.
We are Celebrating Bringing Texans Home for The Holidays!
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