To assist with presidentially-declared disaster relief, long-term recovery and mitigation activities

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded $85.738 million to the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development on February 11, 2026, under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR, CFDA 14.233) program to support long-term disaster recovery and mitigation in Nashville following presidentially declared disasters.

The award funds housing reconstruction and rehabilitation, infrastructure restoration including roads, bridges, water and wastewater facilities, economic revitalization, and mitigation activities in the most impacted and distressed areas. Expected outcomes include households benefitting from the program, housing units completed through new construction or rehabilitation, businesses assisted, jobs created or retained, and public facilities rehabilitated. The program targets low- and moderate-income households and businesses with urgent needs.

The period of performance runs through February 11, 2032, with place of performance in Nashville, Tennessee. The recipient, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, administers these funds through a subrecipient network of local governments and nonprofit organizations that deliver the housing, infrastructure, and economic development activities.

Activities

Restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization, and mitigation in the most impacted and distressed (mid), areas resulting from qualifying major disasters.

Expected outcomes

Outcomes range from the following accomplishement examples: households benefitting from cdbg-DR, cdbg-MIT and cdbg-NDR funds, housing unit(s) new construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation activities, businesses assisted, jobs created and/or retained, rehabilitation or reconstruction of a public improvement, or public facilities.

Intended beneficiaries

The intended principal beneficiaries of cdbg-DR, cdbg-MIT and/or cdbg-NDR funds are low- and moderate-income households, which may include low- and moderate-income persons or households, and businesses with urgent needs.

Subrecipient activities

Cdbg-DR, cdbg-MIT and/or cdbg-NDR assistance may fund a broad range of grantee recovery activities, including but not limited to: housing rehabilitation or reconstruction, new housing construction, repairing roads and bridges, repairing water and wastewater facilities, providing assistance to affected business owners, job training and workforce development.