Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery (LOCD-DR)

What Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery (LOCD-DR) does

LOCD-DR is a state government office within the Louisiana Division of Administration headquartered in Baton Rouge. It administers federal disaster recovery funds — primarily HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) allocations and FEMA Public Assistance Grants under Subpart G, Title 44 CFR — on behalf of the State of Louisiana, distributing capital to eligible recipients including individual residents, parishes, municipalities, and non-state entities through cooperative endeavor agreements. The office has managed long-tail recovery programs for a continuous series of declared disasters dating back to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, including subsequent events such as Gustav, Ike, Isaac, the August 2016 floods, Laura, Delta, Ida, the 2021 Winter Freeze, and Francine.

The office operates with a staff of 11-50 employees and no proprietary technology stack; core operations are procedural grant administration rather than technology-enabled service delivery. There are no commercial products, no pricing model, and no revenue in the conventional sense — funding flows from federal disaster appropriations and state legislative budget allocations. Distribution is executed through direct grant administration and cooperative endeavor agreements with local governmental entities, with public-facing program information distributed via the Division of Administration website (doa.la.gov).

The business model is structurally a federal pass-through administration entity: LOCD-DR captures administrative allowances on federal grant allocations (HUD permits up to 5% for administration and 6% for planning on CDBG-DR grants) and coordinates long-term recovery efforts across the state. Strategic partners include FEMA, HUD, and Louisiana parish and municipal governments. The office is governed under the Commissioner of Administration with legislative oversight and has no private ownership, no subsidiaries, and no commercial investment structure.

Name

Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery (LOCD-DR)

Legal name

Louisiana Office of Community Development - Disaster Recovery

Website

https://doa.la.gov

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

LOCD-DR is a Louisiana state government office within the Division of Administration that administers federal HUD CDBG-DR and FEMA Public Assistance grants to help Louisiana residents, parishes, and municipalities recover from hurricanes and other declared disasters.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Disaster Recovery Grant Administration

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Disaster Recovery, Reconstruction & Resilience Programs (BPAGAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Disaster Recovery & Emergency Housing Assistance Programs (FSALAKAK), Natural Disaster Preparedness & Recovery (Storm/Flood/Wildfire) (BPABANAI)

Keywords

• Disaster recovery grants
• Community development funding
• Federal grant administration
• Hurricane recovery programs
• Infrastructure rebuilding

Headquarters

HQ city

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Federal Disaster Recovery Grants: Administering federal funds from HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs to help Louisiana residents recover from devastating hurricanes and other disasters. These are pass-through federal grants administered to eligible recipients including local governments and non-state entities.
2. FEMA Public Assistance Grants: State agency serving as the designated representative for FEMA Public Assistance Grants under Subpart G, Title 44 Code of Federal Regulations, managing federal disaster relief programs.

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Core offering

LOCD-DR administers federal disaster recovery grants—primarily HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds and FEMA Public Assistance Grants—to help Louisiana residents, parishes, municipalities, and non-state entities recover from hurricanes and other qualifying natural disasters. It coordinates long-term disaster recovery efforts across the state, manages housing rehabilitation and infrastructure restoration funding, and administers state capital outlay programs for non-state entities through cooperative endeavor agreements.

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Products and services

• HUD CDBG-DR Grant Administration Administration of federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist Louisiana residents, parishes, municipalities, and non-state entities in recovering from major disaster events, particularly in areas with low-to-moderate income residents. Covers housing rehabilitation, infrastructure restoration, and community development projects.
• FEMA Public Assistance Grants Administration State of Louisiana public facilities sub-recipient representative services for FEMA Public Assistance Grants administered under Subpart G, Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Manages federal disaster relief programs and coordinates recovery efforts following presidential disaster declarations on behalf of the State.
• State Capital Outlay Program for Non-State Entities Administration of non-state entity capital projects funded through the State Capital Outlay Act under cooperative endeavor agreements between the State of Louisiana and local governmental entities, including parishes and municipalities. Funds disaster recovery and community development projects at the local level.
• Louisiana Disaster Recovery Program Coordination Overall coordination of long-term disaster recovery efforts across Louisiana, serving as the central state office responsible for administering federal disaster recovery funds to help Louisiana residents recover from devastating hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerORM serves as the State of Louisiana public facilities sub-recipient representative for FEMA Public Assistance Grants under Subpart G, Title 44 Code of Federal Regulations. Manages federal disaster relief programs and coordinates recovery efforts following presidential disaster declarations.
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdministers Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds from HUD to assist Louisiana communities in recovering from major disaster events, particularly in areas with low-to-moderate income residents.
• Louisiana Parish and Municipal GovernmentscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNon-state entity capital projects funded through the State Capital Outlay Act are administered under cooperative endeavor agreements between the state and local governmental entities. LOCD coordinates with parishes and municipalities for disaster recovery and community development projects.

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Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — CDBG-DR Program Office: The federal source agency that allocates CDBG-DR funding to LOCD-DR and other grantees — comparable in that it designs and oversees the same disaster recovery grant framework, though it operates upstream of state pass-through administrators.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — Public Assistance Division: Federal agency providing Public Assistance Grants that LOCD-DR helps administer under Subpart G — the upstream federal partner and broader incumbent in the disaster recovery funding ecosystem.
• California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) — Recovery Operations: California's principal state agency coordinating disaster recovery, including FEMA Public Assistance and HUD CDBG-DR funds following wildfires, earthquakes, and floods — broader in scope (all-hazards, pre-disaster mitigation) but functionally comparable in federal pass-through administration.

Direct peers

• Florida Department of Commerce — Office of Long-Term Resiliency: Florida's lead state agency for administering federal disaster recovery funding (CDBG-DR, HMGP, resiliency programs) following hurricanes Michael, Ian, Idalia, and others — closely analogous to LOCD-DR's mandate, federal partnerships, and parish/county distribution model.
• Puerto Rico Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency (COR3): Territory-level office administering federal CDBG-DR funds following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, with similar federal partner relationships (HUD, FEMA), large-scale recovery portfolio, and grantee administration mandate as LOCD-DR.
• North Carolina Department of Public Safety — Office of Recovery and Resiliency: Created after Hurricanes Florence (2018) and Matthew (2016) to administer HUD CDBG-DR funds in North Carolina — a peer state disaster recovery office with similar federal funding streams, recovery program structure, and local-government cooperative agreement approach.
• Texas General Land Office — Community Development and Revitalization: The Texas GLO CD&R division administers HUD CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT funds for the State of Texas following major disaster declarations (Hurricane Harvey, Winter Storm Uri, 2024 floods), making it the closest functional peer to LOCD-DR in scale, federal funding channel, and Gulf Coast exposure.

Emerging players

• American Red Cross: Major nonprofit delivering disaster relief (sheltering, supplies, casework) in Louisiana following the same hurricanes LOCD-DR administers — overlaps in disaster recovery beneficiaries but operates complementary (non-governmental, mass-care focused) services.
• SBP (formerly St. Bernard Project): National disaster recovery nonprofit founded in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina that provides direct housing recovery and resilience services — adjacent to LOCD-DR's housing rehabilitation programs but operates as a contractor/implementer rather than funder.

Others

• Enterprise Community Partners — Disaster Recovery and Resilience: National nonprofit that partners with state grantees like LOCD-DR to plan and implement federally-funded disaster recovery housing programs — an ecosystem partner providing technical assistance, capacity building, and program design support to state disaster recovery offices.

Market position

Strengths3 records

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Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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