CHAT (Citizens Road Home Action Team) is a group of citizens from New Orleans neighborhoods that advocates ways to make the Road Home program more efficient and fair. LouisianaRebuilds.info posts CHAT's newsletter here. Find out the latest CHAT accomplishments and action items in these newsletters.Main topics are highlighted, and each newsletter is a .pdf that can be downloaded in full.

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• October 19, 2009: $100, 000 Add'l Compensation Grants & HMGP Elevn. Gts.
• October 11, 2009: New HMGP Elevation Grant Rules
• August 17, 2009: CHAT Survey Responses; Reminders Elevn. Grts. & Copies of Your Files
• August 8, 2009: Planning Paybacks, Original RH Objectives (Mar. '06)
• August 1, 2009: State AG & Contractor Fraud
• June 7, 2009: RH may be unjust, inequitable and violate its own rules & no court has the power to correct it?
• May 11, 2009: New HUD Inspections of RH; Paybacks; RH loss of your privacy
• May 3, 2009: New appeals promise by LRA disappears
• April 21, 2009: Double Standards- Road Home vs. Charity Hosp.
• April 13, 2009: Appeals-Don't Phone; 2nd Installment Stranded
• March 28, 2009: Elevation, Audit regulations
• March 8, 2009: HGI, new main RH contractor - serious concerns
• February 17, 2009: New Updates on HGMP Elevation Grant
• February 7, 2009: Important! Appeals & Elevation Grant Update
• February 4, 2009: RH Surplus
• February 1, 2009: Sold-At-A-Loss & Lack of Legally Required OCD Reporting-Updates
• January 24, 2009: HUD Got It Wrong; Sold-at-a-Loss; Predatory Language
• January 21, 2009: More on RH$ Diversion - HUD involvement
• January 17, 2009: Road Home Supposed Surplus
• January 13, 2009: More on request for diversion of Road Home funds
• January 5, 2009: Trying To Take RH Grant Money That Should Go To Victims
• December 4, 2008: Fraud from contractors; new Road Home Rules
• November 22, 2008: Too Many or Too Few Applicants?
• October 28, 2008: CHAT Mtgs; Info For Elevation Grants & Final File Audits
• October 25, 2008: After Mar. 15, 2008? HMGP Elevation Funds?
• October 20, 2008: Courts & Law; T-P & BR Newspapers; PolicyLink; GNOFHAC
• October 14, 2008: Free Renovation Forum, Road Home & Appeals & Elevation Grants
• October 11, 2008: Applicant Corrections?, Paybacks, Appeals, Taxes
• October 8, 2008: Cox 10, short directory of RH info
• October 7, 2008: Appeal Rules
• September 19, 2008: Contact Gov/Report Card on TV/SBA/H
• August 24, 2008: Thank You As We Near The Hurricane Anniversary
• August 21, 2008: Even in the military; appeals & deadline templates
• August 15, 2008: Important: help get the Road Home reform law taken seriously by LRA in 5 min of your time!
• August 9, 2008: LRA's deadline today; unfair Sept. 5 deadline for applicants, RH land
• August 8, 2008: Gov. Jindal & Important New Survey; PALs; Sold-Home; PSV; Sept. 5 Deadlines
• July 26, 2008: What Did HUD Really Say?; Taxes; Rebuilding Info; Food
• July 19, 2008: New Policy-Fair Access to Applicants' Records; Square Footage
• July 18, 2008: What Are Some Of The Things CHAT Is Involved In Now?
• July 11, 2008: Thousands wait on hold as ICF bumbles along
• July 1, 2008: What You Can Do; Shrinking Elev. Grants; CHAT Mtg. 7/2
• June 14, 2008: Appeals, New Initiatives, Elevation Comments, A Word To Our Sponsors
• June 8, 2008: Elevation Grant Forms and Comments on Road Home Property Deadlines and More
• June 2, 2008: SB 740 derailed without a vote but with questionable LRA-OCD input
• April 27, 2008: Meetings on Cox 10
• April 21, 2008: payback to RH; Road Home help
• April 20, 2008: COX10, Elevation, LRA Board Meeting, Misery Index
• April 11, 2008: Road Home Audits, Dispute Resolutions, Elevation Letters, Contractor information
• April 5, 2008: Liens, Road Home Appeals, more...
• April 1, 2008: Avoiding Contractor Fraud, COX10, and NPR
• March 31, 2008: Hiring a Collection Company To Make Applicants Repay Road Home Money, The Bid Solicitation
• March 23, 2008: Summary Appeals & Elevation
• March 19, 2008: Elevation info, Help for dealing with contractors, Tax info, Notes from the Housing Task Force Mtg.
• March 17, 2008: Inspector General for ICF but Applicants Need Extended Appeals and Investigation For Fair Grants
• March 13, 2008: Information that may be helpful in understanding elevation allowances from Road Home
• March 11, 2008: 2 particularly important Road Home meeting announcements
• March 9, 2008: "I went home every night from First American and I prayed for every one of you"
• March 4, 2008: Government-Sponsored Meetings About the Road Home
• February 18, 2008: Having Trouble With Your Case Manager or with Your CAD? Top RH Official Says Tell Him
• February 17, 2008: Elevation Grant Update
• February 16, 2008: Some Questions and Numbers